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Business & IT Leadership | Financial Systems | ERP | SaaS | eCommerce | Franchise Food, Media Agency, eDiscovery, Retail, Consumer Products and other industries | start-up through Fortune 100.► xRM and Financial Systems Implementation Project Manager - D365/DevOps - Reinsurance► ERP Project Manager, Requirements, RFP, Cloud Software Selection for food manufacturer.► IT Finance Product Owner - Large Media Agency♦ IT liaison to the finance group, defined and drove business and technology initiatives, including AX to NetSuite Financials, Intelligent Invoice OCR, and helping translate the needs of the finance organization into executable technology efforts.♦ In IT, migrated Jira to DevOps. NetSuite Program/Project Management, Requirements, Business Analysis, Software selection, Partner selection, Role security, workflow.► Cloud-based ERP Implementation Program/Project Manager – International Dairy Queen♦ Microsoft AX to D365 for Finance & Operations, including LCS Lifecycle Services, PBM Business Process Modeler, VSTS Azure DevOps cloud technologies♦ WaterSCRUMFall Project Management, Requirements Definition, Partner Management, Accounting. ♦ Managed 60+ person team of business process owners, BA’s, PM’s and third parties.♦ Build and executed regression test environment and processes for upgdate. DevOps, Azure Test Plan.► ERP Implementation Project Manager – $1B Multi-channel Retailer and Manufacturer♦ Turned around a 3rd year stalled AX 2012 R3 implementation.♦ Developed Project Management approach, reconciled previous approaches and plans.♦ Implemented Team Foundation Server and Microsoft Project management in an iterative approach. ♦ Lead the 150+ integrations / API’s workstream with 3rd party integrator.♦ Microsoft AX, TFS Team Foundation Server, Power Tools, MS Project, Visio.

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Us

► Reporting to the CFO, drove efficiencies through organization transformation and information technology for this eDiscovery / SaaS and consulting services company.OPERATIONS & IT TRANSFORMATION♦ Completed multi-year over-due systems development projects. ♦ Agile/SCRUM Product Owner for multi-national implementation of Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP.♦ Managed Costpoint ERP and related custom-built applications, including new global trial-balance consolidation automation and implementation of Project Billing in the UK.♦ Ensured SOX and eCommerce PCI compliance.♦ Developed complex VBA / SQL macro-based MS Office applications for data mining and analysis to determine areas for operational improvement, establish goals, ongoing metrics, and undertake & measure change initiatives.♦ Identified and justified potential new technologies that may be deployed to improve efficiency and effectiveness. PROJECT BILLING ORGANIZATION AND SYSTEMS TRANSFORMATION♦ Turned around project billing function for North America, APAC, and European Regions, creating a culture of cross-departmental collaborative excellence in execution. Reduced billing close by 5 days. ♦ Completed the 3-year old Gallium billing data extract project intended to automate manual data entry of most billing line items. 97% of all line items are now automatically loaded.♦ Designed and built auto billing. Previously all invoices were manually created. Over 40% are now invoiced without human intervention.♦ Collaboratively built workflow automation & reporting between Billing and Client Services in order to improve communications and insight into the progress of monthly billing process.GLOBAL PROCUREMENT TRANSFORMATION♦ Using Lean Six Sigma and value stream analysis, re-engineered and streamlined global Procurement processes, established SLAs, and rebuilt customer and vendor relationships.

► Startup company intended to address mounting health care costs through Health and Wellness, as opposed to sickness care (LOHAS). Company focused on the Development, Manufacture, Sales, and Marketing & Distribution of superior nutrient and functionally enhanced foods and beverages appropriate for key demographic groups, beginning with food & beverages for pregnant and nursing women.♦ Defined product offering, markets served, initial market size and competitive landscape.♦ Developed the business plan and draft financial assumptions and pro formas for five years.♦ Defined nutrient and functional profiles for initial target consumer, using extensive primary and secondary research, including involvement with Nutritionists (Assoc. Professor prenatal nutrition, LD, RD & MPH, CDE).♦ Authored the 45 page nutrition eBook Enough, but not too much as the foundation for formulation and as a marketing tool.♦ Managed development of formulation and recipes for beverages and baked goods through 3rd party developers.♦ Delicious Nurturwell beverages contain 7mg of micro-encapsulated Iron. Iron is notoriously difficult to use in beverages - it tastes awful. Nurturwell beverages were designed for nutrition to drive trial, and great taste to drive repeat purchase.♦ Designed Trade Dress and packaging design.♦ Implemented operational technology for eCommerce and draft eCommerce site with supporting back-end systems.♦ Qualified and registered for the MN 25% Angel Tax Credit as a Life Sciences company.

