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Technology Workforce and Talent Strategy Assessment for a Global Fortune 500 Retail Company: • Lead a team of 4 consultants that conducted a technology workforce and talent strategy assessment to identify key areas of opportunity that would enable this company to accelerate business and technology priorities• Spearheaded the development of an impact analysis that identified $15-25M of savings from implementing my team’s proposed recommendations and presented analysis findings to senior technology executives• Built credibility and rapport with all of the client’s technology senior executive team and gained their approval to implement my team’s proposed recommendations, which allowed my team to sell $3M+ of follow-on workTechnology Transformation Program for a Global Fortune 500 Retail Company:• Grew trust-based relationships with senior technology finance directors by taking on a key leadership role that involved helping these leaders build stronger executive presence in front of their executive leadership team• Provided senior technology finance directors with strategic guidance and extensive coaching on how to present a structured and concise leadership update during key Steering Committee meetings with the CIOOrganizational Analysis and Business Case Development for a Global Retail Company: • Created and drove the execution of an organization optimization analysis that utilized quantitative benchmarking combined with a qualitative understanding of the business to inform senior leaders of organizational opportunities • Lead a team of 2 consultants to analyze several business and technology functions across multiple organizational dimensions including cost, size, and roles that generated $30M+ of savings

Technology Capability Assessment for a Global Financial Services Company: • Supported the completion of a technology capability assessment by facilitating 45+ business and technology stakeholder interviews to understand current state pain points and identify foundational areas of improvement• Constructed 10 technology recommendations by distilling and synthesizing insights from key stakeholder interviews to transform the technology organization from a supporting function into a strategic enablerStore Acceleration Operating Model for a Global Retail Company• Developed a Strategic Operating Model to optimize the delivery of this company’s store growth strategy and accelerated the delivery of Store Technology through clear alignment on work composition, role clarity, decision-making, and ways of working for profitable growthSocial Media Capability Assessment and Operating Model Development for a Global Semiconductor Company• Completed a strategic maturity assessment of the company’s internal social media competencies to understand its current state, inform operating model scenarios, and maximize social media impact • Recommended a hybrid operating model to enable global employees to make faster and smarter business decisions, increase organizational agility and innovation to create better customer experiences, and improve organizational effectiveness to reduce marketing costs

Center of Excellence Value Proposition for a Global Fortune 500 Technology Company: • Partnered with a strategy manager to develop a business case that identified $10-12M of future value from making strategic digital investments and piloting innovative products in a new customer segmentBusiness Case Development and Value Proposition for a Global Food Distributor• Developed a value and benefits realization case for an international wholesale distributor to reduce baseline spend over 3 years and reinvest savings to accelerate growth and optimize the organization• Identified 25 optimization levers that realized run rate savings of 8-13% of the company’s $XXM spendCurrent State Service Delivery Model and Future State Operating Model Definition for a Global Pharmaceutical Company• Developed current and target state services model by leveraging Accenture frameworks and leading practices• Defined target state services, interaction models, org charts, governance, and roles & responsibilities by conducting multiple interviews with various stakeholders• Defined a backlog of initiatives with descriptions, prioritized into quarterly implementation iterations and an immediate 90-day plan to mobilize and realize outcomes for initial MVPDigital Transformation Acceleration • Partnered with cross-functional domains to help drive delivery, approach, innovation, and overall CIO agenda while maximizing success in the end-to-end delivery of this client’s digital transformation• Worked in partnership with internal and external teams to transition this client’s customer journey initiative into execution

Investment Portfolio Management for a Global Fintech and Payments Company• Developed a scalable framework for managing and prioritizing work across groups and provided the C-suite with visibility into portfolio financials, resource constraints, and execution risk• Held workshops with key stakeholders to develop best in class financial, resource, and portfolio execution reporting for C-suite executivesTechnology Strategy and Roadmap Development for a Specialty Insurance Company• Supported a strategic technology capability assessment to understand current state organizational pain points and identify sustainable growth opportunities• Enabled this client’s leadership team to better understand their current technology landscape and technology capabilities across their existing businesses

• Designed and implemented a Python script to solve client challenges and specifications of a fatigue machine• Implemented data visualization techniques to help management make more informed decisions on future product development efforts

• Developed proposals for an underperforming tractor series by conducting interviews and analyzing data• Successfully obtained management’s approval to implement the proposals, which decreased fixed costs while maintaining tractor sales

• Researched and tested prototypes, then designed and deployed improvements to the prototypes• Published a new improvements to the internal system and database• Assessed and revamped Caterpillar's Analysis Implementation Process

• Programmed two lasers (Amada/Bystronic) to cut sheet metal from different vendors• To increase productivity, the software distinguished when to use different cut conditions when different materials where loaded into the laser• In order to reduce cost, the laser was programmed to cut certain fixtures to better support the operators in welding and assembling. This enabled the operators to execute their functionalities more efficiently without needing to purchase new materials• Successfully designed and modified an existing Electro-Mechanical Assembly to reduce cost and provide more efficiency.