Steven Vadnais has 10 years of experience in project management, financial management, business process reengineering, process improvement, change management, and Lean Six Sigma with an MBA and PMP certification. He has managed project teams of 4-8 associates with budgets up to $500K at KPMG, Grant Thornton, and AT&T. His responsibilities have included developing project plans, tracking reports, process improvements, change management activities, and internal controls. He holds certifications in project management, Lean Six Sigma, and will be certified in Agile practices in December 2016.

1. STEVEN VADNAIS, MBA, PMP
2525 10th
St N Apt #204  Arlington, VA 22201  (703) 969-0124  steven.vadnais@gmail.com
Professional Profile:
Ten years of experience in project management, financial management, business process reengineering, process
improvement, change management, and LEAN Six Sigma with a MBA and Project Management Professional
certification. Managed project teams of 4-8 associates with multiple work-streams and budgets up to $500K.
KPMG, April 2014 to Present
Grant Thornton, April 2013 to April 2014
AT&T, March 2006 to April 2013
Specific Duties and Accomplishments:
• Project Management
o Developed and maintained Project Management Plans, Risk Management Plans, Project schedules (MS
Project) for implementation activities.
o Developed custom activity and milestone tracking reports.
o Developed approach and methodology for the Critical Systems Assessment to determine current client
financial reporting data elements to map to future state reporting requirements.
o Delivered a $285K fixed price contract to a 39% profit margin.
o Managed internal project finances and reported burn rates, revenue projections, profitability, etc. to
leadership as needed.
o Modelled resource scenarios to determine appropriate labor mix for future engagement planning.
o Managed the end-to-end billing production cycle with global business partners (US-based sales teams, UK-
based provisioning teams, and India-based infrastructure team.)
o Delivered on-time and accurate invoicing of $6 million in monthly revenue.
• Process Improvement
o Reengineered existing processes as necessary to improve effectiveness.
o Conducted change management activities during process deployment.
o Designed and implemented changes to existing manual billing processes that decreased invoice
production times and increased accuracy. Through the use of process standardization and automated
tools, the billing team realized a 5 day time savings per month and invoice errors were decreased by 17%.
o Reorganized and aligned the team by task area enabling the team to clear a backlog of over 200 invoices
requiring rebilling and began completing credit/rebill each month on time for the first time in 9 months.
o Worked with sales representatives in South America to ensure all purchase orders were up to date and
invoices were delivered to the customer on time.
o Improved billing accuracy from 98.73% to 99.28% for a total savings of $400K in 2011.
o Led monthly mailing cost reduction project by analyzing existing processes, identifying and implementing
a process change that achieved $2500 in monthly cost savings.
o Created a tracking tool to monitor remaining funds on each PO with warning indicators allowing sales
representatives adequate time to receive a new PO, thus reducing the number of invoices unable to be
billed.
o Performed a current-state analysis of the existing application to identify opportunities for improvement.
The website redesign, to include data processing and download tracking significantly increased
organizational understanding of available resources, improving decision-making regarding future studies
and data collection.
• Change Management

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o Development Change Management plan to include approaches for planning, managing, and enabling
change
o Conducted strategy sessions with clients to define roles, responsibilities, and critical success factors.
o Contributed to the transition to new platform architecture and provided current state value stream
mapping of existing platform.
o Conducted change management activities during deployment to ensure end users adopted and
understood the new software.
• Internal Controls
o Developed process flow diagrams for current and future state processes.
o Developed Risk and Control Matrices to capture existing internal controls and associated risks.
o Developed testing criteria, and documented testing results to be briefed to senior leaders at the end of
the testing period.
Education:
• University of Massachusetts Amherst - MBA, 2011
• George Mason University – BA, Government and International Politics, 2006
Certifications:
• Certified Agile Practitioner, scheduled Dec 2016
• Project Management Professional, 2013
• Lean & Six Sigma, 2012