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St. Paul, Mn, Us

Ecolab (NYSE:ECL) is a global sustainability leader offering water, hygiene and infection prevention solutions with annual revenues of $15 billion and a market cap of $70 billion. Ecolab has a presence in approximately 170 countries and operates with nearly 3 million customer locations while employing over 46,000 associates worldwide.At Ecolab my role is to lead the Enterprise Architecture and Integration capabilities, managing a team of 30 executive Enterprise Architects, 68 integration leaders and a similar scale of integration contractors, creating a broader community and competency for our architects worldwide.

Founder of the largest community for chief architect executive thought leaders globally with 300+ members at ~225 Fortune 500 scale companies. The Chief Architect Network is a 501(C)(6) non-profit professional organization for Chief Architect peers offering its members a vendor neutral and no cost network to widen our perspectives, share best practices, grow as leaders and develop our talent to enhance our ability to drive outcomes in our roles.Achievements:• Running virtual events globally and in-person events in the US and Europe to connect heads of architecture.• Sponsoring topic-based groups that facilitate sharing aligned with our member’s top priorities and interests.• Operating 12 local city communities in the US and Europe creating 100+ in person connections in 6 months.• Running live broadcast shows on YouTube and LinkedIn, also contributing to Magazine articles.• Founding Board Member, Women in Architecture, increasing the representation of women in architecture.• Earned recognition via inclusion in CDO Magazine’s Champions of Data in the Midwest 2024 List.• Thought leading speaker for this forum, Generis American CIO, nvisia Tech Showcase, CIO Institute, CDO Magazine, Connected Worker, Quartz Smart Mfg, CypherCon, C Vision Intl CISO Think Tank and Camp IT.

Vernon Hills, Illinois, Us

Advising and sharing thought leadership with the CEO on their portfolio of businesses including pinochle.ai.

Deerfield, Il, Us

Walgreens Boots Alliance is a large global retail pharmacy and wholesale drugstore chain, with revenues of $139 billion and significant presence in the U.S., Europe, China, and Latin America, operating approximately 13,000 stores and employing over 325,000 individuals worldwide.Performing a maturity assessment and providing foundational leadership to assist a new CIO in aligning the architecture function as an independent consultant.Achievements:• Delivered an assessment and maturity plan to align the Enterprise Architecture function to current needs.• Engaged the CIO’s team to direct EA assets, create harmonized process and to prioritize technical debts.• Establishing a federated architecture leadership team and building community to drive the EA program.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Danaher is a $185 billion market cap life sciences and diagnostics company, with 65,000 associates globally.Partnered globally with CIOs and architects to create new Enterprise Architecture and Artificial Intelligence capabilities at corporate, creating synergies across acquired businesses and increasing M&A agility.Achievements:• Created a global practice of ~200 architects across operating companies to drive common objectives.• Led the adoption of Artificial Intelligence with dual accountability into the Chief Scientific and Information Officers collaborating across IT & R&D to: develop governance, guardrails and policy, deploy enterprise AI solutions/copilots, identify trends and to mitigate AI’s risks and threat vectors.• Supported collaboration across the IT M&A for Abcam’s $5.7B acquisition and Veralto’s $20B spin out. • Drove strategy development, technology incubation, application portfolio management, technology standards and governance processes, identifying opportunities for modernization and transformation.• Deployed portfolio management and a governance framework to reinforce the sharing of IT capabilities.• Partnered with CIOs to create a Danaher-wide community of architects and a culture of best practice sharing.

Deerfield, Il, Us

Walgreens Boots Alliance is a large global retail pharmacy and wholesale drugstore chain, with revenues of $139 billion and significant presence in the U.S., Europe, China, and Latin America, operating approximately 13,000 stores and employing over 325,000 individuals worldwide.Directed technology decisions and developed Enterprise Architecture capabilities, managing a team of 36 executive Enterprise Architects along with a broader community of over 150 architects worldwide.Achievements:• Oversaw transformation program’s business and technology outcomes including digitization, data/analytics, cloud, IT platforms, modernization, acquisitions and divestitures at Fortune 18 scale.• Led IT’s diligence for acquisitions that were featured in quarterly earnings calls.• Integrated architecture governance, communities, patterns and standards management across divisions.• Embedded, engaged and developed architecture leaders and thinking across and within the CIO’s staff.• Worked with executives across functions to deploy a business architecture and strategy practice that aligned strategy with execution, earning engagements in Walgreen’s Health and Boot’s executive strategy plans.• Spearheaded data and cloud architecture modernization challenges across IT teams and external partners.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Medtronic is a leading global healthcare solutions company, headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, that specializes in medical technology, services, and solutions, generating annual revenue of approximately $31.23 billion in 2023.Served the CIO’s leadership by aligning the global architecture function with regional, business and functional needs, building a global team of 23 executive-level, Strategists, Enterprise Architects, a federated organization of 45 Business & Technical Architects and a community of 100+ contributing subject matter experts.Achievements:• Drove the CIO's architecture modernization mandate by localizing business and IT strategies and identifying capability-centric enterprise IT investments and roadmaps to achieve differentiation.• Curated a shared vision and oversaw the creation of a $120M Digital Information Core with common ingestion, curation, analytics, and consumption of information with APIs and a common 90TB data integration hub which generated $20M in annual operational savings at Medtronic.• Oversaw the translation of business imperatives into people, process, information and technology roadmaps across transformation, digitization, cloud, go to market, acquisition and divestiture programs.• Guided the architecture for high impact IT investments and the architecture job family across Global IT.• Created four global communities of practice for Business, Information, Technical and Security Architecture.• Published a 2020 Medtronic/Gartner research case study Interconnected Business Capability Mapping.• Certified Internal Executive Coach for Medtronic’s high potential executive business leaders globally.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Grew a team of 12 into a federated team of 22 direct and 20 indirect architects, deploying the global operating model and communities for Business, Information, Technical and Security Architecture.• Introduced Global and Regional Architecture Review Boards (ARBs) with gated deliverables to move from pre-production reviews to proactive design engagements, solution governance and standards management.• Retired 52% of the 541 applications in Medtronic’s SAP ecosystem with Covidien integration programs by harmonizing Finance, Order-to-Cash, Supply Chain, Customer Service, Service & Repair processes.• Built investment roadmaps that supported an IT strategy refresh for two +8B businesses and a global Go-To-Market transformation by sponsoring the creation of an outcome-centric business architecture practice.• Sponsored strategy work streams aligning business and IT strategy for Hospital Solutions, Value Based Healthcare, Enterprise Information Management, Internet of Things, Cloud, Security & Artificial Intelligence.• Launched an architecture job family across Global IT with HR-aligned competencies and promotion reviews.• Created Community of Practice events to evangelize and train the extended community on architecture.• Oversaw architecture programs for achieving investment synergies across acquisitions and divestitures.

