Brian Pratt Email & Phone Number

Maple Grove, Minnesota, United States

Responsible for ensuring overall consistency, accuracy, and timeliness of all quotes throughNortech’s North American quoting process· Manages the quote organization with direct management of Quote Administrators and QuoteEngineers and dotted line management responsibilities for sourcing and specialized engineeringfunctions.· Provides regular updates to stakeholders on status of quotes within the process and other keyprocess indicators· Ensures site specific engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain organizations are appropriatelyresourced to support quoting. Escalates resource needs to senior leadership as needed.· Understands the quote process as a whole, the tools, and roles required to complete successfulquotes. Is able to navigate quotes through Salesforce, Epicor, and other relevant tools.· Develops training materials and oversees training for quoting activities.· Actively tracks and intervenes when quotes are falling behind schedule or are off track· Supports business development and customer management team with quote related customer activities · Participates in decision making process for which quotes enter the pipeline.

Maple Grove, Minnesota, United States

As part of the Business Development team, I am the leader of the quoting process coordination including process improvement activities. This role also includes building a data and analytics program.- Lead weekly quote process review meetings- Ensure all open quotes are in the correct status and are moving along in the quote process- Manage issue escalation within the quote process to help remove roadblocks - In charge of the quote process improvements, including the creation of the quote value stream map to help identify areas of opportunity. - Leading the quote process improvement execution activities, - Report updates to the Sr Level leadership team to provide updates on current open activities related to the quote process.

Minnesota, United States

• Directed, mentored, and led a team of 10, establishing and implementing KPIs in alignment with company vision and growth goals. • Led the creation, onboarding, and monthly coordination of Data Governance board meetings with cross-functional board members, collaborating with the C-suite to drive plan for execution readiness. • Advanced the Seven Elements of Data Governance; Information Security, E-Discovery, Record Retention, Data Policies, Analytics Governance, Data Classification, and Compliance and Privacy resulting in in a new enterprise-wide framework driving improved data compliance.• Partnered with process owners to drive critical process improvements and automation providing visibility to common data compliance issues such as data quality, data classification, and KPI definitions misalignment.• Created and implemented new Data Governance intake ticketing process using Jira, leading team triage of tickets and execution management improving visibility to the data compliance risks across the enterprise.• Oversaw the execution of the Data Governance roadmap elements, including establishing roles and responsibilities, training, process mapping, and technology needs resulting in improved visibility for organization. • Planned and scheduled project timelines and milestones improving communications to deliver projects ahead of schedules. • Identified disparate/conflicting reports and data to reconcile business issues preparing project for launch.• Assisted with the implementation of a new data catalog tool (Atlan), resulting in the delivery of 1 technology for the enterprise to see multiple data assets, such as a data catalog, data lineage and data classifications.

Blaine, Minnesota, United States

• Managed, trained, and led a team of 5, providing oversight and guidance on data quality projects. • Led process improvement effort for CVDOS by designing process map and leading the execution of improvements, creating and implementing process and Data Governance SOP’s resulting in improved visibility to key processes steps and provided an opportunity for improvement.• Drove shorter processing times and increased efficiency through building out process maps and resource analysis.• Provided leadership consulting and leveraged industry-leading process improvement methodologies for insights into data, people, and technology improving visibility to gaps in processes. • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to find innovative solutions to improve overall operations and client satisfaction. • Researched and developed ROI statement for Connected Vehicle Data Systems (CVDOS) program

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Oversaw, trained, and led a team of 10 developers and business analysts across 3 global sites, ensuring delivery of data analytics while providing support on global and enterprise-wide projects. • Managed day-to-day operations of analytics team including managing data quality, data and metric reporting requests related to business intelligence projects, data infrastructure design, dashboard development, and end-user training leading to on time delivery improvement by 25% and increased customer satisfaction.• Created process improvement projects that delivered high-quality solutions for a variety of business stakeholders across a matrixed organization including creating a common database for Supply Chain and Quality to access needed data sets.• Developed cross-functional relationships with customers and key decision-makers in and outside Quality, resulting in reducing data silos and promoting data sharing best practices.• Focused on key projects including the transition to the new automated reporting platform (Power BI), including the integration of 10 source systems through SQL to Power BI that increased end user data access and data knowledge.

Mounds View Mn

• Created new issue tracking system to increase efficiency and reduce redundancy in work, decreasing ticket volume by 40%.• Provided improved financial model to trend quality cost reduction for the business as key quality contributor in the creation of COPE (Cost of Poor Execution) CVG complaint handling model.• Led the creation and infrastructure set-up of the Complaint Handling ODMS (Operational Data Management Support) team resulting in the centralizing of data analytics processes.• Assisted the Complaint Handling organization to create a volume projection and capacity model by providing data insights to help optimize complaint handling resource planning

Mounds View, Minnesota, United States

Owned the data management team visual management board by leading the weekly stand-up meetings and setting expectations for completion of tasks on the board. Also worked with the PMO group to help define standards for PMO boards and drive that standard in the data management team board improvements.