Kinga Borbely
- Project Manager
- Santa Clara, CA
- Member Since Mar 31, 2023
Candidates About
Kinga Borbely
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
§ Business professional with over 7 years of experience in project management/ coordination and data analysis, with several years in NPI department working close with engineers for new product set up and testing. Now I am looking for long term opportunities as a Project Manager (up to mid-level), preferably in IT industry and NPI HW, working with engineering, production, manufacturing, supply chain groups.
KEY SKILLS
§ NPI (New Product Introduction), Cross-functional group engagements, and liaison between various stakeholders: Product Managers, Sr Program/ Project Managers, Engineers, IT, Supply chain, Manufacturing, Sales, Finance, Partners, Vendors, Distributors, 3rd party manufacturing, Customer…
§ Good analytical, and problem solving skills, worked in Agile environment
§ Employee Development & Training
§ Advanced in MS Office: Word, Excel (vlookups, pivot, functions, formulas), PowerPoint, Visio, Ms Project
§ eGenie (Cisco front end for parts), Agile (Starent front end for parts); Initiate Inspector; Business Objects, CCW (Build&Price), B&P Validation UI, InBiz, Config WorkBench, Customer Registry (Oracle tool), PSS (Partner management tool),…
§ Language skills: Hungarian (native proficiency); Romanian (mid-level)
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science: Agricultural Engineer -Szent Istvan University, Godollo, Hungary 2002
Master’s: Economics and Management (MSc) -Szent Istvan University, Godollo, Hungary 2003
PMI –Project Management Course; including Agile -SCRUM method (pursuing for PMP certificate) 2018
EXPERIENCE
Cisco Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (worked as contractor) Apr 2016 – Aug 2017
Project and Engagement Manager – NPI UCS Servers Prod. Mktg. Ops and SAP HANA solution First point of contact for anything UCS big servers related. Engagement and Delivery Manager for all SAP HANA data center solution deals worldwide. Worked with engineers on new and existing SAP HANA solutions, enabled partners on new solutions, issue resolution on existing products. Close working relationship with 3rd party servers manufacturing (ww), worked on forecast reports, and orders with sales. Other responsibilities includes BOM creation and set up in the system for new products, worked with Product Managers, IT, supply chain, finance to create PIDs, priced it up, get tested and available for sell.
§ Translated Product Managers request regards new product offers into BOM creation, PID set up, close working relationship with supply chain for set up, finance for price approval, up until product was set up in the system and ready for sale. Also worked on existing offers config/BOM or price changes.
§ Liaison between various stakeholders engineers, partners, manufacturing, sales, for both new solution enablement and existing on-going products, issue resolution including all servers platforms racks and blades and 3rd party large servers (8 and 16 socket).
§ Responsible to enable partners for SAP HANA deployments, joint venture datacenter set ups for customer. Led several main weekly meetings one with our partners ww, another one with Japan manufacturing (OEMd products) including forecasts to shorten LT for customers. Then later added the European/ France big data manufacturer (sell-thru products). Worked with sales regards forecasts, product questions, ordering. Attended weekly meetings with engineers.
§ Assisted in all steps set up when a totally new product got added to the Cisco portfolio, a 16 socket 3rd party big data SAP server.
Tesla Motors, Inc., Freemont, CA (worked as contractor on one project) Apr 2015 – Aug 2015
Engineering Project Coordinator – NPI (New Product Introduction) Materials
Worked on Model X testing period, just a short temporary job opportunity, while the car went through the developmental phases, the project was successful, car went to build. I was first point of contact for engineers regarding parts needed for testing. Liaison between engineers, project/ product managers, planners and warehouse. Making sure parts are in time for testing. Coordinated all the engineering testing requests of the Tesla Model X; tracked and processed all the parts requests in timely manner, made sure to not interfere with the prototype build (RC1, RC2); requested approvals, coordinated over 1000 part requests, including setting up shipments between Tesla facilities to ship where the part got tested. Tracked and reported status to the management. Daily use of excel: pivot, vlookups.
§ Also helped out PMs with other parts ordering, then follow up with the warehouse to receive and move to the point of use, also handled and fixed issues (missing part, error on paperwork), or sent back for rework.
§ Processed weekly part requests for the prototype build (for rolling chassis).
§ Managed BOM and material readiness for on time delivery for all engineering testing.
§ Assisted finance with hundreds of unreceived invoices to clean up/ receive (Goods Receipt).
Cisco Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (worked as contractor)
Project Manager Assistant/ Analyst – Field Marketing May 2014 – Oct 2014
Data pull and reporting for services sales campaigns and programs. The Customer Touch program assists services salespeople with their Advanced Services opportunities, then tracked and analyzed data and provided metrics for management (AS bookings, pipelines, growth metrics),measured results in each segment. Heavy usage of excel: pivots, charts, vlookups, formulas, macros …
§ Worked closely with Marketing and Project managers to identify accounts and put together a target list for marketing campaigns, then tracked these campaigns in the bookings and pipelines.
§ Tracked and analyzed data to create opportunity lists, map sellers and accounts, tracked marketing programs adoption, and measured results in each segment supported by the Customer Touch program.
§ Maintained Enterprise Marketing Adoption Index, the database for Marketing Collateral for each US Enterprise customer account.
