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- Matured the product mindset at John Deere through coaching and training, developing and delivering content, improving the career path for product roles, and transforming product org structures- Guided 400+ product leaders through the largest internal transformation in John Deere’s history- Coached & trained Business & IT Product Leaders & PMs, representing over 300 product teams- Consulted with all business areas regarding customer discovery, solving problems, establishing product… Show more - Matured the product mindset at John Deere through coaching and training, developing and delivering content, improving the career path for product roles, and transforming product org structures- Guided 400+ product leaders through the largest internal transformation in John Deere’s history- Coached & trained Business & IT Product Leaders & PMs, representing over 300 product teams- Consulted with all business areas regarding customer discovery, solving problems, establishing product fit, defining product measurements, ideating, experimenting, and utilizing tools such as OKRs - Designed dozens of workshops and delivered them over a hundred times to customers- Developed a foundational, virtual Product Coach using Deere’s AI LLM- Created the most popular training course within John Deere entitled, “Becoming Outcome-Oriented”- Established a value framework used by all of Global IT to quantify and communicate value to its key stakeholders, influencing investments at the highest levels of the company- Led the PM CoP, growing it to include over 400 PMs while increasing engagement by over 500%- Developed PM onboarding strategy and content, including the establishment of a PM mentorship program Show less

- Developed and managed cloud tooling to enable WWParts product teams’ DevSecOps practices- Architected and developed a cloud-based central logging solution for WWParts products- Brought new API tooling into John Deere called Mulesoft- Co-led the implementation of Mulesoft API platform for Worldwide Parts, trained new team members, oversaw the development of key APIs for our major initiatives and personally developed internal logging components used by all APIs- Built solution… Show more - Developed and managed cloud tooling to enable WWParts product teams’ DevSecOps practices- Architected and developed a cloud-based central logging solution for WWParts products- Brought new API tooling into John Deere called Mulesoft- Co-led the implementation of Mulesoft API platform for Worldwide Parts, trained new team members, oversaw the development of key APIs for our major initiatives and personally developed internal logging components used by all APIs- Built solution components that teams could adopt to automate audit and compliance requirements Show less

- Directly Managed the Quality & Operations program and related products/services for WorldWide Parts- Managed the implementation of major scaled initiatives for John Deere’s Worldwide Parts business- Developed and directly supervised a team of 12+ employees- Delivered multiple testing platforms to accommodate a wide-range of tech substacks, resulting in 78% fewer failures and a 90% reduction in testing effort. These results doubled our product teams’ delivery capacity, helping… Show more - Directly Managed the Quality & Operations program and related products/services for WorldWide Parts- Managed the implementation of major scaled initiatives for John Deere’s Worldwide Parts business- Developed and directly supervised a team of 12+ employees- Delivered multiple testing platforms to accommodate a wide-range of tech substacks, resulting in 78% fewer failures and a 90% reduction in testing effort. These results doubled our product teams’ delivery capacity, helping us deliver more value to our stakeholders and customers.- Co-led a scaled agile transformation (SAFe) from inception through delivery and then well into its maturity for over 25 teams located across 4 continents - Co-led the design and rollout of ServiceNow and ITSM practices across Global IT, which led to reductions in problem volumes by 75% and Mean Time to Resolve of incidents by 83% for all of Worldwide Parts in less than 1 year- Developed & Owned quality metrics used by every product in John Deere’s IT ecosystem Show less

- Performed all PM duties including customer discovery, market research, strategic outcome development, establishing success measurements, prioritization & stakeholder / customer communication- Reduced SAP system upgrade effort by almost 60%- Led cross-functional teams to deliver scaled initiatives on time, under budget, and w/ high quality- Partnered with multiple teams to establish OM’s pipeline, shrink bloated regression suites, improve testing processes, and deliver custom code… Show more - Performed all PM duties including customer discovery, market research, strategic outcome development, establishing success measurements, prioritization & stakeholder / customer communication- Reduced SAP system upgrade effort by almost 60%- Led cross-functional teams to deliver scaled initiatives on time, under budget, and w/ high quality- Partnered with multiple teams to establish OM’s pipeline, shrink bloated regression suites, improve testing processes, and deliver custom code mgmt. within Deere’s SAP environment Show less

Developed a training framework for Subject Matter Experts in factories worldwide across all languages and business areas including finance, quality, warehouse and factory operations, sales and distribution, warranty, etc.