Peter Dowd Email & Phone Number

Responsible for all Sales and Services at Ascent Solutions. - Team Leadership across Sales, Professional Services, and Managed Services- Business Planning and Oversight- Customer Success- Client Executive EngagementAscent is your consulting partner built to help companies secure their environments, unify their Microsoft technology investments, and manage their deployed solutions. Ascent provides organizations with the expertise needed to quickly move beyond technical constraints and focus on achieving business results through client-focused consulting and delivery excellence.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsible for the Services organization at Ascent. - Team Leadership - Customer Success - Client Executive Engagement - Business Planning and Oversight - Sales SupportWith our world class talent and innovative delivery models, Ascent Solutions team helps businesses succeed through the transformative use of technology.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsible for building the Ascent Solutions IT Strategy practice to enable our clients to drive outstanding results through IT strategy and transformation. Our team brings together substantial experience leading and guiding traditional corporate IT organizations with expertise in enabling technologies including cloud and cyber. Once a strategy is built, Ascent brings innovative processes and tools to build strong alignment and a sound plan.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Provide IT Management Consulting services for a local mid-tier financial institution. Conducted an end-to-end assessment of the existing Development lifecycle. Create recommendations to improve development productivity and prepare for a DevOps model to support transformative new technologies.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsible for all Enterprise software platforms including BI / Analytics, Data Management, Security, Integration, Mobility, and Automation. Global team of 150+ employees and 250+ contractors.Modernized the BI / Analytics technology portfolio to enable enterprise class capabilities for 50,000 store users and 6,000 merchandising users. Integrated traditional BI tools with Mobile and Big Data capabilities. Transformed a fragmented Infrastructure-focused set of teams into a cohesive organization delivering innovative architecture, strong development partnership, and agile delivery. Expanded security engineering portfolio and team in the year after Target's data breach. Achieved PCI and SOX compliance.Enabled enterprise-wide deployment of mobile technology improving Stores productivity and HQ employee engagement.Refreshed Distribution Center infrastructure across 38 locations.Led multiple Enterprise-level contract negotiations.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Hired by Vice President, Strategy, Planning, and Enterprise Architecture to develop a comprehensive Enterprise Architecture program. Managed team of 50. Transitioned to lead Merchandising, Distribution, Transportation, and Healthcare Architecture team with 20 senior architects.Rebuilt Enterprise Architecture team and approach within Target. Drove development of a Long-Range Modernization plan for Merchandising and Supply Chain. Established the foundation for Enterprise APIs by developing an Enterprise Integration Strategy and organizational structure in partnership with Development and Infrastructure.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Led Development Center of Excellence (COE) for a major retail client. Accountable for all Integration between core systems including Stores, Merchandising, Supply Chain, Corporate Systems and Digital. Global team of 40+ team members and 80+ contractors. Transformed Integration development to improve cost profile and speed to market. Established an API development team using Agile methods to enable critical business services. Productized integration offerings for Item, Inventory, and Supply Chain.Led $36M IT Simplification Program Office focused on improving overall agility within the client's IT environment.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Reported to Director, Enterprise Architecture.Led bestbuy.com architecture team through an end-to-end website transformation. Team included 20+ architects accountable for all aspects of architecture – application, integration, data, and infrastructure. Drove a technology architecture to support new business needs such as multiple brands, multiple countries, and multiple languages through a single platform.Enabled continued business growth through scalable architecture. The previous architecture had reached its scalability ceiling.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Reported to General Manager, Minneapolis Office.Responsible for all proposal creation and service delivery for the office. Delivered new call center solution for local Financial Services client. Recruited, hired, and developed a team of 5 consultants in nine months after office startup.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Technology program leader for large Oracle ERP implementations at multiple manufacturing companies. Led teams of 25-40 through full lifecycle efforts and waved implementations. Implemented Oracle Supply Chain and Manufacturing across 5 plants and divisional headquarters. Planned and managed Development team for a Global implementation of Oracle Supply Chain and Corporate Applications at a large high-technology manufacturer. Led practice-wide Technology Advisory team to drive delivery efficiencies in future projects.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Managed product and vendor selection processes to support re-engineering projects.

Houston, Texas Area

Team lead for Financial Systems support in Upstream Accounting.

Mpa, Information Systems Management

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