Susan Appleton Email & Phone Number

Lowell, Massachusetts, United States

Technical Program Manager for UKG's AI & Data Science team.Drive operationalization of AI projects.Increase AI Quality and Reliability by using data and reports to drive accountability.

Lowell, Massachusetts, United States

Program Manager in Cloud Systems organization.Improved organizational processes - increasing efficiencyCreated and delivered BI reports highlighting Cloud system processes and issues.

Lowell, Massachusetts, United States

Member of the Cloud Project Management Team on the Tenant Rebalancing project. Currently providing data analysis to enable the team to determine the tenant’s current status, configurations and complexity.

Bellevue, Wa

Lead multiple projects in a fast-paced, collaborative, cross-functional environment.Responsible for planning and managing enterprise projects to successful completion within deadlines.Negotiated to balance the needs of project stakeholders.Facilitated team meetings effectively ensuring clear communication and ownership.

Bellevue, Wa

The Delivery Excellence team was built to document the process to run successful and profitable Waterfall and Agile client projects. As a member of this 4-person team, Susan created or collected the best practices to manage client project from initial proposal, SOW, team selection, client communication, development, quality assurance, deployment, client demonstration and end-user support. In addition, Susan had a portfolio of client projects to manage. These included:• Microsoft, SMB Power BI ImplementationManaged a team providing digital analytics for the Microsoft SMB Marketing team. Tasks included data source discovery, data analysis, creating report mockups, and Power BI visualizations.• Microsoft, Dynamics CRM Power BI ImplementationScrum Master for a Scrum team providing digital analytics for the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Marketing team. Tasks included data source discovery, data analysis, creating report mockups, and Power BI visualizations. Project managed using Agile methodology.• Dollar Shave Club, Adobe Analytics with DTM ImplementationManaged the implementation of Adobe Analytics for web and mobile properties. Project involved non-standard architecture, increasing complexity and required frequent, detailed communication with the client team.• Rotary International, Adobe Analytics ImplementationManaged the implementation of Adobe Analytics with Dynamic Tag Management (DTM). Project required in-depth coordination with several client teams.

Redmond, Wa

In a technical role, rebuilt a fragmented set of projects and processes. Provided structure and documentation for the SMB Marketing program, including the specific business rules now used by the program for Customer List pulls and Lead Uploads.• Working with the SMSC (India), and Data Stewards, identified data quality issues between key Marketing databases. Assisted in the problem definition and desired outcome• Performed data quality analysis to complete and close two pre-existing projects that were poorly documented. Engaged in three smooth-running projects with clear objectives, timelines and deliverables.

Oakland, California

Assessed Kaiser Permanente's existing PPM toolset and overall maturity for Project Management, Portfolio Management, Resource Management, Document Management and Team Collaboration. Recommended specific technology and organizational changes to enable KP to climb the PPM Maturity Model. • Conducted 16 stakeholder interviews to determine requirements. Documented features of 19 existing in-house project management tools. Deliverable was a Business Requirements Document for a SaaS Project Portfolio Management Tool.• Compared existing tool features to ideal features based on PPM industry standards. Deliverable was a Tools Gap Assessment and a Summary Findings deck

Redmond, Wa

Transformed the customer support business by creating a rules-based, systematic way to evaluate new business cases. Previously, all business cases were entered into the pipeline. • Developed a new methodology and process to prioritize Global Customer Support projects for maximum business impact, while aligning with the DES organization.• Evangelized the new prioritization and portfolio management (PPM) process with release management, IT development and supporting business teams.• Participated in the design of a new UI process via Project Server/SharePoint to capture the new fields and workflows necessary to support.

Redmond, Wa

The project goal was to create a new method to provide all-up and drill-down views of IT costs for Microsoft IT. New data sources and tools were evaluated along with new business rules and calculations. • Created and documented the process to pull source data systematically, clean, and transform it. (ETL)• Evaluated technical solutions from (Zap, Apptio and Microsoft) in terms of cost, benefit and time frames. • Wrote the SQL queries to source pivot tables, vlookups and PowerView to deeply understand data relationships and data quality.• Created UI report mock-ups in Visio, presented them to the stakeholders, lead discussions and modify mock-ups accordingly.

Redmond, Wa

Provided IT Project Management, Requirements Gathering, Requirements Documentation (BRD), User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Impact Analysis services for the projects in the BI for IT program. • Created deliverables (Communications, Project Kickoff deck, Pre-Baseline deck, Business Requirements Document, UAT plan, UAT scripts, UAT results, and Project Release announcement) for 2 EDW Scorecard releases and 2 IT Decision Center releases.• Successfully ran User Acceptance Testing for all releases.• Wrote a simple, easy-to-read document to describe a complex technical scorecard metric automation process for use by the IT community.• Analyzed the opportunity/cost of increasing SQL Server refresh frequency for IT Decision Center. Results were delivered in a white paper to the business owner.

Created and managed cross-functional teams to support sales channel reporting and employee commissions. The team included developers, analysts and a project manager.• Proposed and managed a new business intake and project prioritization process.• Designed on-boarding and training processes for 8 new staff members on the team. Processes were then replicated for all other teams in the department.

Lead the design and development of an online (available 24/7) sales reporting system through numerous successful deployments over a period of 3 years. Subject Matter Expert (SME) for sales channel taxonomies, sales compensation and reporting.• Successfully project managed the on-time delivery of numerous reporting projects for field and senior executives, including C-level.• Defined and documented all IT data sources, business rules and metrics for sales reports and dashboards. • Provided direct trouble-shooting and technical expertise to field sales management regarding sales activation data as it flowed from T-Mobile IT systems, into BI team’s SQL Server boxes via ETL processes, and finally into the reports.• Created and lead requirements sessions with sales leadership team for the purpose of turning the annual operating plan into operational metrics (KPI) and reports.