Fred Krautkramer Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

As a servant leader I specialize in building high-performing technical teams with a focus on delivering strategic value to the organization. I pride myself in placing great importance on fostering strong relationships with business leaders by engaging and actively listening to their challenges and concerns.Leadership Approach: Centered around Relationships, Vision, Plan, Execution• Listen to business needs.• Collaboratively create a strategic vision to achieve business objectives.• Develop a clear plan.• Accountable execution to turn that vision into reality.Target Audience: Small to Mid-sized organizations seeking to align IT with Business goals.• Companies in need of a strategic roadmap, technology leadership, and/or high-performing IT teams.• Businesses looking for IT leadership during periods of transition, growth, or restructuring.Expert in: Vision, Planning & Execution• Establish a clear vision for the organization’s technology future.• Develop a practical, phased plan to implement necessary technology changes.• Execute IT transformation initiatives with measurable milestones, ensuring timely delivery and ROI.Value: Bridging Business & IT• Develop comprehensive strategies and plans that align business objectives with IT capabilities.• Create actionable IT roadmaps designed to drive growth, efficiency, and innovation.• Facilitate cross-departmental collaboration to ensure technology solutions meet business needs.Passion: Building High-Performing IT Teams• Recruit, mentor, and develop IT teams that excel in innovation and execution.• Implement effective team structures, DevOps workflows and optimize performance.• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and leadership within IT departments.

Maple Grove, Mn, Us

Member of the Executive Team. Led the collective IT department including a cross-functional team of director-level technology professionals. Direct ownership responsibility of forty-four systems and indirect responsibility of another sixty-two systems, including all integrations between systems. Oversight of information technology business analysts, data architects, infrastructure engineers, cybersecurity engineers, computer systems validation specialists, and service desk.▪ Saved $3.4 million in annual OPEX in 2023 while increasing agility, optimizing technology footprint, and reducing company costs.▪ Reduced waste, decreased OPEX 23% over three years (2020-2022) as a thought leader through purchased services, maintenance contracts, expensed software, labor, and end-to-end system improvements.▪ Streamlined operations by delivering a single-source-of-truth data architecture with structured data sets, enabling high-quality analytics through Power BI, integrating multiple internal and external data sources.

Maple Grove, Mn, Us

Responsible for Information Technology Business Platforms including SAP ECC, Vistex, Veeva Document Management and Quality Management System, and other line-of-business applications.Accountable for system integrations, business process alignment, system performance, technical support, data integrity, and associated documentation required to maintain systems in their validated state.Lead and mentor team of diverse information technology professionals and ensure alignment with company goals, values and strategic direction.Plan and enable new technical capabilities that align with Corporate business initiatives.▪ Owner of company’s business platforms including enterprise-wide ERP application systems and all other line-of-business applications ensuring technical vision and overall strategy align with organizational goals while effectively communicating achievements to the executive team and the broader organization.▪ Created IT strategies that ensured alignment with company goals, identified opportunities for technological advancements that enhanced operational efficiency and provided a competitive advantage.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Managed Global Deliver process team.Responsibilities spanned Global Distribution and Transportation.▪ Reduced annual $650M freight costs by 3% or $20M.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Managed Enterprise Inventory Optimization team. Led and delivered a complex system, enabling an enterprise-wide process that managed, monitored and optimized inventory stocking levels for every finished product and raw material component at each stocking location throughout a global supply chain network.▪ Reduced safety stock levels for every finished product and raw material at each stocking location throughout global supply chain by $52.6M exceeding $43.3M target, leveraging SAP and Oracle Enterprise Inventory Optimization System.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Provided technical assistance in identifying, evaluating, and developing systems and procedures that were cost effective and met user requirements. Accountable for all project life cycle phases.

Dublin, County Dublin, Ie

Served on Perrigo Minnesota's Leadership team.Ensured computer system GxP compliance with Title 21 CFR, Part 11 and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.• Led global SAP enterprise applications team throughout North America, China, India, Israel, Mexico, and the UK.• Steered Paddock Laboratories team through the M&A transition process.

Us

Initiated and led ongoing five year strategic planning sessions with IT leaders and Executive Management.Led SAP Enterprise Applications team through 3-year rapid growth turn-around initiative, enabled +70% year over year growth.Ensured computer system GxP compliance with Title 21 CFR, Part 11.

Hopkins, Mn, Us

Managed SAP Applications Team, responsible for Supply Chain Planning & Logistics, and PMO.

Hopkins, Mn, Us

Project Lead and Technical Architect - SCM APO project

Hopkins, Mn, Us

SAP MM, PP, APO (DP, SNP), BW, Project Management

Hopkins, Mn, Us

Supervised retail and food service product operations