John Thatcher, Mba Email & Phone Number

Johnston, Iowa, United States

Provide leadership and support to drive team success. Collaborate and coordinate project activities across application development teams ensuring successful SDLC processes. Mentor team members. Develop Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and UX Design teams and practices within the organization. Drive successful project outcomes.

Johnston, Iowa, United States

Provide leadership and support that enables the success of a talented team of Application Technical Leads and Test Automation Engineers. Collaborate and coordinate project development and testing activities across application development teams ensuring success of Software Development Life Cycle processes while mentoring development team members on complex.

Johnston, Iowa

Provide leadership to support and ensure success of a talented team of Technical Team Leaders who act as mentors across our development teams and lead and coordinate critical parts of the SDLC process to ensure that SHAZAM software can operate within the demanding financial services space.

Johnston, Iowa

• Manage the strategic relationship with the business including enabling and facilitating IT’s broader interactions with the business focusing on change management.
• Partner with business leadership to develop strategic IT plans and roadmaps to effectively migrate to post-merge/spin state.
• Prioritize and managed the business IT investment portfolio focusing on business value.Key Contributions:
• Completed transformation initiative to migrate ERP and related systems from heritage Dow and DuPont environments to Corteva future-state environments with minimal business impact enabling business operations for the.
• Provided leadership and coaching to achieved business process and organizational culture integration critical for enabling Corteva Agriscience to spin in 2019.
• Collaborated with senior leadership teams identifying technology alignment priorities for Global Procurement, Environmental Health and Safety (EHS), Aviation, Facility Services and Real Estate Management.

Johnston, Iowa

• Managed and accountable for understanding the application landscape for key integrations and data flows
• Advised across the application landscape regarding E2E integration and interoperability
• Provided business architecture expertise and strategies for business-facing teams across the enterprise
• Developed strategies for systems integration and platform renewal that enabled business objectives and business simplification priorities, while aligning with enterprise-led changeKey Contributions:
• Provided Program Management to complete an application management initiative to implement new solution support strategy and application rationalization efforts leading to $16.2MM in net savings
• Developed application integration and rationalization strategies for the DuPont Nutrition & Heath/Industrial Biosciences business unit to reduce complexity and costs

Wilmington, Delaware

• Recruited and managed the Tools and Methodology workstream team for a $500MM global ERP transformation consolidation program providing project management, leadership and coaching. Scope included worldwide DuPont.
• Delivered SAP Solution Manager, ChaRM, and SharePoint-based solutions to manage documentation, project governance controls, and code migration reducing project risk and protecting the software investment
• Deployed ARIS to Solution Manager integration to provide a business process blueprint for solution development insuring deliverables met business process requirements

Johnston, Iowa

• Led and coordinated the collection and organization of ERP-related architectural projects and issues. Identified and anticipate business strategies and requirements; aligning the appropriate information technologies.
• Led the ERP Strategy Team (senior IT/business leadership from each business unit) to develop and manage ERP strategies across the global enterprise
• Partnered with key ERP vendors to establish an effective and ongoing business relationship leading to more efficient, cost-effective and successful technology strategies.
• Provided expertise and recommendations for better utilizing ERP technologies within the portfolio; including identifying and evaluating new functionality, providing software licensing expertise, and identifying legacy.
• Developed the Global Tier 2 ERP Strategy for DuPont Pioneer reducing ERP implementation expenditures and cost of ownership by 35%
• Maintained vendor relationships with SAP and related ERP vendors including licensing negotiations, service level agreements, reviewed new solution offerings/functionality/upgrades and evaluated new solution strategic.

Johnston, Iowa

• Managed the IT business relationship for Procurement, Accounts Payable, Records Management, Asset Management, Capital Projects and Capital Budgeting to develop IT solutions and deliverables that best met business needs.
• Managed SAP implementation projects for Finance-related global business functions.Key contributions:
• Initiated and led the program to identify, acquire, develop and implement the Procurement solution strategy for DuPont Pioneer.
• Delivered a corporate purchasing authorization system leveraging SAP HR functionality integrated with Capital Approval, Expense Approval, Execution Authority, PO Placement Authority, and Pay/Wire Authority.
• Developed an SAP Sourcing Portal to deliver content management and e-catalog search engine capabilities.
• Implemented an e-Catalog to improve leveraged spend, reduce time and improve efficiencies leading to $1.5MM in annual savings.

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Management Information Systems, General

Activities and Societies: President, Delta Tau Delta FraternityMinor: Computer Science Focus Studies: Computer Engineering

Master Of Business Administration - Mba