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- 1. STEVEN VADNAIS, MBA, PMP 2525 10th St N Apt #204 Arlington, VA 22201 (703) 969-0124 steven.vadnais@gmail.com Professional Profile: Ten years of experience in project management, financial management, business process reengineering, process improvement, change management, and LEAN Six Sigma with a MBA and Project Management Professional certification. Managed project teams of 4-8 associates with multiple work-streams and budgets up to $500K. KPMG, April 2014 to Present Grant Thornton, April 2013 to April 2014 AT&T, March 2006 to April 2013 Specific Duties and Accomplishments: Project Management o Developed and maintained Project Management Plans, Risk Management Plans, Project schedules (MS Project) for implementation activities. o Developed custom activity and milestone tracking reports. o Developed approach and methodology for the Critical Systems Assessment to determine current client financial reporting data elements to map to future state reporting requirements. o Delivered a $285K fixed price contract to a 39% profit margin. o Managed internal project finances and reported burn rates, revenue projections, profitability, etc. to leadership as needed. o Modelled resource scenarios to determine appropriate labor mix for future engagement planning. o Managed the end-to-end billing production cycle with global business partners (US-based sales teams, UK- based provisioning teams, and India-based infrastructure team.) o Delivered on-time and accurate invoicing of $6 million in monthly revenue. Process Improvement o Reengineered existing processes as necessary to improve effectiveness. o Conducted change management activities during process deployment. o Designed and implemented changes to existing manual billing processes that decreased invoice production times and increased accuracy. Through the use of process standardization and automated tools, the billing team realized a 5 day time savings per month and invoice errors were decreased by 17%. o Reorganized and aligned the team by task area enabling the team to clear a backlog of over 200 invoices requiring rebilling and began completing credit/rebill each month on time for the first time in 9 months. o Worked with sales representatives in South America to ensure all purchase orders were up to date and invoices were delivered to the customer on time. o Improved billing accuracy from 98.73% to 99.28% for a total savings of $400K in 2011. o Led monthly mailing cost reduction project by analyzing existing processes, identifying and implementing a process change that achieved $2500 in monthly cost savings. o Created a tracking tool to monitor remaining funds on each PO with warning indicators allowing sales representatives adequate time to receive a new PO, thus reducing the number of invoices unable to be billed. o Performed a current-state analysis of the existing application to identify opportunities for improvement. The website redesign, to include data processing and download tracking significantly increased organizational understanding of available resources, improving decision-making regarding future studies and data collection. Change Management
- 2. STEVEN VADNAIS, MBA, PMP Phone: (703) 969-0124 Page 2 o Development Change Management plan to include approaches for planning, managing, and enabling change o Conducted strategy sessions with clients to define roles, responsibilities, and critical success factors. o Contributed to the transition to new platform architecture and provided current state value stream mapping of existing platform. o Conducted change management activities during deployment to ensure end users adopted and understood the new software. Internal Controls o Developed process flow diagrams for current and future state processes. o Developed Risk and Control Matrices to capture existing internal controls and associated risks. o Developed testing criteria, and documented testing results to be briefed to senior leaders at the end of the testing period. Education: University of Massachusetts Amherst - MBA, 2011 George Mason University BA, Government and International Politics, 2006 Certifications: Certified Agile Practitioner, scheduled Dec 2016 Project Management Professional, 2013 Lean & Six Sigma, 2012