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Berthoud, Co, Us

Louisville, Colorado, Us

Director of Product Management •Created the development life cycle from R&D to Commercialization of products. Implemented a product catalog to capture BOMs, vendor lead times and project plans from assembly to shipment. •Provided visibility of product roadmaps across the company. •Influenced leadership to gain engagement of product champions for each company division and direct management of product manager resources•Building efficiencies in the AstraLite product line by implementing a customer and maintenance tracking system and managing production from materials management to product development and repairs of Orion's Lidar productManager of Software Engineers & Mission Operations •Supervise multiple team members of 5-10 Software Engineers and Mission Operators•Mentoring and setting Software goals and policies for the company including defining the first SDLCSenior Program Manager •Led UAV project for DoD which developed of a new payload of communication and surveillance sensors to be deployed on the LRI Wave glider. Concluding with a life 5-day demonstration at sea showing real-time monitoring and control.•Development of Satellite Mission Operations software for ground station reservations and command auditing and daily operations for the past 2 years. This includes on boarding operators as needed and continued enhancements.•Program Management of SBIR projects that include Space Weather data management, Space debris detection and GPS precision point solutions.•Contributed to government proposals in the area of software design and development.•Leading multiple government contract programs as well as company initiatives related to cybersecurity compliance•Leading largest company product line of bathometry lidar systems. This includes overseeing design, assembly and final testing. I support the VP on reporting financials related to the product to the President and COO.

Specialized consulting in helping clients growing market share with assortment management, analytics, category development, and supply chain initiatives for US and International.Support of local vendors by providing the following services- Report automation- Data analysis of item information and logistics- Preparing of reports for buyer reviews- Supplier Center and GDSN setup- Retail Link support- Automation of Item creation and maintenance

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Both as a leader and process product engineer over supervisory and project management roles in both infrastructure and application development areas of information systems. Managed vendor relationships, yearly negotiations, budgets and on-site inspections. Collaborated with management to implement process efficiencies that resulted in short deliverables and cost savings.➢ Approval of Managed service agreements with vendors and suppliers➢ Supported mergers during international country acquisitions➢ Implemented an innovative vending and locker system to provide associates with direct access to most needed hardware, reducing handling need by materials management team.➢ Built environment that motivated team to develop new inventory system to improve tracking and financial reporting, resulting in better accountability and visibility to shrink.➢ Aligned leaders for each project group (store refresh, store innovations, DCs, and real estate) and worked with each to implemented new standards process, resulting in better reporting and visibility to accomplishments.➢ Developed project methodology for each type of store format (NHM, SC, Express, Sam's), eventually adding Kanban / Lean Kit for tracking, allowing for better visibility of setup percentage completed any time prior to grand opening.➢ Provided updates to leadership on security initiatives for SHA256 upgrade and global audits, as well as helping with Windows 2000 rollout.➢ Created and drove transformation of international integrations from “task-based” to “project deliverable-based,” giving vendor more ownership of project delivery and not just task completion.➢ Established international PMO to collaborate with Wal-Mart’s domestic standards allowing for consistent reporting with trends to track project and program budgets, timelines, PMO KPIs, and business commitments.➢ Led brainstorming sessions to collect strategy initiatives, resulting in visual road map that showed 90-day deliverables.

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

International Integration Center (IIC) with three direct reports and 200 vendors. Managed and assigned vendors to integration projects across various development departments. Built subject matter experts out of vendors and monitored progress and deliverables. Managed vendor relationships, yearly negotiations, and on-site inspections. Developed internal PMO to track metrics of integration projects and provided training where needed. Built relationships with internal teams and vendors to identify gaps in knowledge. Enforced life cycle process, resulting in better visibility and business engagement.➢ Created SME framework for vendor, improving speed-of-knowledge transfers.➢ Created and drove transformation of IIC from “task-based” to “project deliverable-based,” giving vendor more ownership of project delivery and not just task completion.➢ Worked with mergers and acquisition team to develop playbook of steps for each integration to follow.➢ Developed Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) diagram for international project team.➢ Moved PM maturity scores from 1.7 to within 2s, which was comparable to other retail industry companies.➢ Introduced technical design and business requirement review meetings to address opportunities, resulting in decreased rework and time spent making changes.➢ Implemented “managed outcome” framework for working with vendors, providing better vendor performance and ownership.➢ Created consistent reporting with trends to track project and program budgets, timelines, PMO KPIs, and business commitments.➢ Held area brainstorming sessions to collect strategy initiatives, resulting in delivery of visual road map that showed key initiatives and 90-day deliverables.➢ Worked with business partners to align integration of road maps, leading to better status updates per country.➢ Created in-country relationships to discuss PMO oversight locally, providing improved success.

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Provided program management over deliver of the merchandising transformation which led to the upgrade and replace of toolsets. Led large program that delivered promotional pricing to multiple countries requiring collaboration with in-country leadership to implement change management to support new pricing analytics data.➢ Rolled out DemandTec tool to six international countries, working with each country’s CIO to determine budget, timelines, and organization change management, enabling total benefits across all countries of $54 million due to ability to perform rollbacks and BOGO pricing.➢ Traveled to each location to explain project management approach and walked through tool training while collaborating with in-country associates to help with translations and custom modifications.➢ Identified ROI for price-optimization tool from one category, providing 12% incremental sales lift with $1.3 million sales benefit.➢ Received two awards (“Speed to Market” and “Global Collaborative Project”) for DemandTec rollout.➢ Supported Vice President of Merchandising Systems through home-office merchandising transformation. ➢ Led weekly project update meetings with VP team to discuss transformation updates and make milestone decisions.

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Led development and support teams for pricing systems. Built new tools, including in-house analytics and markdown optimization, as well as provided support to existing products. Utilized organization skills to manage portfolio of all merchandising transformation projects, including new space management, work flow, SAP, and replenishment. Drove regular updates and inspected budgets, contracts, and ROI. Provided executive-level presentations to stakeholders on progress of all components, as well as resolution to barriers.

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Designed, coded, tested, and implemented systems in Mainframe, UNIX, and Windows environments, with development history in merchandising, replenishment, and item file systems. Developed in-house applications used by buyers to trait characteristic of stores, allowing grouping of stores and clubs using complex query logic, as well as developing replenishment systems to track shipments and enable last-minute warehouse changes and pricing systems, allowing for promotion pricing and markdowns with feeds at store level.

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

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Started as a computer operator over the Tulsa Data Center while completing college, I later was promoted to the application development team where I supported the upstream activities of the Tulsa Research Center. I continued my advancement to the data base support team as a database administer for DB2 and IMS. Programmer and Senior Programmer responsible that included:➢ Development of CICS applications to display Real Estate Land and Crude Oil and Gas drilling Well information. Worked with research scientist to enhance systems and capture new drilling and operation data elements. Worked with other competitor companies to insure integration of shared wells for well production information. ➢ Developed new systems for P&L budget tracking and reporting, which included training at each Amoco site and address any questions. ➢ Expanded role to data base administration team where I developed a system to track all software assets. Gathering requirements from each product team to expand and capture asset information automatically.➢ In preparation for company contingence plans I developed a system to capture business continuity planning documents. Performed multiple disaster restore simulations in multiple hot spots in the US.