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Sunnyvale, California

Started the IT department from ground up to ensure Bon Appetit is ready to support Google’s growth in Bay Area. Mapped the current state IT landscape, identified gaps and opportunities, and defined the 3-year and 5-year roadmap• Built a team of 4 to support existing applications and roll out new applications• Established processes and procedures for IT vendor engagements to implement enhancements • Leading RFPs to replace current core P2P and catering systems• Coaching team through enterprise roll out for the Menu Management and QA systems to generate efficiencies and operational excellence

San Juan Bautista, California

Drove business process and system changes to improve employee productivity, customer service outcomes, customer relationships, and operating costs across SC Fulfillment at Earthbound Farm (EBF). • Created the EDI strategy and roadmap for EBF to drive efficiencies, manage current costs and reduce costs over time. Hired and on boarded an EDI Lead to execute and actualize the strategic plan• Defined and designed the end-end business process and needed SAP changes to support the new East Coast manufacturing site

San Juan Bautista, Ca

Led and managed the IT portfolio across all functions of EBF BU. Partnered closely with the EBF senior executives and developed short-term and long-range plan to support strategic business goals. • Led a team of 9 developers and analysts to execute and implement IT solutions to drive cost efficiencies. • Strengthened Business and IT relationships by ensuring effective prioritization, management and execution of IT work across all functions of EBF BU.

Santa Clara, California

Managed multiple projects totaling $6 million in budget, with an average of 20 cross-functional team members. Successfully delivered all projects on time and under budget. Excelled at managing project plan, resources, scope, capital and expense budgets, schedule, risks, testing, vendors, and communications to all levels of the organization. Leveraged Agile and Waterfall methodologies to drive results.Representative Projects:• Trade Planner Capabilities (TPC) project: Salvaged a troubled project that was critical in supporting the Trade Strategies to drive profitable volume growth. o Defined new project structure, built up team morale, identified and resolved major issues and delivered the system changes on time and within allocated budget. o Delivered administrative and CI savings for 450 system users. • FSS Finance Globalization project: Successfully transitioned global service delivery program for 4 business processes across 4 different regions (Europe, LATAM, AMEA and Australia). o Managed, mentored and coached 2 junior project managers leading the transition across 4 regions. o Partnered with our 3rd party vendor to ensure clarity on project expectations, adherence to our Global processes, issue escalation, issue management and resolution.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Promoted to lead a team of 10 system analysts that oversaw 5 key system platforms and supported 25 North American Manufacturing Facilities. Built client relationships, sponsored Manufacturing and Engineering projects, and managed stakeholders expectations. Effectively deployed resources against highest Return on Investment (ROI) initiatives. • My team delivered 4 projects costing $3.4 Million, across 3 key systems in April 2015 saving over $600 K. • Developed long range plans for Manufacturing and Engineering systems in partnership with internal Supply Chain leaders. Managed prioritization, alignment and changes through the strategic planning process.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Promoted to Project Manager I to lead and manage projects strategic initiatives in the IT department. Managed multiple projects supporting business process change, systems development, enhancements and upgrades, infrastructure, divestitures, and global service delivery. Representative Projects:• HANA Platform Implementation project – Led a $3 Million project and a cross functional team of 25 people to establish SAP HANA as a platform at GMI. The project was delivered flawlessly. o The first use case of implementing COPA Accelerator application on HANA in the ERP instance reduced the runtime for “Top Down Distribution” by 56% and for top 15 month-end profitability reports by 99% (reduced runtime from 13.5 hours to 9 minutes). The project team was awarded General Mills Champions award.• Divestiture Disintegration (Bronco) project – Led a global team of 30 to execute a divestiture of 7 Grain Elevators. The divestiture included disintegration of business, infrastructure and employees from GMI. o The disintegration was executed with no business disruptions, both, at the time of close and at the end of transition services agreement (TSA).• Re-Org Change Management: Created and enhanced processes for the newly formed Project Management Office (PMO) and GMI’s Project Management (PM) methodology ‘Advantage’ after the company reorganization. o Built and implemented changes to ‘Advantage’ to accommodate the unique need of Mergers/ Acquisitions/ Divestitures projects. o Partnered with PMO leaders to create a team of Analysts to complete smaller-sized projects. Coached and mentored this team on PM methodologies and best practices, thus creating a pipeline of Project Managers.

Promoted to be a part of the strategic initiative of rolling out SAP ERP to the GMI locations in Greater China region (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan). • Led and managed Order Processing and reporting functionality rollout throughout the project lifecycle from Blueprinting through implementation and support transition. • Researched and implemented sustainable solutions that eliminated custom code and reduced manual effort.

Led and managed multiple projects and enhancements simultaneously to enhance SAP Order to Cash functionality and deliver ~$2 Million in business savings. o Led a project to Create a custom transaction to display why an incompletion was triggered on an order. This project saved ~2,500 hours annually for the business team. The project team was awarded the “ICS August CI Champions Award” in 2010.

Analyzed, designed and implemented Oracle database changes to provide a robust and streamlined web based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution for the Convenience and Food Service division.

Certificate Of Advanced Science In Software Engineering, Computer Science

Master In Maths And Computer Science, Mathematics And Computer Science