Program Management Manager
Resume:
HOLLY A.
VERGARA
adynoz@r.postjobfree.com
Los Gatos, CA. 95032
Highly accomplished program management professional with 10+ years of experience in program/project planning, execution, and evaluation within the storage industry. Equipped with success in developing and implementing innovative programs that support the strategic direction of the organization. An effective leader with proven ability to supervise and lead high-performance teams to ensure a 100% success rate in achieving company goals in an extremely competitive business environment.
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Western Digital - Material Readiness Manager, NPI
Procurement
San Jose, California • 08/2021 - 05/2023
Sun Microsystems, Inc./Oracle America, Inc - Program Manager
01/2005 - 05/2019
WORK HISTORY
Ensure all materials are in place and ready for NPI programs (Material CTB)
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Evaluate supplier quotes based on purchasing procedures and competitiveness for quality, price and delivery.
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Collaborate closely with Global Commodity Managers to ensure best price and MOQs were implemented
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Developed and maintained relationships with key
suppliers for smooth communication to meet required expectations.
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Work with external organizations within the company to find new and better components to fulfill diverse needs.
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Develop productive relationships with key account
holders.
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Accept and process supply requests from staff, and placed orders per procedures.
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• Maintain sourcing resiliency through program lifecycle Responsible for ensuring Oracle IP and third party software products release in a successful and timely manner through Oracle's Product Life Cycle Process by
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SKILLS
• Material Readiness
• Program Management
Software Development Life
Cycle
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Excellent Communication,
Organizing
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Team leadership and
direction
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• Performance Monitoring
• Budget Coordination
Policy and procedure
improvements
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• Program Leadership
• Documentation Proficiency
• Process improvement
Cross functional Team
Builder
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DeAnza College
Cupertino, CA
Some College (No Degree):
Business
Attended DeAnza to take AA
courses from 1989 - 1992
EDUCATION
Evergreen Valley College
San Jose, CA • 1989
Court Reporting
Silver Creek High School
1987
Sun Microsystems, Inc - Product Manager, Team Lead 03/2002 - 01/2005
organizing and guiding program teams to define,
construct, and deliver tasks and deliverables.
Responsible for implementing phase exit deliverables as well as presenting to Business Unit VP's for phase exit approval.
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Provide regular reports demonstrating execution to scheduled activities and provide objective data to predict future problems.
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Assist any program team functional area in solving problems that are hindering program progress.
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Hold regular team meetings assessing functional group progress.
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Drive creation and verification of development project roadmaps.
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• Constantly strive to improve self and team's productivity. Created new Consolidation Team that combined two
organizations together.
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Newly created team now accommodates Storage and
Server OS product integration processes and procedures.
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Duties Include: Created new Tiger team to orchestrate action items needed to create schedules and project plan for newly created consolidation team.
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Hosted weekly meetings to track action items and act as liaison between groups to organize tasks.
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Created schedules that allowed team to follow
organization and release deadlines.
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Day to day activities included working with all project development teams to assist in getting their projects ready for integration.
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Specifically, reviewing their checklists to make sure all project requirements are met (test, compliance,
documentation, etc.), held weekly meetings to discuss status of core product gate and track bugs, implement and adhere to project deadline schedules to make sure projects are on track for scheduled delivery dates.
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In addition, hosted meetings with Executives of Business Teams to address any changes or concerns.
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Identified costs involved for projects and tracked specific tasks to keep in line with departmental budget.
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• Responsible for driving product direction, managing product strategy, assisting with bringing new products to market, interacting with product team to provide
marketing deliverables, working closely with engineering for product requirements, informing field sales force of new products and features, creating business cases for upcoming products, presenting phase exit reviews for product programs, and updating internal and external web sites for up to date product material.
In addition, established close relationships with partners to ensure seamless product releases.
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