Successful project manager and accomplished business operations professional with 25 years experience in Fortune 500 corporations. Talented team leader with a proven ability to maximize resource utilization, realize financial goals and achieve operational excellence.

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Founder and President

Dexter Street Consultants, LLC - Washington, DC 2018 to Present

• Founded a management consulting practice focused on providing strong project management and business operations practices to corporations, businesses and charitable non-profit organizations.  

• Engaged with an independent school in Wheaton, MD to renovate the school's playground and play area landscape.

• Advanced critical initiatives from the school's Strategic Plan and promoted the achievement of other strategic priorities. 

• Drafted detailed requirements documents outlining deliverables for client, including status reports, schedules and budgets estimates.

• Solicited Requests for Proposals from vendors, civil engineers, landscape architects and playground equipment vendors. 

• Coordinated site visits with vendors, analyzed bids and advised school’s board of directors regarding choice of vendor. 

• Served as liaison to board of directors for project, overseeing implementation and providing regular updates.

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Co-Founder and Partner

Meehan Brothers, LLC - Washington, DC 2012 to 2018

• Founded an S-corporation real estate company to develop business opportunities utilizing 40k square footage of Class A commercial and residential rental properties in North Carolina. 

• Developed and executed strategic vision through use of articles of incorporation, operating agreements and capital utilization plans.

• Retained team of insurance professionals to ensure appropriate risk management at reasonable costs to ownership.

• Partnered with Bank of America Small Business to automate online banking, bill payment, distributions to shareholders, expenses monitoring and establish lines of credit.

• Formalized financial planning and analysis protocol to estimate federal and state tax payments, payroll and cash distributions.

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Project Manager/Release Manager

Verizon Communications - Ashburn, VA 2009 to 2011

• Managed license agreement for 18 Verizon Retail Billing network applications to fulfill Verizon legal obligations to Frontier Communications.

• Coordinated efforts of six development groups to determine level of effort for monthly releases and satisfied all documentation requirements.

• Led team of five software engineers to reduce trouble tickets issued for applications by 90% in three months.

• Managed 18 applications to a strict 60-Day Release Life Cycle Calendar including Change Actions creation.

• Documented Verizon Business work initiatives in application release notes using prescribed release note protocol.

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Financial Operations Senior Specialist

Verizon Communications - Arlington, VA 2007 to 2009

• Responsible for the machine cost budget for IT Retail Business Operations Unit, a $40M annual spend.

• Provided timely and accurate budget and financial updates to Verizon senior management in budget projections.

• Facilitated negotiations between Verizon Vendor Management and IT Retail application development groups.

• Achieved 38% IT machine cost expense reduction goal mandated by Verizon IT Finance in 2010.

• Accomplished 20% annual reduction in maintenance and licensing cost by implementing surveys and metrics

• Partnered with Verizon Vendor Management to assessed true demand for services and eliminating unnecessary vendor agreements.

• Ensured timely payments of large amount invoices ($100K+) through PeopleSoft procurement systems.

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Financial Operations Specialist

Verizon Communications - Arlington, VA 2000 to 2007

• Tracked misallocated labor costs within Verizon's IT Retail business unit in weekly report.

• Successfully reclassified 95% of labor expense hours to capital projects, resulting in $1M in annual savings.

• Compiled and analyzed labor statistics to determine organization's work capacity for Business Operations Review and budgeting reporting. 

• Delivered capital and expense metrics to senior management to identify optimal allocation of resources in Verizon's Retail Markets unit.

• Provided rollup of monthly spend on SOW and TM contractors.

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Finance and Operations Manager

Manpower Temporary Staffing Services - Raleigh, NC 1997 to 2000

• Sales Operations and Finance Manager, Raleigh, NC

• Composed proposals and sales support analytics for light industrial and technical contracts in Research Triangle Park, NC franchise offices.

• Constructed profit analysis for 40 Manpower Temporary Staffing franchise locations.

• Developed compensation program for location managers based on P&L performance.

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Education

MBA - Wake Forest University

BA - Kenyon College

PMP - Project Management Institute, 2012

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SQL, Advanced Excel, Pivot Tables, Microsoft Office, Salesforce, MS Sharepoint, Microsoft Power BI, Tableau