Mike Weaver Email & Phone Number

Greater St. Louis

Greater St. Louis

• (Accenture acquired Ocelot Consulting in November 2023)
• Hired in 2019 to lead transformational growth of Ocelot Consulting in its third year of operation. As Managing Director, responsibilities for the overall operations of the company included company strategy, financial.
• Increased revenue from $3.5M to over $25M while growing the size of the company from 25 to over 120 employees. Recognized on the St. Louis Business Journal’s list of fastest-growing private companies for three.
• Led company through the adversity of COVID-19 pandemic. Continued aggressive growth trajectory during this time while guiding the company pivot from fully on-site to fully remote.
• Implemented immigration sponsorship program and university hiring program to improve company diversity and talent acquisition.
• Delivered executive consulting across multiple industries including Healthcare, Insurance, Financial Services, Public Utilities, and AgTech to provide insight on technology roadmaps, organizational development, and.

Greater St. Louis

• The trucking industry is at the beginning of a dramatic transformation, and how companies leverage their information assets will determine the winners and losers. Freight Science’s mission is simple – help front-line.
• Validated the proposed business concept with potential customers and formed partnership with pilot customer to collaborate on prototypes and MVP.
• Formed and led the development team to prove out the concept and to build a commercially viable product consisting of cloud-native web, mobile, data integration, and data science components.
• Managed data integration to onboard new clients onto the platform.
• Managed the spin-off of Freight Science from Ocelot Software incubator to an independent company upon securing Series A investment.

Greater St. Louis Area

(Bayer completed the acquisition of Monsanto in August 2018)Led Bayer Crop Science IT Product Development function of 600+ employees and contractors globally (~$120M spend annually), responsible for all application development, configuration, and support. Portfolio included modern cloud-based web and mobile solutions, SAP, SFDC, and Sharepoint.

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Greater St. Louis Area

• Formed and led Monsanto Product Development function of 600+ employees and contractors globally (~$120M spend annually), responsible for all application development, configuration, and support. Portfolio included.
• Instrumental in defining and implementing complete IT organizational transformation including formation of Monsanto’s first centralized Products & Engineering function.
• Created content and delivered IT-wide communication and training to lead organizational change from project-based to platform-based investment and operating models.
• Executive leadership for selection and integration of a managed service provider to assume responsibility and support of many core, commodity, and non-differentiating platforms. Provides a $16M annual savings on base.
• Despite uncertainty created by business challenges, restructuring, and transformation, active focus on morale and employee engagement resulted in a very manageable annual unwanted attrition rate of under 4%.

Greater St. Louis Area

• Formed and led Product Development supporting Monsanto R&D; ~200 employee and contract developers creating modern web and mobile applications (~$32M spend annually)
• Led highly successful agile transformation of R&D IT organization. Provided vision, direction, and training to transition the organization to a model based on principles of agility, resulting in the capability to.
• Co-led IT-wide transformation initiative to set direction for modernizing all application development around 5 pillars: Agile, DevOps, Microservices, Continuous Delivery, and Open Source.
• Actively promoted culture of innovation, including reserved time to let people explore hunches, investigate technology, and develop new skills. This was not only successful in increasing morale and creating a great.
• Executive sponsor for creation of entry-level talent pipeline focusing on diversity, university hiring, and early-adopter partnership with LaunchCode (https://www.launchcode.org/).

Greater St. Louis Area

• Formed and led first architecture team focused on all Monsanto R&D applications. Grew from virtual team of technical leaders to a formal team of Software, Data, and HPC Architects.
• Led technology selection initiatives to shift focus from massive reliance on dated, internally-developed frameworks to best-in-class open source and vendor platforms.
• Led training and mentoring programs focused on improving development skills including Test Driven Development, Refactoring, Design Patterns, and Pair Programming.
• Built a culture focused on automated, value-added metrics to improve code quality. Achieved 20% increase in automated test coverage over four-year span, resulting in greater than 85% cumulative test coverage over 4.5M.
• Accountable for communicating technology roadmaps to development community as well as IT VP and CIO executives.

Greater St. Louis Area

• Developer and Technical Lead on multiple Java and.NET web and desktop applications in Biotech and Field Breeding domains.
• Pioneered Test Driven Development and Continuous Integration and evangelized adoption across Monsanto.
• Early adopter of.NET in 2000, working closely with Microsoft on evaluation and adoption.

Greater St. Louis Area

Lead developer on enterprise application used by call center travel agents to manage customer profiles.

Dayton, Ohio Area

Supported and maintained plant traceability software at Delphi Automotive airbag assembly plant in Vandalia, OH.