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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

𝐈 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐝 the global client services IT portfolio, raising the bar on service excellence, innovation, and technology experience across 165,000 employees in 70 countries in a complex, matrixed environment. I led the strategic planning and oversaw operations for company wide collaboration tools, service desk, voice, telephony, o365, workplace computing, field services, and platform engineering. I partnered closely with business leaders, while guiding a diverse, global team to deliver exceptional services and value for our employees allowing them to better serve customers.𝐌𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬 was to reshape the infrastructure landscape through strategic planning, digital transformation, and optimizing the operating environment to bring a product delivery approach. I worked to engineer resilient solutions harnessing digital tools, AI and data to significantly improve the efficiency, cybersecurity risk profile, and integrated technology experience. I optimized the contracts with our top global vendors, by restructuring $500M multi-year contracts and 1,400 resources, to rebuild the partnership and optimal service performance goals.𝐀𝐬 𝐚 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫, I empowered my team to take ownership and drive innovation while continuing to reach higher pushing boundaries. By setting a vision, clear goals, and creating a culture of collaboration I created a mindset of shared accountability and trust. 𝑲𝒆𝒚 𝑨𝒄𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔:√ Enhanced security posture by reducing vulnerabilities by 70%.√ Reduced downtime and inefficiency by over 50% through infrastructure modernization.√ Implemented data first approach and AI to predict high-impact technology disruptions with 90% accuracy.√ Established vendor governance with top vendors improving cost and performance.√ Innovated with digital and cloud to create differentiated and integrated technology experience.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 to lead Global IT Operations with transforming the operational landscape across 1,100 plant and office locations, managing over 2,000 business applications. I provided strategic leadership to elevate global delivery capabilities, engineer delivery models, and drive operational excellence at scale.𝐈 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 to modernize digital capabilities, leveraging advanced analytics and automation to optimize operations and improve key performance indicators (KPIs). My leadership enabled the successful execution of multiple strategic projects, including SAP ERP implementations, cloud migrations, and application modernization. This transformation also involved enhancing processes such as SDLC, ITIL, ITSM, and SRE, resulting in improved operational stability, security, and efficiency. Building on the success of these efforts, my responsibilities expanded to lead the Office of the CIO's strategic initiatives, with a focus on modernizing the entire IT ecosystem to align with multi-year C-suite priorities.𝐌𝐲 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐲 centered around creating a compelling vision, empowering teams, and fostering a culture of growth and innovation. I am passionate about cultivating environments where teams can thrive, advancing their careers while driving impactful solutions that propel business growth.𝑲𝒆𝒚 𝑨𝒄𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔:√ Engineered operations scaling global delivery and optimizing delivery models.√ Created a highly engaged, skilled, and talented workforce of 500+ for the digital future.√ Executed major SAP ERP implementations, M&A, cloud migrations, and application modernization projects.√ Improved SDLC, ITIL, ITSM, and SRE processes, boosting stability, security, and efficiency.√ Led the Office of the CIO’s strategic initiatives advancing IT and multi-year C-suite priorities.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

As the North America Regional Director, I led the strategic direction and delivery of business applications and IT infrastructure for Cargill's largest regional footprint and global corporate offices. I collaborated closely with business leaders to ensure technology solutions and operational excellence aligned with their objectives. The scope of my role spanned a broad portfolio, including trading platforms, SAP ERP, plant operations, eCommerce, business functions, and network and end-user services.This role marked a career-defining opportunity, as I reshaped how technology supports business growth and enhances customer service. I led the development of a high-performing team of over 500 professionals, driving a culture of innovation, agility, and continuous learning. By prioritizing a people-first approach and fostering a passion for technology, I elevated Cargill's ability to achieve strategic goals and deliver outstanding value to its customers.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Ownership of defining the strategy and governance for global technical services domain ensuring the development and improvement to the integration activities and technology application portfolios. Aligned the global IT portfolio strategy and Enterprise Architecture for all IT applications to enable business capabilities ensuring new technology supports the ongoing business needs. Oversight of the design and development of engineering teams in the areas of technical design, future planning, standard development practices (SDLC), reducing business risk and driving innovative and leading solutions. Scope includes application software development, webhosting, and middleware integration (B2B, EDI) for strategic projects, M&A, and SAP ERP deployment. Led industry best practices into standard operations within the organization such as Agile and DevOps.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Directed global technical services and software engineering, establishing strategy and governance to optimize technology portfolios and integration. Aligned IT roadmaps with business goals, ensuring impactful technology investments. Led engineering initiatives across roadmaps, planning, and delivery, standardizing SDLC practices to reduce risk. Managed a portfolio covering application development, web hosting, and middleware integration (B2B, EDI), advancing technology innovation. Championed Agile and DevOps adoption, driving operational excellence and accelerating outcomes.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

People leadership, coaching, resource planning, and management of EDI team resources on a large SAP transformation project team (Build) and service delivery teams (Operations).Responsible for proactive improvement cycles to increase efficiency, become more agile, and reduce deployment and delivery costs by 40% over a two-year period. Created a value-based calculator methodology that enabled the BUs and Integration team to quickly evaluate and determine ROI on an EDI request. End-to-end stewardship, coordination, and facilitation for the SAP process of delivering external integrations across functional design teams, software development teams, supplier and customer enablement teams, and trading partners related to end-to-end external integration/EDI design and development.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Creation of Cargill’s first application integration strategy. Responsible for leading the creation of all concrete patterns for the middleware and developer tools used by integration in Cargill in legacy and SAP technologies. Responsible specifically for the internal and B2B patterns helping reduce development cost by 25%.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsible for defining and architecting the development environments for external and internal integration including roadmaps, application health, and strategic direction. Lead architect responsible for signing off on integration architecture, providing guidance on integration design, and defining the development process for enterprise architecture.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsible for working with Cargill’s business units and B2B trading partners to design and develop application architecture for integrating distributed systems. Participate in a weekly 24x7 on-call pager support rotation for critical business interfaces.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Microsoft Tools and technology software engineer. Supported migration to new storage and compute architecture. Support Microsoft and service architecture.

St. Cloud, Minnesota Area

Co-Founder and owner created Aurum-Industries Corporation. Set direction and strategy to build a company focusing on SW engineering, networks, and computer repairs. Created, built, and successfully launched the development of State of Minnesota’s Section 42 housing certification module which was the first online, and internet based web application for online housing certification. Brokered sale of company and ownership merger.

Little Falls, Mn

Store founder and owner. Managed and executed business plan for store along with daily operations of store. Brokered sale of store and ownership merger.