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Cincinnati, Oh, Us

Oxford,Oh

Cincinnati Area, Ky

• Direct, lead, and manage the team responsible for the Recruiting, Performance Management, Learning, and Talent SaaS systems at Macy's, which support 22,000 executive users and the recruitment of over 150,000 new hires annually• Primary lead with Taleo/Oracle on all talent related SaaS applications• Member of the HR Transformation Team responsible for talent related functions and technology moving from Taleo/Peoplesoft to Oracle HCM Cloud• Partnered with Oracle to stabilize system availability improve system performance and improved application response time by over 50%, which facilitated the successful recruitment and hiring of over 85,000 holiday associates each season• Manage the business process and systems for deploying over 1000 eLearning courses across the Macy's Content Delivery Network, Learning Management System, and SharePoint Portal• Utilizing Six Sigma process methodologies, led a team to identify process inefficiencies and optimize the configurations across all of our SaaS talent applications.• Direct the functional project management of systems deployment. Identifying systems issues and collaborating to implement quick and thorough resolutions

Cincinnati, Ohio Area

• Responsible for the development, maintenance and day-to-day support for corporate service systems. • Defined a five-year strategic roadmap for entire portfolio, which included migrating the business from waterfall to agile methodology, upgrading to Office365 and moving to a new HR system• Managed a team of technical/functional direct reports, which required mentoring, annual performance reviews, salary planning, and employability decisions• In a two-month timeframe, migrated enterprise document management solution to a new data center, while performing a three version software upgrade, a two-version database upgrade, and one-server operating system upgrade

Dayton, Ohio Area

• Accountable for the development, maintenance, and day-to-day support for all sales, marketing, and customer service applications. Portfolio of applications included an enterprise CRM (Siebel 8.0), external customer facing tool (WebCenter), and a custom-built call center application (PowerBuilder)• Responsible for the definition and execution of a running five-year strategic roadmap for all systems within portfolio• Manage a team of 12 technical/functional direct reports and over 120 contractor resources. • Responsibilities included mentoring, annual performance reviews, salary planning, and hire/fire decisions• Successfully executed a transformation to transition away from a complete outsourced model to a model that reflected internal technical leadership and ownership , which utilized outsourced resources for staff augmentation only• Delivered a $50 Million multi-generational systems foundational replacement, which facilitated reengineered business processes to support the next generation LexisNexis flagship product, LexisAdvance

Cincinnati, Ohio Area

• Accountable for all IT development and deliverables related to engine configuration and inventory tracking for the F136/Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) engine• Coordinated with senior management to create a detailed program plan around configuration and inventory IT activities needed to support both F136 flight test and production sustainment• Responsible for providing progress updates and functionality demonstrations to the government’s JSF Joint Project Office

Cincinnati, Ohio Area

• Responsible for all Siebel (7.8) and IT development for the GE Aviation Operations Center• Actively managed a portfolio of ten applications along with consultant project leaders and business analysts located both onshore and offshore• Worked extensively with GE senior management to develop, track, and implement IT strategy and vision for the Aviation Operations Center• Served as PMO Leader for the Aviation Services IT organization; represented GE Aviation on GE-wide PMO and Change Management councils• Led restructuring of Siebel development and support team that reduced yearly costs by over 30% through the leveraging of both offshore and onshore resources

• Developed and implemented PMO procedures and processes• Eliminated variation in the card program implementation process, which enabled the sales team to provide more accurate and expedited onboarding timelines to potential customers

Cincinnati, Ohio Area

• Served as Data Quality and Integration Program Leader for the implementation of Siebel 7.7• Successfully led project to integrate the data for 20 disparate source systems into a single customer master file• Exceeded expectations for initial data quality through the implementation of both hard key and soft matching rules, exceeding expected goals by over 30% • Established data quality rules, processes and metrics for ongoing data integration • Responsible for the rollout, implementation, and training on Siebel 7.7 to bank affiliates• Planned and managed the capital and expense budget for the CRM program

Cincinnati, Ohio Area

Partnered with senior business and IT leadership to identify, define, plan and implement multiple, parallel IT projects and managed a $3 million project cluster which included a complex fleet simulation engine which forecasted fleet maintenance costs over a 20 year period for use in risk mitigation for long term service agreements

Cincinnati, Ohio Area

Selected for fast-track GE management training program which focused on both technical and project management training