► The makers of Nutrisoda, a LOHAS enhanced soda. From start-up through acquisition by and integration into PepsiAmericas.STRATEGY & PLANNING, FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING ♦ Used creative modeling techniques to develop annual strategic, operating and financial plans.♦ Prepared/presented monthly finance statements and analysis.♦ Oversaw accounting functions.♦ Prepared/presented quarterly business reviews with parent. ♦ Reduced benefits costs by 17%, IT development costs by 80%.INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY♦ Defined IT strategy and architecture.♦ Established all operating processes and related information systems.♦ Managed off-shore development of backoffice systems.PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT♦ Conceived and created “the bottle” (Nutrisoda in glass bottles), a game-changing product. Bottles reached 80% of product sales mix in their markets. ♦ Jointly developed new concepts Jing and NutriTe’s and low-fortification line extension.♦ Created packaging such as 4-pack repacks, 6-packs, 12-packs, custom packs.♦ Developed costing and pricing analysis for products.♦ Managed Health Canada approvals for the importation of this Natural Health Product.CUSTOMER SERVICE♦ Established and managed Customer Service processes for Consumers, Retailers and Distributors.♦ Defined procedures and implemented CRM to support call center sales and service.♦ Achieved Target’s POL “Green Scorecard”.MARKETING, ECOMMERCE, CRM♦ Collaboratively managed all aspects of the omni-channel eCommerce function including site strategy, user experience, content strategy and management, promotional campaigns and other online/email marketing, affiliates, product merchandising, website development, customer service, web analytics, and web technologies. SUPPLY CHAIN AND LOGISTICS♦ Established international supply chain including raw materials suppliers, co-packers, transportation partners, 3rd party warehouses and fulfillment centers.♦ Reduced COGM over 10% each year, reduced key ingredient cost over 60%.

Toronto, On, Ca

► For this large-scale eCommerce, Legal SaaS and Services company, lead a team of 60+ on and offshore software engineers in the development, enhancement and support of high volume west.thomson.com and weg.thomson.com eCommerce and SaaS Customer Service sites.♦ Managed the design, architecture, build and launch of the weg.thomson.com Law University text book eCommerce site in less than a year. C#.Net and SQL Server.♦ Coordinated with Product Management to define, prioritize and deliver site enhancements for west.thomson.come (ASP and SQL Server).♦ Recommended, staffed and managed special project to reduce site defects from over 500 to 0 over a 6 month timeframe, while reducing technical debt.♦ Substantially improved site stability.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

► As Lead Principal, recruited to grow the Upper Midwest Retail, Consumer Packaged Goods, Manufacturing and eCommerce consulting group.♦ Established go-to-market strategy including identifying targeted client base, defining services to be delivered, constructing sales and staffing approach, while leveraging the capabilities of the then $84B company.♦ Hired and developed a high-performance team of 15 direct reports, 45 indirect reports, and hundreds of contractors.♦ Led or directed projects as large as 100,000+ person-hours, focused on eCommerce, Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementations.♦ Grew consulting group revenue to $47M within 4 years, over 70% of total local office revenue.♦ Lead the largest e-Commerce consulting group in IBM Global Services.

Worldwide, Oo

► Member of the leadership group which grew the local office from 14 to ultimately over 150 professionals. Successfully delivered services to Retail, Manufacturing, Consumer Packaged Goods, CPG, Public Sector and other industries, in projects including strategic planning, business process re-engineering and information technology development and package implementations.

Bba, Business Administration And Management Information Systems

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