Jr Project Manager – TSPM (Technical Service PM) Group (Mobility, Security, 3PCOE) (worked as contractor) Oct 2012 – Jul 2013
Provide single interface to support Cisco’s resale of 3rd Party OEMd products. Daily use of excel.
§ Developed new services pricing from sales agreements, based on 3P pricing strategy, as well as implemented price changes in conjunction with the service development lifecycle processes.
§ Engaged with cross-functional teams and stakeholders (i.e. SRE, BU, OEM Royalty, Legal, Rev. Rec., FMV, Finance, SDT) to implement the steps needed to introduce new services to market.
§ Created a product family decoder which improved the ease of monitoring the accuracy of the data and allowed us to clean up the entire 3P portfolio, also providing a better view for booking report, and the monitoring of future activity.
§ Created project presentations for higher level management regarding new initiatives, pipelines, tracked and reported project progress for our group (statuses, milestones/task, and completion). Published 3P metrics dashboard with 3P booking/pipeline info and other monthly and quarterly reports in the Cisco internal notification page.
Data Analyst/ QA – Webex Group (worked as contractor on one project) Jul 2012 – Sep 2012
Short cleaning contract project, QA for the Webex sales and SFDC data. Daily use of excel: pivot, vlookups.
Commissions Analyst –Global Sales Compensation (worked as contractor) Jun 2011 – Nov 2011
Commission’s payroll calculation, compensation plans, bonuses, issue resolution, including researching data in various systems, by pulling reports, consolidating, auditing. Heavy usage of excel: pivot, vlookups, macros.
§ Pulled system data and gathered other information needed to process commission calculations in MS Excel by manipulating data, creating pivot tables, using formulas, vlookups, macros, etc.
§ Calculated, validated and audited monthly commissions and quarter-end MBO payouts.
§ Worked on customer cases, researched and resolved sales inquiries regarding commission credit.
§ Worked with internal stakeholders to develop and document month-end commission payout processes and procedures. Created documentation of the day-to-day activities, and trained new employees.
Jr Project Manager – Mobile Internet Tech. Group (short term contract) Mar 2011 – Jun 2011
Short term contract opportunity, PMs needed help with elevated work load. Managed activities related to productization/ introduction of new products, established order management process/procedures; entered data into databases to establish the product part numbers and pricing; supported Sales Operations with quotes and POs, and assisted with the overall management of the productization and order process. Created/changed bundles; handled multiple projects simultaneously, and prioritized regards urgency. Worked with engineers on ECO’s and redlining BOM’s. Daily use of excel: macros, pivot, vlookups, functions.
§ Calculated product/parts pricing, margin analysis, maintenance and support cost, in USD and EUR; both for new products and existing price changes/updates.
§ Created new PNRs (Part Number Request), SKUs, PIDs in Oracle database, as well as prepared Starent ERP bulk uploads (both eGenie and Agile).
§ Worked on quotes, POs on third party products (List Prices vary, from few million up to $25M). Close working relationship with Sales operations, Manufacturing, Product Management and Partner companies, to make sure that the quote and BOM from the vendor matches the Cisco Quote, PO, and Sales Order.
Adobe Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (worked as contractor on one project) Feb 2010 – Aug 2010
Data Steward/ Initiate Inspector – Information Mgmt. & Omniture IT
Short term project, till enabled MDM program. Collaborated with IT to set up and configure a newly purchased Customer Data Program, which enabled an enterprise-wide Master Data Mngm program. Daily use of excel
§ Worked closely with the internal IT department, SAP, and the software consultants from Initiate (an IBM subsidiary) to help in setting up the program. Validated (user point of view) that is working correctly.
§ Performed testing, data matching, mapping and threshold analysis. Assisted with pairing process, helped to set up the scoring system, identified data quality issues.
§ Pulled queries, validated match algorithm configurations, making sure is producing meaningful matches.
Cisco Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (worked as contractor) May 2007 – July 2009
Localization Data Analyst/ QA – EDSG -CR ODM (Data Mgm); -Channels
Worked closely with internal and external clients, including Channels Theater Ops, Finance, Legal and IT for partner's registration, certification approval, issue resolution, ensuring partner data was accurate. Heavy usage of excel: pivot, vlookups.
KLA-Tencor (was Therma-Wave), Fremont, CA (worked as contractor) Apr 2006 – Apr 2007
Buyer/ expediter – Purchasing Department
Reported to Supply Chain Manager, insured that POs for external parts were placed on time and arrived on site just in time for production. Liaison between planners, buyers and customer (vendors). Heavy usage of excel: pivot, vlookups..
- Responsible for executing the weekly MRP outputs. Pulled reports for the weekly shortage report. Performed expediting/ pushing out on average 300 purchase orders weekly, at the request of the planning department.
- Maintained contact with suppliers and updated the system based on their commitments. Assisted the Receiving Dept.to resolve incoming purchase order problems and made sure that shortages were moved to the point of use.
- Updated production planners of the weekly shortage report status. Secured expedition of shortages to prevent operational delays and ensure timely procurement of inventory.
- Solicited quotations (RFQs) and managed pricing options from over 200 vendors annually to ensure cost-effective and timely delivery. Sent POs to suppliers.
- Worked with IT to improve data pulling quality, to create a personalized data just for the shortages and changes from the last pull.
§ Assisted Accounts Payable department on an on-demand basis, with invoice validation.