Christopher Hoang Email & Phone Number

Within this role I am focused on identifying and leading business optimization opportunities in all aspects of the business, including but not limited to finance, operations, sales, strategic supply, plant maintenance, project management, customer relationship management, and business intelligence. Through these different focus areas, this role is focused on business processes from pursuit to pay, and within people, process, and technology. This includes the scoping, facilitation, and value quantification of continuous improvement efforts; in technology, user experience, and process, as well as process automation for repetitive tasks.The following is a list of the most notable projects I have led and/or directly supported:1. Pricing Strategy, Price Management, and Price Optimization2. On-Time Delivery Process and Reporting3. Supplier Performance Process and Reporting4. Material Master Strategy5. Employee Master Data Strategy6. Order Automation Workflow and Notification Configuration7. System Integrations for a Data Driven Enterprise8. Modernizing Communications Workflows with a Modern Phone System9. Internal/External Reporting Projects10. Confidential Information Management Strategy11. Subscription Management Strategy and System Configuration12. Rebate Management Strategy and System Configuration13. Program Management Workflow and System Configuration14. AI applications and Integration into workflows15. Inventory Management and MRP Automation16. Sales and Operation Planning17. SAP UI/UX Enhancements18. Equipment Record Strategy and Configuration19. Asset Management Strategy and Reporting

As the analytics design lead for the business intelligence team, my subject matter expertise and ownership of reporting areas span all SAP functional areas and modules. I am the primary owner of any and all financial analyses, including business unit and executive reporting, and am also the master data owner for FICO objects. In addition, I remain engaged with Spartan's Digital Transformation - ERP configuration, data capture and design, data governance, predictive analytics, forecasting, and machine learning applications.I work in conjunction with SAP Functional Area Implementation Leads, Business Process Specialists, Business Process Owners, End to End Process Owners, Spartan’s Senior Leadership, and Spartan’s Steering and Strategy Team(s). I have significant experience using a variety of SAP products, including but not limited to SAP Analytics Cloud, BW4HANA, Fiori, Analysis for Office, and other key tools such as WinShuttle, Smartsheets, PLSQL, and many others.

As the analytics-lead for Executive and Business Unit reporting, my subject matter expertise and ownership of reporting areas span all SAP functional areas and modules. I am the primary owner of any and all financial analyses, and am also the master data owner for FICO objects. In addition, I remain engaged with Spartan's Digital Transformation - ERP implementation, data governance, predictive analytics, forecasting, and machine learning applications.Some additional projects I am privileged to be involved in include, but are not limited to: process improvements with freight, purchasing/invoicing/sales controls, sales order reports, project order reports, order validation and completion from procurement through invoicing, master data setup and cleanup, SAP configuration improvements for financial accounting and financial reporting, P&L analysis, cost allocations and ledger configurations, project order costing, AR/AP lean-process optimization, business intelligence data analytics, performance/activity reports, master material data optimization, margin and pricing analysis, KPI implementation, FP&A analysis, business process monitoring – among many others. My team’s project-based approach means we are best able to streamline business processes and optimize deliverables from end to end. As an extension of this, I serve as the gate keeper and agile project coordinator on behalf of my team.

Like my past roles with Spartan Controls, I am working full-time while also maintaining a full academic load as a full time student.I am currently working on fine-tuning system configurations, diagnosing, recommending, and planning process improvements to SAPS4HANA. Through this process I am obtaining experience using BobJ Reporting, SAC, Analysis for Office, WinShuttle, Smartsheets, and many others.Under the scope of the Business Intelligence unit, and in conjunction with SAP Functional Area Implementation Leads, Business Process Specialists, Business Process Owners, Black Belts, Spartan’s Senior Leadership, and Spartan’s Steering and Strategy Team(s), my team’s project-based approach means we are best able to streamline business processes and optimize deliverables from end to end. As an extension of this, I serve as the gate keeper and agile project coordinator on behalf of my team.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Like my past role with Spartan Controls, I am working full-time while also maintaining a full academic load as a full time student.I am currently working on fine-tuning system configurations, diagnosing, recommending, and planning process improvements to SAPS4HANA. Through this process I am obtaining experience using BobJ Reporting, SAC, Analysis for Office, WinShuttle, Smartsheets, and many others.Under the scope of the Business Intelligence unit, and in conjunction with SAP Functional Area Implementation Leads, Business Process Specialists, Business Process Owners, Black Belts, Spartan’s Senior Leadership, and Spartan’s Steering and Strategy Team(s), my team’s project-based approach means we are best able to streamline business processes and optimize deliverables from end to end. Some projects I am privileged to be involved in include, but are not limited to: process improvements with freight, purchasing/invoicing/sales controls, sales order reports, project order reports, order validation and completion from procurement through invoicing, master data setup and cleanup, SAP configuration improvements for financial accounting and financial reporting, p&l analysis, cost allocations and ledger configurations, project order costing, AR/AP lean-process optimization, business intelligence data analytics, performance/activity reports, master material data optimization, margin and pricing analysis, KPI implementation, fp&a analysis, business process monitoring – among many others. I am also the analytics lead for Executive level and Business Unit reporting, any and all financial analyses, and am the master data owner for anything finance related. In addition, I am increasingly involved with Spartan's Digital Transformation in the realms of RPA and machine-learning solutions.

