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Madison, Wi, Us

Waterloo, Wisconsin, United States

Managed a team of direct reports in the US and Germany, responsible for make-to-stock and make-to-order manufacturing operations' technical systems and processes. Initiated and led numerous business process improvement initiatives, applying a blend of industry standards, tried-and-true internal processes, and creative outside-the-box solutions.Successfully led a 16 month project migrating the company’s largest manufacturing facility from legacy ERP systems to the company’s single global ERP system with no external resources or financial spend.

Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, United States

Led a cross-functional product data and systems project including the evaluation of current and prospective Product Information Systems resulting in the scoping and scheduling of future projects, creating centralized documentation and re-designing product data structures. Contributed to the design a new Data Governance structure to standardize the creation and maintenance of product-related data.Led the technical implementation of a new Warehouse Management System (WMS), including requirements gathering, process design, data structure definition, system configurations, testing and integrations including ERP, Cartonization and Transportation Management Systems (TMS).Led the design of a shipping rate estimator service that considered customer, item, and company-specific policy exceptions that sat on top of a TMS system. This led to freight charges being consistently applied (increased revenue), simplified Order Entry processing (efficiency), automated carrier/service selection on the shipping line (cost reduction).Contributed to the design of project management processes, creating documentation, process flows and designed a planned time estimator against all work to be rationalized against actual time by Project, User or Team. Led the review for all requested IT projects, including validation, requirements gathering and scope definition based on the broader needs of the entire organization.

Middleton, Wisconsin, United States

Led cross-functional customer experience projects including project scoping, scheduling, reviews and trainings. Led regular project planning, daily scrums, reviews/demos and Steering Committee meetings including executive team members using a combination of Agile and Waterfall project methodologies. Gathered, documented and reviewed business requirements for web development work related to five customer-facing portals and eight web sites. Managed legacy data structures related to customer product catalogs.Interfaced with members from other IT teams and business segment leaders to develop best practices, streamlined processes and simplifying the use and management of related data. A primary focus was Master Data Management related to integrations between PLM and ERP as well as CRM and ERP.

Middleton, Wisconsin

Individually managed the New Product Development cycle for the US on the Offering Lifecycle Management team. Responsibilities included developing, configuring and deploying global standards to be used company-wide. Individually performed an upgrade of Agile Product Lifecycle Management and Oracle Database.Served as the sole IT representative on a continuous improvement team charged with improving organization-wide processes and ways of working, spanning multiple years while reporting directly to the Fiskars Americas Senior Management team.

Middleton, Wisconsin

Responsible for ERP environment setup, processing and support in Sales Order Processing, Advanced Pricing, Manufacturing, Supply Chain Planning, Procurement, Inventory Management, UX One and BI Publisher. Contributed to the technical upgrade of an ERP. Regularly analyzed, documented, tested and promoted enhancements within the ERP and interfaced third party applications to lead and support continuous improvement initiatives for user-facing processes including end-user training.Sole Administrator for the DSI Mobile Enterprise Platform and Loftware Enterprise Labeling systems for up to 500 end users. This included regular patches, updates and maintenance of these systems, two separate upgrades of DSI MEP.Led successful projects including removal of most custom objects related to Procurement and Shop Floor within the ERP, a review and modification to demand and supply chain planning, item number consolidation across multiple ERPs, automated product label generation, Kanban processing and a custom time collection system for shop floor tracking. Participated in the design, development, deployment and support of a multi-national ordering system to facilitate the transfer of goods between a single foreign purchasing agency and multiple domestic sales units. Completed a system consolidation of 3 separate corporate entities' Purchasing process streams into a single consolidated stream. This included order approvals, order processing rules, status flows and output documents. Completed a successful company acquisition migration from SAP to JD Edwards ERP, including responsibilities for master data, manufacturing, supply chain planning, sales and procurement process streams.

Cottage Grove, Wisconsin

Performed production management duties while maintaining inventory and cost control measures in a customer-facing supply chain role managing top-level accounts. Additional duties included operational analysis supporting production, sales, engineering, quality, and operations groups.

Madison, Wisconsin

Managed prepress functions, preparing projects from inception to production across multiple platforms and using cutting edge software such as the Adobe Creative Suite. This included direct client collaboration while also supporting the manufacturing process where needed to deliver projects at the highest quality possible, on time, and meeting customer expectations.Images Plus is a full service, full color printing company based in Madison, Wisconsin. Established in 1984, we pride ourselves in our ability to provide top quality printing efficiently and at a great price. Over 25 years of experience give us the insight to turn your designs into reality on paper. Our pre-press is state of the art, with all of the latest in hardware and software. Our computer controlled presses ensure proper control and our expansive bindery can handle all of your needs!

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Information Technology Management; Business Management, 3.7

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Business Management, 3.7

Graduated with Magna Cum Laude honors.