Mooresville, Nc, Us

Lowe's Companies Inc (Lowe's) is a retailer of home improvement products, headquartered in Mooresville, NC generating annual revenue of $86.38 billion in 2023 with approximately 300,000 associates.Led a team of five direct reports and a federated community of architects to create, deploy, and manage the EA Function’s governance, communications, content management, and toolsAchievements:• Re-chartered EA Governance by restructuring the Architecture Review Board (ARB) to move from pre-production reviews to proactive governance for Lowe’s $1 billion annual IT spend.• Developed an Application & Technology Portfolio Management (APM/TPM) capability with a team of 40. • Matured application and technology portfolio management to establish the target landscapes, roadmaps, standards and embedded technical failure risk reduction investments into IT’s annual planning processes.• Deployed controls with Sourcing, PMO, and Agile Engineering teams to integrate with architecture reviews.• Created an EA Forum sharing critical technology decisions for 100s of IT and business leaders in attendance.• Facilitated the ARB, overseeing its intake, operations, processes, escalations and communications.• Led Solution Architecture for the $300 million annual portfolios for Sales, Distribution and Transportation.

Mooresville, Nc, Us

Led a team of three project managers and external consultants to develop and deliver the organizational model for a new CIO and his leadership team, impacting a population of over 1,000 employees and 2,000 contractors. • Leveraged a matrix of HR departments and an external organizational design firm to lead the program to restructure the IT organization design, job families, and to provide change management, to deploy a new organizational structure and recruit 200+ employees over 6 months.

Mooresville, Nc, Us

Deployed IBM Connections for 230,000+ employees, which became the world’s second largest instance of the software. Managed a department of 16 direct reports (6 employees, 10 contractors) with 12 matrixed resources.• Executed the enterprise IT Collaboration Project Portfolio encompassing $9 million in annual spend.• Developed a target state architecture Enterprise Portal, Collaboration, and Content Management solutions.• Supported 100,000 unique monthly visits on Connections and managed WebSphere Portal, and SharePoint.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

General Mills, Inc. is a producer of packaged consumer foods, headquartered in Minneapolis, MN generating annual revenue of $20.09 billion in 2023 with approximately 34,000 associates.Grew a domestic SharePoint CoE of 8 into a global team of 18 employees (12 domestic, 6 in India).Achievements: •Established a CEO-endorsed enterprise social business platform with SharePoint & NewsGator for global use. •Devised the platform strategy, target architecture, and roadmap with business teams while influencing the vendor’s product plans through Technology Adoption Programs and videos featured on Microsoft.com.•Implemented collaboration platform governance with stage gated code reviews, standards and policies.•Reviewed company-wide architectures as a member of the IT Application Architecture Review Board.•Sponsored a monthly SharePoint Users Group for sharing power-user best practices and platform team updates.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Managed a team to create a portfolio management solution for engineering’s $500 million annual capital spend with Microsoft and SAP product integrations.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Led a cross-divisional IT project team of 50 to design, build and deploy a digital B2C solution to create, sell, produce and ship customized Fruit Rollup products integrated with enterprise SAP and manufacturing systems. •Managed 30 brand-specific websites with hands on .net development and active resource management.•Developed a department pipeline tool to plan resources, track deployments, and publish stakeholder status.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

•Created the solution architecture and managed the IT implementation project to integrate plant floor and distribution center systems with RFID devices to provide case and pallet tagging to meet a customer mandate.•Invented real-time production dashboards by integrating Flash and SharePoint with plant floor systems.•Supported and enhanced manufacturing batch systems and case labeling.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

•Led two contractors to provide development leadership and release management of the .net workflow application used to manage packaging globally.

Stanford, Ca, Us

Co-invented Simbryo, an e-learning animation product for the development of a fetus •Published 2003-2011 internationally in 5 languages as a CD bundled with the #1 selling embryology course book "Langman's Medical Embryology" 9th - 12th editions, by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. •Product development was co-sponsored by the Embryology and SUMMIT e-learning departments at Standford University

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Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science