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Changing companies can seem very overwhelming, but I finally decided to make take that chance and followed my career out of the world of large equipment manufacturing and into FinTech! As a Senior Product Manager at FirsTech, I find myself using much of what I have already learned from a long career in technology and data to solve new problems in payment.

Peoria, Illinois, United States

As a Product Manager I felt like the breadth of my experiences and the skills I'd developed all came together. I had responsibility for the engineering roadmaps for data pipeline and data quality products. I gathered the insights and requirements from our source and consumption partners. I translated those into features and stories to organize the product.

Peoria, Illinois

Having worked on enterprise data platforms on various cloud technologies for over three years, it was no surprise to be scooped up into the digital organization to help blueprint a new digital data platform. In this role I had familiar responsibilities as I designed metadata service and data reject handling capabilities. This time, however, we were.

Peoria, Illinois Area

Leaning into the architecture track, my next role was an evolution from data to enterprise. As an Information and Integration Architect in the EA organization I had many different responsibilities. I evaluated new IT demand to produce standard conceptual and logical architecture artifacts. I presented several solution requests and designs to ARB and change.

Peoria, Illinois Area

Upon my return from Europe, I took my first role as an architect. My responsibilities included the management and enhancement of the SAP data team's conversion solutions and interfaces, many of which I wrote the specifications for years prior. I maintained the development standards and best practices for the team, as well as researched and PoC'd new SAP.

Charleroi Area, Belgium

I cannot say enough about how fulfilling this opportunity was to me both professionally and personally. It is one of the highlights of my career! Reprising my role as a Data Project Lead, I relocated to Belgium to support SAP deployments in Europe. I had Team Lead responsibilities for mentoring nine other project leads from different countries. I was.

Peoria, Illinois Area

I was not in this role for very long, but I managed to pick up some excellent skills in my short time as a functional business analyst. My responsibilities included business process mapping and functional specification development for configuring SAP screens and transactions. I credit this role for helping me remember to consider the end-user perspective.

Peoria, Illinois Area

This was my first real promotion into responsibilities that would shape the rest of my career and also one of my favorite jobs. It's the role that burned the phrase "cross-functional" into my psyche forever. I had responsibility for leading the data cleansing and conversion projects for 5 different SAP deployment sites, managing the project plans to.

Peoria, Illinois Area

Changing jobs and organizations can be scary, transforming old skills and experience into new ones. My first such change just happened to be into the company's largest transformation initiative at the time! I dove head first into a role supporting business and ERP transformation. As a Data Integration analyst, I got my first taste of large scale.

Morton, IL

This was my right out of college job! An OO programer with a fresh B.S. in computer science cranking out COBOL code for Logistics clients. It was a great first opportunity because learned a lot about supporting the supply chain, and I got to cut my teeth on so many elements of the IT experience: development, 24/7 on-call shifts, client facing support, and.