Kathy
Hadizadeh
424.750.6165
Qualifications
E-commerce
Project Manager and Business Analyst: Enthusiastic, multilingual, and team-oriented professional with
success in facilitating process improvement projects, leading global roll-out
of new applications, and working with cross-functional teams. Progressive
experience in defining scope, resource tracking, and change management
throughout project life cycle (full cycle SDLC). Solid background in creating
deliverables such as business requirements, functional specifications, and flow
diagrams. Expertise in designing and conducting training as well as developing
reports via Business Intelligence solutions. Highly developed research,
communication, and analytical skills.
Professional
experienceg
International Rectifier,
A $500M global semiconductor manufacturer with more than 5000 employees.
E-commerce Business Systems Manager (2005-2008)
Managed and facilitated the
development and execution of projects to support and improve e-commerce
department business and process improvement requirements.
· Managed design,
development, and implementation of a web-based system which decreased time to
market of new parts by 78%. Utilized full system development life cycle.
Supervised a team of three programmers in a dotted-line relationship.
· Organized &
conducted training of 90 engineers in Europe,
· Defined a strategy for
roll-out of business intelligence (BI) software. Designed Universe and defined
data schema using Business Objects (BO) XI. Restructured SQL based e-commerce
reports using BO resulting in decreased report production time from several
weeks to less than one day.
· Administered user
profiling for ERP system access to comply with Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) audit in
33% of the time planned by audit group.
· Evaluated 18
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions and recommended an XML based
authoring tool for parts datasheet generation which would cut the datasheet
generation cost by 50%.
E-commerce Systems Analyst (2003-2005)
Analyzed business processes in a cross-functional setting to
identify potential improvement points and collaborated with stakeholders to implement
changes.
· Enhanced marketability
of parts by integrating 18 additional fields and measures into New Product
Development (NPD) process as well as ERP system.
· Improved allocation of
manufacturing capacity to new parts by 75% through negotiating a deal with a
lead distributor to order parts as they became available.
· Defined new metrics
and processes for Marketing Communications in release of new parts which
decreased the time to generate marketing campaigns by 25%.
Kathy
Hadizadeh 424.750.6165
Worldwide Rotation
Engineer (2001-2003)
Delivered three global projects involving eight different departments
within two years.
· Managed the
implementation of award winning web-based Opportunity Tracking System within
six months for 500 sales engineers providing the first-ever tracking of
potential leads from conception through the final order.
· Decreased time to add
new parts to ERP system across nine design centers by 75% through automating
processes using MS Access and the document management platform (Documentum ECM
solution).
· Developed an algorithm
for budgetary pricing using Value Pricing to introduce
e-commerce direct sales resulting in more than
50% profit margins.
Supervisor of Blackboard Technical Support Team, IT Services
Supervised
a team of five providing support for Blackboard online system.
Research and Teaching Assistant of Knowledge Management
Shetabkar Corporation,
Leading automotive component manufacturer with five facilities.
Total Quality Management Consultant
Facilitated use of
TQM principles to improve manufacturing processes.
· Reduced the number of
defective parts by 65% via leading a team of ten engineers to implement
Statistical Process Control (SPC) methods in three plants.
Education
· M.S. Industrial & Systems Engineering,
Information management, USC
· B.S. Statistics,
Technical Skills
Languages and Other Skills
· English, Farsi, French,
and Spanish. Comprehension command of German.
· Professional training
in Project Management, Process Mapping, TQM, Product Management, and Marketing
of Technology Products(NPI & NPD)