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Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Us

Leading the technology and product organizations in support of Bluestem Brands' technology solution delivery. Primary focus is the Northstar brand of Bluestem's portfolio. Northstar is led by Fingerhut, a long-standing fintech company. Fingerhut fuses our extensive years of data modeling and real-time data analytics through machine learning to provide flexible payment options for our valued customers looking to establish, build or rebuild credit.Bluestem Brands, Inc., is a Top 100 Internet Retailer and parent company to 4 retail brands. Bluestem Brands combines Northstar, a fintech company, and Orchard Brands a direct-to-consumer retailer of fashion.

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Us

Leading the technology organization in support of Bluestem Brands' technology solutions. Primary focus is the Northstar brand of Bluestem's portfolio. Northstar is led by Fingerhut, a long-standing fintech company. Fingerhut fuses our extensive years of data modeling and real-time data analytics through machine learning to provide flexible payment options for our valued customers looking to establish, build or rebuild credit.Bluestem Brands, Inc., is a Top 100 Internet Retailer and parent company to 5 retail brands. Bluestem Brands combines Northstar, a fintech company, and Orchard Brands a direct-to-consumer retailer of fashion.

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Us

Leading the engineering team in support of Bluestem Brands' operational systems for the retail and credit business areas. Primary focus is the Northstar brand of Bluestem's portfolio. Northstar is led by Fingerhut, a long-standing fintech company. Fingerhut fuses our extensive years of data modeling and real-time data analytics through machine learning to provide flexible payment options for our valued customers looking to establish, build or rebuild credit.Bluestem Brands, Inc., is a Top 100 Internet Retailer and parent company to 5 retail brands. Bluestem Brands combines Northstar, a fintech company, and Orchard Brands a direct-to-consumer retailer of fashion.

St. Paul, Minnesota, Us

Responsible for the application support and service delivery functions for Johnson Brothers. This included managing the lifecycle of the full application portfolio, driving enhanced features and functionality, increasing adoption and usage, and driving optimized development best practices of Johnson Brother's custom-built applications. Johnson Brothers is a leading wine, spirits, and beer distributor, providing world class service to customers across the U.S. We’ve been in business for more than 66 years, representing industry-leading suppliers as well as the best local brands.

Sansoro Health, Inc. and Datica Health, LLC announced in June 2019 that they merged, offering a self-service platform for securing cloud-based applications and integrating patient data from multiple sources. The company now provides the most complete, cloud-based platform available to accelerate healthcare’s transformation to a data-driven future. It achieves this by mitigating the complexity and risk of integrating and using health data in the cloud.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Responsible for the overall planning, organizing, and execution of all Information Technology functions at Sansoro Health. This includes directing all IT operations to meet customer requirements as well as the support and maintenance of our core product, Emissary, and development of new technical solutions in support of our business strategy. I've been a part of Sansoro Health as it has grown and raised $14.5 million in capital and focused on changing the technology landscape for Health Care.Sansoro Health has focused on making it easy to exchange health care data in real-time between digital health applications and Electronic Health Record (EHR) applications. Sansoro’s core product, Emissary, is a set of standard APIs that allows real-time read & write access to EHR data so 3rd parties can develop a quick and secure plug-and-play software solution to help solve a crucial problem in health care interoperability.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Supported Incident, Problem, Knowledge, Event, Change, and Release Management ITIL/ITSM functions for entire Target Technology Services (TTS) department, driving best practice service operations for all team members and vendors. Teams were co-located in the United States and Bangalore, IndiaLed effort to stand up a Technology Operations Center for both locations (Mpls and India) which was Target corporation's first effort to build out a 24x7 command and operations center, focusing on monitoring critical systems, responding immediately to major incidents, and restoring services as quickly as possible. Utilized effective communication and leadership skills to lead interdisciplinary analytics teams, leveraging IT operations data through multiple reporting technologies and portals that assist with analysis, trending, and operational reporting. Maintained own data warehouse, allowing team to support both IT Operations and broader TTS reporting where all data was sourced from ServiceNow application of record.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Drove strategic initiatives for finance partners, actively supporting portfolio development functions. Managed accounts payable, inventory valuation, revenue accounting, accounts receivable, billing capabilities, and employee expense business capabilities for Finance Business Technology Team. Directed SAP gaps, enterprise intersections, and cross Business Process Operations partnerships as well as various projects, driving capability strategy and road mapping of defined capabilities which included both portfolio and financial management.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Coordinated vendor selection process for BackOffice Associates, introducing new partners to SAP program replacing Target's Financial legacy systems. Assisted with data migration effort, documenting and completing analysis phase for all negotiations, and implementing SAP Financials for more efficient migration. Managed project plans and teams, ensuring project was completed on time and exceeded all organization goals and standards. Led project and deliverables of a Request for Information process, narrowing list of potential System Integrators included in future Request for Proposal, successfully recommending the select system integrator for the Financial Suite implementation of SAPDelivered Total Cost of Acquisition, providing negotiation support to select Financial Suite Vendor (ultimately SAP) for replacing Target's Financial legacy systems. In addition, coordinated various other projects as well as providing content review and submissions for the overall RFP and selection of SAP.

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Directed and implemented Oracle’s e-Business Suite which included manufacturing, purchasing, inventory, order management, and finance. Mapped out business processes for individual operation groups to Oracle’s e-Business Suite, designing needed modifications, customizing gap resolutions, facilitating User-acceptance testing, training end-users, and supporting go-live cutover to new system. Managed interdisciplinary teams of analysts, subject matter experts, and other knowledge experts, gathering business requirements and formulating those requirements in a standard template for scenario identification.Developed use cases which were categorized based upon business function and were used as an abstraction of essential system and user interactions. Implemented sourcing model including drafting training documentation for external suppliers who utilized new module and provided demonstration of functionality for multiple buyers within purchasing department. Designed external repair process utilizing standard Oracle Discrete Manufacturing functionality and additional configurations within the system.

Cleveland, Oh, Us

Led multi-phase project, implementing Oracle’s supply chain planning tool (Advanced Supply Chain Planning) for Valspar’s business groups. Installed Oracle’s sales forecasting tool (Oracle Demand Planning) on a pilot project which including investigating demand planning system and evaluating benefits for group while mapping current forecasting process. Improved lean manufacturing and made-to-order business models by partnering with Valspar’s largest business group in massive redesign and implementation project. Determined lean model while also incorporating business requirements of business group, resulting in significant reduction in system interaction.

Cleveland, Oh, Us

Managed direction of new data conversion approach, focusing on repeatability for future projects which became data conversion standard methodology for new business groups. Directed conversion tasks among multiple programmer analysts, facilitating schedules with other managers, converting legacy data in a fast-paced yet reliable manner. Increased corporate purchasing savings through accurately managing and designing supplier contract and pricing enhancement for Oracle’s 11i eBusiness Suite ERP system which was developed using Oracle Forms and reports, overall minimizing customization.Developed and designed java-based custom production capacity and scheduling tool, leveraging data from ERP package and enhancing the tool limitations while adding support for web-based user interface.

Mba, Masters-Business Administration

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science

Masters Certificate For Business Analysis, Information Technology