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Savartus has over 40 years of Data Management and Storage expertise. We provide end-to-end solutions, including our SOPHIA AI-Enabled Unified Data Interface, Archive Data Migration & Managed Services, Tape Backup & Restore, and Enterprise Laser Storage (ELS) Optical Data Archive Systems, backed by superb customer service and global support.

Technology, Product Strategy, Sales and Executive Leadership and Consulting.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

• Responsible for collaborating with cross-functional leaders on product strategy, analytics, sales, and marketing strategy as we navigate product and operational transformations; leads strategy on developing the next.
• Leads development of SaaS platform to integrate legacy and competitive hardware with new software solutions to extend the value with existing and new customer base.
• Leads products and services strategy to build out data-driven, predictive functionality into the platform that will utilize machine learning and AI.
• Leads corporate positioning, brand, global sales, go-to market strategies and extend product portfolio in existing and new markets.
• Analyzes company data to segment customers and inform sales strategies.
• Engages with customers, prospects on product enhancements, UX, adoption, company penetration.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

Plymouth, MN, US

• Guided this privately held, international enterprise quality management software and precision measurement hardware devices company through a transformation.
• Led turnaround and organizational transformation to grow the company by 20% CAGR. Divested unperforming segment of the business to fund investment for product development and growth.
• Transformed product portfolio, product management, sales, marketing and delivery as we repositioned ourselves in the market while retaining existing customers.
• Led Industry 4.0 / Digital Transformation in production and quality moving from on-premises to SaaS.
• Actively involved in selling and collaborating with customers on developing their strategies and implementations as well as informing our product development.
• Defined, built, managed metrics across company for efficiency, effectiveness; led KPI’s and adoption.

Plymouth, MN, US

Minnetonka, MN, US

• Member of Executive Team responsible for collaborating across functions on strategy, operational, financial, and growth planning. Responsible for leading 180+ FTEs globally in Sales Operations and Management, Account.
• Drove organizational transformation through an implementation of SAP in 13 months while driving organizational and behavioral change through innovation, leveraging 3rd party applications, and streamlined processes to.
• Managed and leveraged global outsourced teams.
• Managed key client relationships, grew revenues, and responsible for managing and growing the largest account with annual average revenues of $180M.
• Managed implementation and on-going operations of e-Commerce, ERP & Advanced Planning Systems and oversaw design and prototype development, implementing multi-site systems consulting on systems strategy spanning.
• Managed product strategy, operations, and sales and oversaw Digital Rights Management product strategy from product management through development, operations, sales, and go-to-market.

Minnetonka, MN, US

Led global organization of 50+ FTEs delivering outsourced e-Commerce solutions to CE clients including Philips, Kodak, Nikon, Logitech, Lenovo, Acer, Canon, HP, and over thirty others. P&L responsibility and provided executive leadership to the organization including Account Management, Project Management, User Experience, Development and QA located in the.

Minnetonka, MN, US

• Responsible for architecting and implementing SAP and other complex internal systems to support the operational processes and change management throughout the organization. Led team of 120+ people (direct and indirect).
• In 2010 team successfully delivered 44 client and project launches, across 92 locales, for 19 unique CE clients – while launching several new high-profile brands – including Nikon, Acer, Lenovo.
• Phase One (Aug 2008 - Sept 2009): $42M roll-out of financials, sales, distribution, human resources, resource management, costing rules engine, procurement, data management, reporting, business analytics and necessary.
• Phase Two (Oct 2009 through Jun 2010): $10M implementation of global supply chain and distribution management.

Minnetonka, MN, US

• Led global account management, solution delivery, and operations organization providing outsourced e-Commerce solutions to Digital River's largest client - Symantec, the world's fourth largest software company - a.
• In addition to a CAGR of over 36% during that period, the team met or exceeded all defined revenue, profitability and operational KPIs during that time.
• Deepened relationships and expanded sales inside of account and grew revenue from $35M to $180M over 4 years. Heavily leveraged statistical analysis (A/B testing) on the UX to continuously drive revenue improvements.
• Team led provided full spectrum e-Commerce services to Digital River clients - designing, building, operating, and supporting online stores in over 50 countries, over 30 languages, 39 currencies, and 30 payment.

Minnetonka, MN, US

Responsible for client success with leadership of the delivery and client facing teams. Managed the Software Engineers, QA and IT team for Payment Processing of over $800m. Implemented several new, localized payment options worldwide resulting in top-line revenues of over $10 million.

Minnetonka, MN, US

Led a team of 160+ software engineers, web designers and quality assurance that supported 1,000+ customers. Implemented process and technology changes in the release process that reduced production related incidents by over 80%. Implemented the organizations first staff augmentation of outsourced QA technicians in India.

北京市, CN

Responsible for strategic systems and implementation consulting. Led teams through business requirements, systems design/selection, and implementations.

北京市, CN

Responsible for development and implementation of knowledge harvesting and use across Audit, Tax and Consulting.

Cleveland, OH, US

Systems consulting and implementation.

Systems implementations (ERP, Financial, HR, EDI, and Networking)

Master Applied Data Science

Mba, Operations Management

Bsba, Accounting

Diploma

Green Belt Certification