Ian Colwell Email & Phone Number

Springdale, Ar, Us

Responsible for engagement & support across the CFO / CSO organization & the development of Finance Operations Team Members. Primary area's of support included data analysis, visualization, program management office, change management & strategy creation.- Enterprise Transformation: Drives engagement across 11 Enterprise Transformation Workstreams spanning Tyson's primary business segments & shared service functions. Defined initial list of enterprise KPI measurements, owners & locations of current reporting. Owns monthly read out of Workstream status, KPI performance & key outcome delivery to Executive Leadership Team.- Anaplan FP&A: Program Management Office (PMO) for the Anaplan FP&A initiative. This program involves harmonizing the financial planning process across the primary business segments of Tyson Foods, reducing reliance on manual data generation & processing, while implementing consistent & modernized tooling. Primary focuses include ensuring new tooling meets the current & future needs of each's segments differing business & user goals, removing blockers impeding forward progress of the delivery teams, defining concise yet meaningful & accurate program status to the executive leadership of the Finance organization.- Enterprise Transformation - Spend Transparency: Program Management Office (PMO) for the Enterprise Transformation - Spend Transparency initiative. This program aims to provide new levels of visibility to SG&A spend across Tyson's primary business segments & shared service organizations. Primary focuses include ensuring new visualizations meet the goals of executive Tyson Foods leadership to enable new levels of spend management, removing blockers impeding forward progress of the delivery teams & defining concise yet meaningful & accurate program status to the executive leadership of the Finance organization.

Springdale, Ar, Us

Responsible for engagement & support across the CFO / CSO organization & the development of Finance Operations Team Members. Primary area's of support included data analysis, visualization & program management office.- The REVolution Framework: With support of key stakeholders in the Finance Organization, architected & successfully rolled out REVolution, a 'one stop shop' of status & value to every major initiative being led by or impacting Finance organization Team Members. This information allows members of Tyson Foods Finance leadership to quickly assess impact to changes of priority, forecasts of expected delivery of major initiatives & easily understand impacts to their Team Members capacity.- Establishing Product Management as a component of software delivery: In partnership with Tyson Foods software engineering leadership, established high level scoping, role description & training framework for newly implemented Product Manager role. This was a key change for Tyson Foods shift from Waterfall style software delivery towards more Agile & Scrum delivery methodologies.- Standardization of Tooling: Through partnership with members of the Procurement & Enterprise Program Management Organizations (EPMO), successfully sunsetted a duplicative savings tracking software in favor of aligning to the EPMO standard. This centralization resulted in the removal of additional development resourcing & reduced manual double entry / reporting of savings data.

Springdale, Ar, Us

Responsible for engagement & support across the CFO / CSO organization. Primary area's of support included data analysis, visualization, program management office, change management & strategy creation.- Gender Diversity KPI Alliance: Partnered with leaders of the Human Resources organization to set a baseline & automated ongoing measurement for Tyson Foods performance against key measures identified by the Gender Diversity KPI Alliance. Visualizations successfully delivered to CFO & Vice President of Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) with this information being utilized as part of Tyson Foods DE&I strategy.- Commodity Purchasing Group Process Mapping: In collaboration between the Commodity Purchase Group (CPG), Finance control teams & IT software delivery, mapped the process, data & persona flows of key CPG purchasing tooling. This mapping allowed for increased visibility to manual process & manually edited data opportunities to prioritize further automated solutions & reduce risk associated to commodity trading.- Procurement Cost Savings Program Management: Program Management Office support for the Procurement organization & a major savings initiative focused on pallet optimization. Documented process flows, established partnerships with necessary stakeholders & drove implementation of cost savings projects across the Tyson Foods production & distribution network.- Finance Transformation: Replaced manually generated status reporting & a bi-weekly call with 60+ participants with near real time centrally located dashboarding. Restructured bi-weekly call to reduce meeting time of senior Finance organization leaders to a as-necessary 15 minute bi-weekly review of key actions necessary to unblock any of the 100+ initiatives included in the overall transformation.

Lowell, Ar, Us

Responsible for the delivery of two product spaces across J.B. Hunt, including the 360 Accounts team, Platform teams, and the success of their 40+ team members.- Created data visualizations in PowerBI which allowed visibility to slow processes. When corrected, reduced Mean Time to Resolution 13% of support requests month over month since October 2018- Continued implementation of formal mentorship aligning mentors and mentees with the goals of the mentee.- Driving creation of a new hiring tool with J.B. Hunt to reduce cycle time for candidates. Additional focus on allowing for data gathering to help identify best candidates, institutions and predictors of success.

