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Austin, TX, US

Walldorf, BW, DE

Led co-innovation with 7 major O&G customers to develop best practices for end-to-end procurement and drove the requirements that led to the integration between SAP Fieldglass, SAP Business Network, S/4 and peripheral solutions such as Asset Management, Field Logistics and Finance. In addition, as our Sustainability lead for the Innovation Center for.

Walldorf, BW, DE

• Embedded Purpose (understanding of social and environmental impacts) into the development organization by 1) developing a training program for all developers, 2) embedding Purpose into the business case review process.
• Continue to investigate uncommon collaborations with NGOs, customers, partners and government entities to drive technology innovations supporting solutions to global challenges, resulting in a backlog of over 20.
• Launched a global training program (content and delivery) around Purpose-driven Innovation for all developers across all regions and lines of business, inspiring others to lead zero waste projects, submissions to.
• Deliver keynotes and provide content for SAP leadership’s keynotes outlining Purpose strategy and recommended activities, which reached thousands of internal attendees
• Influenced upper management to include Purpose into business case review process enabling a more holistic view of projected outcomes of SAP products
• Represen SAP’s Chief Sustainability Officer at various high-level meetings with the European Commission and key customers on integrated thinking and reporting, providing corporate input on reporting regulations

Walldorf, BW, DE

• Served as General Manager of the Non-Finanical Reporting domain. Directed the last major version of Sustainability Performance Management and its removal from production, while developing a next-generation cloud-based.
• Developed a backlog of business cases with internal product teams and with key partners, leading to the next-generation of solutions to replace the legacy reporting product
• Managed co-innovation council of customers who co-designed and helped prioritize requirements through remote and onsite workshops
• Prioritized the JIRA backlog for the last and largest version of Sustainability Performance Management, which included an award-winning user experience makeover

Walldorf, BW, DE

• Defined, launched, and grew SAP Sustainability Performance Management, an end-to-end, business intelligence solution designed to help companies streamline data collection, manage and drive performance, and reduce the.
• Built the Sustainability Reporting market and domain within SAP and within the software industry from non-existent to a critical board-level business process
• Responsible for the first natively-built product at SAP to employ design-thinking-based co-innovation with Agile sprints, resulting in several innovation awards
• Streamlined SAP’s Third-Party content process with SAP Legal and built content and managed relationships with key content providers including Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP).
• Developed direct and indirect pricing and positioning strategy as well as wrote marketing and sales collateral and training materials for SAP and jointly with re-sell partners, resulting in pipeline of 5x of plan
• Engaged analysts for market input and roadmap validation, resulting in positive placement in the Gartner Magic Quadrant.

Walldorf, BW, DE

• Led a team supporting SAP Strategy Management, SAP Spend Performance Management and SAP Supply Chain Performance Management. I was responsible to be the coordination hub between product management, marketing.
• Top Talent Award
• Built out the training program for sales, pre-sales, consulting, partners and customers including content and delivery, both directly and via SAP Education
• Considered the key domain expert for the three products and led talks, keynotes and strategy discussions at key SAP and non-SAP events including ASUG national and regional conferences, TechEd, Balanced Scorecard.
• Successfully obtained positive references from every early-adopter customer we supported through the ramp up of a product

Berkeley, California, US

Server as Treasurer and as Member of the Board advise on a software / data management perspective how we can create more traceability and provenance in commodity supply chains using technology to eliminate forced labor, unsafe working conditions and negative environmental impacts. (ie blockchain and cotton, conflict minerals).

London, England, GB

Advise on a software / data management perspective how we can create a comprehensive view of the natural capital landscape, furthering understanding of the inter-relationship of various capitals - financial, human, material, and natural.

Pilot was a small start-up that provided corporate scorecard (balanced scorecards) and dashboard solutions with robust workflow around data acquisition. I was responsible for defining the project proposal and timelines, managing the implementation teams onsite and serving as domain expert. I also worked closely with Product Management to define new.

Los Altos, California, US

Marketbee was a small start-up that provided project portfolio management software primarily in the pharmaceutical and electronics industries. I built the training program but mostly worked directly with customers to implement the solution. This start-up failed due to financial reasons and was key learning opportunity for me.

US

OnVantage, FKA seeUthere, was acquired by PlanSoft. It grew from a "eVite" competitor into an enterprise-ready SAAS (cloud-based) event lifecycle management software - from event webpages, to registrations, property and room inventory management, to travel support for attendees and speakers. I wore several hats over the 5 years there, gaining critical.

Brandon, Manitoba, CA

Authored the design document and led usability studies, managed emerging social media feedback on the product (outbound support and inbound requests) for #1 greeting card software product at the time, American Greetings CreataCard 4.0.

Mim, Marketing, Finance

Mba, Marketing

Ba, Japanese Language & Literature, Asian Studies