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 start-ups. Areas of expertise:• Digital Transformation• Sustainability• Circular Economy• Innovation• New Ventures• Business Development• Coaching

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 aimed at substantively improving plastic collection rates and reducing plastic leakage in local communities. Together with community recycling partners, PlastiPoint connects consumers, collectors, aggregators and recyclers to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of local plastic collection networks. PlastiPoint provides a community based recycling platform that:• 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 Africa, Asia & Latin America.• Worked with regional groups to implement innovative digital solutions to address key Great Lakes sustainability issues.

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.• Negotiated large scale Dow IT & business services agreements with customers. Included proposal creation & delivery, negotiation of services contracts, terms, conditions & pricing. • Worked to implement next generation ERP & IT systems with key DSB customers • Led negotiations and engagements with customers included Saudi Aramco; Sadara Chemical (Saudi Arabia); MEGlobal (UAE); PIC (Kuwait), Shenhua Group (China), SCG (Thailand), ExxonMobil (USA), CPChemical (USA), Americas Styrenics (USA), Trinseo Corporation (USA). • Successfully negotiated multiple multi-year service agreements valued in excess of $500MM.

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, models, standards & product selection for IT technical domains (user interface, integration, operating platforms, development, data, service management & security).• 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.• Defined & implemented global IT computing standards. • Defined sustainable computing architecture processes at Dow.

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