Case Carstensen Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, United States

Leading the transformation to SAP S4/HANA Cloud for Master Data Governance & Harmonization, Leveraging Palantir AI Foundry platform to drive data quality & value creation. Driving innovative use cases for the Palantir AI Foundry Platform on a growing ontology of high-quality data (R&D, Customer, Vendor, Product, Sustainability, Materials). More to come as.

Houston, Texas, United States

• Built a global team of 34 contractors & employees with the goal of improving master data governance & data quality for Vendor, Customer, Manufacturing, Materials, Finance & Equipment.
• Created a global master data quality strategy & partnered with multiple functions at all levels to implement & drive adoption of the new data profiling & governance toolset achieving 700 users and 600k SAP iDoc.
• Launched a new digital master data governance workflow application for the global company covering multiple domains. The application runs in the Microsoft Azure cloud and integrates with SAP MDG.
• Developed a strategic roadmap for SAP Master Data Governance and completed a full dry-run upgrade to SAP S/4HANA partnering with SAP, Prometheus, and Accenture.
• Leader for a C3.ai project utilizing high quality data to drive AI insights to improve plant operations.

Houston, Texas Area

• Leader for Analytics Strategy & Programs for the Digital Solutions product company with $3B in revenue.
• PMO leader responsible for administering 15M of analytics programs including execution through tollgates
• Led a team of 5 IT Analytics Professionals, 25 Contractors & Data Scientists to derive value from data
• Delivered 22 new Analytics value stories to the business improving compliance KPIs & revenue
• DevOps Leader supporting 1000+ tickets SAP Digital Operations Center, all SLAs met
• SAP BW Leader, Migration to IBM Cloud, removed 15 TB of duplicate data & reduced costs 15%

Houston, Texas

• Responsible for IT Finance Data and Analytics strategy for the Finance function at Baker Hughes.
• Launched a Finance data lake that enabled visibility to daily sales & cost analysis across 17 ERPs
• Recruited a team of eight analytics leaders & 30 contractors to develop the next generation of Analytics
• Led the Agile methodology transformation of the Analytics digital function for 10 development teams
• Developed a new Orders & Backlog reporting tool for strategic SAP systems which enabled global KPIs
• Launched a machine learning pilot to automate identification of cross product company sales opportunities

Houston, Texas Area

• Led a team to build the next generation of commercial analytics tools at GE Oil & Gas.
• Developed the Pricing Data Mart to enable global part pricing analysis and optimization algorithms
• The tool was fully adopted by the Commercial leadership & pricing teams and was rolled out globally
• Key account leaders used the tool to improve parts margin and reduce unnecessary discounting
• The tool was responsible for driving $11M in ledger verified benefits

Houston, Texas Area

• Developed IT strategies and programs for using Analytics to improve Services Operations.
• Partnered with the GE Digital San Ramon Software center to bring Services Analytics Solutions to O&G
• Multiple strategic analytics projects were presented with strong business cases
• GE strategy changed to announce the Baker Hughes Acquisition/spinoff and acquire ServiceMax company

Houston, Texas Area

• Delivered improved Hyperion & Essbase capability for Finance FP&A and Controllership at GE Oil & Gas.
• Technical leader for two GE O&G Hyperion applications, responsible for monthly & quarterly financial close
• Established Oracle DRM (Data Relationship Manager) as Master data source with syndicated feeds to ERPs
• Completed the simplification of multiple Hyperion applications to one global enterprise standard.
• Developed the Monterrey Mexico Operations center for Hyperion DevOps, transitioned a 20-person team to GE Corporate shared services achieving 860k savings

Houston, Texas Area

• Led ERP implementations for acquired divisions including parts of Wood Group
• Used an Agile methodology to lead a team of 20+ developers and partnered with Oracle to create a new model for financial integration, which enabled 2M savings and 40% faster implementation cycle.
• Led the full cycle ERP implementation and integration for Artificial Lift, acquired from Wood Group
• Enhanced the Hyperion application for new global consolidation processes and new acquisitions.
• Led Engagement for an ERP go-live for the Drilling & Surface division in Mexico, driving 10M of benefits

Houston, Texas Area

• Responsible for Finance & Shared Services North America for Global Services & Turbomachinery P&Ls.
• Led a full-cycle Oracle ERP project including GL, AP, AR, Project Accounting, and all GE Shared services
• Partnered with Finance to consolidate four legal entities into one by identifying all dependencies and performing system data migrations, including open POs & inventory
• Led a project to improve reconciliation processes to enable the validation of eight years of business Financials. The project successfully closed an audit issue with inventory and WIP accounting.

Houston, Texas Area

• Point of contact to the CFOs to support a $2.8 Billion revenue GE Energy P&L.
• Supported a full cycle Oracle ERP upgrade and integrated the Rentals business unit to enable automated asset tracking, improve Financial controllership, and eliminate manual closing processes
• Developed an automated solution for calculating value added tax on international customer invoices that improved Financial controllership and reduced Tax exposure by $8 Million
• Completed a Lean workout to improve product margin tracking, customer billing, and cash collection processes. Mentored two green belts. The projects achieved 500k of savings & improved receivables by 2M

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Swiss Re Acquired GE Insurance
• Project Manager in support of a $40 Million SAP project.
• Responsible for Enterprise Data Management, SAP Financials, and Source System Data Mapping teams.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Responsible for Enterprise Data Management, SAP Financials, and Source System Data Mapping teams.
• Led a cross-functional team consisting of 20 resources to implement 50 financial interfaces to the ERP
• Ensured the SAP General Ledger was configured to satisfy global financial reporting requirements
• Outsourced Customer data maintenance processes and reduced operating costs by 46%

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Completed a two-year Six Sigma Quality leadership development program
• Mentored 14 Greenbelts, supporting 80 applications & 3000 users.
• Improved Help Desk satisfaction scores by 30%
• Implemented a workflow system that reduced help desk ticket routing errors by 90%
• Implemented a global HR contractor tracking process that reduced compliance risk by 90%

Stamford, CT

• Completed a two-year management training program designed to develop Digital leaders which included rotations at 4 GE Capital businesses.
• GE Credit Card Services, developed an eBilling web solutions for legacy green screen applications
• Genworth Financial, Led a mainframe data lift, Received the GE Corporate Recognition Award
• GE Corporate, led the global company single sign-on infrastructure and application project
• Employers Reinsurance, improved HR digital processes & completed a GreenBelt project

Cincinnati, Ohio

Programmer / Systems Analyst working in professional services & product development for a software company acquired by Honeywell as part of the Measurex acquisition, which was a silicon valley company. The product I worked on still continues as of 2019 under the same name, OptiVision, now from Honeywell Process and is a MES that uses algorithms to minimize.