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Cleveland, OH, US

Hiram, Ohio, US

• Great Lakes Cheese serves the nation’s retailers and food service operations as a premier manufacturer and packer of natural and process bulk, shredded, and sliced cheeses. Utilizing 10 state-of-the-art plants.
• Serve as a functional subject matter expert in food safety/quality, manufacturing, regulatory/technical systems in partnership with IT partners to solve key priorities.
• Perform analysis, development and maintenance of applications in relation to Food Safety, Quality and Regulatory associated risk mitigation business processes.
• Design, implement, and optimize workflows within Jira Service Management to align with project requirements and improve process efficiency.
• Create and manage types, fields, and screens to facilitate accurate tracking and reporting of project tasks and milestones.
• Customize Jira Service Management dashboards, filters, and reports to provide relevant insights and visibility into project progress and performance.

Wilmington, Delaware, US

• Worked with a team of Business Analysts and Data Architects in designing, developing and deploying technology solutions to meet approved business demand and documented business requirements which fall within BI.
• Collaborated with stakeholders in Sales, Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain, and Quality Assurance to understand business needs and identify key opportunities, challenges, and ensuring business and technology alignment.
• Develop and maintain standardized reports, dashboards, visualizations, and portals utilizing the business intelligence software that enabled greater analysis of financials by our executive and senior management teams.
• Communicated with developers regarding functional requirements and collectively designed ETL processes that transformed data into usable formats for analysis and visualization, consistently meeting stakeholder.
• Solid understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), agile methodologies, and creating software requirements and documentation across multiple platforms.
• Initiated and followed agile software development methodology to plan and strategize product deliverables.

• Develop, maintain, and support a strong Board of Directors: serve as ex-officio of each committee, seek and build board involvement with strategic direction for ongoing local operations.
• Begin to build partnerships in new markets, establishing relationships with the funders, and political and community leaders.
• Oversees fundraising planning and implementation, including identifying resource requirements, researching funding sources, establishing strategies to approach funders.
• Provide direction and leadership toward the achievement of the organization's philosophy, mission, strategy, and its annual goals and objectives.
• Deepen and refine all aspects of communications—from web presence to external relations with the goal of creating a stronger brand.
• Ensure the planning, implementation and evaluation of the organization's programs and services.

Cleveland, OH, US

• The Sherwin-Williams Company develops, manufactures, distributes, and sells paints, coatings, and related products to professional, industrial, commercial, and retail customers.
• Accompanied Account Managers to meetings with buyers to provide additional analysis.
• Extracted and analyzed point-of-sale information from customer point-of-sale systems.
• Assisted National Account and Brand Managers with in-store product knowledge, setting plan-o-grams, and training field representatives on new products and promotions.
• Held monthly forecast planning meetings with Sales, Marketing, and Supply Chain to meet monthly demand.

Cleveland, OH, US