Leading key design, integration, and implementation of ADM Plant Execution internal IT solutions to the new global SAP S/4 Hana ecosystem.

The opportunity to play a key role in a full scale global technology and business transformation of THE world's premier agricultural origination and processing company doesn't come along very often. Some say it's a once in a lifetime experience. Our breadth, depth, insights, facilities and logistical expertise give us unparalleled capabilities to meet needs for food, beverages, health and wellness, and these are exciting times at ADM!In this role, I'm playing a part to help shape the future of ADM for the next 100 years. Setting new industry standards and strategic advantage. Driving standardization and developing agility across the company, changing the culture and innovating new ways of working.

► Michael Allen - Manager - IT Scale Logistics & Online Inventory TeamsBuilding shareholder value and providing competitive advantage, guided by ADM global business initiatives across all corporate divisions, by delivering innovative, fast, and efficient automated processing solutions built specifically to meet ADM's complex global needs, and provide our customers with a user experience worthy of one of the world's largest agricultural processors.◙ Manager of the Global IT Scale Business Analysis team◙ Manager of the Global IT Scale Application Development team | Order/ticket processing, quality assurance, and logistics automation that adds value to the manufacturing and processing operations of ADM.◙ Manager of the Online Inventory Services (OIS) team | Vendor managed inventory solutions that help create strong relationships with ADM's customers while making inventory management more accurate and reliable.◙ Product Manager for internal ADM Weigh scale logistics/order fulfillment suite of applications. ► PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS + RESULTS Meeting with key stakeholders, coordinating with third party vendors, and working closely with the software development team, we delivered on one of the most advanced kiosk automation systems of its kind. Pilot Results: Along with infrastructure changes, truck bean processing efficiencies increased from typical 3 hour wait times down to 30 minutes or less -- allowing farmers to haul 3+ more truckloads per day. Annual savings of 3 cents per bushel at 45,000,000 bushel/year, or an estimated $1.35 million in annual savings. The solution continues to be rolled out across ADM.

► Michael Allen - IT Scale Logistics◙ Product Manager for internal ADM Weigh scale logistics/order fulfillment suite of applications.◙ Designed and implemented cutting edge self-service kiosk solution to increase plant logistics and efficient processing of truck transactions◙ Lead analyst on many complex development and implementation projects.◙ Work closely with Industrial Automation; PLC-5/Controllogix◙ Serve as enhanced scale logistics consultant to ADM global divisions◙ Participate in quality assurance planning and execution to ensure documented business requirements are achieved◙ Prototype design, functional requirements writing, software testing (Waterfall and Agile Scrum)◙ Implementation and support of ADM scale logistics software across North America◙ Set many standards in functional requirements document structure and process◙ Trained other team members on requirements writingTechnologies: Microsoft Visual Studio (VSTS) 2012, MS Expression Blend, MS SharePoint, MS Office, ADM Weigh, Compu-Weigh GMS, Kepware KEPServerEX, Rockwell RSLinx

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Worked as an IT Business Analyst consultant for Archer Daniels Midland Company. During my 8 months before getting hired on as an ADM employee, I helped pioneer the testing and implementation of the Scale Logistics team's internally built suite of applications.Was team lead on many complex implementations, helped set team standards in testing and team processes to increase efficiencies, and wrote functional requirements for application development.