Amanda Ault Email & Phone Number

Evanston, Il, Us

President of Bluestem Strategies, a certified woman-owned (WBE, WOSB) consultancy focused on digital transformation, including data insights, GIS, and tech-centric business process improvement.

Founder of urban farm near Chicago + Lake Geneva farmette - restoring native habitat and building a farm that specializes in heirloom vegetables, fruit, and sustainably grown flowers.

Des Plaines, Il, Us

Development of strategies to bring together key stakeholders toward a collective vision and corresponding project, including building sponsor support, sharing information across a network of partners, and filtering stakeholder feedback through to executive leadership.Assessment of industry trends, recommendation of GTI Energy's role in those trends, and communication of strategies to execute on new initiatives. Management of a portfolio of information technology and business improvement projects. Digital strategy team leader and mentor.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Consultant – Program Management, Digital Strategy and Data Transformation:▪ Program/project management: Successfully managed redesign/modernization of GIS data/technology stack for Chicago gas utility while partnering with project leads in concurrent IBM Maximo rollout during first year of pandemic.▪ Authored municipal GIS strategic plans for multiple California communities.▪ Improved electronic logging tools and processes at Chicago airports.

Chicago, Il, Us

Consultant – Program Management, Digital Strategy and Data Transformation:▪ Championed process improvement projects for Chicago Legal Aid agencies.▪ Selected and implemented donor and client management software for local non-profit.▪ Recommended strategies for technical and organizational realignment for Chicago Legal Aid agencies.

Norwalk, Ct, Us

Program manager for lending and leasing application and data migration:-- Core project team member for migration of lending and leasing platform from internal ecosystem to OTI LeaseWave.

Norwalk, Ct, Us

Project manager for divestiture data migrations:-- Coordinated application, CTO, BD, and DBA teams for data extract activities (mock and go-live) for two major buyers. 50+TB of data for up to 90 applications were moved over 48 hours, exceeding expectations and fulfilling transition services obligations. Application support of wind-down activities:-- Led decommissioning of 5 applications.

Norwalk, Ct, Us

Product manager for and application owner of GE Capital's geospatial platform, which supported four production applications:-- Assess business needs and risks to recommend changes to management-- Manage contracts and vendor relationships-- Manage technical staff-- Support management in divestiture activities

Norwalk, Ct, Us

Key member of newly formed geospatial team focused on setting a strategic vision for engaging business partners throughout the organization:--- As a customer relationship manager, responsible for identifying growth opportunities across GE Capital’s lending and leasing platforms, focusing on geography as a differentiator. --- Connector between business and technology teams to cultivate new data insights in a fast-paced, matrix environment with quickly shifting priorities and roles/responsibilities. --- Led design and execution of several projects that focused on uncovering market potential in the dealer space.

Evanston, Il, Us

Instructor for lab-based GIS in Environmental Sciences courses (16 students per term):--- Introduced students to the Esri suite of products (ArcGIS online, Desktop, etc.).--- Mentored students to successfully complete a research project within one term. Projects covered a wide range of topics, from urban farms, to transportation issues, to hurricane prediction, to Mars exploration.

Evanston, Il, Us

Product manager for Cityworks, as asset management system:--- Collaboration with management and users for business process/technology improvement and transforming paper logs to digital records. --- Project manager for new rollouts, including negotiating price quotes and reviewing contracts. Kept to budget in Phase I of the project.--- Development of custom reports and user dashboards in Server environment. --- Oversaw database server consolidation and migration (Oracle 11g to SQL Server 2008).--- Project manager and technical resource in migrating ~20 fat clients (Cityworks Desktop 2010) to centralized web-based application (Cityworks Server 2012).Subject matter expert for Harris Northstar (water utility billing software) implementation:--- Vendor interviews and product selection.--- Customer account data integration with GIS. Implementation of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) enterprise-wide citizen request management systems (GovQA, Public Stuff):--- Discovery with City of Evanston departments to capture their business in the application configuration.--- Integration of requests with Cityworks.Database administrator for GIS, whose data and applications are used throughout the enterprise:--- Product selection for Esri software and third-party extensions/applications.--- Planned and implemented several GIS upgrades along with Cityworks, most recently ArcGIS 10.0 to 10.2.--- Hands-on support for field and office personnel, including training and user experience.--- Custom location analytics to provide insights in every department in the organization.--- Implemented data quality control standards (QA/QC) in the Utilities Department, including conversion of CAD drawings (paper and digital) to GIS database.--- Effective management of multiple projects, including grant writing lead on community mapping project (CMAP Full Circle) and interaction with the public.

Glen Ellyn, Illinois, Us

With other Directors, develop a strategic plan and set educational and professional growth goals for ILGISA, the largest GIS professional organization in Illinois:--- Plan and manage annual budget --- Chaired 2011 Fall Conference Planning Committee, whose conference brought in an open-source guru as keynote and over 150% of total anticipated revenues--- Chair of Honors Committee, which recognizes outstanding GIS students and professionals throughout the state of Illinois

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Data mining of historic traffic pattern data to develop refined, real-time traffic models:--- Extensive use of Python in the ArcGIS environment--- Technical lead in developing new direct-to-consumer products, including resolving technical issues--- Scripting in mySQL and Microsoft Access to query large (>2 GB) tabular databases--- Development of derivative map products--- GIS data entry and quality/sanity checking

Ms, Geosciences

Ba, Earth Sciences

Education record