Management Development

BECKY HESSON

**** *********** **** ***, ******, TX

512-***-**** ***********@*****.***

http://www.linkedin.com/in/beckyhesson

CAREER SUMMARY

Software solutions development / Software Product development / Program Management

Collaborative executive with global expertise in management including software development, deployment and program management enabling delivery of strategic business imperatives. Extremely proficient team builder who produces highly functional teams driving innovation within an organization. Visionary, customer-focused leader able to negotiate complex relationships that allow transitional change while effectively leveraging global resources. Proven expertise in multinational companies and startups in consumer electronics and technology industries.

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Decision-Making Business Value Accountability Solutions Strategy Development

Mergers and Acquisitions Matrix Management Program Management Global Resource Management

Intellectual Property Management Relationship Management Integrity Organizational Development

Business Development Budget Management Vendor Management Talent Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Intersys Consulting, Austin, TX 2012 – Present

Business Development Executive

Identifying and pursuing new project opportunities for data warehouse development, business analytics, and mobile application development

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Austin, TX 2010 – January 2012

Director, Social Media / Application Lifecycle Methodology (July 2011 – Present)

Developed and implemented an integrated collaboration and social media platform for engineering and the enterprise

Implemented an efficient set of principles, practices and tools to govern the process of turning business ideas into software to support processes and products – from envisioning through retirement

Deployed social media strategies and tools and application lifecycle management (ALM) capabilities to support IT and engineering software development processes

Director, Corporate Services & Internal IT (June 2010 – July 2011)

Implemented strategy for systems architecture and on boarded Software as a Service (SaaS) capability (Service-Now) for service management processes. Managed global team with a budget responsibility of $6M

Successfully implemented Synygy sales compensation system for 400 sales representatives and CA clarity enabling resource management in 1 month

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (continued)

DELL, INC., Round Rock, TX 2005 – 2010

Executive (Senior) Director, Architecture & Strategy (January 2010 – March 2010)

Developed systems and business architecture strategy for $26B+ business units including Consumer, Small and Medium Business, Dell Financial Services and Communications Business unit. Designed 3 year roadmap to allow business to continue to grow and adapt to industry landscape

Executive (Senior) Director, Global Retail (October 2008 – January 2010)

Enabled End to end Retail process and system operations across matrixed organization including program management, product data maintenance, demand management, business to business integration, order management, fulfillment, services and returns processing

Drove business process shift from Configure to Order model to Finished Good/Build to Stock model facilitating growth to $11B in revenue

Executive (Senior) Director, Global Product Data Solutions (2007 - October 2008)

Built and led global teams (80+ resources) in Asia and throughout Europe delivering global applications enabling e-commerce sales and support capabilities for $65 billion technology company

Championed integrating disparate business processes to global alignment facilitating “buy anywhere, build anywhere, ship anywhere” business process capability

Designed and drove merger and acquisition process enabling integration of 10 acquisitions

Implemented intellectual property process for patent evaluation of application code supporting system configuration and validation

Executive (Senior) Director, Corporate Systems Development (2005 - 2007)

Led 120+ resource global team providing employee and management self-service capabilities for 60,000 employee organization, including vlog, blog and online web-casting supporting employee and customer corporate communications

Established and leveraged effective business partner relationships to enable increased funding allocations by 10-40%

VIEO, INC., Austin, TX 2000 - 2001

VIEO, Inc. was an early stage software development startup company that raised $20M in Series A funding in 2001. InfiniBand is a switched-fabric I/O technology standard that ties together server, network devices, and storage devices and promises to alleviate limitations with current PCI-X based servers

Vice President, Product Development

Delivered industry’s first end to end InfiniBand management software prototype which secured $20M in Series A funding and captured heavy press coverage as first working InfiniBand prototype

Drove corporate strategy to shift an engineering consulting firm to a software product development company

Hosted presentations with prospective partners and venture capital firms to secure funding

Education / Community Involvement

Bachelor of Science (B.S), Business Administration

Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon

Executive Board Member - Texas A&M Center for Management Information Systems

Directors Leadership Experience, AMD – May 2011

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