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Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

-Providing Strategic guidance for the Audit Application suite-Worked with cross functional agile product team to manage discovery, priorities, backlog and delivery-Executed product roadmap and delivery using agile practices to Design, direct, implement and train a new Archer audit management solution- Decommissioned and performed data migration for several.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

-Owned Medicare IT projects and supported Government Programs IT group through complete project lifecycle -Lead teams of BA/SA/SME to ensure team alignment and successful implementation of strategic IT solutions-Translated concepts/ideas/issues across the business and IT into strategic approaches-Created documentation for solution planning and assisting in.

Greater minneapolis-st. Paul Area

- Leading the Assurance organization through a system implementation of APIS, a regulatory compliance and operational assessment system; including design, system development, testing, and vendor management- RSA Archer System Administrator for Assurance, Risk & Compliance organization; designed and developed custom applications to manage the annual.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Finance Business Process Consultant for domestic SAP implementations. Support Target areas(Target India & TSS) with unique operations, business processes and systems required deep assessment and advocacy business.
• Supporting Target India & TSS business partners through the SAP Domestic Indirect Spend Project Accounting project, impacting 150 end users
• Consulted with the functional project team on ISPA design specific to Target India and TSS business practices
• Drove integration of the Partner Strategy team with the functional project team, Organizational Effectiveness, Organizational Change Management, and Business Support Services
• Developed strong relationships with teams in TI &TSS to create a strong comfort with the upcoming system & process changes
• Developed an engagement strategy specifically for TI &TSS that would match their unique location and team structure

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Finance Business Process Consultant for domestic SAP implementations. Support Target areas(FRS & Target.com) with unique operations, business processes and systems required deep assessment and advocacy business.
• Supported FRS & Target.com through SAP Release 2 of TGT$100.
• Seamlessly extended strong partnership of various business partners with FRS & Target.com through the end of TGT$100 R2, all while being new in Target, new in role and with minimal background.
• Worked with business partners to develop undefined processes (i.e. vendor direct payments, TCOE)
• Collaborated with TTS, functional team members, and business partners on identifying, researching and tracking to completion, all partner related incidents.
• Transferred knowledge of new processes to BSS, created and reviewed 10 job aides, and conducted meetings to transition support & knowledge between BSS and my partners.

• The Sr. Manager’s role is to facilitate the adoption of new or improved processes and/or procedures across the organization. This could include technology implementations, workforce transformations, and corporate.
• Managing and maintaining corporate-wide pricing system; including pricing development, enhancement prioritization and release management
• Identifying, evaluating and interpreting business requirements into technical specifications for internal applications
• Developed pricing for newly acquired entity, that allowed for quicker more accurate pricing, seamless integration into pricing tool and at expecting margin targets, all while giving senior leadership a more in depth.
• Co-managed a release of Daptiv a new project management system, coordinating changes in execution process, financial management and reporting

• Managed a custom software release of salesforce.com allowing two internal applications to effectively share information
• Created and implemented client service and business management processes which have allowed us to grow 35% or more in revenue each of the last two years
• Developed and implemented process re-engineering across client service organization allowing the group to move 20% of the tasks to a lower billing level
• Trained corporate-wide Project Managers and Research Managers on internal applications, business practices and processes
• Developed digital training using Captivate to support internal training and external product support
• Traveled to Hyderabad, India to implement business practices for new office and trained staff on business operations

• Managed a team of 13 Project Managers across 5 offices and 3 countries, supporting upwards of $25 million in revenue
• Developed and conducted extensive project manager training process and materials, most of which is still used today
• Supported new team members through mentoring and training
• Interfaced with upper management to deliver efficiency reports and resolve project issues
• Planned resources and hiring for Project Manager group over my tenure the team grew from nine to thirteen within budget

• Managed hundreds of market research projects timelines that met the needs of the client and internal quality standards
• Programmed studies using proprietary software zTelligence and quickly became one of the companies leading experts
• Coordinated resources daily across multiple groups and time zones
• Was dedicated to two of our largest clients; General Mills and Proctor & Gamble

• Supported sales staff and product management through composition of collateral materials, maintained customer database and performed analysis on the effectiveness of advertising campaigns
• Developed and distributed weekly mass email campaigns to our nearly 300 clients
• Managed a half million dollar MDF reimbursement program through our vendor Microsoft

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration - Executive

Cum Laude

Mini Master, It Business Analysis

Ba, Marketing