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Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Responsible for global change and release management for enterprise SAP platform (DevOps and delivery), in alignment with Rockwell agile\sprint cadence.Coordinate compliance for Risk & Controls audit work streams. Manage SAP continuous improvement work streams in alignment with Rockwell capability teams and platform resource providers. Focal points include release and QA automation.Manage decommissioning program and team, in alignment with technical debt reduction goals.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Responsible for Global Sales and Marketing, Customer Care technology portfolio health and demand management. Manage technology and business capability road map alignment. Performed enterprise planning for GDPR (Global Data Protection Regulation) initiative, per compliance with EU mandates. Served as privacy liaison for Global Sales and Marketing. Agile scrum master for multiple capability teams including Digital Transformation, and Enterprise Data.

Milwaukee

For a global developer of industrial automation solutions, led requirements and change management, quality assurance. Managed technology portfolio management to support strategic web-based Marketing initiatives. For a multi-phase, multi-million dollar program with Rockwell’s Web Customer Experience Program:- Facilitated acquisition and deployment of web content management system (WCMS). - Managed business analysis process for redesign of the Allen‐Bradley and Rockwell Automation corporate web sites. Gather and manage requirements from business process owners and teams. Manage quality assurance for deployment of new SharePoint work spaces and corporate web sites.- Manage relationships with vendor partners for WCMS platform hosting and support, content migration, and information development services. Manage process for Help Desk continuous improvement. - Manage quality assurance and release efforts for Digital Marketing development deployments.- Lead team use of SharePoint 2010 platform for project collaboration, knowledge and content management. Fulfill curator role for multiple user groups. - Partner with IT and Marketing project managers to align with Project Management Office (PMO) framework and practices.- Planned and performed enterprise analysis of corporate knowledge and content management practices. Delivered findings to IT leadership for strategic Enterprise Content Management planning. - Fulfill mentoring role for corporate Leadership Development Program (LDP). Partner with LDP candidates to fulfill project objectives.- Planned and coordinated asset migration and user onboarding for release of Savo marketing automation platform. Planned and developed associated business case for corporate funding.- Performed QA and requirements management for Microsoft Dynamics CRM initiatives.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Provided business analysis, project management, training development, user\application support, content and collaboration management for Compuware clients.Key projects:- For Edgenet, a developer of product data and digital asset management software, planned and implemented a user support framework for a global platform release. Established a SharePoint site for project document management and user resources. - For R.W. Baird, a financial services provider, performed requirements management, change management, use case and test case development, gap and process analyses.- For Northwestern Mutual, a provider of insurance and investment services, performed project management and business analysis, user interface design and testing in association with the deployment of a HR\Payroll platform.- For a G.E. Health Care, developed requirements, performed process improvement and analysis for field support knowledge databases. Performed use case validation, usability and functional testing for a global release. - For Johnson Controls, a provider of building automation solutions, developed training and product support resources in association with the release of a internal project management tool sets.- For Costco, a national retailer, developed training and support resources in association with a PeopleSoft upgrade.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Led Compuware consultant teams with focus on planning and delivering solutions and services for clients engaged in training, content management, and enterprise application releases. Provided mentoring and career planning for consultant teams, focusing on business analysts and technical communications staff.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Account manager at Compuware, responsible for customer engagement, delivery management, and consultant placement at Fortune 100 and 500 clients in Southeast Wisconsin.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Developed product literature, technical documentation. Composed and produce music for film, video, and multimedia. Provided contract journalism for area regional news media, including The Business Journal, Community Newspapers Inc., and Trade Press Publications. Produced "Milwaukee's Talking Real Estate" talk show on Radio 1130 WISN in Milwaukee, WI. Developed media campaigns.

Ma, Professional Communication

Activities and Societies: Focus on content and knowledge management, business communication.- Content and Knowledge Management, Business.

Ba, Communications, Business

Activities and Societies: Reporter - Campus Newspaper, 1981-1982 Editor - Campus newspaper, 1982-1984- B.A in Communication. - Editor.

Project Management Professional (Pmp) Certification, Project Management