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Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

EPMO IT portfolio/program/project management supporting the CVG and RTG business units.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

General IT portfolio/program/project management contract consulting to local and global companies.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Have held leadership roles throughout career on key strategic global business technology initiatives - core systems development, website development, BI development, IT consulting, to resource hiring and management, and portfolio/product ownership of key Supply Chain systems. A positive, can-do attitude drives the desire to deliver value to the business and team.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Led two global teams in a highly complex, continuously transforming organization. First team implemented first-to-market mobile application for the Animal Nutrition business unit, dairy business. The complex solution is based on a new mobile focused architecture that fully integrates with a public cloud, internal source systems and third-party data providers, a first for the corporation. Second team is implementing Salesforce.com to global business units along with developing a custom mobile application for use with Salesforce.com.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Portfolio Owner of the legacy warehouse management system ("WMS") used by 35 distribution centers ("DC's") that service over 1800 retail locations. This included leading existing managed service provider's global teams while transferring ownership back to our internal team.• Led global QA Testing and Release Management teams for 3 major releases of the legacy WMS.• Led global vendor team responsible for vendor automated storage and retrieval systems ("ASRS") software deployments to the DC's.• Directed $5MM stability investment for Distribution and Transportation systems.• Reduced release downtime to zero by facilitating continuous improvements across global multi-contractor and Target teams that improved processes, governance, and communication.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Headed application portfolio for business capabilities within core marketing group. Reconciled functionality, health, and cost of major platforms in portfolio with business capability roadmap.• Partnered with key business partners, reviewing vendors, and selecting new email platform vendor.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Led $10MM+ portfolio technology investments that impacted legacy WMS software and software implementations to 35 distribution centers.This included managing through the transferring of responsibilities over to a managed service provider.• Directed 6 major releases while maintaining highest level of quality and stability across network.• Doubled IT Distribution team project capacity by improving vetting and hiring process of only qualified contractor project managers and moving high performers to fill the gaps on strategic programs.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Led 5 project teams comprised of 100+ global (onsite, offshore, and near-shore) team members and contractors that developed new external portal, giving 100K+ vendor partners and employees access to new functionality, enhanced security, and easier / quicker access to vital business relationship information.• Led teams responsible for portal development using Microsoft SharePoint 2010, new technology integration (Oracle Identify Management v10), data cleansing and migration, and integration with numerous legacy systems across multiple platforms.• Directed integration of 30+ legacy WebFOCUS and MicroStrategy reports, legacy applications, and rewrite of legacy from ATG to Java Spring framework.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Led development of the reporting system for industry-leading custom web-based vendor income agreement documentation and collection (vendor income processing or "VIP") system and directed 2 software releases for VIP program.• Guided team on delivery of data warehousing solution, reporting, and analytics using WebFOCUS and MicroStrategy.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Led custom software development projects consisting of onshore and offshore resources for supply chain and non-retail supply chain, including multiple project teams, resource management, and team development.• Improved item data setup accuracy and speed to market by over 100% by implementing 1st-direct data loads from vendor, McKesson, supplier for pharmacy products.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Led full life-cycle software development projects as project manager and business analyst.• Increased revenue $1MM+ within 1st year by developing and implementing intelligent markdown system that based markdowns by store by day.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Led all aspects of recruiting key engineering personnel and technology development projects. • Conducted business systems analysis and design, project management, user interface design, database design and development, and client relationship management on multiple projects, including leading B2C eCommerce website development project for client that included collaborating with NYC design firm.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Directed business systems development projects ($2K — $200K) and supported core systems used by PRG and 25 regional sales offices. Managed design, testing, and implementation of enhancements. Hired and directed core systems support team.• Reduced system defects 75% by initiating and governing software QA program.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Developed custom Business Intelligence systems (date warehouses and reporting applications) for various clients and developed a custom ERP for a local large franchisee.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Worked on various system development efforts including warehouse management, and was key member to start Business Intelligence ("BI") and Data Warehousing at Target.

Stevens Point, Wi

Bachelor Of Business Administration, Management Information Systems

Masters Certificate In Project Management