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Vida Williams
2305 Eagles Landing Ave, Henrico, VA 23231 | 804.986.1434 |
EDUCATION
Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Project Management-CertificationCurrent
Duke University, Durham, NC
AB in English/History1995
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
J. Sargent Reynolds Community College, Richmond, VA
Web Development
Database Design I2000-2001
[Developed syllabus and overall course structure, and administered all grades.]
Duke University, Durham, NC
House Course Instructor/TA1993-1995
[Developed syllabus and overall course structure, and administered all grades.]
RELATED EXPERIENCE
The Axis Partners, Inc.
Founder, Managing PartnerAugust 2013 – Present
Cultivate a portfolio of business partners and clients from the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors that will help make a lasting change in our local communities and across the globe.
Data Sciences: bringing cutting edge mathematical, algorithmic and statistical analysis to clients to ensure good business intelligence upon which to base their decisions.
Management Consulting: structured objective analysis to business problem sets to organize and execute solutions.
Business Execution: ensuring the success of solutions/projects using sound management methodologies
In all things, we will strive to promote community advocacy, challenge the status quo in our educational methods, look for means to advance health and wellness for all individuals, and drive the advancement of sustainable and renewable energy concepts.
Health Diagnostic Laboratory, Inc.
VP PMO November 2011 – September 2013
HDL, Inc was an incredibly fast growing ref lab and wellness program accomplishing 20 to 4000 samples a day in just 4 short years. This unlikely and aggressive growth challenged the corporate lifecycle into advanced maturation which required strategic planning for exceptional tactical solutions in all areas of the business. Major efforts have included:
Lab Automation and Swim-laning
Development of Lab Traffic Controls
Negotiating licensing agreement for LIS
Development of Enterprise Data Warehouse
Design and Development of Products (Virtual Health Coach, Medical Registries)
Independent Consultant
Health Diagnostic Laboratory, Inc.Jan 2011 – Nov 2011
Designed and managed solutions to enable the efficient expansion of the then newly acquired Wind Energy Unit into North America. Major efforts included:
Construction of Nacelle Manufacturing Plant in Texas
Establishment of SAP ERP
Codification of Engineering Bill Of Materials including versioning
Establishment of N. A. Wind farm controllers, protocols, and systemic QA
Alstom Energy, Richmond, VA
IS Manager North America - Renewable Energy June 2010 – November 2011
Designed and managed solutions to enable the efficient expansion of the then newly acquired Wind Energy Unit into North America. Major efforts included:
Construction of Nacelle Manufacturing Plant in Texas
Establishment of SAP ERP
Conversion process from existing ERP to SAP, Maximo
Codification of Engineering Bill Of Materials including versioning
Establishment of N. A. Windfarm controllers, protocols, and systemic QA
Principal Consultant
B2B Solutions, Richmond, VAMarch 2008 – June 2010
Alstom Energy, Richmond VA
Guided multiple international IT projects and implementations to successful completion. Projects included new development, upgrades, as well as enterprise architectural design global infrastructure. Maintained budget, resource allocation, vendor relations, and business unit relations.
Xperts, Inc., Richmond VA
Guided efforts to migrate clients into a local ASP hosted solution. Provided Analysis and scope of project. Designed and executed migration from Oracle data environment to a SQL Server. Developed project plan, and managed communications plan between clients and Xperts. Provided scheduling of resources, as well as test and production timelines, balancing limited human and calendar resources.
TSI, Inc., Richmond VA
Provided general enterprise infrastructure planning and architectural expertise
CCA Financials, Richmond, VA
Guided efforts to provide analysis and scope of projects to re-architect applications for efficiency and accuracy. Developed and coded commission algorithms to automate payment process and make more efficient audit-ability of data. Develop communications and project plan, as well as scheduling of test and production timelines, balancing a complicated financial calendar upon which the project is dependent.
Independent Consultant
National Public Radio, Washington, DCFeb 2008 –July 2008
Coordinated the design, development and public release of NPRs general consumption API. Provided technical expertise in the areas of architecture and deployment. Provided direction in the area of project production, scheduling, business analysis, marketing/consumer consumption.
Technical Project Manager/Senior Consultant
Bell Tech.Logix, Richmond VAOct 2006 – April 2008
Guided solutions architecture for Asset Tracking Systems used by Philip Morris, USA. Provided design and specifications for the implementation of HP Asset Center. Designed and executed integration of HP Asset Center with a third party proprietary system produced by Bell Tech.Logix. Provided technical reviews, managed project scheduling, staff scheduling, project implementation, and communications plan toward the successful implementation of Asset Tracking per specifications of the customer Philip Morris, USA.
Senior Applications/Senior Data Architect
Chesterfield County Public Schools, Chesterfield VAMarch 2002 – Oct 2006
Guided several projects from inception to implementation.
Designed, built, and implemented of a self-managing, online publishing application, The CCPS Intranet. Managed the requirements, specification analysis, design, build and implementation phases, including scope, communications plan, rollout, and customer training. My participation was a both the hands on technical developer as well as project manager.
Managed the review, selection, procurement and implementation of the Student/Teacher SIS Portal. Contributed to the RFP, consultant firm and product selection and consultant interface and communications plan.
Designed, built, and Implemented of the CCPS Online Teacher Gradebook. Provided IT technology review for environment selection, plan for environment implementation. Project plan for design, implementation, and extensive consumer testing.
Provided general services to various projects such as Data warehousing integration, Student information System, RFPs development and selection, staff augmentation, staff hiring and scheduling, customer interaction.
Director of Technology
Whitlock Portals/Richmond.comJul 2001 – Mar 2002
New Product design, architecture and implementation.
Site redesign and architecture. Managed re-launch
Design, development, implementation of online publishing platform.
Governed the process of client-site design and publishing, as well as the technological integrity and product appeal of Richmond.com.
Managed the staff of both IT and Marketing Departments.
Senior Consultant/Technical Project Lead
Oracle Corporation, DoD, Richmond, VA officeMay 1999 – March 2002
Technical Lead designing, building and implementing technical solutions.
Directed team efforts during development and implementation.
Managed team resources, developed and managed communications plans, implemented and tracked project plans for three major DOD efforts: CSAM I, CSAM II, Virtual Prime Vendor
LANGUAGES
English – native language
Spanish – speak, read and write with basic competence
Volunteer/community
Founder of GirlFit!//Youth Fitness
Over 5 years coached and qualified 30 athletes to compete at the AAU Junior Olympic Competitions
Qualified 5 athletes for National Cross Country competitions
Coached AAU 15U, 14U, and 10U boys basketball teams
Crossover Ministries, Technical Solutions
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc, Active Member