William B. Haskell, MBA
SYNERGY
the increased effectiveness that results from cooperative interaction
Career Driver
Use my leadership, business, analytical and interpersonal skills to contribute value to an organization and its clients and to foster team synergy in a collaborative, supportive culture.
Personal Strengths
- Diverse background enables rapid problem analysis and strategic solution development.
- Strong communication skills foster productive relationships with stakeholders across all levels.
- Unique combination of technical expertise and interpersonal awareness accelerates understanding of complex issues.
- Process-oriented with meticulous attention to detail while maintaining alignment with organizational objectives.
- Adept at integrating diverse perspectives to facilitate collaboration and shared understanding.
- Driven by unwavering perseverance, intellectual curiosity, and commitment to cooperation and empathy.
“…brings an upbeat attitude and sense of enjoyment and fun to the job. Bill is a bright, energetic, innovative and very hard working professional. With his ability to understand customer’s problems quickly, he is always proactive to find solutions, help peers and manager reach the desired goals in a short period of time. I would strongly recommend Bill to be part of any challenging and fast paced project organization.”
– Sally Hu
Senior Analyst,
Cisco Systems
Experience Summary
Project Manager
Versatile project management professional with proven track record spanning diverse organizational environments from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 corporations. Successfully delivered high-impact initiatives through effective leadership, resource optimization, and strategic execution. Highlights include:
“Bill’s ability to identify creative solutions and tenacity in resolving project challenges has saved many a day. He was always timely in meeting IT obligations in support of my projects. Bill gave me peace of mind that everything would be done well and on time.”
– Joseph Stratmann
Mgr, Learning Enablement,
Cisco Systems
- Enterprise Software Installation
- Consumer Hardware Products
- IT Projects & Releases
- Waterfall & Agile Methodologies
- Presentation Creation and Delivery
- Video and Audio Production
- Quality Assurance
- Product Release
- Online-Course Production
Operations
Founded and led education/investment startup with comprehensive oversight of operations, finance, IT, and marketing communications. Spearheaded strategic planning initiatives driving sustainable company growth and operational excellence.
Relationship Management
Served as primary liaison between stakeholders in multiple roles, successfully managing client and vendor partnerships through empathetic communication and collaborative contract negotiations. This expertise stems from my genuine passion for empowering others to achieve their objectives while fostering mutually beneficial relationships that create lasting value for all parties involved.
Finance
MBA-level financial expertise with demonstrated proficiency in developing sophisticated ROI models for enterprise organizations while maintaining strong accounting fundamentals for small business operations. Combines strategic financial analysis with practical implementation capabilities across diverse business environments.
Technology
Comprehensive technical expertise ranging from advanced proficiency in productivity software (MS Office, QuickBooks) to specialized skills in hardware design, programming, web development, and multimedia editing. Demonstrated capabilities in systems analysis, database management, and large-scale integration projects across both technical and operational roles.
TOP
“…Bill’s collaborative efforts immediately mitigated tensions among executive personnel. Utilizing his keen business acumen, the reorganization of the corporate structures was seamlessly completed. His insight and knowledge helped structure and produce a more streamlined workflow at all levels. Bill’s full complement of skills removed personnel tensions, brought efficiency to new heights, and boosted performance in all departments.”
– Alan David Kosinski
Founder & CEO,
ALKO Companies
Education
Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance
Associates Certificate, Project Management, George Washington University
MBA, Santa Clara University
Emphasis: Finance
MA Education, Stanford University
Math Credential (Calif. Single Subject) with CLAD emphasis (English as a Second Language)
MS Systems Science (Cybernetics), San Jose State University
System Science focuses on the understanding and management of complex systems.
BS Electrical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara
Emphasis in control systems and communications.
TOP
“Bill was hired to coordinate and manage the largest project ever undertaken by Creativity at that time. He demonstrated a commitment to excellence, a strong work ethic, an ability and willingness to learn, and great intelligence. Our customers and Bill’s co-workers quickly came to trust and depend on Bill, who added great value to our team.”
– Charles Albert
Founder & CEO, Creativity
Employment – Operations and Finance
Operations Manager / Senior Project Manager / Partner
ALKO Companies, California 2018 – 2020
ALKO is a group of companies focused on Real Estate Investment education, investment as a vehicle for helping clients building and preserve wealth.
Orchestrate entire aspects regarding corporate finance ranging from process formulation to execution for increasing effectiveness of the organization. Govern technical disciplines, such as IT and user training to improve support services. Spearhead and optimize CRM and marketing campaign processes to augment revenue generation and client base. Formulate and enact marketing communication procedures, including website, social media, and email management.
Delivered exemplary leadership in corporate planning and business/product development for improving performance/processes.
- Established, implemented and managed corporate finances and related processes.
- Directed and managed all technical areas including IT and user training.
- Strategically led all corporate operations.
- Designed, implemented and managed CRM and marketing campaign processes.
- Designed and implemented marketing communication processes including web site, social media, email and other platforms.
- Provided strong leadership in product development.
- Strategic leader in corporate planning and business development.
- Hands-on experiences include website design, image creation, and video filming and production with products such as Adobe Elements, Photoshop and Acrobat DC; Pinnacle Studio; Camtasia among others.
