Barbara Peterson Email & Phone Number

Los Altos, Ca, Us

Los Altos, California

Los Altos, California, United States

Santa Clara, California

Responsible for recruiting, creating and managing the Keysight HRIS Team to support 10,000 global Keysight employees and 5,000 contingent workers for Keysight Technologies Day One, and driving end-to-end process design / transformation initiatives and new system implementation. ● Created and managed the new Keysight HRIS team, resulting in accurate payroll and benefits for 10,000 global employees in 29 countries and zero audit comments for data privacy and SOX● Analyzed existing HR core capabilities and built current state process flow diagrams, highlighting different HR applications, process activities and resource requirements, identifying non-value add activities and lack of system integration, resulting in executive approval to move all HR functions from on premise HR systems to an integrated system in the Cloud● Spearheaded and program managed the change from on premise HR systems to the SAP SuccessFactors for all HR core capabilities, including Recruiting/Onboarding, Learning, Performance/ Goals Management, Compensation, Succession/Development and Data Analytics, resulting in an integrated, mobile and modern HR platform● Created the Cloud release management strategy and governance model, resulting in a compliant and accurate quarterly release strategy● Developed and managed an audit process for all acquisition data migrations to ensure employee data accuracy, resulting in zero data fallouts in the data migration and 99.7% data accuracy / on-time implementation

Santa Clara, Ca

Responsible for managing vendor relationships and contract negotiations to ensure business targets were met, and identifying continuous process improvement and growth initiatives.● Managed global vendor governance models, negotiations, statements of work (SOW) / contracts and business reviews for suppliers including Microsoft, Orange, Tibco, Spotfire, Gartner, HP, Jive, Symantec and Sarus, resulting in over $7M cost savings

Santa Clara, California

Responsible for identifying and driving best in class, end-to-end process design for all Global Infrastructure Organizations (GIO), including collaboration with Corporate and Business Finance Operations, Corporate Development, Sales Compensation, Engineering, Product Development, R&D, IT, Environment, Health and Safety, Intellectual Property (IP) and Legal teams.● Created and published the new Lean Six Sigma Simplified Model to build a faster paced innovative culture, enabling continuous improvement projects to complete in 2 - 4 weeks vs. 6 months, resulting in over $34M hard cost savings. Received Innovation Group Award ● Orchestrated and Led Genomics New Product Introduction (NPI) Lean Project collaborating with senior management, project champions and cross functional owners to create new processes and metrics, resulting in time to market reduction from 42 days to 19.6 days for FY11 orders of $18.6M and 2.4M monthly impact● Initiated cross-functional team, including engineering, to impact Custom SureSelect Manufacturing Time Reduction and defined solutions, resulting in shorter lead times from order-to-customer delivery from 6 to 3 weeks● Spearheaded and led Pay for Results (PFR) Lean Project, resulting in a reduction of non-value add process activities by 70% and increased accuracy● Created Lean Six Sigma Intellectual Property (IP) project, resulting in a reduction of IP annual core spend rate from $33M to $15M and elimination of 80% non-value add activities. Received Group Innovation Award● Collaborated with financial and revenue operations and led Indirect Accrual / Cash Transactions Lean Project, resulting in a reduction of manual JV lines requiring review by 70% and a new automated workflow tool for PO owner notification with 98% response rate and $1M savings based on fewer resource requirements. Received Innovation Group Award● Led refinement of the Letter of Credit process, reducing DSO by 7 days, resulting in $1.6M savings.

Santa Clara, Ca

Responsible for creating and managing a cross business / functional Enterprise Data Governance Program, collaborating with Program and Business Leads to define global data standards and write policies and procedures

Santa Clara, Ca

-Established, implemented and managed Enterprise Oracle Data Standards framework, with responsibility for defining data standards across all subject areas and modules