Simeon Sessley

Proven leader in establishing Innovation Platforms, Enterprise Growth Initiatives, Pricing Methodologies, and Process Improvement Strategies

Experience

Director of Strategic Programs

• Company Name World 50, Inc.
• Dates EmployedNov 2015 – Present
• Employment Duration3 yrs 11 mos

World 50 initiates and facilitates the most interesting and influential business conversations in the world by providing global executives a private forum for sharing insights on critical issues. The participation of remarkable practitioners and expert thinkers creates a candid dialogue on leading and growing significant enterprises in a global economy, delivering insights found nowhere else. Besides access to unparalleled gatherings, membership provides year-round peer collaboration.

Innovation Leader

• Company Name GE
• Dates EmployedSep 2013 – Nov 2015
• Employment Duration2 yrs 3 mos

In this role I led an internal GE Coaching Community of 400+ outstanding individuals dedicated to providing coaching and development of business unit executives across the globe. In particular, I provided advisory and training services along with operational tools and frameworks to the internal business coaches and their project teams. Most importantly, my role was highly dependent on creating a community filled with trust and respect among loosely connected coaches from various business units.

Other significant items I addressed in leading a community of coaches included:

• Maintaining a collaborative platform that includes a series of forums centered around key subject areas and insightful internal & external case examples
• How to gracefully implement novel innovation principals, toolkits and frameworks into both new & established business units who desire to have product launches well-aligned to global dynamic markets
• Exposing the coaches to world-class thought leaders and best practices from other enterprises. That is, I give the coaches an opportunity to see the impossible become possible via real testimonials from other firms.

Overall, I woke up everyday and served as the “Coach of Coaches” who were passionate about making a cultural shift inside a major enterprise.

Competitive & Commercial Intelligence Leader

• Company Name GE Energy Management
• Dates EmployedFeb 2011 – Sep 2013
• Employment Duration2 yrs 8 mos

Develop market sizing processes for US & International regions to evaluate human capital allocation against growing or retracting market dynamics

Assess competitive landscape and market trends to identify strategic growth areas for GE’s Critical Power products and services

Design and facilitate internal selling framework for multiple business units to offer joint product solutions to external customers

Established the commercial integration strategy for GE Energy and GE Capital solution offering See less

Pricing Specialist

• Company Name GE Energy
• Dates EmployedJan 2008 – Feb 2011
• Employment Duration3 yrs 2 mos

Developing analytical solutions to optimize pricing of GE Energy's Parts and Repair Servicing

Designing process improvement strategies for more effective profit margin analyses by product line, geographical regions, and commerical sales associates

Providing change management strategies to global sales leaders to implement pricing guidelines during the inquiry-to-order (ITO) phase of contract negotiations

Implemented Pricing Analytics tool Symphony-Metreo

Sr. Risk Analyst

• Company Name GE Money
• Dates EmployedJan 2007 – Jan 2008
• Employment Duration1 yr 1 mo

Created risk strategies for five global collections operation centers in order to decrease financial losses given defaulted credit obligations (LGD)

Initiated and led 16-week in-house SAS training sessions for 20 Risk management team members and resulted in over $100K savings in departmental training budgets

• Led lean six sigma project planning for automating and standardizing risk metrics used by portfolio managers of $1.9B in credit assets

Consulting Analyst

• Company Name Accenture
• Dates EmployedJan 2006 – Jan 2007

• Employment Duration1 yr 1 mo

• Consulted with leading financial services institutions to increase performance and maintain regulatory (pre-audit) compliance

• Led BB&T Banking Executive Focus Groups in gathering requirements for a new marketing analytics database system - resulting in designing new processes for accessing and managing customer intelligence data

• Developed functional specifications for Wachovia’s mortgage servicing, default and recovery system integration into data-warehouse for Basel II (BIS) risk compliance

• Designed data mapping architecture for Wachovia’s Risk Data Strategy (RDS) initiatives

Graduate Research Assistant

• Company Name Georgia Institute of Technology
• Dates EmployedSep 2001 – Jan 2006

• Employment Duration4 yrs 5 mos

• Created statistical and mathematical models to simulate case scenarios for the neural control of stable versus unstable respiratory activity

• Designed research plans to study computer modeling/simulation of neuro-electrical activity and neural network structural effects on controlling respiratory activity

• Developed software applications for data logging, data visualization, and data analysis of the effects of antidepressants on normal brain development

Graduate Research Assistant

• Company Name Los Alamos Laboratory
• Dates EmployedJun 1999 – May 2001
• Employment Duration2 yrs

Conducted risk analysis study of radiation leakage which occurs on spacecrafts machinery

Developed data mining software applications using Matlab software for the analysis of multivariate impact conditions that might occur during space explorations

Managed cross-site (academic and industry) initiatives to improve integration of multi-purpose research and development strategies

Education

University of Pittsburgh

• Degree Name Master of Science Field Of StudyMathematics
• Dates attended or expected graduation 1998 – 2000

Activities and Societies: Graduate Student Council Representative Co-President of Pan-African Graduate Student Organization Graduate Program recruiting representative

Morehouse College

• Degree Name Bachelor of Science Field Of StudyMathematics
• Dates attended or expected graduation 1995 – 1998

Activities and Societies: NASA/McNair Scholarship - JPL Internship, INROADS Inc - Champion International Internship

Walnut Hills High School