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Denver, CO, US

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Accountable for supply chain architecture strategy implementation, project solution delivery, technical risk management and architecture team leadership and development.
• Collaborated with Enterprise Architecture and business stakeholders on strategy and implementation of Robotic Process Automation (RPA). Automation Anywhere solutions were implemented to update product availability.
• Managed and successfully delivered a manufacturing and warehouse integration project between SAP EWM, SAP ECC, SAP MII, GE Proficy and Warehouse Automation systems. Team implemented enhancements to increase throughput.
• Led an environment strategy and planning team involving senior PMs and technical leads across multiple major project initiatives resulting in increased coordination and communication of key project milestones.
• Engaged and built a relationship with Molson Coors Canada supply chain business partner to deliver a customer driven B2B solution providing project staffing and architecture strategy support.

Chicago, IL, US

• Promoted to Business Transformation Technology Leader reporting to the CIO as part of a 5-year initiative to harmonize business operations and establish OneWay MillerCoors business processes and systems. The scope.
• Accountable for infrastructure, SAP and Non-SAP application architecture, technical delivery (development, implementation, and solution anchoring) and overall program success.
• Managed a large technology team (50+) consisting of internal leads and 3rd party consultants from multiple IT Service Providers (Accenture, HCL, DXC, IBM and Ernst & Young).
• Financially responsible for technology control account across multiple years ($3.8M, $1.8M); successfully managing deliverables, project staffing and partner transition negotiations resulting in savings (12%, 17%) back.
• Established trusted relationships with business leads resulting in highly collaborative functional and technical teams, quality requirements definitions and escalation avoidance.
• Managed and presented VP and CIO communication on technical delivery, solution anchoring and IT transition to steady-state processes and support teams.

Chicago, IL, US

• Accountable for enterprise integration strategy (A2A / B2B) and technical solution delivery across greenfield SAP and Non-SAP application landscape supporting major business processes (Commercial, Finance, Forecast &.
• Technical lead in contract negotiations and implementation of a $2.5M B2B outsourcing agreement.
• Managed a team of development leads and 3rd Party consultants to successfully delivery 200+ interface solutions across multiple technologies (SAP PI, SAP MII, SAP Data Services and webMethods) and a broad application.
• Managed project stakeholder communication and delivery expectations for all interface development.
• Managed B2B network infrastructure solution design and implementation with key focus on security and long-term supportability.

Chicago, IL, US

• Team lead for enterprise integration CoE. Accountable for integration solution strategy, architecture, standards, environment management processes and project development oversight and governance.
• Managed a team of internals and externals to deliver a technical upgrade and consolidation of the webMethods landscape. Successfully negotiated a phased project go-live with brewery, business and project leadership.
• Influenced enterprise architecture standards and gaining Board of Architecture Review approval to implement integration design patterns and governance processes.
• Implemented 3rd party B2B work approval process improvements. Worked closely with IT leadership and application support team leads to streamline documentation requirements and close Request to Buy audit and control gaps.
• Led the development and implementation of an asset management repository and governance processes.

Houston, Texas, US

• Managed over 35 integration solutions to meet Master Data syndication and Order-to-Cash (OTC) business process requirements.
• Designed creative solutions utilizing a variety of integration patterns and techniques to achieve business performance, reliability and flexibility requirements.
• Managed, mentored and coordinated a team of 6 on-shore/off-shore webMethods developers to ensure project deliverables were delivered on-time, to specification and conforming to COE coding standards.
• Led MillerCoors Integration COE defining and documenting development standards and best-fit integration technology solutions (webMethods, Datastage) resulting in consistent, reliable and scalable high-quality business.
• Developed successful data center migration strategy for multiple webMethods versions (ver. 6.5, 7.1.2) supporting 350+ application interfaces and 75+ B2B trading partners.
• Managed implementation of webMethods architecture and B2B network design; documenting and communicating build risks and mitigations to ensure a successful on-time delivery.

Houston, Texas, US

• Worked collaboratively with project manager to define project deliverables, timelines, risks and mitigation strategies to implement 40+ webMethods interfaces and 25 new B2B trading partners.
• Designed, documented and presented webMethods interface solutions to support secure delivery (SFTP, FTPS, PGP, HTTPS/AS2) of HR sensitive data.
• Designed, developed, documented and trained resources to implement B2B integration solutions using a custom reusable trading partner delivery framework to help reduce partner setup time.
• Managed development team deliverables successfully to ensure project deadlines were met and interfaces achieved design, coding, security, performance and documentation requirements.

West Hartford, US

• Various roles and responsibilities including application support, development, and project management across multiple industries (High Tech, CPG, Manufacturing, and Government).
• Application Support Manager responsible for client relationship management, SLA compliance and reporting, enterprise integration and custom eBusiness application development, support and team management.
• Lead ETL consultant for United Kingdom Inland Revenue Child Support Reform initiative supporting the reporting requirements for two functional areas (Data Accuracy and Other Benefit Application Feeds).
• Application Developer responsible for JAVA, JSP, HTML, C, and C++ development and Object-Oriented designs.
• Assistant Instructor for EDS System Engineering Development program. Responsible for developing student’s application design and development skills using C, UNIX and SQL.

West Hartford, US

West Hartford, US

West Hartford, US

West Hartford, US

West Hartford, US

West Hartford, US

West Hartford, US

West Hartford, US