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Maple Grove, MN, US

Marlborough, MA, US

Minneapolis, MN, US

Served as lead Business Solution Architect focused on supply chain and operations. Integral to initiatives in financial forecasting, demand planning, supply planning, transportation management, and manufacturing. Defined and documented business capabilities, processes, data flows, and solution integrations. Spearheaded initiatives, overseeing integration.

Fort Mill, SC, US

Played critical role in organization’s digital transformation initiative, providing essential analysis of business needs, strategies, and technological context, and guiding the development of solutions. Led development of business architecture model for industry platform, facilitating prioritization and planning of work and creation of end-to-end product.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

Employed capability-based planning approach to analyze existing processes and tools, identifying improvements needed for target state delivery of each capability. Collaborated with enterprise and solution architects to validate and analyze affected capabilities, identify interdependencies, and develop roadmaps reflecting both business priorities and system.

Minneapolis, MN, US

Conducted enterprise-wide assessment of business needs for development and implementation of new private healthcare exchange. Delivered comprehensive assessment, identifying all applicable use cases, defining necessary business and IT capabilities, and providing prioritization matrix of system features. Analyzed potential impact on existing systems and.

Minneapolis, MN, US

Led development of two large and complex projects, addressing intractable case issues and enabling clients to meet regulatory requirements for tracking and reporting customer complaints. Re-engineered project requirements, rescuing troubled project and accelerating schedule for successful release. Engineered creation of system development framework.

Sacramento, California, US

Established a BA practice at a large governmental insurance agency. Conducted baseline assessment of BA’s skills and current methods. Developed and delivered personalized curriculum of BA training to 12 BAs, their supervisors, and some PMs. Developed and implemented BA processes and policies to standardize and govern requirements activities. Mentored BAs.

Toronto, ON, CA

Rochester, MN, US

Develop and deliver business analysis curriculum for Mayo Clinic Business Analysts. Lead the development of 16-hour modules for each of the following knowledge areas: i) Enterprise Analysis, ii) Elicitation, iii) Requirements Analysis, and iv) Solution Assessment & Validation. Also led development and delivery of CBAP Prep course.

Dallas, TX, US

Led development of a business analysis practice and its incorporation into a project management office (PMO) framework. Worked with executives and business analysis stakeholders to identify business analysis tasks, techniques, and methods that the client needed to adapt. Developed a model of the BA practice components so that the client was better.

US

Lead consultant for an enterprise-wide business process management (BPM) program. Developed a process modeling framework for the client that utilized the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) standard. Mentored both analysts and the client on how to properly use BPMN modeling best practices. Facilitated process modeling workshops. Developed enterprise.

Maple Grove, MN, US

Led development of a business architecture knowledge base. Elicited and documented high-level business capability maps, business process diagrams, and a model for the organizational strategies and goals. Conducted pre-project feasibility assessments for an automated time and attendance solution and an enterprise email archive application. Assessments.

Little Rock, Arkansas, US

Lead requirements development for a multi-million dollar program at a Regional Transmission Organization. Mentor a team of seven Business Analysts and assist in the establishment of a new requirements practice.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

Brought in as a requirements expert for projects involving Smart Grid (smart meters, home area network [HAN], demand response, time of use pricing), Customer Portal, Vegetation Management, Geospatial Technology (ESRI, GE SmallWorld, SpidaCalc), Digital Forms (RoverINK), Business Process Management (analysis, modeling, and implementation).

Reading, MA, US

US

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

US

Munich, DE

Mba, Finance

Graduate Certificate, Enterprise Architecture And Business Architecture

Ba, Political Science