Mike Brady Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, United States

Fully accountable for all IT scope for the Cat Oil & Gas and Marine division and the Remanufacturing division which are both part of Caterpillar's Energy & Transportation segment. Responsible for the division’s global IT strategy and managing a global team of IT professionals who provide services and digital solutions to both internal and external customers. Strong focus on business relationship management, strategy development and execution, demand and portfolio management, service delivery, and financial management.- Manage a team of 100+ IT professionals located across 12 countries providing IT services and digital solutions supporting 8 manufacturing sites, 3 distribution centers and 30 service centers.- Responsible for managing business partner relationships (including Senior Vice Presidents), IT strategy development and execution, demand and portfolio management, service delivery, financial management and lead the division’s information security initiatives as the information security divisional risk owner.- Accountable for driving continuous improvement in IT service levels and reducing the rate of daily incidents.- Manage IT vendor relationships (both internal & external).

Peoria, Illinois Area

- Led the Project Delivery Office for data & analytics development on Cat’s AWS cloud-based digital platform (design and development scope: data ingestion, data pipelines, data objects, API’s, algorithms and statistical models).- Deployed an Agile/Scrum framework and managed Scrum Masters who executed the framework across a solution delivery team of 130 data scientist, data engineers, data visualization experts, and software engineers utilizing a chapter, tribe, squad model. - Responsible for resource planning and project execution across Caterpillar’s highly matrixed Global Analytics Center of Excellence. - Recruited, interviewed, and hired world class data science and agile scrum talent.

Peoria, Illinois Area

- Reporting, Data Visualization, and Data Management Capability Manager with supervisory responsibility for 19 employees.- Established a reputation for strong vision, innovation, and execution by establishing new analytical enabling capabilities across the Caterpillar enterprise.- Transitioned the Analytics Division onto Tableau then recognized enterprise opportunity and deployed Tableau, a business-driven BI capability, company-wide. Grew from 26 to 1100 business trained Tableau developers in 2 years via executive engagement, training, and a license distribution plan.- Established the “How People See Data” visualization campaign bringing awareness to the science behind how the human eye processes information. (Online community > 1,000; Quarterly Data Viz Days 500+ attendees; Annual Iron Viz Challenge 300+ attendees).- Piloted a new online, self-service data consumption capability for delivering data to data scientist.- Led the Analytics Division through a yearlong data security audit in partnership with Corporate Auditing.- Introduced the monthly “5% team innovation challenge” resulting in a highly engaged, innovative BI workforce.

Peoria, Illinois Area

- Program Manager for a $5M project portfolio. Set strategic vision for a global team of 30 employees developing a .NET based product leveraging an Agile/Scrum software development framework (16 direct reports, 14 consultants).- Product manager driving requirement consensus across 26 business units for an enterprise cost management system.- Managed vendor partnership with ThoughtWorks.- Merged two different technology-based DevOps teams into one. Introduced common processes and an agile collaboration tool (Mingle) for use across the newly integrated, globally based team.- Received employee approval ratings above 90% in 15 out of 18 categories during consecutive annual employee surveys.

Peoria, Illinois Area

- Assumed progressive levels of responsibility on an enterprise cost management initiative eventually leading to a supervisory opportunity. The .NET software development team demonstrated significant improvement in process efficiency, cost management, and feature delivery commitments after being transferred under Mike's leadership.- Provided project management, business analysis, and product design resulting in delivery of 5 major releases, helping to engage an additional 8 divisions in adopting the solution making future expansion possible to all 26 business units.

Peoria, Illinois Area

- Developed and evangelized Caterpillar's enterprise data management and governance framework. Drove executive level support for a new enterprise data management and governance organization (eventually staffed by over 100 employees).- Sponsored vendor evaluation and secured funding for the acquisition of Caterpillar’s enterprise data warehouse platform (Teradata), master data management suite (IBM), and the enterprise data profiling tool (IBM). - Established the master data management shared service process for Caterpillar’s enterprise SAP implementation.

Peoria, Illinois Area

- 9 years software development expertise in Java, JavaScript, JSP's, HTML, MVC, WebSphere, SQL, Oracle, & DB2. (Promoted 4 times within 9 years.)- Software Engineering lead and lead architect for web-based software development projects in Financial Systems, Quality Systems, and Procurement Systems Divisions with primary responsibility for design, code, test, and deployment.- Project manager and team leader for web-based software development initiatives in the Procurement Systems Division providing daily leadership for a globally based team. Primary liaison between IT and the business. Facilitated requirement gathering sessions and managed resources, budgets, quality, and timelines.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Business & Information Systems

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