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Hartford, WI, US

Mequon, Wisconsin, United States

• Continue System Architect role across the product life cycle management process (includes new product development process)
• Define process capabilities and tools strategy through strategic partnership with the businesses working with the process and tools teams to deliver the roadmap
• Capture and synthesize the inputs and needs, select the best solution to meet those needs, and facilitate alignment to high impact priorities
• Build an enablement execution plan to manage transformation, and drive stakeholder alignment to implement & integrate the solutions
• Evolve the Enablement function with key metrics to drive digital transformation
• Organizational Change Management Lead for Windchill within our Product Lifecycle Management processes

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

• Provided leadership & value in tool deployment enterprise wide for Portfolio & Resource Management disciplines towards common, consistent configuration on Jira Align & Workday Adaptive Planning. Included.
• Aligned with enterprise system architects to understand similarities and differences across Business Process & Tools focusing on actions to drive commonality across the enterprise with other stream leads.
• Influenced vendors with direct feedback on capabilities to improve efficiency in future releases.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

• Led enterprise-wide initiative deploying Jira Align Portfolio Tool across the IT organization in 5 months to 85 teams across 130 Product Owners, Technical Leaders, & Scrum Masters
• Delivered training, coaching, & tool integrations from Jira to Jira Align ahead of budget & on time with scope increased
• Matured overall user adoption of our enterprise-wide planning tool Jira fostering weekly communities of practice for Jira and Jira Align hours
• Enabled our capability delivery teams to reach peak productivity by assisting in collecting metrics, visualizing data and trends, reducing waste, and modeling the use of Agile principles

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

• Led teams to problem solve & reduce vendor payables past due invoices by 99% during start of pandemic collaborating with accounts payable in Poland, purchasing in Mexico, local IT & Tax Teams supporting productivity of.
• Designed & implemented power platform dashboards & tools for IT’s Enterprise Transformation Office Hiring, Workforce Planning, Shopping Cart Process, Productivity Tracking, & Operational Excellence initiatives
• Developed & implemented Operational Excellence reviews program with Team
• Reestablished Transactional Yellow Belt training & mentoring – 24 certified in first two years. Benefits from mentoring candidates included 6 months reduced lead time, 26 hours of cycle time reduction, improved.
• Facilitated value stream mapping events creating roadmaps of improvement actions for purchase-to-pay & LATAM invoicing processes to identify, reduce, & eliminate the waste. Resulted in established LATAM business value.

Mequon, Wisconsin

Mequon, Wisconsin

Richland Center, Wisconsin

Richland Center, Wisconsin

Richland Center, Wisconsin

Columbus, Wisconsin

Greater Milwaukee Area

Mishawaka, Indiana

Westfield, Wisconsin

Richland Center, Wisconsin

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance, 3.8

B.S. Industrial Engineering, Management Emphasis, Business Minor

Activities and Societies: UWP Football