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Jewell, Kansas

Managing personal business ventures, advancing interests and skills in data analysis (structures, ETL, BI, mining and machine learning) with financial, historical and agricultural data. Studying Tensor Flow and R to augment SAS and SPSS training and experience.

Beloit Kansas

Support, stabilize and grow IT at plant for global ($10B) ag equipment manufacturer. Responsible for all systems and staff, 2014 upgrade Infor ERP JBA to Aurora. Upgrading systems, software and security to current standards for security and stability. Implement Nutech ViewPoint bar code integrated to ERP.

Baxter Springs, KS

• Responsible for architecting change transforming processes, corporate projects and corporate Intellectual Property management at $100m manufacturing company transitioning from regional to global.
• Analyzing and converted existing paper processes to electronic form reducing change process from 4 months to 4 days
• Created corporate project portfolio to prioritize and optimize resources and delivery for ROI.
• Set up Corporate SharePoint to support global collaboration and platform for automated processes.
• Created structure to claim, manage and defend patents.

Miami, OK

• IT Project Mgr. for Blitz, a $100m lean manufacturer using Microsoft Great Plains integrated to Accellos Radio Beacon Warehouse with virtual servers. Manage project portfolio, implement MS BI, Dynamics CRM, IT.
• Wrote IT Governance to best practices, framework and business continuity (disaster preparedness).
• Managed project portfolio aligned to corporate strategic initiatives and best practices.
• Developed the corporation’s first accurate multi-level Bill of Materials Cost report.
• Software Lead on Empower Time & Attendance implementation/integration to Great Plains.
• Sales forecasting, inventory management and machine sensor data mining for cause & effect.

• Responsible for ‘vision’ (future technologies), group Quality Control, and point of contact with distributed teams to discover and coordinate opportunities. Department of Defense Net-Centric architecture (SOA); Web 2.0.
• Wrote studies used to roadmap future development directions
• SharePoint administration, Rational Concert (project management), 6 Sigma training
• Developed the first comprehensive high level disaster recovery plan for the business unit.

• Joined to learn Agile, DoD and Open Source; led $2 million/year Service-Oriented Architecture development project, in a Capability Maturity Matrix Index (CMMI) initiative, to create innovative SOA (‘cloud’) tools for.
• Agile (SCRUM), test driven development (w/CI), risk management, in sprints
• Open Source Software community membership to leverage adoption.

IT business relationship management; determined high-level business requirements; brokered solution alternatives, options and priorities with senior business leaders to propel business objectives. Collaborated with Project Management Office (PMO) on Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process improvements to improve efficiencies.

Performed a multifunctional leadership role emphasizing business analysis, build vs. buy, consensus building, funding and change management in support of eCommerce projects for IBP, a global $16 billion company. Coordinated EDI requirements in addition to Internet, Extranet and Intranet development. Facilitated cross-team coordination to complete projects.

Masters, Information Systems

Masters Information Systems

Bs, Business Administration

Bachelors Business Administration with IT Emphasis

Psychology

Graduated, High School