Michael Wetzel Email & Phone Number

Hummelstown, Pa, Us

Hershey, Pennsylvania, Us

Delivery of technology solutions which have allowed the company to realize several years of incredible revenue generation and growth in digital commerce. (2020-2023)Leading incredibly talented teams in owning all aspects of technology enablement for Media, Advertising, Digital Marketing, B2B Commerce, Product Syndication to retailer.com sites, and Consumer/Customer Privacy.Assisting in the strategy to drive Generative AI into and throughout the entire organization for productivity gains.Leading a culturally diverse team and broadly implemented a High Performing Teams model across the IT organization.Continuing mentorship of future leaders across multiple functions within the company – including Women’s Business Groups.Key speaker for many events including Google’s “Food for Thought”, SAP roundtable discussions, ShopTalk roundtable discussions, and Adobe Experience.Keynote speaker on behalf of Harrisburg University discussing creative technology innovation with MBA candidates.

Hershey, Pennsylvania, Us

Led the effort to transform ways of working within the Commercial IS Digital organization by implementing a SAFe Agile framework.Played the role of Release Train Engineer (RTE) for all SAFe Agile work within the Commercial Digital portfolio.Act as the Solution Manager for Digital Marketing to realize their desired, technology-enabled outcomes. Led groups of exceptional team members to: - Stabilize the current brand.com environment and secure funding for a full-blown platform reinvention using Adobe Experience Manager (AEM).- Implement a new Digital Asset Management (DAM) platform on Adobe Experience Manager (AEM). - Own all aspects of our Product Information Management (PIM) and the downstream flow of data to various systems.Mentored a group of talented women as a leader of a Women in Supply Chain & Technology pod.Earned certifications in Prosci Change Management & SAFe Agile – Scrum Master.

Hershey, Pennsylvania, Us

Promoted to Senior Manager one year after previous promotion.Consulted on and frequently quoted in a Harvard Business Review (HBR) article on "The Workplace Evolution"Spoke on "Digital Transformation" at the Digital Workplace Experience Conference in Chicago. Showcased in a Microsoft Customer Success story in September 2016 for our work in deploying Office 365, driving adoption, and leveraging an intranet-as-a-service to reinvent the employee experience. (https://customers.microsoft.com/en-US/story/hershey-office365)Act as the liaison for Corporate Communications to transform their business through leveraging technology so they can realize their desired outcomes.Meet frequently with senior business leaders to help define solutions to enhance their collaboration and drive productivity within their global teams. Responsible for increasing awareness, adoption, and proficiency in using Office 365, OneDrive, SharePoint, Delve, and Yammer among our knowledge workers.Provide strategic oversight in enhancing our intranet experience and enterprise search capabilities.Define the strategic vision and lead all aspects of Unified Communications using Cisco, WebEx, Telepresence, & Skype for Business. Own the technical intern program and all recruiting for intern and full-time roles. 1. Plan and executed the recruiting strategy.2. Lead on-campus recruiting efforts at our targeted schools. 3. Mentor interns with varying roles across the organization.

Hershey, Pennsylvania, Us

Act as the liaison for Corporate Communications, Human Resources, & Finance to transform their business through leveraging technology so they can realize their desired outcomes.Meet frequently with key business leaders to help define solutions to enhance their collaboration and drive productivity within their global teams. Responsible for increasing awareness, adoption, and proficiency in using O365, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Yammer among our knowledge workers. Took over the technical intern program and all recruiting for intern and full-time roles. 1. Enable the development of a new strategy for technical recruiting.2. Mentor interns with varying roles across the organization.3. Plan and executed the recruiting strategy.4. Lead on-campus recruiting efforts at our targeted schools.

Hershey, Pennsylvania, Us

Was a speaker at Microsoft's Ignite conference in Chicago during the first week of May 2015 in regard to implementing technology and driving adoption of enterprise social networks. (Office 365/Yammer)Meet frequently with key business leaders to help define solutions to enhance their collaboration and drive productivity within their global teams. Responsible for increasing awareness, adoption, and proficiency in using O365, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Yammer among our knowledge workers. Promoted to Manager in 2014 in "Advanced Productivity and Collaboration Services" with a focus on gaining even greater adoption of the platforms and tools rolled out in the previous year.

Hershey, Pennsylvania, Us

Featured speaker at Microsoft's Mid-Atlantic CIO Summit in August of 2014. Over 150 CIO's from the Mid-Atlantic region participated.Conducted many in-person sessions with VP's, Director's, and "C" Suite members to drive adoption of Yammer and Office 365 through demonstrating the business value. Led efforts to create a refreshed intranet platform to leverage it as a key communication channel for our employees.Co-led a company-wide initiative to roll out innovative new technologies to drive global collaboration and productivity for about 6,000 knowledge workers. That effort included the following:1. Program brand development and change management campaigns.2. Current hardware/software evaluation and remediation.3. Coordination of efforts to deploy new solid state drive laptops, Windows 7, Office 2013 productivity suite.4. Industry leading adoption of Yammer as our enterprise social network.5. Roll out of Office 365, OneDrive, and SharePoint Online & SharePoint 2013 (hybrid).Began in this role by being the technical liaison to our Corporate Communications team.

Hershey, Pennsylvania, Us

Provided thought leadership to drive BI leaders to think differently about providing a fast and convenient experience for our business partners through data marts and mobility. Helped to facilitate discussions between business partners and our technical team to identify business outcomes with "big data" to drive actionable insights.Responsible for overnight batch cycles and participated in an on-call rotation.Began my career at Hershey in Business Intelligence working with SAP-BW, Business Objects, Teradata, and various other technologies.

Harrisburg, Pa, Us

Exceptional focus on delivering high quality service and solutions to JPL's largest and most prestigious clients.Responsible (along with others) for driving solutions from initial sale to implementation to exceed our clients' expectations.Worked closely with IS and Marketing leaders from a major Fortune 500 client to enhance their digital presence worldwide.Demonstrated the business value of solution outcomes to several "C" suite members.

Harrisburg, Pa, Us

Built out several areas within the organization to drive a high functioning development center of excellence: 1. Recruited talent and grew a Technical Project Management team for defining solutions. 2. Built out a strong quality assurance team with associated processes. 3. Formed strong partnerships with trusted partners to scale adequately for solution delivery.Moved quickly into a managerial role which was responsible for: 1. Oversight of our development team. 2. Participating in client meetings to conceptually architect solutions for their needs. 3. Resource allocation and budgeting. 4. Estimation of costs and timing for client solutions. 5. Ensuring solutions were done on time and under budget. 6. Project management of some of our more complex solutions for Fortune 500's.Began at JPL as a .NET developer building custom content management and website solutions for our clients.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

Led Rite Aid efforts to change antiquated CICS screens into .NET pages through heavy coordination with off-shore teams.Learned objected-oriented programming along with the .NET framework starting with .NET 1.1.Worked on an on-call rotation for batch jobs and data processing.Began my career with Cobol and JCL on an OS390.