Calgary, Canada Area

Within this role I have obtained extensive SAP expertise, with additional experience in customer-facing and vendor-facing interactions and transactions. Though this began as a summer-student internship, my employment was extended to become a full time contract, where I proceeded to continue full-time work while maintaining my full-time studies.This role has a high frequency of cross-business unit collaboration among internal sales, external sales, and between other related company infrastructure and sales and distribution. As well, there is significant opportunity for involvement in optimization, given the many functional areas this role engages with. As a result of Spartan’s SAP implementation GoLive a month prior to my initial employment, I engaged in significant efforts in improving processes related to our SAP4HANA implementation.Job duties and other experience include invoicing, invoice corrections, cash batching, cash handling, cash application, credit applications, credit review, customer account setup, vendor account setup, master data entry, invoice validation and posting, cheque run, data entry, order creation, basic financial accounting, SharePoint, B2B, best practice documentation, and other general professional business processes.

Contributing content as a subject matter expert towards Kendall Hunt's "Business Communications Playbook" authored by Kris Hans.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Working with co-founders Erik Christiansen and Kris Hans, I am thrilled to be working on the EdTech Examined project in providing valuable content on technological tools to educators. Check out our podcast, available on all major streaming platforms.

Entrepreneurs, like military leaders, know that you often have to lose a lot of battles on the way to winning a war. So why do we always end up talking about the goals, the accomplishments, the victories, rather than the scary stuff? What about the traumas that stay with you long after you’ve left the calamity of the daily business battlefield? Join us for ‘War Stories’, where business founders, co-founders, entrepreneurs, and leaders who have learned that what makes us successful comes more often from our hardships than our victories, and that these are the stories that are actually worth sharing.Working with founder and primary host Kris Hans, I am the audio and visual producer for our podcasts, video interviews, and more. Check out our YouTube channel here, or tune in on your podcast platform of choice: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKWayze_pYbIhDIvtlC7Rw/

Marker/Proctor for ENTI 407: Digital Entrepreneurship Technology.

Within this role I am the teaching assistant for the MBA course MKTG663: New Venture Marketing.

Within this role I am working as the teaching assistant for ENTI 401: Opportunity Identification (Entrepreneurship and Innovation Area) taught by Professor Kris Hans.

Within this role I am working as the teaching assistant for ENTI 407: Technology for Entrepreneurs (Entrepreneurship and Innovation Area) taught by Professor Kris Hans.

Within this role I am serving as a research assistant to Dr. Mallika Banerjee at the Haskayne School of Business. Mallika’s work lies at the intersection of institutional theory, cultural entrepreneurship and human capital. She draws on a mixed-methods approach that combines observation and interviews with regional and national data sets. To date, this inter-disciplinary research agenda has yielded a set of novel research questions within two broad research streams – (i) Cultural processes underpinning entrepreneurship; (ii) Job (mis)matching, entrepreneurial entry and venture survival.

Within this role I am the teaching assistant for ENTI: 381, Principles of Entrepreneurship (Entrepreneurship and Innovation Area) under Professor Dr. Mallika Banerjee.

Within this role I am working as the teaching assistant for ENTI 674: Technologies of Innovation (formerly Innovation in Organizations) (Entrepreneurship and Innovation Area) taught by Professor Kris Hans. This is a continuation and application of my work on course development with Kris (co-investigator) and Dr. Mohammad Keyhani (principal investigator) as a Research Assistant at the Haskayne School of Business.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

I am honoured and privileged to be working under Dr Mohammad Keyhani (Principal Investigator) and Kris Hans (co-investigator) at the Haskayne School of Business.In conjunction with Mohammad and Kris, I will be working on research relating to technological tools for entrepreneurs, small businesses, and start-ups. This will ultimately result in the creation of an OER (open education resource) for the University of Calgary and the Haskayne School of Business. Notably, this will be the first course in the world that specifically emphasizes tools for entrepreneurs, as opposed to the abundance of technological (or tech industry) entrepreneurship courses. This is made possible thanks to grants on education and curriculum development from the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Within this role I am working as the teaching assistant for ENTI 401: Opportunity Identification (Entrepreneurship and Innovation Area) taught by Professor Kris Hans.

Within this role I am supporting the delivery of the Surface Land Management Diploma Program by providing my subject matter expertise in Innovation and Creativity, Design Thinking, and Project Management management classes.

Contributing content as a subject matter expert towards McGraw Hill's Smartbook e-learning tool, for the text by Cardon and Stevens, "Business Communication: Developing Leaders for a Networked World", First Canadian Edition.

Master Of Science - Ms, Sustainable Energy Development

Bachelor Of Commerce - Bcomm, Entrepreneurship And Innovation

Bachelor Of Commerce - Bcomm, English Literature

Alberta High School Diploma/International Bacculareate Certificate

Activities and Societies: Student Leadership (President), School Council (Student at Large), Parent Council (Student at Large), Model.