Colleen Erickson Email & Phone Number

Attracts, evaluates, and refers qualified professionals for open import/export trade positions

-Established Global Brokerage Strategy creating standards for selecting, onboarding, and managing broker services across Americas, EMEA, APAC, and Greater China.-Led a team of six trade analysts building County of Origin and Free Trade Agreement determination policies and procedures to ensure compliance to customs regulations-Represent Global Trade Operations in multiple cross functional initiatives focusing on supply chain network changes, new product development, and acquisitions.

-Partnered with regional trade stakeholders to understand system gaps and needs to translate into business requirements for SAP GTS system development-Led three successful Global Trade Management System program releases developing software modules to support trade operations and compliance; ensuring value add functionality was delivered on time and within the $6M budget.-Collaborated with IT BA, Engineers, and PMs in all phases of software development lifecycle from requirements gathering, UAT, process development, training, and implementation.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

-Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.-Collaborated with product owners, engineers, developers and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.-Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.

• Facilitated scrum ceremonies; sprint planning, daily stand-up, review/demonstrations, retrospectives, and other Scrum-related meetings• Coached Agile Manifesto and key principles of team collaboration, business value prioritization, and iterative working software development to ensure consistent application of scrum methodologies across the portfolio teams• Nurtured team environment for self-organization, cross functional training, and paired programming, while removing impediments to maintain focus on sprint goal and product backlog• Managed the budget and timeline for multiple transportation projects over $20M to ensure successful implementations• Established relationships and built trust with project development team to help move project through roadblocks and meet agreed upon deliverables

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Facilitated requirement session with business team asking probing questions and challenging status quo to drive decisions based on the right level of detail and translating business needs into detailed project requirements for waterfall project• Responsible for presenting project tollgate for each phase of system development lifecycle to ensure stakeholders are aware of project scope, decisions, risks/issues, finances, and milestones• Managed User Acceptance Test phase by ensuring all requirements are covered in test cases, identifying data and environment needs, creating detailed execution schedule, proactively communicating defects and working with test and design team towards optional resolution

• Worked as Product Owner for multiple technology projects to support Target’s direct import processes and compliance with U.S. Customs• Assisted in gathering , writing and reviewing all documents to support project analysis phase including; business requirements, current & future flows, screen mockups, and functional specification documents• Partnered with business managers and end users to gain support and engagement for new application implementation• Wrote and execute User Test Cases to ensure new software met the agreed requirements

• Led a team of 9 Customs Commodity Specialists responsible for reviewing, classifying and approving all direct import items in accordance to U.S. Customs and Other Government Agency Regulations• Identified need for a proactive process in understanding Anti-Dumping cases. Collaborated with cross functional team to define and implement anti-dumping education• Built and maintained partnerships with Merchandising and Sourcing to identify import considerations and risks; educated and made recommendations for potential duty savings opportunities; including free trade agreements, country of origin, and product category changes

Golden Valley

• Determined transportation routing for all of Honeywell ACS’s international shipments • Successfully decreased transportation spend by 15% for three consecutive years • Reduced supply chain cycle time by 30% on imported product• Ensured import and export shipments were 100% compliant with all government agencies

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Organizational Behavior Studies