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Wisconsin, United States (Remote)

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Engaged with Brands, Partners and Retail to develop and define projects for the purpose of syndicating product content for a 25% faster increase to market introduction to the digital shelf
• Developed and Managed Venzee’s partner program resulting in the access of customers to increase syndication by 30%
• Work with Retailers to integrate and configure their requirements into the Venzee platform to accelerate product introduction and item setup by 20%
• Founded & Expanded Customer Delivery & Engagement department
• Created premier onboarding program to accelerate resource productivity by reducing time from 2-3 months to 2-3 weeks
• Developed a best-in-class project management engagement process delivering best practice in Support, Communication and project delivery to our customers

Greater Chicago Area

• Collaborated cross-departmentally with Product Management, Partner Solutions, Marketing, Professional Services, Technical Support, and Technology teams in the development of service opportunities, integrations and.
• Collaborated with Product Management team to identify new features and UX design into the product roadmaps.
• Provided and oversaw data management advisory services globally, focused on the areas of data integration, data governance, supply chain management, business process analysis and data quality.
• Subject matter expert for eCommerce and Omni-Channel integrations and initiatives.

Lake Forest, Illinois

• Provide divisional support for the Abbott GDSN Program along with all applicable applications
• Full business process testing of protocols and validation for all releases, hot fixes and bug fixes for all applicable Abbott GDSN Program applications
• Creation of business and technical documentation such as user guides and governance documents
• Creation and maintenance of training, SOPs and Business Process Modeling and Notation (BPMN) for Enterprise GDSN solution
• SME for all Abbott GDSN customer processes for data sync, including but not limited to: Wal-Mart, Kroger, Super Valu, Target, Sam’s Club, FDA GUDID, The UK National Health Service, Netherland commercial recipients and.
• SME on all Abbott GDSN Program applications and environments, including but not limited to: LANSA DSD, 1WorldSync, the GS1 Global Registry, GEPIR and GS1 Data Hub

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Restructured the taxonomy department processes, new hire & onboarding processes, successfully transitioned new resources, setup time reporting, defined CRM procedures and support requests and setup Kanban board in Jira.
• Documented all standard taxonomy data governance best practices and procedures, and taxonomy software functionality
• Developed 2018 taxonomy strategy and tactics to align with sales verticals, new product enhancements and key metric reporting for senior leadership
• Integrated GS1 GPC into proprietary collection taxonomy to reduce vendor input and increase speed to market for data collection initiatives across all customers
• Successfully launched 18-month master data management project which consisted of 170+ technical project integrations for a fortune 50 retailer across a multitude of business units
• Assisted the sales departments with articulating company’s configurable service offerings for sales opportunities across a multitude of markets

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Successfully managed multiple programs and projects for 10 enterprise level customers for master data management, which included but was not limited to, marketing, GDSN, private and regulatory data on time and budget
• Onboarded over 5k vendors within tight timelines which tripled the number of customers in the network,and in turn, provided upsell opportunities
• Collected marketing, GDSN and regulatory data for over 2.3 million SKUs across 5k vendors within 9 months
• Cross-trained over four different departments in preparation for multiple data collection programs
• Worked with Product Management, Engineering and SQA to ensure new product features and enhancements were released on time to support my programs and projects

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Assisted in the closing of three enterprise level clients
• Worked with sales and marketing to develop presentation collateral which included, but not limited to, PDFs, PowerPoint Presentation, White Boarding
• Conducted multiple business and data analysis in preparation for potential sales targets
• Hosted vendor webinars to articulate the value add of the service to grow the overall network
• Identified and provided key enhancements to Product Management for SaaS which included, but not limited to, multiple language location, regulatory collection, multi-complex attributes and multiple taxonomy collections

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Introduced innovative data collection processes and governance for commerce, GDSN, regulatory and private data elements to streamline technical implementation for each configurable master data management solution which.
• Collaborated with Product Management and Engineering to ensure new product features were added to the product vision, pipeline, roadmap and requirements to support existing and future enterprise level retailer.
• Documented all business process modeling for all retailer and vendor integration projects
• Developed custom external and internal reporting to track data collection initiatives

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Worked daily with multiple Program Managers to ensure client expectations are met and exceeded within a project plan for all technical projects associated to data collection
• Worked cross departmentally to improve processes and ensure quality control for data aggregation and acquisition for commerce, GDSN and private data collection
• Created, tested, and integrated automated processes resulting in faster product content collection cycles
• Conducted SQA for four separate SaaS releases for the platform during quarterly release cycles

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Successfully collected product content on 10,000 SKU’s in a coordinated project to launch small/medium sized retailer eCommerce website in six months project plan
• Key resource assisting Product Management and Engineering which the release of a new SaaS platform for retailer/distributor clients to be used in all areas of data aggregation and acquisition from a retailer.

• Began with the company in the summer of 2003. Made lasting impressions and built lasting relationships with clients and colleagues. Held high sales for the company in 2005 and 2006.
• Provided superior service for customers by facilitating an upbeat outgoing environment by responding to their requests, inquiries, suggestions, or concerns in a timely manner
• Continuously established and maintained a superb network of business relationships with vendors and suppliers as a result of comprehensive interaction and communication
• Coordinates the training of new associates in all areas of sales, customer relations, and company policies
• Routinely multi-tasked to ensure high customer service and increase overall profitability for the company

Associate'S Degree, Marketing

Activities and Societies: Dean's List, Member of the National Technical Honor SocietyFastrak Accelerated Marketing Management AA/S, GPA.

General Studies

Coursework: General Electives, GPA: 4.0, Dean’s List