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William Schell is listed as Champion for Organizational Development, Change & Process Excellence
William Schell previously worked as Director, Agile Program Management - Operational Excellence at Ithaka and Founder and Managing Principal at Golden Trout Design, Llc. William Schell holds Phd, Engineering Management from The University Of Alabama In Huntsville.
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A Process Driven, Development Focused, and Transformative Executive, I bring passion, systems thinking and dynamic leadership to solve complex business problems and take advantage of new market opportunities that enables growth, enhances customer experience, and drives profitability across large and mid-size enterprises in a range of industries. I am an evangelist for the power of process who leverages global experience, deep analytics, operations, technology, and financial management expertise to define and execute transformation and organizational development strategies that directly impact achievement of growth targets and business results. As a leader, I instill a culture of high expectations that empowers risk taking and continuous learning to create high performing teams who deliver results during times of explosive growth or retrenchment. I am comfortable working with all levels of the organization to promote an entrepreneurial mindset that delivers value to employees, customers, and community. Notable strengths and contributions: - Driving Process Improvement: Defined new metrics and developed novel data collection process that reduced accreditation workload by 30% while earning highest possible board ratings. Redefined supply chain management systems serving 200k+ locations – raised customer satisfaction 40%+ and reduced expenses by $3.5M on investment of $500k. - Building Winning Teams: Built the Program Management and Engineering teams - enabled Inc 500 level growth. Deployed development focused leadership to champion turnaround of process improvement team yielding 50% y-o-y improvement. - Delivering Results in Uncertain Times: Improved client operations leading to 30% throughput increase at a multi-site medical facility during the Covid-19 pandemic. Right-sized operations and led process improvement work that boosted overall profitability by 10% despite 20% sales loss during Great Recession. - Thought Leadership that Informs Strategic Roadmaps: Created new social justice theme for graduate program leading to record enrollments and first top 100 US News ranking. Designed organizational needs assessment approach and implemented social network based learning system to meet these needs. - Technology Management: Transitioned development approach to Agile, enabling explosive functionality and business growth with 2x weekly production releases of customer facing products. Partnered with IT leaders to streamline $100M in projects. Managed offshore development teams.Personal Interests: Scuba Diving, Backcountry Skiing, Soccer Officiating
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New York, Ny, Us
Drive execution, prioritization, risk mitigation and evidence-based ROI assessment for transformative continuous improvement initiatives spanning all aspects of the company.
I serve as lead partner and rainmaker for multi-disciplinary team that integrates engineering and psychology to create technology and processes that improve organizational performance and support organizational culture change. Client industries include construction, defense, financial services, healthcare, and software.Select client successes: • Triumphed 30% improvement in program management throughput by conquering strategic resource allocation and management issues for a multi-site medical center: drove prioritization, executed change management, and systemized project prioritization and resource allocation to improve efficiency and lean practices. • Slashed transportation costs by 20% for construction company struggling with transportation logistics. Devised and implemented efficient transport layout and workflow optimization through innovative operational design. • Enhanced program management processes yielding 30% improvement in project throughput.
Bozeman, Mt, Us
Program Head, Industrial & Management Systems Engineering (2021 – 2022) Affiliate Faculty, Jake Jabs College of Business & Entrepreneurship (2018 – 2022) Associate Director, Montana Engineering Education Research Center (MEERC) (2017 – 2022) Tenured / Tenurable Faculty, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (2010 – 2022)As Program Head, I upgraded curriculum, led critical business development decisions, and developed metrics to win accreditation. Select significant projects:• Awarded $2.6M in competitive grants, employed up to nine FTE and published 65+ peer-reviewed works in leadership development, employee engagement in innovation, improving DEI in STEM, entrepreneurship, and engineering ethics.• Taught, mentored and influenced hundreds of students.• Won national and international awards for exemplary research or teaching for seven straight years.• Designed and taught 17 different courses for upper division and graduate students. Topics include project and change management, supply chain management, leadership, quality management systems, and organizational design. • Championed effective change management by overhauling graduate program with social justice theme, leading to record enrollment and earning first ever US News and World Reports ranking in top 100 programs. • Redesigned undergraduate engineering program, earning international award for innovation and dual ABET accreditation– illustrating development and utilization of cutting-edge metrics. • Served as key founding member of MEERC and steered objectives of transforming engineering education through interdisciplinary research - triumphed total funding of $8M+. • Created new Financial Engineering major including courses in complex statistical analysis, forecasting and big data.• Successfully solicited hundreds of corporate-sponsored projects for student-led initiatives in both Industrial and Financial engineering yielding results of risk mitigation and improvements of $50k annually.
Livingston, Montana, Us
PFL is a leading e-commerce provider of innovative marketing materials to SMB market. Brought in as program manager, quickly promoted to run multiple areas of the company. Provided CIO role leadership (50+ people). Served as interim CMO, implemented effective quantitatively driven strategies for B2B digital marketing. Selected accomplishments include:• Led the program management and technology teams with an Agile based approach that enabled Inc 500 level growth• Steered company’s cost containment and process improvement initiatives that boosted company profitability despite 20%+ reduction in sales during Great Recession.• Produced robust enterprise-wide organizational development program supporting 200+ employees that included online learning system.• Directed business analysis, project management, software development, and implementation of largest critical infrastructure project in company history set to support future growth.
San Francisco, California, Us
Led a dispersed team of 25 in business process architecture redesign, partnered with technology leaders to successfully deliver $1M+ initiatives, streamline and implement national operations strategy within $1B operation.
New York, Ny, Us
Director, Global Business Transformation, Commercial Card, New York (virtual) (2004-2005)Manager and Six Sigma Master Black Belt, , Financial Advisors (now Ameriprise), Minneapolis, (2002 -2004)Manager of Strategic Operations, Stored Value Group, Salt Lake, (2001 – 2002) Six Sigma Group Project Manager (2000-2001)Industrial Engineer, Strategic Operations (1999-2000)I managed a 15-member global internal consulting team focused on long-term reengineering and revenue optimization with annual PTI impact of $1.2M/person annual pre-tax P&L impact. I triumphed turnaround of Six Sigma Black Belt team – exceeding previous target by 50% with fewer team members.
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William Schell works for ITHAKA.
William Schell is listed as Champion for Organizational Development, Change & Process Excellence <Strategy Execution | Organizational Development | Operations & Technology Leader | Process Improvement | Program Management> at ITHAKA.
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William Schell is based in Bozeman, Montana, United States while working with ITHAKA.
William Schell has worked for Ithaka, Golden Trout Design, Llc, Montana State University-Bozeman, Printingforless.Com, and Wells Fargo.
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William Schell holds Phd, Engineering Management from The University Of Alabama In Huntsville.
William Schell is listed with skills including Six Sigma, Strategy, Process Improvement, Program Management, Leadership, Project Management, Management, and Leadership Development.
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