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Saint Paul, MN, US

Minneapolis, MN, US

Ascendex is a strategy and technology transformation consultancy. We equip organizations with the plans and resources to accelerate their innovation and transformation related priorities and provide superior industry, technology, change management, and delivery leadership and resources. The Ascendex Technology Innovation & Leadership Collective can.

Arden Hills, MN, US

• Responsible for establishing, operationalizing and executing the Business Strategy & Digital Transform plans that:
• Enable growth in target markets while delivering business value (Revenue Growth & Profitability)
• Create clarity, focus & accountability from vision to execution
• Increase organizational and client agility (Improve Employee Engagement & Customer Satisfaction)
• Rationalize and modernize our digital portfolio (Elevate Product and Services)STRATEGIC PLANNING & METICULOUS EXECUTION that drives business growth:
• Leveraged a big picture, visionary mindset to develop a wholistic strategy and an executable roadmap that addressed Strategic Processes, Changing How People Work and Modern Digital Solutions

• I help small to mid-sized overcome technology challenges by streamlining their business and technology processes to scale, improve profitability and quality.I can quickly assess your current situation to identify.
• Clarifying the vision
• Managing/facilitating the Leadership Team meetings
• Creating and executing action plans
• Developing metrics
• Holding people accountable

Amarillo, Texas, US

• Member of the Executive Team responsible for establishing and operationalizing the strategic business plan on an annual, quarterly, and weekly basis to drive growth in target markets and advance strategic.
• Established and executed multi-year vision and roadmap that modernized technology capabilities that enable new product development, integration and expansion to additional markets that led to $50MM in annual growth.
• Established multi-year strategic outsourcing contract of application development and service management that achieved 5% YOY reduction with a well-defined governance model with a global partner.
• Delivered to annual budget of $18-20MM budget while maximizing the leverage of $2.4MM shared service allocation.HIGH-INTEGRITY LEADERSHIP and building cultures of accountability, respect and engagement
• In collaboration with key business partners, led the creation of an organizational operating model that created greater alignment across the organization with a focus on maximizing value of investments.
• Led the technology organization re-design that doubled the team size (20 to 50 FTEs & 30 to 60 Contract)

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Member of the Global IT & Americas Executive Leadership Team for this global leader in Loyalty Management. Led a team (40+) of global IT professionals to develop and deliver on customer and organization strategies for.
• Responsible for the Office of the CIO with accountability for strategy development, governance, and projects.
• Evolved the IT model with a focus on achieving strategic initiatives and alignment to strategic vendors.
• Led portfolio transformation, to eliminate legacy technology, that delivered 50%+ reduction in operating expense over two years.Brings STRONG BUSINESS ACUMEN and a SYSTEMIC APPROACH to understanding issues and barriers.
• Executive sponsor for key customer and internal initiatives. These initiatives delivered $5MM+ of annual revenue.
• Led delivery and optimization of internal IT business systems as well as client-facing Software as a Service (SaaS) systems with $40MM in annual revenue.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Led the US IT business development and consulting team across all verticals. Delivering pre-sales solution consulting, technical expertise, and solutions for over a dozen Fortune 500 customers in the financial.
• Led technical sales and global delivery, of our product offerings, into multiple complex customer enterprise environments leveraging multiple strategic suppliers that delivered and additional $4MM in revenue as well as.
• Led the development and optimization of the go-to-market strategy that included sales assets and practices as well as refined delivery models that resulted in increased success of converting new business opportunities.
• Led the development of technical product management practice consisting of both architecture and the tactical execution side of product management.
• Established the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of legacy technology and associated replacements that enabled business case approval for transformation initiative that ultimately resulted in the sunset of legacy.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Lead the US IT business development and consulting team across all verticals. Delivering loyalty pre-sales support, technical expertise, and solutions for over a dozen Fortune 500 customers in the financial services.
• Led the technology strategic consulting engagements for multiple well known global brands that enabled them to make informed and strategic decisions for the future of their business.
• Executed technical due diligence on acquisition targets that resulted in acquisition of a SaaS platform that enabled global expansion into new market segments resulting in an increase from $2.5MM to $40MM of annual.
• Developed repeatable practices including demonstration practices by vertical, sales playbook assets, and repository of key RFP answers all which enabled repeatable, efficient, and consistent view of our that reduced.
• Established dashboard, reporting and solution review processes that provided IT delivery with visibility to the pipeline of work and confidence in their ability to deliver against client commitments.
• Global PASSION Award Winner – Authenticity

Toronto, Ontario, CA

Multi-faceted responsibilities including process development, product development, new business growth, project management, and product strategy. * Worked directly with line of business executives to align technical solutions and capabilities with organizational and customer strategy that enabled positioning and selling our capabilities to the marketplace..

Minneapolis, MN, US

• Responsible for supervision, application development, strategic projects, project management, sourcing, budgeting, and fiscal management. Direct reports ranging from five to fifteen.
• Owned business relationship with VPs of Merchandise and Cards. Influenced many others including CIO, COO, finance, directors, program managers, project managers and SMEs.
• Technical ownership of the eCommerce merchandise and fulfillment product. Managed development and support functions for the product.
• Selected department representative on organizational task force for platform replacement selection.
• Led international transformational project to evaluate the consolidation of multiple rewards platforms resulting in strategic decision to migrate applications and thereby sunset the application saving $4MM annually.
• Project management of transformational, customer enhancement and support projects across two-tier and three-tier applications.

Minneapolis, MN, US

Worked directly with several large clients to develop loyalty and employee engagement marketing web applications that support and deliver on business needs. * Primary web developer for the launch of over 40 client implementations of the eCommerce Platform* Served as Subject Matter Expert for ITIL-based ITSCM practice that resulted in a single ITSCM.

Minneapolis, MN, US

Responsible for system lifecycle deliverables of projects. Roles Fulfilled included: Associate Programmer, Programmer, Sr. Programmer, Systems Analyst, Sr. Systems Analyst, Service Lead.* Worked directly with several large customers to develop loyalty and employee engagement web-based marketing applications that support and deliver on business needs. *.

Bs, Business Management: Emphasis In Operations; Minor: Business Computer Information Systems

Masters, Software Engineering