David Mclean Email & Phone Number

Midland, Michigan, US

• Working with leading organizations to deliver high value and high impact solutions to address critical business and sustainability challenges. Recent engagements included work with large organizations, non-profits and.
• Digital Transformation
• Sustainability
• Circular Economy
• Innovation
• New Ventures

• Plastic waste entering the environment is a significant global environmental challenge. A major cause is the lack of robust local waste collection systems in emerging geographies. PlastiPoint is a digital solution.
• Significantly reduces plastic entering the environment
• Provides a reliable supply of recycled plastics to recycling organizations
• Provides a means and incentive for consumers to collect plastic
• Generates additional income for local collectors and partners.

Midland, Michigan, US

• IT Director for global Packaging & Specialty Plastics (P&SP). P&SP markets, sells & distributes polyethylene products to a wide variety of markets globally.
• Created digital business roadmap addressing automation, customer needs, employee needs, & business insight needs. Solutions address key supply chain, commercial, collaboration, innovation & sustainability needs.
• Implemented innovative technologies, applications & approaches to significantly improve current business processes.
• Worked with senior leaders to ensure needed organizational & process changes made & targeted value realized.
• IT leader for global merger, acquisition & divestiture activities.
• Worked with global & regional business leaders on sustainability challenges including reducing plastics in the environment. Worked to implement innovative digital sustainability solutions with external partners in.

Midland, Michigan, US

• IT & Strategy Leader for Dow Services Business (DSB).
• DSB provides enterprise services to external customers including IT, Supply Chain, Finance, Procurement, Market & Sales, Customer Service, EH&S, & HR services.
• IT solutions include applications, services, infrastructure & consulting.
• Led DSB business strategy development. Included review of strategic challenges, analysis of business scenarios & options, articulation of new strategy & multi-year implementation plan.
• Provided roadmap for work on services, customers, capabilities, scorecards & financials.
• Led cross functional Dow team to define, market, negotiate, implement DSB services for external customers & joint ventures.

Midland, Michigan, US

• IT Director for global Dow Automotive, Latex, Specialty Chemicals, Dow Wire & Cable businesses.
• Worked with Business Presidents, Finance Directors, Commercial and Supply Chain Leaders to enable their business strategies.
• Led strategic business IT activities including mergers & acquisitions, JVs, due diligence & new market facing capability development. Engaged with strategic Dow customers to address inter-company issues.
• Worked with customers in China, Japan, Europe, Middle East, Latin America and the US.
• Defined, negotiated & implemented business services offerings for major Dow JV in Asia on time & on budget
• Met needs through leveraged Dow IT capabilities provided by Dow, Accenture, IBM and other 3rd parties.

Midland, Michigan, US

• Global Director of Architecture for Dow Chemical. Set direction for enterprise systems & technical architectures. This included strategic application & technology selection. It also included establishing principles.
• Led creation of Dow’s Technical Architecture (TA 3.0). Provided next generation IT architecture for Dow Chemical for next 15+ years. Defined transition to net centric & service-oriented architectures.
• Defined Dow’s Next Enterprise Architecture (NEA) Implementation Program. This was a multi-year program to implement Dow’s new architecture through major new IT investments.
• Led team comprised of Dow Chemical, Accenture, IBM and other 3rd party architects.
• Selected key enterprise application solution versus alternative products and solutions.
• Completed major contract negotiation to secure long term licenses with strategic ERP solution provider.

Midland, Michigan, US

• Dow Lead eBusiness Architect and Co-leader of Dow’s Global IT Architecture Team.
• Defined Dow’s eBusiness Architecture. Worked with industry leading thought leaders to define Dow’s path forward during time of significant technological disruption.
• Led Dow’s engagement with leading industry players (DuPont, BASF, Bayer) in creating chemical industry data standards. These standards are widely used within the global chemical industry today.
• Created and deployed Dow and industry ecommerce capabilities including MyAccount@Dow (Dow’s Customer Portal), eEpoxy.com, Elemica & Omnexus.

Midland, Michigan, US

• Global IT Application Design Leader for Dow Chemical.
• Led Dow Lead Application Architect team in definition & delivery of global IT applications.
• Accountable for enterprise systems in Dow businesses (e.g. Dow Chemical, Dow AgroSciences) & Dow functions (e.g. Supply Chain, Procurement, HR, Finance, EH&S, Manufacturing).

Midland, Michigan, US

• Led Dow global systems development organization (100+ personnel in US, Canada, Europe)
• Provided SAP enterprise solutions supporting Dow global enterprise requirements.
• Defined, configured & built Dow’s Diamond System (using SAP) to meet Dow needs globally.
• Included ordering, pricing, distribution, inventory, planning, MRP, procurement & quality.
• Defined work process improvements with Dow business and functional leaders.
• Solution was implemented within Dow globally.

Executive Education (Management Development Program)

B.Sc., Computer Science

B.E.S., Urban & Regional Planning