Glena Brauer, MS, PMP adl6la@r.postjobfree.com Choctaw, OK 405-***-****

Dynamic and Innovative Project Management and Change Leading Professional with over 13 years of distinctive experience established in the diverse industry sectors of Project Management, Commodity Marketing, Supply Chain and Logistics. Proven ability to quickly adapt to changing objectives with highly technical conceptualized projects while transforming and strategically leading/developing highly skilled, efficient, and effective teams. Recognized as a diplomatically assertive leader adept in creating profitable cross departmental partnerships with consistent focus on maximizing business value, team and stakeholder engagement, risk management and customer satisfaction. Excellent balance between strategy and execution leveraging technology to maximize profitability. Absolute commitment to the highest level of integrity in all business and personal functions fostering an inspired team environment with commitment to exceeding expectations thorough creative problem solving.

Organizational Agility Portfolio Management Cross-functional Engagement

Employee Development Process Improvement Cultivates Innovation

Strategic Planning Analytics and Optimization Logistics Management CFS BRANDS, Oklahoma City, OK September 2020 – Current Manager – Commercial Excellence

• Leverages best practice systems and processes to steer the Account Executives to achieve growth goals.

• Depends heavily on formal problem-solving skills to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of order management and fulfillment, account planning & development and forecasting processes via Salesforce.

• Led project to improve pricing implementation and process to reduce price holds and improve hold turnaround time utilizing PowerBI and Lean Six Sigma waste reduction methods.

• Recruited and developed a team of account executives to transform sales team to inside sales model CHANGEIS INC., Oklahoma City, OK May 2020 – September 2020 Contractor - Product Owner

• Member of the Scaled Agile Product Team for a government information technology contract responsible for defining business needs and prioritizing the teamwork and backlog for Supply Chain systems.

• Responsible for streamlining the execution of team priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the features/components via Jira.

CHESAPEAKE ENERGY, Oklahoma City, OK July 2013 – April 2020 Category Manager- Logistics / Supervisor - Project Management December 2018 – April 2020

• Responsible for building a team of project managers to execute the supply chain project portfolio of 300+ tasks, achieving a 25% improvement of project success rates within 6 months

• Proactively initiated multiple project and process improvement opportunities, and oversaw the of execution of each to meet high quality service delivery standards

• Identified opportunities for automation and process optimization through the application of robotic process automation (RPA), optical character recognition (OCR) and artificial intelligence (AI)

• Development and implementation of corporate policies, standards, and procedures to ensure sustainment of efforts and progress

• Established the utilization of Lean Six Sigma, Project Management Body of Knowledge, ADKAR Change Management and Agile project principles to increase quality, speed to value and project success rates

• Project lead responsible for the department implementation and adoption of several critical support applications including Service Now and Microsoft Office 365, including Microsoft Teams

• Developed detailed individual development plans for each direct report by selecting knowledge and skill strategies to improve competency gaps specified through positive and constructive feedback PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Supervisor- Marketing Contract Administration November 2016-December 2018

• Transformed the marketing contract team to a customer-focused strategy by analyzing business demand and optimizing resources to meet business needs. Key improvements included enhancements cross-functional training and relationship management, and performance management through meaningful client scored KPIs

• Directed marketing contract team’s efforts in multiple divestitures exceeding $2B in total proceeds

• Reduced G&A spend by greater than $1M through improved budgeting processes and developing of advanced analysis, monitoring and reporting systems

• Restructured 10K commitment and contingencies reporting process via SpotFire, resulting in enhanced accuracy and SOX compliance while significantly reducing the processes cycle time

• Coordinated marketing contract efforts for 150+ legal actions and internal/external audits.

• Led digitization and storage efforts of 6000+ physical well files, reducing waste and improving research

• Project lead for an enterprise-wide process improvement effort, resulting in completion of 114 opportunities Supervisor- Crude Oil Logistics July 2013 – November 2016

• Supervised a team focused on procuring and optimizing transport services of crude oil to market via efficient and economical solutions, reducing overall annual transporter hauling costs by $5MM+

• Economically reduced oil inventory by 42% and hauling turnaround time by 60%

• Collaborated with field, operations, marketing and Information Technology personnel to execute an in- depth data analysis focused on improving hauling efficiency and vendor performance.

• Project lead responsible for the development, implementation, and adoption of custom developed crude logistics software for corporate and field operations

• Led efforts to improve vendor management via vendor performance metrics and reporting, executing formal vendor performance reviews, and negotiating transporter contracts/pricing

• Implemented a crude oil marketing training program for department and cross functional training events RYDER TRANSPORTATION July 2008 – July 2013

Logistics-Supply Chain Management Coordinator October 2010 – July 2013

• Reduced the average number of open returns by 87%, return time by 75%, unit on-site reutilization by 80% and shipping department damage costs by 60%

• Project lead responsible for introducing the new company product return program for logistics and inventory operations

• Instituted processes to monitor and regulate all costs associate with scrap, plant line accumulation, contract labor and overall material handling via SAP data

Rental Sales Representative July 2008- October 2010 Master of Science in Energy Management

Oklahoma City University

GPA: 3.98

Bachelor of Science in Speech-Language Pathology

University of Science and Arts

Minor in Liberal Arts

Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)

Certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt

• Selected by Executive Committee in top 2% of employees for 15-month Leadership Enhancement Training Series

• Member, OKC Chapter of Project Management Institute (PMI)

• Women’s Energy Network: Mentor

• Meinder’s Business Association/Beta Sigma Gamma

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TRAINING

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