Lowell, Ar, Us

Responsible for the delivery of the Accounts & Locations (A&L) application and the success of it’s seven team members.- Drove adoption of Agile within J.B. Hunt.- Led migration of A&L webservices to Kubernetes.- Introduced real time Power BI analytics dashboards for tracking of support KPI’s. Drove positive behaviors from this analysis.- Created Shield Support Team to allow dedicated response to support issues, while ensuring remaining team could prioritize new development.- Led uplift to Angular 7, Elastic Search 6.5.- Created formal mentorship program for all team members. Mentors aligned based on career goals of the team members to help them achieve these goals at an accelerated pace.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Scrum Master for AT&T Network Cloud (Previously AIC), Cloud Infra & Airship teams: - Led teams focused on Kubernetes, Openstack & Helm technology stacks. - Focused on balancing teams development focus along with rapidly changing business needs to meet aggressive deployment schedule.- Provided key data to leadership to facilitate removal of ~72 developer hours of weekly meeting time, allowing for on time delivery of Edge Cloud deliverable's. Data & Analytics Team:- Helped found the Data & Analytics team within FlexForce specializing in automation of reports through ETL and data visualization tools.- Led automation of reports to create $632,840 in cost avoidance throughout 2017 from 8,615 hours of reduced person hours.- Technology Development Program Interviewing: Conducted 32 interviews from May 2017 to date.

Dallas, Tx, Us

In my role as a Specialist Scrum Master, I've engaged in many exciting and challenging opportunities. Some of these projects are listed below:- Created a Capacity Based Staffing Model: As internal consultants within AT&T, I was tasked with creating a model to calculate and forecast available capacity for our resources. I created various iterations while seeking feedback from supervisors and peers to create a finalized product that is currently utilized nationwide within the FlexForce organization.- Automatization of Reports: I created an automatized view of the "Fab5" report reducing weekly refresh time from 3 hours to 30 minutes. This report gives detailed views of all projects currently migrating in the Unix to Linux program.- Revision of the Technology Development Program Hiring Process: As a key member of the team tasked with revising the Technology Development Program, I helped build out requirements for a MongoDB based web interface to replace the previous spreadsheet based tracking process for all Technology Development Program candidates. After this migration, I created dashboard views that could provide valuable insights into our hiring process. This view boasted a ~10 second refresh time for a program wide dashboard, reduced down from countless hours of collating spreadsheet data for a similar result.- Technology Development Program Interviewing: Conducted 25 interviews through March 2017.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Beginning in June of 2014, 18 months of training and assignments in software development and project management. Working with the latest programming languages and software delivery methodology — all at an accelerated pace.

Providing guidance and knowledge gained through successful consecutive years as a Resident Assistant and Resident Director, and four years of attendance at RPI to a staff of six RA's, and two LA's along with 280 residents to successfully run a Residence Hall. Balanced budget for staff, along with encouraging staff and resident professional and personal development.

Working to further develop leadership for role as Resident Director, improving communication and collaboration within separate offices of Rensselaer, assisting with transition into new housing system for tracking of buildings and furniture ratings, and developing programming for entirety of the incoming 1,400 strong freshmen class

Providing guidance and knowledge gained through one year as a Resident Assistant, and three years at RPI to staff of three RA's, and one LA along with 141 residents to successfully run a Residence Hall. Balanced budget for staff, along with encouraging staff professional development.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Trained with Executive Team Leads (ETL), Team Members and Store Team Lead to step into role of ETL Guest Experience and Leader On Duty. Built strong relationships with team members throughout the store to ensure each interaction with guests was a positive experience.Coordinated the late night “Target Back to School” event with University of Albany seeing over 500 students attend a special after hours shopping experience as they returned to campus.Earned 2nd Quarter Top Performer recognition.

Troy, Ny, Us

Advised group of 43 residents through their Freshmen year of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Balanced personal budget for programming and learned traits necessary to lead a Residence Hall.

Worked with manager to improve business processes, assisted sales representatives with customer acquisition and various media support.

Supported customers, oversaw registers and sales assistance, gathered and placed weekly inventory orders to warehouse.

Masters Of Science, Business And Management

Bachelors Of Science, Business And Management

Advanced Regents Diploma