Jen Dye
COO
Northern California
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Summary
I am a strategic leader seeking an opportunity to apply my expertise to a help start, grow, or improve another business. I value collaboration, efficiency, creativity, dignity, and positive results. My experience presents with the breadth and depth of a seasoned professional, a strong yet flexible base that will translate to a variety of industries, people, and positions. A 20 minute conversation would allow us both the opportunity to discover if it would be mutually beneficial to work together.
Experience
2016
Aug
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Present
Co-founder, COO
The Peak Beyond / San Rafael, CA
- Observe, measure and improve company function and processes while facilitating regular group and individual coaching with founders
- Manage and cultivate relationships with investors and technology leaders to promote market outreach and business development
- Oversee financial planning, budget production, financial reporting and accounting, long- and short-term budgeting for operations as well as capital projects with an eye to measuring resource allocation in relation to mission and goals and forward projection
- Lead long-term strategic planning
- Communicate our technology to key customers, ensuring our point of view and key value proposition are well understood
- Maintain active customer conversations through regular and consistent engagement
- Assist with strengthening existing client relationships by participating in sales meetings and working on proposals
2002
Feb
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Present
Business Consultant
Jen Dye / United States
- Builds strong working relationship at all levels within the practices and businesses they manage
- Manage workflow collaboration across teams to ensure client investment is on track, executed flawlessly and completed on time
- Support a work environment that promotes customer service, quality, continuous improvement, knowledge sharing, and teamwork
- Work w/various stakeholders to develop systems, processes, solutions w/the intent to develop management of assets optimum lifecycle, companion cost models
2016
Jan
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2019
Sep
Director of Operations
Orbital Systems / Sweden & United States
- Acted as a customer representative, performing periodic customer meetings to identify ways to improve customer relationship and secure internal priorities and quality performance
- Developed working relationships with all the directors and managers of each facility to establish cost controls, staffing metrics, utilization of services, etc
- Established operational processes and improvements and developed, established and directed the execution of operating policies
- Managed special projects and assignments including the design and build of showroom
- Delivered core HR services including recruiting, employee relations, employee health/safety, employee learning/development, and HR legal/regulatory compliance
- Responsible for all financial operations including activities around the functions of long-term financial planning, the budgeting process and analysis, internal control and financial risk management, asset management, overall cash flow, credit and reliabilities, treasury, taxation, insurance, and financial relationship with stakeholders
2012
Feb
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2015
Feb
Interim Director
Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training / San Rafael, CA
- Established and restructured administrative, financial, and operational process.
- Oversaw multiple training programs and built long lasting relationships with students, faculty, and administrators, globally.
- Lead the organization through a director transition which included recruitment and hiring negotiations.
- Supported the engagement of volunteers, while increasing localized opportunities for volunteer calls to action
1998
Jan
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2002
Nov
Financial and Operational Controller
Deepend USA & Deepgroup London / San Francisco, New York, London
- Assisted with the development and execution of annual business plan, while looking for new ways to improve operations
- Created and rolled out defined processes in work-streams (where processes did not exist)
- Managed strong professional relationships with team members, managers and Key Stakeholders
- Partnered with other senior management to develop short and long term strategies and was responsible for implementing these strategies
Education
1992
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1996
Grand Valley State University
Bachelor of Science, Advertising & Public Relations
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