Benjamin Swanson Email & Phone Number

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Bridges the gap between product delivery and employee development with a team of over 50 direct reports. Increases productivity by bringing visibility to team skill levels - including skills assessment, gap analysis, and closure through appropriate trainings and work experiences. He also drives staffing & sourcing strategies, career and succession.

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Participated in over 40 audits, spanning 20 business units spanning Upstream Conventional and Unconventional Production, Downstream Refining, Chemicals Manufacturing, Midstream operations, Corporate functions including Treasury and Cash Management, IT functions including Servers, Networking, Storage, Application support, and many others. Led 12 of those.

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Developed a new team to introduce Design Thinking as a discipline within ExxonMobil. Worked with company Vice Presidents and other senior managers from Treasury, Credit, Controllers, Upstream Production, Safety Health and Environmental, Chemicals, and Downstream organizations to apply design thinking techniques to tackle strategic business problems..

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Led the US SQL Server team supporting all SQL Server databases in the corporation. First experience leading employees and contract staff, and coordinated with 3 other regional teams to provide ‘follow-the-sun’ support. Gained further exposure into Infrastructure and Database support, as well an emphasis on security and controls.

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Stewardship over multi-million dollar project budget. Prioritized the portfolio of internal IT projects (mostly upgrades and other non-business funded projects) and made funding decisions. Also acted as coordination point to bridge cross-functional projects spanning the Applications, Databse, Infrastructure, Networking, and Storage groups. One such.

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Lead for central recruiting team including centralized campus recruiting, managing the intern program, and onboarding of new hires. Campus recruiting responsibilities included aggregating referrals from campus recruiting teams, selecting candidates for site visits, identifying and scheduling management for interviews, planning and hosting site visits.

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Infrastructure and Application support for a hub-and-spoke architecture that stored technical specifications, safety sheets, and global work practices for remote locations that did not have reliable access to company intranet backbone. Central management team would load documents which would regularly sync to local servers for remote users. First.

Provo, UT, US

• Manage projects in web development, graphic design, & video editing. Automate processes using Microsoft Office Suite & VBA.
• Reduced reporting process from 30 min to 2 min using VBA.
• Maintained website for School of Education (~10,500 visitors/month).
• Served as liaison between a team of 20 students and 40+ faculty.
• Developed an application to track + report on projects.

Provo, UT, US

• Eliminated 10,000 pages of annual paperwork with an automated student evaluation program.
• Coordinated the work of 6 other secretaries.

Salt Lake City, UT, US

• Led a group of 6-10 fellow representatives. Increased performance from 0% to 100% (as measured by achievement of monthly goals).
• Compiled a regional training packet to share success strategies and techniques.
• Learned fluent Spanish