Clent Stracner Email & Phone Number

Fort Smith, Arkansas, United States

• Manage and lead globally distributed team of data architects and data engineers supporting the data and analytics needs across ArcBest. • Collaborate with stakeholders to define project objectives, prioritize project portfolio, and ensure implemented solutions provide value. • Partner with subject matter experts and business stakeholders to identify, scope, and oversee implementation of efficient high-quality data pipelines and models.• Develop tactical and strategic plans and project roadmaps to facilitate short-term and long-term objectives of analytical initiatives. • Promote and champion modern data infrastructure and the impact of streamlined data flows that reduce costs and improve consistency, timeliness, and usefulness of data. • Prepare, organize, and conduct training classes for employees.• Coach and mentor team members giving continuous feedback, communicating performance objectives, and providing guidance on opportunities for improvement. • Participate in the recruiting, interviewing, and hiring process.

Fort Smith, Arkansas, United States

• Manage and lead software development teams supporting Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Treasury, Accounting, Tax, and Internal Audit. • Serve as a trusted advisor for functional leadership when solving problems and implementing technology solutions.• Develop tactical and strategic plans and project roadmaps to facilitate short-term and long-term objectives of the functional teams. • Manage project priorities and allocate internal and external resources. • Facilitate project presentations, status updates, business cases, and ROI analysis as needed. • Implement and drive adoption of SCRUM development methodology.• Execute and monitor internal controls related to financial systems and respond to internal and external audit inquiries. • Coach and mentor team members giving continuous feedback, communicating performance objectives, and providing guidance on opportunities for improvement. • Participate in the recruiting and hiring process at the University of Central Arkansas and at ArcBest.

Fort Smith, Arkansas Area

• Lead architect/developer for rollout and standardization of Microsoft Power BI for the enterprise with a focus on empowering citizen analysts.• Maintained existing legacy BI platforms while considering long term Enterprise BI strategy.• Led and managed multiple, simultaneous projects often involving functional areas, technical areas, internal team members, and/or external onshore/offshore contractors. • Presented demos, enablement sessions, and training to functional and technical audiences to drive adoption of BI platforms. • Determined requirements for data, reporting, analysis, metadata, training, data quality, and performance for the enterprise.• Promoted best practices for data visualization, reporting, and use of BI platforms. • Championed the adoption and application of Data Science/BI to leadership and functional areas. • Mentored and coached junior team members to improve their technical and soft skills.• Maintained and leveraged relationships with third party vendors and consulting firms.• Participated in recruiting at Oklahoma State University and the University of Arkansas. • Active member of the Employee Engagement Committee. • Successful completion of the ArcBest Leadership Series.

Fort Smith, Arkansas Area

• Software Engineer and Business Analyst for an in-house, enterprise-wide business intelligence platform/framework. • Worked closely with functional areas and leadership to understand business problems and requirements. Analyze the requirements and develop custom solutions to meet those challenges.• Provided support for ABTech areas and software developers who utilized and developed for the internal BI framework.• Maintained security model to control access to company sensitive data.• Led and mentored intern team to design and develop a .Net application from the ground up in Summer of 2015.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Analytics

Activities and Societies: Beta Gamma Sigma

Bachelor'S Degree, Information Technology

Activities and Societies: SIFE (Student’s in Free Enterprise), Sigma Alpha Pi