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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 Thomas
Phone 312-338-3022
Email Click here to email me!
Salary Negotiable
State Illinois
Willing to Relocation? Yes
Recent Positions Managing Director
Cameron General Corporation
Chicago, IL.
(Private equity )

President
Swift Insurance Brokers
Chicago, IL
(Insurance brokerage)

Vice President
First Chicago/NBD
Chicago, IL
(Banking)

Key Accomplishments Analyzed, approved, declined, structured, placed, closed and managed private equity investments in various industries.

Underwrote and placed a professional liability insurance program in the London market. Grew the revenues of the company from $0 to $3mm in 3 years by recruiting a national network of retail and wholesale insurance brokers.

Attained profitability in a business I started 1.5 years ahead of plan due to higher than forecasted revenues.

Wrote an offering memorandum and raised $10 million to acquire the assets of a property/casualty insurer.
Education / Skills MBA Finance University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
BA with highest honors in English University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Fluent in French some Spanish
Licensed Illinois insurance producer-all lines

Name Francis
Phone 773-230-6638
Email Click here to email me!
Salary Negotiable
State Illinois
Willing to Relocation? Yes
Recent Positions Senior Project Manager
TD Bank
Columbia, SC
(Commercial Banking )

Proj Mgr/Consultant/Agent
Coface North America/J L O'Brien Assoc
Chicago, IL
(Credit Ins & Info/Collect)

Project/Relationship Mgr
3 - AMCORE/Charter One/Chase Bank
Chicago, IL
(Commercial Banking)

Key Accomplishments 1) Crafted and implemented communication and training plans for commercial on-line customers (1500+); oversaw migration from eTreasury to TD Bank’s TreasuryDirect platform. Revised MS Project Plan to reflect approved scope changes. Monitored risks.

2) Devised and implemented cross-sell templates, operations processes, and CRM configuration changes to position agency for sustainable growth in all lines. Executed successful launch of collections business, managing risk responses.

3) Supervised customer transitioning during Great Bank acquisition. Crafted growth/retention strategies for each customer, implementing information reporting and other treasury offerings. Trained 20 bankers; drove 25% increase loan approval & revenue

4) Created project plan for acquisition of suitable beta candidates for merchant card, business credit card, and remote deposit capture offerings. Coached colleagues. Coordinated internal resources. Resulted in #1 ranking in cash management.
Education / Skills MBA Marquette University; BSEE Marquette University; 3 10-week Project Management Programs DePaul University;
PMI - Certified Project Management Profressional PMP; Six Sigma Green Belt Process Improvement Program DePaul University
Sandler Trained in Systematic Selling
Licensed Real Estate Sales IL; Licensed Property and Casualty Insurance Agent IL

Name Susan
Phone 414-736-2130
Email Click here to email me!
Salary $101K - $125K
State Wisconsin
Willing to Relocation? Yes
Recent Positions Director of Media
Assurant Health
Milwaukee, WI
(Health Insurance)

Director of Marketing Inf
Assurant Health
Milwaukee, WI
(Health Insurance)

Senior Marketing Manager
Discover Financial Services
Riverwoods, IL
(Credit Card)

Key Accomplishments • Resourceful, analytical, highly motivated marketing professional with extensive experience in the financial services industry. • An effective communicator with leadership skills in directing, facilitating, integrating and motivating team members

• Plan, direct and optimize a 12 million dollar media budget via DRTV buying strategy and lead acquisition activities for the direct to consumer channel that meet or exceed target marketing metrics including cost per lead, cost per application and cost per policy. • Supported company acquisition goal of 60% increase in sales in 2009 via robust media plan. • Maintain Actual to Target Cost per Issue Ratio (AE) of 100% or less on rolling 12-month basis. • Positive year over year increase in brand awareness through media buy strategy.

• Support company acquisition goal of 30% in sales in 2010 while maintaining profitability levels. • Manage the identification and testing of new lead source opportunities for purposes of acquiring new insurance policy holders that are cost-effective and profitable. Leads are acquired using various direct marketing methods including direct response television, on-line, outbound telemarketing and direct mail. • Manage media testing strategy for new and existing lead sources to continuously refine and optimize target markets via robust analyti

Education / Skills B.A., Organizational Management, Concordia University-River Forest, 1994




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