Sandra Shimon

Experience

1. Sr Consulting Executive Business Planning & Strategy, Private & Financial Sector Development

   The World Bank Group

   Aug 2003 — Present · Washington, DC, US

   Designed and launched award-winning, mobile-enabled application for procurement financial analysis and workflow automation under $2B Board efficiency target. Global launch with full adoption.>> Introduced forecasting improvements across global business units and re-engineered business planning processes utilized by Bank executives across 170 countries and 18 Global Practices. Selected to elite team leading Bank-wide modernization and reorganization, including streamlining and standardization of tools and procedures, offshoring client service operations, developing self-service tools, and formulating policy with integrated systems controls.>> Created strategies and feasibility studies for knowledge economy (won European Commission awards) and tourism development in Romania, social media programs in Africa, and public-private partnerships in ECA.>> Developed and advised divisional management on budgets for worldwide Shared Services at HQ, in India and in Bulgaria; for Global Corporate Procurement; the Health & Safety Division; and a third of the Bank’s General Management Units.>> Negotiated Health & Safety agreement with IMF to deliver shared services across 140 field offices in the developing world.>> Negotiated resolution of gridlocked real estate dispute in Africa.

Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Computational Thinking & Data Science

  2020 — 2020

• Harvard Business School

  Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business

  2001 — 2003

• University of Northern Iowa

  Bachelor's Degree, Accounting

  1991 — 1995

• The University of Texas at Austin

  Post-Graduate Program, Artificial Intelligence for Leaders

• Imperial College London

  Specialization, Mathematics for Machine Learning

  2020 — 2020