Director Applications
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
Accountable for IT Applications and respective staff.Led Transformational Change• Project Director for a SAP ERP implementation followed by implementations of SAP’s Business Intelligence (BI), Advance Planning & Optimization (APO), Customer Resource Management (CRM), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), and Plant MaintenanceBuild a Great Team• Transitioned staff from business areas and hired business skilled employees, trained them in SAP configuration, change management and requirement gathering. Built Risk based IT Governances• Post SAP implementation, transitioned from a single project to supporting SAP plus managing a portfolio of projects. Built our project methodology, project reporting, resource planning, prioritization processes, and our capital and expense forecasting/planning processes• Over time the project methodology was optimized to adjust to risk, minimizing overhead on low risk projects and fitting our company’s distain for too much process