Dana Baker Email & Phone Number

San Jose, Ca, Us

I'm a consultant on the new People Growth's Skills Team. I supporting Cisco in the transformation to a Skills Based Organization (SBO).

San Jose, Ca, Us

-Degreed (LXP) Enablement Lead- Ensuring Cisconians resources for self-paced learning curriculum development to self-service pathway and plan creation on Degreed. -Strategic partner advisor to the Learning Professionals across the company on design, development, implementation, and reporting.-Vendor Management- Lead a group of six contractors from Zensar for learning support and applications. Recently transitioned business support and the Learning Professional Training program.-Managing team projects across peers and vendors to efficiently get projects completed to enable the Degreed platform and adoption across Cisco, leveraging Asana, Microsoft Office 365 and Monday.com as Project Management tools.-Cisco Illuminate learning content coordinator and learning reporting advisor.

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After leading the program enablement as a team of one, I now get to expand to a true enablement role, leading the central, global curation efforts for Cisco on Degreed. My goal is to help our business leverage Degreed LXP capabilities to further their business objectives, through upskilling efforts.-Enabling Cisconians to create learning curriculum on Degreed to track completions and further business objectives, through upskilling efforts by education of the platform and expert opinion on design to help achieve the desired outcomes.-Led two Global curators, through the follow-the-sun model, including process improvement projects. The most impactful being the automating of the Learning Professional Training program.-Streamlining Degreed business support from email to Service Now with a vendor assisted approach.-Management of employees, including career goal setting and mentoring on learning design.

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-Skills Pilot in Degreed- 2020-2021: Led four pilots within different functions. The audience was either laid off employees who are leveraging their profile to search for new roles via their Degreed Skills Profile or with business functions who want to identify the current skills of their employees. Advisor setting skill-based development goals and learning curriculum for skill gaps and change management. -Degreed Administrative tasks: Training L&D professionals on Degreed support, manage the vendors who maintain Degreed support and platform governance creation and enforcement, including maintenance of the platform.

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-Lead the Degreed Pilot, include platform education, vendor management, learning curriculum consulting and general product management tasks for 10,000 users, across 15 use cases.-Successfully launching Cisco’s first Learning Experience Platform (LXP), Degreed, consolidating the learning platform resources in one location in October 2018. Success factor for deployment was the cross-functional L&D partnerships. -3rd-party platform vendor management with Degreed, leading weekly calls, advocating for Cisco’s desired changes within the platform.-Reporting and Metrics- Create design requirements for Degreed data and manage stakeholder access and education. -Relationship management with the Learning IT, ensuring technical project execution.

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I am part of the Leadership and Team Intelligence Organization. Current Projects:Cross-Functional Design Thinking Workshop Experimental Lead-Pioneering a program across Cisco HR, solving the biggest problems through a cross-functional director-level team, in a three-month Design Thinking process, including two-monthly sessions that plan for an in-person quarterly session to drive problem solving, through innovation. Next-generation Experimental LearningI pioneered the learning and development for early in career employees at a corporate level for Cisco. My work includes exploring next generation learning techniques, with an emphasis on how millennials learn and consume information. My focus is not only to identify how millennials learn best, but also what they want and need to learn. My scope is cross-functional and designed to supplementary to function specific learning. It also includes suggestions for industry relevant.

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Strategy and Planning for the Office of the CEO under Ruba Borno- VP Growth Initiatives and Chief of Staff to the CEO.-Competitive analysis to refine Cisco’s technology strategy and business architecture, including potential growth areas for Cisco and the similar companies to increase earnings per share (EPS) multiple.-Creating role charters for the C-suite Executive Leadership Team and their sub-committees. -Executive Onboarding Guide to educate new Cisco Executives quickly on company history, present strategy and leadership decisions and a full summary of Cisco’s products families. Facilitated 20 stretch assignment projects in 6 weeks to crowd-source Cisco product knowledge for the guide.-Organize annual and quarterly strategic and business planning meetings for Cisco at large.-Pre-read summary analysis, given to the CEO and C-suite executives on how each business area is performing and measuring up to previous plans and strategies. -Post-event summary analysis, given to the CEO and C-suite executives, including business entity action item management and follow-through.

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Talent StrategyI am currently developing and implementing a Talent Strategy for my organization of 300 people. This includes mapping the ideal state according to the strategic plan and the individual regular and vendor employees. Employee demand and current and expected utilization of the employees have also been factored into setting up the organization readiness.New Business Model AnalysisI have collected and analyzed all 342 the Business Intelligence Apps across Cisco and after validation, took 232 applications and compared them individually to 56 New Business Model applications that have been identified by Cisco’s executives to be critical areas that a new business model brought into Cisco could effect. This is an ongoing effort that will help Cisco’s Transformation Center of Excellence better prepare and remedy possible problems that adapting a new business model can bring to critical applications at Cisco. Operating Model RedesignI recreated GBS BI’s Operating Model. I used a change management approach to do this and communicated it out to the team in live sessions. This effort started off as a stretch assignment that my Senior Director assigned me due to my ability to influence changes from the bottom up.

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Internal Rotation Program1. BI Reporting- I gathered requirements from stakeholders in the Large Scale Services program in Cisco’s Supply Chain, developed SQL reports, created the SAP Business Objects as the front end and then supported the reports. 2. Business Operations rotation managed the programs around employee experience for my organization. I lead programs that affected 200 people, including an internal training program. I was the Rewards and Recognition global project lead. I helped develop a Project Management Office (PMO) for our team for both regular and contingent workers, mapping individual project efforts to team and organizational goals. 3. Customer Relationship Manager supporting IT, Marketing and Supply Chain stakeholders. I am the front line person for my team to these various business units for projects they have for business intelligence needs. This includes solutions in business intelligence applications, dashboards, data marts, data visualizations, and reports.

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Worked as an IT project manager on a Supply Chain project with a team that saved $5 million. In a 6 week timeline, I facilitated the adding of a few key dates to a report in the Large Scale Services program in Cisco’s Supply Chain. This allowed better tracking of the scope and identified on which end the scope was pushed out on. Better analysis is now easier to do to accurately determine a scope from the start.

Bachelor Of Science, Business Administration, Information Systems

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), International Business

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