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Michigan, United States

Southfield, Michigan, United States

Consult with business teams to envision solutions, building functional prototypes on day one using Low Code and BPM tools. Lead Agile Development of successful enterprise solutions. Enable internal teams through mentoring of analysts and developers.

• Coordinated activities of developers, business analysts and infrastructure analysts to deploy and support Product Data Management systems.• Led selection and infrastructure implementation of new PDM to support launch of engineering centers in Asia.• Managed team to deploy Mercedes' PDM (Metaphase-based Smaragd), leveraging Chrysler and Mercedes IT and product teams & German suppliers, enabling product development integration.• Coordinated $64M capital planning and tracking of Common Products Initiative for Chrysler and Mercedes, documenting $9M in cost avoidance.• Conceived and implemented method to evaluate need versus cost for redundant infrastructure components, realizing over $1M annual savings.• Evaluated financial viability of IT projects, presenting recommendations to senior management, leading to improved global collaboration, process efficiencies and cost savings.

• Evaluated viability of new CATIA, VPM and Smaragd capabilities to meet Powertrain Engineering requirements. Also led software quality assurance and gap analysis between new and legacy applications.• Facilitated design process harmonization between Chrysler and Mercedes to enable collaboration on multiple powertrain programs, providing efficiency in design processes while allowing common sourcing of components.• Specialized in delivering business process productivity improvements using VPM V4, 3DCOM and CATIA V5 applications.

• Provided middleware support for web, data warehouse and data exchange applications used by Product Development and suppliers.• Planned and supported large scale infrastructure for VPM V4, Enovia LCA, SAP and internally developed applications using WAS, Weblogic, MQ, UDB and Oracle.• Directed cross-functional team for application monitoring, implementing tools and processes leading to improved application stability and performance.• Improved process efficiency of IT infrastructure deployment reducing new application lead time by 90%.

• Led in finding, analyzing and planning resolution of efficiency and stability opportunities for Product Development, B2C and B2B application, involving development teams, database administrators and system administrators.• Conceived and developed performance dashboard using UDB/DB2, Business Objects, Perl and other tools, allowing business and IT managers better oversight of service levels over time. Measures included PDM end-user response time, availability, database and server thresholds.• Established process and best practice improvements for public web applications (using WAS), leading to reduction of down-time by 54% in first 3 months.• Identified inefficiencies in application data access, recommending SQL optimization, UDB/DB2 and UNIX system tuning, providing end-user productivity improvements.

• Managed UNIX servers for all Product Development applications.• Led distributed systems monitoring software project from evaluation through deployment, resulting in $2M savings in first year, using open source and in-house development.• Implemented cost-saving consolidation, through capacity planning, systems specification and implementation, instilling consolidation into processes.

(Contracted to Chrysler)• Led administration of engineering UNIX systems at manufacturing facilities across North America.• Consulted with Engineering and Manufacturing users and management to develop solutions allowing increased productivity and information sharing.• Conceived and developed web based interface for cross-platform application access, saving $1M while reducing complexity.

(Contracted to Dow Chemical)• Introduced and maintained UNIX servers and workstations for engineers, chemists, and software developers in research community, including operating system maintenance, application installation and end user support.• Implemented and managed connectivity and supercomputer access between Dow’s R&D systems to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.• Established and coordinated DNS (Domain Name Services) among teams across North America.

Mba, Finance

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