Financial Consultant / Analyst
Cisco Systems, Inc. (via Digital-X), San Jose, CA 1.5 yrs
The Cisco Advanced Services organization provides proactive support to Cisco clients.
Conducted in-depth financial analysis for monetizing intellectual property feasibility with distribution and channel partners alongside executing a wide range of lower-effort financial analysis tasks and projects.
- Developed conceptual and financial models of IP growth potential that generated net revenue by $200M with break-even in the third year.
TOP
Employment – Entrepreneur
Real Estate Investor / Owner
Silicon Valley Real Estate Investment Partners, Silicon Valley, CA (20 yrs)
SVREIP helps people facing financial challenges with their property.
The heart of SVREIP is to source, analyze, acquire, manage, and divest a portfolio of real estate investments. The soul of SVREIP is to help people improve their lives.
We work with homeowners reviewing options for staying in their home or walking away with cash that they would have otherwise lost.
- Research and analysis of market trends and of specific properties.
- Financial analysis to determine the viability of prospective deals.
- Negotiation with property owners, partners and vendors.
- Marketing to locate potential properties.
- Interpersonal skills to show distressed property owners how to improve the outcome of their situation.
- Strategic planning to set goals and determine the best path to achieve them.
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Employment – Project Management
Senior Project Manager, Quantum Secure, Inc., San Jose, CA (2 yrs)
Quantum Secure provides Physical Identity and Access Management software to enterprise clients.
Managed enterprise software implementation at customer sites developing relationships with customer stakeholders at all levels. Cultivated strategic partnerships with different organizational units, including sales, development, quality assurance, and support to achieve collective goals. Facilitated customers on numerous occasions by prioritizing and resolving highlighted issues concurrently conducting testing and user documentation.
- Spearheaded and steered complex transformational projects worth $300K from conception to completion alongside fostering lucrative relationships with different customers.
- Responsible for customer relationship and delivery.
- Worked closely with sales, development, quality assurance and support.
- Responsibilities included customer relationship management, facilitation, testing and user documentation.
TOP
Senior IT Project Manager, Cisco Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (5 yrs)
Cisco develops, manufactures and sells networking hardware, software, telecommunications equipment and other high-technology services and products.
Headed an IT performance team responsible for the support of internal sales and commerce applications.
- Led pilot effort in portal creation of end-to-end performance dashboards used by IT support and business. Effort reduced critical issues by ~10%
- Led collaborative team in planning monetization of department’s services with projected 1st year revenues of $3.2 M.
Networking Academy is Cisco’s philanthropic effort to supply IT training to students worldwide from cloud.
Optimized large SaaS applications in quarterly IT code releases and Waterfall/Agile projects. Streamlined product requirement-gathering process to deliver cost-effective solutions and remarkable user experience for clients. Improved server performance and content delivery to end-users from the cloud by leading the entire process. Orchestrated the institution of application service provider studies by Akamai and Gomez for improved delivery performance. Directed inclusion and diversity team in developing solutions for communication of internal opportunities.
- Enhanced large SaaS applications in quarterly IT code releases and other (waterfall and agile) projects.
- Provided low-cost, effective solutions for our client by improving product requirements and adapting products to meet requirements.
- Successfully managed and improved vendor relationships.
- Successfully led efforts to improve server performance and content delivery to end-users from the cloud.
- Managed search for, contracting with and implementation of ASP services (Akamai and Gomez).
- Assumed lead & resurrected failed contract negotiations resulting in better performance to our clients.
Additional Leadership Roles
- Implemented several departmental process innovations including team building.
- Took initiative to lead Inclusion and Diversity team in developing solutions for communication of internal opportunities.
TOP
Project Manager, Creativity, Inc., San Carlos, CA (3 yrs)
Creativity produces music, voice-over and sound effects for toys.
Managed entire product development lifecycle for the organization’s largest project and customer. Maximized client’s trust and business success for Creativity by fostering a strategic partnership with the development team. Attained optimal efficiency in communication and product development by devising and instituting project management processes and tools. Supervised overall facets regarding the production of localized goods in Great Britain. Negotiated for voice-over talent, resulting in cost-control.
- Elevated revenue from $600K to $2.2M within three years by successfully leading a high-performing team that grew from eight at startup to 15 employees.
- Increased client’s trust and business with Creativity by managing relations with their development team.
- Increased efficiency in communication and product development by developing and implementing project management processes and tools.
- Reduced costs by negotiating for voice-over talent.
- Strengthened team cohesion and process improvement by developing and leading team building.
- Managed production of localized products in Great Britain.
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Community Service
- Morgan Hill Parks and Recreation Commission – Commissioner
- Morgan Hill Library, Arts and Culture Commission – Commissioner
- Wildlife Education and Rehabilitation Center (WERC) – Animal Caregiver
- Board of Directors for Leadership Morgan Hill – Director
- Live Oak FFA Boosters – Finance Officer, Volunteer
- Child Advocates of Silicon Valley – Court Appointed Special Advocate
- Cisco Diversity and Inclusion Committee – Committee Member
- Habitat for Humanity ( Guatemala) – Local Volunteer
- Catholic Diosese (Chiapas, Mexico) – International Observer
- San Jose Elementary School – Volunteer Science Instructor
- San Jose Elementary School – LAN Technical Advisor