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-Collaborate with business sponsors, key stakeholders, and cross functional workstreams to define scope, analyze requirements, evaluate feasibility and determine strategic needs.-Create project proposals and define timeframes, funding limitations, procedures for accomplishing the project, staffing requirements, and allotment of available resources to various phases.-Contribute to the design and negotiation of external contracts and manage contribution of third party vendors.-Through understanding of department business needs and resource limitations, establish and manage the overall schedule and prioritization of projects.-Assist in development of business plans, strategies and approaches to take advantage of business value opportunities.-Ensure projects are completed on time and meet requirements.-When necessary, negotiate changes in project specifications or scope.-Create and track against project tasks and financial plans.-Present to business management including Executive Leadership for project updates, project cycle and expected results.

•Lead discovery sessions and requirements gathering process with customers, subject matter experts, and internal operations teams.•Document process flows to identify actors, inputs, outputs and dependencies; ensure software development decisions support process model.•Define epics, user stories, and prioritize accordingly for project delivery design.•Create mockups, wireframes, and prototypes that illustrate current and future workflows to facilitate market research, user acceptance testing, and custom applications design.•Serve as a conduit between customers, operations, technology, and development team to define requirements, specifications, functionality and acceptance criteria.•Interpret and document technical specifications, such as data dictionaries, data flows, API specs.•Prioritize backlog to prepare for Agile ceremonies, drive user story grooming sessions, and user story refinement.•Provide and promote internal communication between software development, project management, QA, and other cross-functional groups.•Create acceptance criteria to express requirements. Ensure validation methods. •Advocate for the client to ensure timely implementation of solutions by release objective.

•Responsible for the functional and technical support of customers and technical teams, as well as the internal support of business development. •Handle support inquiries, produce Learning Management System content, and encourage users to learn, share, and connect in the Excel4apps Success Community.•Presenter at REKEN2018, Global User Conference - SAP Software Content

•Work independently or as part of a team to evaluate, analyze, implement and/or support business solutions that meet the needs of our customers and add value to the company. • Establish and maintain a high level of data integrity for our end users, and recommend financially based solutions that effectively and efficiently satisfy the needs of the business.•Responsible for servicing complex data requests, by extracting and analyzing data using SQL queries, and presenting findings utilizing Data Visualization Tools including Power BI, Tableau, and/or Excel. •Proactively communicate and collaborate with executive leadership team on critical issues and projects to promote and maintain financial and operational health.•Champion innovation to existing systems and practices and present the solutions to complex analytical problems to key stakeholders.•Independently evaluate and document operational performance, diagnose issues, anticipate financial impact and propose solutions. •Maintain a working knowledge of data mining, and data visualization techniques with various information systems including but not limited to (SQL,VBA,BI,Tableau). •Design both small and large scale management dashboards, develop and implement user training for packaged system solutions as well as Ad-Hoc analysis, and coordinate joint Finance/Business Partner application development sessions. •Actively engaged in Six Sigma Green Belt Certification and working with various Six Sigma team members and executive leaders to drive for results and process improvement across multiple business channels. •Analyze and maintain exempt and non-exempt employee database. Calculate and prepare employee compensation plans in compliance with HR and Payroll departments. • Assist in the management and implementation of quarterly and annual incentive plans, prepare detailed target-based performance reports and revise as necessary to ensure accuracy and timeliness.

•Facilitated communication between sales forecasters, distribution center management, third party vendors, and store teams•Managed the day-to-day operational aspects of the logistics process, including merchandise stocking levels, store ordering, merchandise pricing compliance, third party vendor servicing, and proactively reporting to upper store management •Managed the yearly inventory process and day-to-day stocking levels to eliminate shortage and drive profitable sales •Mitigated potential payroll losses through effective hiring, employee scheduling, and training •Managed the inbound and outbound transfers of both merchandise and non-retail products•Created action plans and enforced timeline accountability for all store processes and team development•Actively identified, recruited, managed and developed team talent •Liaised all philanthropic events and donations according to company specified commitments and budgets •Lead both large and small teams and level setting expectations for store leaders to encourage consistent coaching and development of employees•Assessed key factors in driving profitable sales, and effectively translated business needs and strategic solutions to all employee levels•Managed the day-to-day operations, assets and personnel of a $24 million retail store •Proactively analyzed cyclical trends to maintain monthly payroll and productivity goals•Planned, organized, executed and followed up on critical corporate initiatives and product roll-outs•Collaborated with executive team members to assess and fulfill business needs•Lead team of 11 team leaders and over 100 team members

•Assisted district peers with the network analysis, planning and construction support of new ALDI store locations in Western PA •Developed budgets and employee schedules to set benchmarks for increasing sales and decreasing expenses•Addressed all ALDI policy violations, assessed accountable inventory loss and documented all quantitative elements of store and district operations•Collaborated with district peers to ensure timely rollout of Anti-Identity Theft EBT machines ahead of schedule and under budget•Organized and maintained inventory records and communicated with regional distribution management