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San Francisco, California, Us

Responsible for leading project teams and managing all activities in a project life-cycle associated with high visibility projects that are long-term across one or more lines of business and carry a substantial impact to the relevant businesses. Interacts with senior leadership and major stakeholders to establish strategic plans and objectives for programs or projects. Consults with business partners to clarify and define complex project requirements, budgets and business cases, including statements of work. Creates and delivers presentations on program or project goals and plans, including progress reports. Responsible for end-to-end program or project management, demonstrating ownership of the entire process from beginning to end. Develops and implements program and project level processes, procedures and performance metrics. Ensures program/project-related risks are managed according to the Project Management Policy.• On the highly visible and complex program eONE, responsible for onboarding systems of record to Wholesale approved provisioning point for general ledger data at instrument level for regulatory and compliance reporting.• Interacting with senior leadership and major stakeholders across multiple business and technical departments including Wholesale, Corporate Finance, Corporate Risk, and Enterprise Information Technology. • Tracking and monitoring project milestones to ensure adherence and corrective actions.• Ensuring project-related risks, issues, and changes are managed according to the Project Management Policy.

Responsible for leading project teams and managing all activities in a project life-cycle associated with high visibility projects that are long-term across one or more lines of business and carry a substantial impact to the relevant businesses. Interacts with senior leadership and major stakeholders to establish strategic plans and objectives for programs or projects. Consults with business partners to clarify and define complex project requirements, budgets and business cases, including statements of work. Creates and delivers presentations on program or project goals and plans, including progress reports. Responsible for end-to-end program or project management, demonstrating ownership of the entire process from beginning to end. Develops and implements program and project level processes, procedures and performance metrics. Ensures program/project-related risks are managed according to the Project Management Policy.• On the highly visible and complex program eONE, responsible for onboarding systems of record from Wholesale lines of business to the approved provisioning point for general ledger data at instrument level for regulatory and compliance reporting.• Interacting with senior leadership and major stakeholders across multiple business and technical departments including Wholesale, Corporate Finance, Corporate Risk, and Enterprise Information Technology. • Tracking and monitoring project milestones to ensure adherence and corrective actions.• Ensuring project-related risks, issues, and changes are managed according to the Project Management Policy.

Mooresville, Nc, Us

Managed development team of up to 12 employees (six onshore and six offshore) responsible for delivering Customer Data solutions in an operational data store utilizing IBM Master Data Management (MDM) and IBM Information Server (IIS), and a Customer Data Warehouse utilizing TeraData and Mainframe.• Managed the IBM MDM upgrade from 9.0.2 to 11.5, which will provide performance improvements, increase speed to delivery, and enable an improved omnichannel customer experience. Included managing 20+ external contractors and related sourcing activities, and managing relationship with software vendor (IBM).• Instrumental in growing our global workforce by identifying the correct talent for our Bangalore team, developing knowledge transfer plans executed by my team, and leveraging that talent by engaging the whole team in solutions design, development, and system upkeep.• Managed Phase 1 of the Acxiom Recognition Manager project, which brings enhanced customer data into the Customer Data Warehouse allowing more robust customer insights and opportunity for cleaner, more accurate customer data.• Managed completion of data clean-up efforts that reduced duplication in the Customer MDM database by 30% and coordinated efforts to prevent addition of inaccurate data.

Leuven, Be

As Tech Program Manager for Finance in North America Zone, collaborated with senior management in business unit, IT and Business Services to develop 1- and 3-year plans, ensuring projects were in alignment and executed according to sound methodology. Role expanded beyond Finance to include multiple departments. Managed a multi-year $6 million program in 2013-2014 and a $1.1 million program in 2012. Conducted testing of Sarbanes-Oxley control across relevant projects, mentoring project managers on requirements and best practices.• Managed the standardization of Canada general ledger accounts against the global chart of accounts, allowing for transparency across zones, which enabled the company to compare against benchmarks and identify process improvements.• Led $4 million program resulting in $2 million in quantifiable savings. Standardized IT landscape in applications portfolio (removed 26 via targeted platform migration and process transformation), infrastructure (removed 35 servers via common infrastructure and platform versions), and data (developed zone BI strategy and systems roadmap for Canadian business unit).• Led $2 million project to migrate legacy Visual Basic and mainframe functionality to SAP, providing better visibility to brewing operational and financial data, which enabled management to realize efficiencies, identify causes of financial variances and create actionable plans designed to improve financial performance.

Leuven, Be

Mentored eight project managers on process improvement initiatives on global projects (crossing five zones), ensuring delivery on time with expected quality based on project plan. Drove project structure and methodology by working with four streams to develop work plans, including interdependencies among projects and external dependencies, and establishing weekly/monthly routines. Tracked and monitored program milestones and costs to ensure adherence and corrective actions. Developed presentations for senior management and customers.

Leuven, Be

Managed planning and performance of the center, overseeing initiatives and evaluating performance.• Revitalized and re-launched BSC operating model in Canada, driving consistent governance across North America. Standardized key performance indicators, ensuring all zones in alignment with company goals. • Created dashboards that improved visibility to business results, making client meetings operate more smoothly because the data was more transparent.• Centralized Master Data Shared Services within BSC operations, creating synergies by housing related activities and streamlining and improving processes

Leuven, Be

Managed project team of 11+ resources, including external contractors, to deliver financial inventory project, placing all finished goods inventory tracking and valuation into SAP and calculating federal excise tax accruals. Effectively managed projects on zero-based budgeting, SAP purchasing and related master data and configuration, including complex dependencies of changes to material master valuation classes. • Reduced month-end close processing time by one day through the elimination four legacy systems. • Organized IT efforts to enable more accurate zero-based budget reporting by closing accounts and working across the business to ensure standardization of accounts.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Managed nine developers, business analysts and SAP configurators. Collaborated with finance, Supply and Storeroom Management to balance long-term strategies and short-term needs for services. Supported SAP functionality (MM, FI, CO) and Visual Basic/Oracle. Supported variance data in Business Objects XI reports.• Maintained Application Support and Development budgets of $1.2 million, consistently meeting or exceeding budget targets and customer expectations, even while facing challenges like an SAP ERP upgrade.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Managed six developers and business analysts. Responsible for budgetary control and reporting for Brewery Financial Control Costing support. Planned and executed strategies to uncover opportunities for cost reduction, standardization and process efficiencies, including mechanisms for reducing IT assistance, prioritizing work and managing resources. Managed project to develop financial variance reports.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Gathered requirements and delivered solutions. Developed interfaces, input screens and reports utilizing COBOL and other mainframe technologies, Visual Basic and Crystal Reporting.

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Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Vocal Performance

Bs, Computer Information Systems