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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, products are distributed coast to coast. Extensive professional experience in design, development, implementation and support of mission-critical Business Intelligence (BI) applications acting as a liaison between business stakeholders and developers to ensure a mutual understanding of processes and applications.• 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.• Experience in the design, build, customization and roll out of advanced Jira Service Management workflows. issue types, fields, screens and ProForma forms.• Train end users on JIRA features during project deployments and with ongoing support• Facilitated requirement gathering sessions and review meetings with business stakeholders and members of the IT development team.• Solid understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), agile methodologies, and creating software requirements and documentation across multiple platforms. • Systems design/implementation

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 requirements. • 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.• Design and develop custom BI reports using Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services.• Facilitated requirement gathering sessions and review meetings with business stakeholders and members of the IT development team.• Utilized ServiceNow to document processes for Project, Incident, Change, and Service Request Management.Additional Roles: Business Analyst - Sales Operations 2006-2009• Manage $100M in sales resulting in commission payments averaging $3M annually across 15 external rep firms.

• 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