Jeannie Gardner Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

Houston, Texas, United States

Digital & Asset Transformation Global Solution Leader for KBC's Consulting Services Business. Responsible for strategy, planning, and leading the development, implementation, and sales execution of Digital & Asset Transformation (D&AT) strategies and solutions on a global scale.- Developed global D&AT solutions, sales strategies, and go to market plans, ensuring alignment with the organization's overall goals and objectives.- Lead the execution of D&AT initiatives globally, driving the adoption of digital technologies and transformative solutions for asset-intensive industries.- Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including Sales, Marketing, Product Management, and Technology, to drive revenue growth and customer acquisition.- Provided thought leadership and guidance in the areas of digital transformation, asset optimization, and data-driven decision-making.- Identified market trends and customer needs to develop tailored solutions and value propositions that addressed specific challenges and drive customer success.- Fostered strategic partnerships with key clients, industry leaders, and technology providers to expand market reach and drive innovation in D&AT solutions.

Houston, Texas Area

Designed and built CoE. Lead Strategy and Implementation of Operational Excellence, Continuous Improvement and Digital Transformation Initiatives across Lines of Business• Responsible for a global team of 20+ employees utilizing Lean Six Sigma to manage projects with budgets upwards of $10M, optimizing processes to deliver change, data, and portfolio management, reducing cost while adding value• Created digital strategies to transition manual processes to innovative automation, including lifecycle management, records and information management, master data management, and business risk and controls, generating over $28M in value• Developed an automated process to streamline the onboarding of new customers, reducing the time from 90 days down to 30 days, optimizing the customer experience, and gaining customer loyalty• Collaborated cross-functionally to develop and implement a standard framework across the organization, providing accurate governance, measurements, and metrics, tracking strategic initiatives and ongoing improvement• Identified quick wins processes that removed waste and were sustainable for lengthy periods, partnering with IT on strategy implementation, resulting in an $8M reduction in operation costs• Established cost reduction initiatives to attain commercial agendas, producing cost reductions and value generation to the bottom line while maintaining process data and information consistency across the organization• Integral cross-functional leader, serving as primary contact with various lines of business and functions such as finance, compliance, and credit, collaborating to ensure the optimization of processes

Houston, Texas

• Directed a global team of 3 people focusing on process continuous improvements, generating over $5.4M in cost reduction and value generation benefits• Analyzed the business operations used for the gathering of information and pricing, implementing an automated process to streamline the procedure and stimulate a reduction in cost

Houston, Tx

• Interfaced between the business and IT, translating strategic business requirements to IT speak, ensuring the understanding of organizational needs, and assisting IT in establishing how to meet those needs, streamlining operations, reducing operating costs, and driving greater profitability• Promoted over $20M in business process improvement projects annually, ensuring alignment with organizational business strategic goals, simplifying processes, and enhancing decision making• Oversaw the framework development and a 5-year strategic roadmap, connecting key business drivers with long term challenges, driving business process improvements, enhancing data visibility, and optimizing future investments• Collaborated with third-party service providers, developing proposals, organizational strategies, and operational efficiencies, resulting in an increase in technical productivity and effectiveness and improved profitability• Participated in industry events, conferences, and tradeshows, establishing marketing intelligence to improve organizational competitive advantage• Developed a blueprint for connecting disparate organizational units into a unified system, allowing for the streamlined execution of corporate strategies through projects

Houston, Tx

Lead Continuous Improvement, Process Optimization & Standardization and Digital Transformation across Lines of Business.• Directly responsible for the transition from a manual process to an automated tool, allowing for better implementation and streamlining of processes, producing a $20M+ increase in value• Oversaw all aspects of the global supply-demand planning and forecasting, maximizing global processes and ensuring continual process improvements to support organizational success• Provided guidance to reduce business risk and simplify the IT portfolio, contributing to the generation of $1M annual revenue• Established a roadmap to standardize and streamline reporting requirements, resulting in eliminating waste and increasing speed and efficiency

Houston, Tx

• Recognized for outstanding performance and promoted to lead the global supply chain business transformation and strategic sourcing projects, including metals, mining, energy, and chemicals industries• Directed multiple projects from beginning to end, including global procurement transformations and technology selection, business process improvement design and implementation, and operations growth strategy development• Secured optimal contract agreements and established a strategic procurement roadmap, producing a 35% savings for the client on $52M spent on commodities• Negotiated contracts to optimize global sourcing and procurement strategies, resulting in a $7M reduction in supply chain costs

Houston, Tx

Provided technical support focused on operations of existing units. Identified strategies to help refiners maximize profits using UOP’s products and services. Provided extensive internal and external customer contact; leveraged technical and sales expertise. Established customer relationships that formed basis for mutually profitable future business dealings.

Des Plaines, Il

Instructed customer on optimum method to operate process unit and to obtain its best practical performance. Advised regarding detailed checkout, precommissioning, heater and reactor circuit dry-out, catalyst loading, start-up, initial operation and testing of a new UOP licensed process unit. Conducted detailed inspection of all equipment, vessels, piping, and as applicable catalyst, adsorbents and chemicals.

Mccook, Il

Directed various oil processing pilot plant revamping, operation, maintenance and troubleshooting.

Executive Education, Executive Education

Bs Chemical Engineering, Engineering

Activities and Societies: American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Society of Women Engineers, National Assoc for the Advanced of Black.