Celeste Watkins (万雪莲), PMP
5.0
(2)
Studied at Yale School of Management
Worked at Cisco
Successful clients at
Not currently taking new clients
Work Experience
Program Manager
Cisco
August 2023 - March 2024
Oversee multiple 10+ person teams to upgrade clients and fend off competitive firewall market share decline by completing 7+ enterprise firewall infrastructure upgrades in Cisco $210M sales pipeline Mitigated 5+ senior and C-level customer escalations through agile crisis management and program team coordination Competitive Analysis, Program Management and +3 skills
Business Strategy Manager
Cisco
May 2023 - August 2023
Collaborated with Cisco’s best-in-class crisis management team to drive company-wide certification audit and mitigate customer certification lapses valued over $5M Determined tiered menu pricing, go-to-market strategy, operational efficiency recommendations to commercialize and operationalize Cisco’s professional services offering, forecasted to deliver $3M in revenue Competitive Analysis, Business Administration and +3 skills
Associate
Yale University
September 2022 - September 2023
Review 8 proposals of up to $50K, make 5 award recommendations totaling $250K, and perform market research, competitive analysis, and develop go-to-market strategies for awardees – focused on applied artificial intelligence Competitive Analysis, Business Development and +6 skills
Consumer insights Manager
Other
June 2022 - September 2022
Perform Market Insights research across domestic and international social media on 13 Chinese Fragrance releases Use basic HTML to input fragrance research into proprietary, custom database Research and develop terms and pricing for SaaS licensing internationally Conduct copyediting for market insight reports Data Analysis, Market Research and +1 skill
Education
Yale School of Management
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General
2022 - 2024
Activities and societies: Dean's Scholar Renny Merritt '84 MPPM Memorial Alumni Fund Scholarship Recipient Consortium for Graduate Studies in Management (22-24) General Management Club: President (23-24), First Year Leader (22-23) Admission's Interviewer (24) ROMBA Session Director (2022) - Moderated a virtual panel in front of 80 attendees Alpha Xi Delta Spaulding-Mowry Scholarship Recipient (2022) Admissions Guide & Interviewer Student Government: 1Y Community Service Chair Delta Alpha Pi Honors Society Out of Office Business Administration, RStudio and +9 skills
Franklin and Marshall College
Bachelor’s Degree - Phi Beta Kappa, Biology/Biological Sciences, General-- Minor in Chinese Area Studies
2013 - 2017
Grade: 3.73 Activities and societies: Alpha Xi Delta (Panhellenic Delegate/Founding Member), F&M Options (Publicist/Founding Member), Franklin and Marshall College Orchestra (Principal Bassoonist), Franklin and Marshall College Philharmonia (Principal Bassoonist), Franklin and Marshall Pep Band (PR Committee Chairperson), Franklin and Marshall College Rotaract, Marshall Scholar, Mu Upsilon Sigma (Internal Activities Chair), Patsy Post. U.S. News ranked #43 top Liberal Arts College (LAC) in the United states. RStudio and Mandarin
2 Reviews
Overall Rating
5.0
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