Jim Ferguson Email & Phone Number

Naperville, Il, Us

St. Paul, Mn, Us

• Lead the digital strategy for all Industrial global sales and service applications.• Direct the digital product lifecycle from ideation, business prioritization, design, build and ongoing support.• Business owner for eCommerce portal growing from initial launch to a $1.7B sales channel.

St. Paul, Mn, Us

• Lead the digital marketing strategy for sales & service transformation tools designed to enable performance and productivity for global field teams.• Partner with the technical development teams and change management leadership team ensuring value is identified and captured across a portfolio of digital solutions.• Liaison with strategic partners on digital strategy and solution roadmaps.• Business owner for eCommerce portal. Won the annual Global Marketing Excellence Team Award.

St. Paul, Mn, Us

• Led strategic projects following a structured problem-solving approach applying Lean Six Sigma, project management, statistics, change management and leadership skills.• Directed the establishment of a new B2B eCommerce sales channel based on Salesforce. Won the global Problem Solving Project of the Year Black Belt Type I Savings Award.• Successfully executed the Customer Setup Project, which prior to my leadership, was attempted multiple times over the previous seven years. Reduced cycle times and accelerated invoicing to generate net revenue and cost savings of $4.5 million. Finalist for global Problem Solving Project of the Year Black Belt Type I Savings Award.• Coached Green Belts, Scrum Masters and Project Managers.

St. Paul, Mn, Us

• Directed and developed diverse IT teams including; Microsoft Dynamics Customer Relationship Management (CRM), SharePoint, Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), Research, Development and Engineering Product Lifecycle Management (RD&E PLM) and SAP Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS).• Led the Sales Performance Dashboard Project, which for the first time provided a single location for Field Sales to obtain SAP, CRM, Azure and SharePoint data highlighting their sale performance, service delivery and opportunity pipeline. The project revenue target was $2.3 million. The project was presented at the second annual Microsoft Data Insights Summit. I was nominated for the annual CIO Award for my project leadership.• Led the multi-million dollar, strategic, global project to transform the sales and service-related operations to a cloud-based CRM application. Delivered the project on budget and on time. This was Microsoft’s third largest Online deployment. The project was presented the annual IT Center of Excellence Global Team Award.• Developed and executed a collaboration strategy including the migration to SharePoint Online supporting approximately twenty-seven thousand users.• Liaison with executive leadership and various internal business partners to deliver a portfolio of global and regional projects supporting multiple business units leveraging diverse technologies

Naperville, Illinois, Us

· Managed Global SAP EHS project delivery and support focusing on improved business process efficiency and effectiveness via automation and technology enablement..· Developed an IT EHS Strategic vision and roadmap aligned to company global plans. Executed the completion of numerous regional deployments in Asia Pacific, Middle East, South and Latin America and significant functional enhancements.· Directed IT Supply Chain interim responsibilities for SAP MM, PM, PP, QM, WM and APO functions and IT support of sales and operations planning processes.· Operated annual IT budgets of approximately $1 to $7 million.· Facilitated the governance of a Global IT EHS project portfolio, secured appropriateresources to execute projects, oversaw project delivery, maintained service levels, andmanaged business leader expectations.· Collaborated with IT and business managers to ensure solution scope, investment, andtiming were appropriately balanced to maximize returns while meeting business needs.· Led the successful delivery of a Product Lifecycle Management tag project which provided visibility to Marketing, Sales and Production on the status of a product. The project failed multiple times prior to my project ownership.· Led the first successful SAP to SharePoint integration activity at Nalco

Naperville, Illinois, Us

· SAP global team lead of various regional and global projects with individual projectbudgets of approximately one million US dollars.· Led the first successful SAP North American implementation of Substance VolumeTracking (SVT) to meet compliance requirements for the European REACH, globalinventories, biocide and export control regulations.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

· Delivered consulting and project management services for various clients in thePetrochemical, Utility, and Consumer Products Industries in the area of EHS includingthe SAP components; Product Safety, Dangerous Goods, Global Label Management,Industrial Hygiene and Safety, Hazardous Substance and Waste Management

New York, Ny, Us

· Consulted on production support, system upgrades, security, and short and long termdevelopment projects of SAP EHS and related applications· Global business and IT team lead for EHS and managed various initiatives including the successfulimplementation of SAP EHS DG and GLM modules and a European EHS deployment.

Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, De

· Coordinated North American system deployments in a global project design· Functional team lead supporting and enhancing multiple SAP instances, includingmanaging SAP EHS module and R/3 core upgrades

Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, De

· Managed legacy systems used to satisfy product safety and regulatory reportingrequirements for multiple business groups and affiliate companies and directeddevelopment of Lotus Notes, internet and intranet applications· Led the successful implementation of three SAP EHS instances for Bayer and affiliatecompanies and supported divestitures and acquisitions, including integration teammember for a $2.5 billion business acquisition

Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, De

· Directed product safety for North American Rubber & Fiber Business Group· Developed intranet site for the Product Safety Department

Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, De

· Communicated product hazards and ensured regulatory compliance and assisted with amajor business acquisition and system integration

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

· Designed, developed and administered internet sites for graduate classes and evaluatedhardware and software for potential course and research use

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

· Investigated chemical structure activity relationships with computer modeling

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Ms, Environmental Science And Management

Bs, Biochemistry And Biophysics