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Name Jon
Phone
Email Click here to email me!
Salary $126K - $150K
State Illinois
Willing to Relocation? No
Recent Positions Branch General Manager
Black Box Network Services
Chicago
(telecom infrastructure)

Vice President of Sales
XO Communications
Chicago
(networks)

Vice President
Ameritech/AT&T
Indianapolis, Chicago
(Regional Bell Operating )

Key Accomplishments Consistent Top Performing Branch. Achieved 15% NOI for the region Took Wisconsin Branch last to 1st Sold over $110M in new business

Promoted to VP after 6 months Rebuilt Central Region with over 200 new sales reps. #1 performing region grew 18% with over $170M in rev. Lead Executive to develop the Allegiance Telecom strategy after a merger

Promoted to VP. Led a 1.8B p&L Led an internal team that reduced 7 service centers to 2 "Super" centers, improving customer retention and saving over $25M in operating expense and capital.

Education / Skills Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Ind. Bachelor of Arts in Psychology Area of Concentration in Economics




Name Tim
Phone 847-875-0139
Email Click here to email me!
Salary Negotiable
State Illinois
Willing to Relocation? No
Recent Positions Cust. Operations Manager
Nokia Siemens
Arlington Hts. IL
(Telecommunications)

Mgr, PM Board Repair Team
Motorola
Arlington Hts. IL
(Telecommunications)

Project Manager (PM)
Motorola
Arlington Hts. IL
(Telecommunications)

Key Accomplishments Managed 25,000 calls annually from all domestic and international customers with a call drop rate of less than 3% and a speed of answer of eight seconds. Supported post warranty tech support generating more than $250 million in revenue.

Managed Repair Business generating $50 million in post warranty revenue. Managed move of repair solution to USA from China, reducing repair cycle time from 70+ to 20 days. Managed 3rd party repair vendors covering more than 75,000 units annually.

Turned around $5 million annual loss in Fiber to the Node (FTTN) repairs by reducing cycle time from 70 to 30 days generating $2 million profit within 18 months. Designed, implemented, and oversaw management of end to end repair process.

Project managed implementation and design of a repair process for the WiMAX business, supporting more than thirty global corporate customers around the world.
Education / Skills MBA, Lake Forest Graduate School of Management Masters Certificate in Project Management, George Washington Univ.
PMP and ACP certifications from PMI Six Sigma Green Belt - Amer. Soc. of Quality (ASQ)
SKILLS: Project Management, Customer Satisfaction, Telecommunications, Management, Cross Functional Teams, Leadership
SKILLS: Problem Solving, Relationship Building, Process Improvement, Bus. Analysis, Strategic Thinking, Logistics

Name Kash
Phone 847-214-1186
Email Click here to email me!
Salary $126K - $150K
State Illinois
Willing to Relocation? No
Recent Positions Sr. Program Mgr/PM
NEXTGEN INFORMATION SERVICES INC., St. Louis, MO
AT&T - Hoffman Est., IL
(Telecommunications)

Program Manager/Consultan
TEKsystems
MOTOROLA INC., Schaumburg
(Communication/Engineering)

AT&T PMO/Program Mgr.
ENGEL CONSULTANT INC., Lake Forest, IL
AT&T - Hoffman Est., IL
(Telecommunications)

Key Accomplishments Managed all phases of the project and program life cycle from initiation through deployment as well as post deployment warranty support. Matrix staff of up to 28.

Reduced global head count by 50 employees by reorganizing and consolidating a Financial Shared Services (FSS) system into a single Global Services Provider using Oracle ERP (11.0.3).

Achieved $110K annual cost saving by purchasing, implementing and integrating a check printing process

Designed and implemented a Computer Base Training (CBT) system for Rockwell International using shell scripts, C, SQL, PL/SQL GUI and trained hardware engineers to generate reports and retrieve stored data.
Education / Skills MBA - Lake Forest Graduate School of Management. Finance/General Mgmt.
MS - University of Houston-Clear Lake. Computer Science and Relational Databases.
BS - University of Houston-Downtown Computer Science .
PMP certification -2004 to 2017. Program mgmt./Program Mgmt./Data Warehousing/Leadership/IT Strategy/Sys. Integration

Name Stephen
Phone 630.267.8784
Email Click here to email me!
Salary $151K - $175K
State Illinois
Willing to Relocation? Yes
Recent Positions Sales Operations Director
YP Holdings (formerly ATT Ad Solutions)
Chicago, IL
(print,digital advertising)

General Mgr, Nat'l Sales
ATT Advertisng Solutions
Chicago, IL
(print,digital advertising)

National Sales Manager
SBC Directory Operations
St. Louis, MO
(print,digital advertising)

Key Accomplishments Having successfully navigated 2 spinoffs and 5 mergers, I have become an expert at Organizational Change Management (OCM) as well as Process and Systems Integrations.

Managed teams responsible for achieving or exceeding budgeted targets, including as much as 50% cost reductions

Drove organizational changes, process and systems transformations enabling more than 10X digital ad revenue growth

Led OCM and integrated technology implementations including using SalesForce.com, Oracle, Microsoft SharePoint, Excel and DOMO resulting in over $35million incremental revenue from existing customers and revenue from new customers
Education / Skills Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business Management Webster University, 1997
Lean Six Sixma Green Belt Purdue University, 2014
Certified Scrum Master Heartland Community College / Scrum Alliance, 2013
Relational Database Design Washington University, 1994

Name Martha
Phone 312-305-2315
Email Click here to email me!
Salary $126K - $150K
State Illinois
Willing to Relocation? No
Recent Positions Program Lead - Operations
BP Pipeline & Logistics
Naperville, IL
(Oil & Gas)

Tank Team Lead
BP Pipeline & Logistics
Naperville, IL
(Maintenance Construction)

Safety & Operations
BP Pipeline & Logistics
Naperville, IL
(Maintenance Program)

Key Accomplishments - Developed assurance frameworks and identified key operations risks - Coordinated the alignment of the leadership team and governance board on an action plan. - Closed gaps

- Drove long /short term planning, scheduling, financial controls for capital and revenue spend. Created a process that allowed greater cost visibility and improved forecasting by 50%. - Delivered $2MM annual savings and 25 day cycle time reduction

- Developed and rolled out an Operating Procedures Program and completed a project that was at risk of cost and schedule over-run - Developed and rolled out the inspection and maintenance program for safety critical and regulatory equipment.

- Achieved and sustained delivery reliability; Retail - 99%+/ commercial - 98%. Improved order entry by 15% and VMI (Vendor Managed Inventory) 1-2% - Spearheaded Scheduling Center of the Future, a 3 year strategy that included process improvement,
Education / Skills BS Civil Engineering, University of Illinois, CU Structural Design
MBA, University of Michicagn - Ross School of Business Operations Management & Finance
PMP - Project Management Professional, DePaul Univiersity
Process Improvement - Lean Six Sigma Green Belt

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