Mike Cary Email & Phone Number

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Analytics Manager - Supply Chain

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Responsible for all supply chain analytics including data workflows, visualizations and analytics server administration
• Created and own an optimization model that finds optimal sourcing at the lowest cost
• Present complex analytics to many different stakeholders in a clear and easily understandable format

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Cargill Starches, Sweeteners, and Texturizers Business - Business Operations & Supply Chain
• Led segment reviews with the product lines, coordinate data refreshes, and run reports on the financial data
• Data lead on a supply chain design and optimization project utilizing Supply Chain Guru and Data Guru. Required pulling together many datasets, checking integrity of data, and creating a model
• Optimized and automated manual Excel work utilizing Alteryx and Power Query savings many hours/week

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Cargill Salt Business - Business Operations & Supply Chain
• Handle all facets of data analytics and reporting: gathering requirements, building a data model, and creating visuals to gain insights. Experience with large enterprise datasets including data lakes (Hue and Hadoop).
• Worked with the Project Management Office to take the team from excel sourced data, to a data platform sourced solution utilizing Power BI Dataflows. The standardized data enable faster reporting, better data.
• Created and own the On-Time, In-Full (OTIF) metric which is used business-wide. Responsible for updating data, data integrity, and creating visuals to showcase insights. Uses complex data modeling and multiple data.
• Lead data analyst on a cross functional project to ensure orders are picked up on-time from our plants. Required many data inputs and used an agile approach to assess data and completed a pilot before rolling out.
• Optimized daily, manual tasks done by customer care by creating reports, modeling, and automating the data to produce finished outputs, saving hours of work per day/week allowing them to focus on the customer's.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Cargill Salt Business - Supply Chain Planning and Analytics
• Pulled data by creating SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence (Webi) reports and merge universes to utilize relevant data fields. Use power query to manipulate, clean, and merge large datasets to prepare for.
• Lead data analyst on a cross functional customer defects project, responsible for data manipulation, merging/connecting, and visualizations. Combined and connected over 15 large, complex data sources to the master.
• Oversaw four third-party sites from an inventory control perspective. Used SAP to create deliveries, monitor stock levels, pay invoices and handle any issues that come up by working with site contact, transportation.
• Worked on numerous projects analyzing: storage capacity at a site, available resource capacity across the network, transportation impacts on inventory, and other supply chain focused requests where insights were needed.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Information Technology - Infrastructure
• Accountable for 25,000 devices for PC lifecycle in North America and 10,000 devices for Network Lifecyle in North America. Responsible for creation of plan, ensuring targets are on track, and resolving any escalations.
• Helped set the framework for each lifecycle process while continuously proposing and implementing process improvements by working with each team
• Developed Power Query Excel reports on infrastructure projects and financials to gain insight and verify information is accurate
• Reviewed and approved the charters of all infrastructure projects submitted, to check that work is scoped correctly
• Created an implementation plan to convert 145 sites to a Site to Site VPN solution by taking into account complexity, business seasonality and geography. Acted as an escalation point for project team and was involved.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Information Technology - Service Operations
• Supported hundreds of integrations including critical ones related to treasury and plants
• Led a continuous improvement effort to reduce and enhance monitoring alerts. Achieved a 50% reduction in overall ticket numbers while improving alerts we did receive
• Resolved high-criticality and complex user tickets quickly and with high client satisfaction. Also, contributed in multiple major incident calls and on a few, solved the issue at hand as the lead technical resource
• Developed and reported on our team metrics to the global team and to management

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Developed and delivered SAP Business Objects training to 40+ local and global managers
• Gained experience in several roles: Project Manager, Business Analyst and Quality Assurance
• Completed project successfully and the training that was created is now available company-wide

Ames, IA

• Handled grading of homework and communication with 40+ students a semester
• Microsoft Office 2010 intensive class based around Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Access
• Developed and provided quality assurance on Blackboard course content

Bachelor’S Degree, Management Information Systems And Supply Chain Management

Activities and Societies: Management Information Systems Club, Business Council, ISU Business Ambassador, Delta Upsilon Fraternity •.

Management Information Systems, General

Semester long study abroad program. January - June.