Adjunct Professor - Finance Resume
5.00/5 (Submit Your Rating)
Caledonia, MichigaN
SUMMARY:
- Senior Level Professional that is a proven visionary.
- Strongly analytical recognizing the importance of accuracy and quality.
- Ability to function seamlessly in multiple leadership roles. Intense curiosity with desire to improve efficiency of processes.
- Highly self motivated with a reputation for strong work ethic combined with honesty and integrity.
- Created a tiered pricing strategy to attract new customers.
- Resulted in new customer sales increasing to more than 15% of total sales.
- Developed a data centric methodology with red, yellow, and green alert levels to track job progress and ensure delivery dates were met, even with the increased sales volume.
- Specified the required functionality from numerous ERP modules and served as liaison between Original Equipment business unit and team.
- Managed program implementation, documented business processes, created end user documentation, tested system functionality, and trained end users.
- Within two years transformed the plant from one of the worst performing to competing for the best U.S. plant in Industry Week magazine.
- Worked closely with VP of IT and regional CIO to refine the project definition process.
- Restructured roles in the IT department from a business unit manager structure to a process focused structure and enabled process improvement efforts to drive business process and system changes.
- Defined and implemented a structured methodology for the consultants to manage the business processes and document results for review, implementation, and training.
- Methodology included defining project scope, cost, expected return and a determination of risk (probability of success), which were used to determine allocation of scarce resources.
- Identified key part and injection mold characteristics for custom designed parts that drove tooling costs and developed a parametrically and statistically based quoting model to more accurately estimate mold design and manufacturing costs.
- Developed model to estimate expected profitability and risk level for new, custom designed injection molds.
- Over time, improved profitability and reduced profitability variation of new tools.
- Estimated automotive glass product and tooling costs for future Original Equipment Manufacturer programs.
- Developed early expert system program for quoting prototype part costs.
SPECIALTIES & PROFICIENCIES:
Project/Program Management; Team Building; Lean, Six Sigma; Supply Chain; SAP; Minitab; Advanced PC Skills; ARIS Toolset process modeling/simulation software; Windows NT Server/UNIX networking; Internet, Intranet, Web Page development; Java; Microsoft Office application development; Database query development (SQL, Microsoft Access, Progress)
CAREER SUMMARY:
Confidential, Caledonia, Michigan
Adjunct Professor - Finance
Responsibilities:
- Instructor for several undergraduate and graduate level Finance classes.
Confidential, Allendale, Michigan
Adjunct Professor - Physics Lab
Responsibilities:
- Instructor of Introductory Physics labs.
Confidential, Alto, Michigan
President
Responsibilities:
- Internet based company that produced several investment e-newsletters for subscription.
- The Confidential and Stock Also provided personal finance and investment articles from two of the top investor education groups in the U.S., as well as investment guidance for investment advisors and individual investors.
Confidential, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Account Representative
Responsibilities:
- Created a tiered pricing strategy to attract new customers.
- Resulted in new customer sales increasing to more than 15% of total sales.
- Developed a data centric methodology with red, yellow, and green alert levels to track job progress and ensure delivery dates were met, even with the increased sales volume.
- Specified the required functionality from numerous ERP modules and served as liaison between Original Equipment business unit and team.
- Managed program implementation, documented business processes, created end user documentation, tested system functionality, and trained end users.
- Within two years transformed the plant from one of the worst performing to competing for the best U.S. plant in Industry Week magazine.
- Worked closely with VP of IT and regional CIO to refine the project definition process.