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North Chicago, Illinois, Us

Lead and manage the Site BTS Team at two manufacturing plants.Ally with site senior leadership teams to ensure BTS strategy and roadmap aligns with site imperatives.Identify value-driven solutions and lead project delivery to enable more effective and efficient plant operations.Align site and global BTS and Business teams to achieve implementation of key initiatives.Develop team goals that align with site priorities and drive goal achievement and accountability with staff.Drive career progression for direct staff through talent assessments, feedback, and visibility to senior management.Motivate direct reports through rewards and recognition for key initiatives and deliverables.Encourage self-driven leadership among direct reports to facilitate career growth and more effective delivery to plants.Perform talent acquisition to selectively hire new staff members with optimal knowledge, skills, and cultural fit.Lead System rollouts, Infra/Desktop, and other value-focused initiatives to ensure timely and quality implementation.Lead the resolution of critical system issues to ensure the resumption of normal plant operations as quickly as possible.Develop department strategy, roadmaps, initiative updates, and KPI slides and present to senior management.Manage BTS department spend, project spend, staffing, and align roadmaps to LRP and Capital Plan submissions.

North Chicago, Illinois, Us

Led and managed the MES, OSI PI, and Infrastructure team at a high-volume manufacturing and packaging plant.Led and delivered value-driven solutions and preventative maintenance to ensure effective and efficient plant operations.Aligned site and global BTS and Business teams to achieve implementation of key initiatives.Developed team goals that aligned with site priorities and drove and monitored goal achievement with staff.Drove career progression for direct staff thru talent assessments, feedback, and visibility to senior management.Motivated direct reports through rewards and recognition for key initiatives and deliverables.Encouraged self-driven leadership among direct reports to facilitate career growth and more effective delivery to plant.Performed talent acquisition to selectively hire new staff members with optimal knowledge, skills, and cultural fit.Led MES, OSI PI, Infrastructure, and other value-focused initiatives to ensure timely and quality implementation.Created process flowcharts and guideline documents to ensure effective and consistent structure for key department activities (ie: Support, MES authoring).Led the resolution of critical system issues to ensure the resumption of normal plant operations as quickly as possible.Developed team strategy, roadmaps, initiative updates, and KPI slides and presented to senior management.Managed BTS contractor spend, project spend, staffing, and submitted LRP and Capital Plan targets.

North Chicago, Illinois, Us

Led and managed the global OSI PI program consisting of 14 global sites and over 100 global stakeholders.Developed and drove the global OSI PI system strategy and roadmap.Drove efforts to maximize the value of the OSI PI system by effectively matching business needs and system capabilities.Looked for opportunities to increase shop floor efficiencies thru the use of OSI PI and surrounding applications.Collaborated with stakeholders at all levels (managers, developers, vendors, business personnel) as part of managing multiple simultaneous initiatives.Managed the relationship with 4 system vendors and negotiated value-driven contracts and optimal resource assignments.Managed up to 15 contract resources simultaneously by optimizing project assignments and workload.Drove global standards for the OSI PI system and facilitated site alignment and adoption.Provided technical support and alignment for the resolution of complex OSI PI system issues.Developed and presented program roadmap and strategy proposals to senior management to secure alignment and funding.Developed and maintained program budgets, LRP, and Capital Plan entries.Provided oversight for 3 project managers simultaneously by assigning them to global OSI PI projects and providing guidance for project scope, schedules, budgets, and resources.Provided leadership to project teams by fostering resource alignment with project approach and expectations.Developed and maintained system policies, procedures, SLC templates, change control, and technical guidance documents.

North Chicago, Illinois, Us

Led and managed IT Finance and Purchasing projects by directing up to 50 resources and coordinating project activities to ensure effective and efficient project execution.Developed and communicated project documentation involving schedules, budgets, scope, and stakeholder analyses. Collaborated with stakeholders at all levels (managers, developers, vendors, business personnel) as part of managing multiple simultaneous initiatives.Developed and presented ideas for process improvements to business users, IT management, and peers.Presented system demos, overviews, and training sessions for up to 100 users. Assumed the lead role for the TM1 application by taking leadership of critical TM1 tasks and responsibilities.Led the US Commercial Phase 0 assessment for improvements to the SNAPP purchasing application. Provided excellent user support for the TM1 Financial and Lavastorm Data Analytics applications.Performed rigorous analysis, design, development oversight, testing, and flawless implementation of application replacements and upgrades.Developed and maintained functional requirements, testing procedures, operations guides, and user training manuals in order to ensure compliance with company requirements and to create a repository of system knowledge.

Chicago, Il, Us

Promoted twice due to demonstrating exceptional performance at the highest level of responsibility within the nuclear IT department.Increase company profits by millions of dollars through successful implementation of IT projects that increase power generation and reduce operating costs at several nuclear power plants.Manage multiple simultaneous projects on-time and on-budget by effectively and consistently communicating with project stakeholders, including vendors.Collaborate with project team members to develop and maintain accurate project documents, schedules, budgets, and status reports.Receive excellent satisfaction ratings from multiple client groups as a result of building strong customer relationships and delivering high quality IT projects that exceed expectations.Perform rigorous analysis, design, development, testing, and flawless deployment of nuclear real-time computer system replacements and upgrades.Protect company profits by quickly solving 24/7 technical issues to keep critical nuclear computer systems running.Manage project and maintenance forecasts, accruals, amortization, and long-range budget planning for the nuclear real-time IT group, which has preserved the group’s financial stability.Modify existing project management and technical processes in order to continuously improve operational efficiencies and system reliability.Develop and maintain detailed documentation for system requirements, design, testing, support, and disaster recovery in order to sustain compliance with company requirements and industry regulations.

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Management Information Systems, General