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Name Stephen
Phone 630-415-6577
Email Click here to email me!
Salary $151K - $175K
State Illinois
Willing to Relocation? Yes
Recent Positions Client Director
Market Track LLC
Chicago, IL
(Information Services)

Director of Business Deve
ConAgra Refrigerated Foods
Naperville, IL
(Grocery Products)

Director of Sales
ConAgra Retail Sales
Irvine CA
(Grocery Products)

Key Accomplishments Increased top-line revenue with one dollar store account by $11.5 million year over year.

Improved my company's profit margins in the dollar store channel from an average of 13% to 30%.

Saved $3 million segment of the business in the club store channel while at the same time implementing a 12% price increase. This was accomplished despite the account's adamant opposition to any price increases.

Saved a program where we were forced to rescind our original offer and the account was very unhappy. Through face-to-face negotiations, saved the program despite increasing the price 26% with the end result being $2.8 million in new sales.
Education / Skills University of Pennsylvania - BA Political Science Northwestern University - ConAgra Marketing Excellence Program
Sales Management - Hiring, Managing, Training, Coaching, Mentoring, Leading
Proficient with MS Office Applications: Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Negotiating, Acquisition Integration, New Product Launches, P&L Management, Relationship Building

Name Robert
Phone 312-479-1431
Email Click here to email me!
Salary Negotiable
State Illinois
Willing to Relocation? Yes
Recent Positions Owner
Opferman Consulting LLC
Chicago Area
(Technology Consulting)

CIO - Corporate Services
Newedge Group
Chicago
(Brokerage)

Director - IT Development
Calyon Financial / Carr Futures
Chicago
(Brokerage)

Key Accomplishments Consulting: Executed more than twenty audits for private equity firm. Interim CIO for sports distributor - reduced expenses by 40% in seven month term.

Merger Experience: Part of IT Executive Committee to define IT organization in merger of Calyon/Fimat to form Newedge. Defined integration of Finance, Risk, Compliance, HR Led IT integration of Lincoln Capital into Lehman/Neuberger Asset Management

Technology: Implemented Weblogic application suite at Calyon to handle high volume transaction processing applications for both internal operations and customer reporting services.

Defined migration strategy to virtual server technology at TeamExpress to upgrade capacity while reducing hardware footprint. Implemented ITIL Change/Release Management services to reduce downtime at Calyon/Newedge
Education / Skills Attending DePaul University to complete degree in 2012
Trained in ITIL Foundations



Name Thomas
Phone 847-705-2489
Email Click here to email me!
Salary Negotiable
State Texas
Willing to Relocation? Yes
Recent Positions Sr. Project Manager - CRM
Dell, Inc.
Round Rock, TX
(Technology)

Sr. Technology Project Mg
Washington Mutual Inc.
Vernon Hills, IL
(Financial Services)

Sr. Manager, Global E-Ser
3Com Corp.
Rolling Meadows, IL
(Computer Networking)

Key Accomplishments Designed and delivered fully operational technology platform and software to support 100 person telesales agents within 75 days. Led the team to integrate CRM with five legacy systems resulting in the complete elimination of work duplication affect.

Retained by client to assess 200 seat call center acquisition and subsequently to evaluate and recommend changes to technology platforms.

Hired to assume leadership role for stalled 14 month $20 million Siebel implementation, completing first critical module within 60 days. Completed planned 40 month phase of Siebel CRM implementation within 16 months.

Pioneered the first virtual call center model, consolidating management and the automation of call centers across the US, Europe and Asia Pacific. Developed and implemented "technology roadmap" supporting new ‘virtual’ call center model saving $2M.
Education / Skills Executive MBA - General Manager Program, Lake Forest Graduate School of Management, Lake Forest, IL 2006
Bachelor of Technology - Electrical Engineering, University of Kerala, INDIA 1987



Name Edward
Phone 708-308-3977
Email Click here to email me!
Salary $126K - $150K
State Illinois
Willing to Relocation? Yes
Recent Positions Credit Manager, National
US Foodservice
Rosemont, IL
(Food distributor)

Regional Credit Manager
Ryerson
Chicago, IL
(Metal Distributor)

Credit Manager
Allscripts Healthcare
Chicago, IL
(Medical technology)

Key Accomplishments Leadership: Spearheaded turnaround strategies for troubled credit departments: Strategies included creatiom of policy throughout the Credit, Collections, and Sales functions, aggressive "clean up" of receivables, risk management and customer service

Risk Management: Lead financial modeling team to construct scorecards and cash flow metrics. Models enabled analysts to assign credit lines while simultaneously reducing risk 50% faster than previous methods.

Sales: Continuously worked with sales and upper management to develop leads, maintain profitability, and strengthen existing customer relations. Negotiations with fledging business resulted in $10 million in annual sales.

Process Improvement: Worked with Sales, IT and Finance to improve the auto release rate of sales orders; improved release rate from 15% to 78% within a 6 month period.
Education / Skills MBA, Finance - Lewis University
BA, Clinical Psychology - Governors State University
Additional certification in financial analysis, customer service and credit law from Dun and Bradstreet
Computer background includes: Microsoft Office, Mac O/S, PeopleSoft, SAP, CARMS, JD Edwards and IBM AS400 software

Name Michael
Phone 847-648-5903
Email Click here to email me!
Salary Negotiable
State Illinois
Willing to Relocation? No
Recent Positions Operations Manager, Mfg.
Magil/Centrel Corp.
Lake Zurich, IL
(Power Gen/Elevator Equip)

Engineering Manager
Schindler Logistics Center (Adams Elevator)
Niles, IL
(Elevator/Escalator Equip)

Senior Mfg. Engineer
Adams Elevator Equipment Co.
Skokie, IL
(Elevator/Escalator Equip)

Key Accomplishments Reduced lead time by 40% to 2-weeks & increased performance to 96% through modification of order & delivery processes. Developed costing structure to determine actual pricing model, allowing for an increase of 30% in revenue or $6.3 million annually.

Created prod lines for gearless elevator machines & residential elevators adding $12.6 million in profitable revenue within 36 months. Reduced inventory costs 42%, $550k annually & increase availability to 98% implementing MRP/ERP, capacity planning.

Led development of an automated drawing & CNC prog system using AutoLISP and AutoParametric scripting of AudoCAD driven by a VB front-end order entry system.

Designed and implemented a "Focused Factory" with its own warehouse, order process, assembly, test & pack to build an elevator safety brake product line.
Education / Skills Tech experience supporting growth through resolution & leadership. Expertise reducing mfg costs & enhancing profitabity.
College Lake Cnty (Design, Mfg Eng) / William Rainey Harper College (Design, Ind Eng) / Kellogg Certification (Lean Mfg)
Shanin Quality Process (Six Sigma Hybrid) / ISO9001 Inter Auditor Certification
SAP, Platinum/Maynard Enterprise / AutoCAD, Pro-E, RasterX / GibbsCAM, Proto Punch, ToPs100 Laser, Engraving, Facilities

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