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Houston, TX, US

Rosemont, IL, US

• Responsible for leading strategic initiatives that enable IT organizational effectiveness and innovation, by leveraging strategic thought leadership for business case proposal, roadmap recommendations and development.
• Implement the Product Model within IT, launch and coach product teams and agile methodologies, providing product mindset training to leaders. Introduce, hire and integrate new Product Delivery Leaders and Product.
• Solve issues with role clarity and organization design, support strategies that improve organizational effectiveness.
• Leverage advanced methods and tools to analyze business problems; synthesize qualitative and quantitative insights and develop clear, concise, and fact-based recommendations.
• Identify innovation initiatives and programs that ensure alignment of an integrated technology strategy with cross-technology strategic business goals and enterprise vision.
• Conduct research and analysis on IT trends, best practices, and emerging technologies to provide insights and recommendations to senior stakeholders and executives, including findings, proposals, and progress reports.

Houston, TX, US

• Served as transformation strategic advisor to the COO and Vice President of Finance Operations to deliver business-critical solutions. Advised executives with automation and AI thought leadership. Established and.
• Alleviated cost-cutting impacts to the operations business unit as the company shifted from publicly traded to private equity via process improvement, automation, and new technology platforms to support 50% head-count.
• Delivered finance digital transformation and implemented Order-to-Cash (O2C) and Procure-to-Pay (P2P) technology by implementing automation and data analytics technologies (HighRadius, Coupa and Sievo) to drive cost.
• Implemented ServiceNow and Microsoft Dynamics 365 improvements to increase automation and productivity.
• Championed business operations transformation strategy, overseeing implementations of platforms for ServiceNow, HighRadius, Anywhere 365, and Coupa while facilitating appropriate resources to complete projects to.
• Managed and maintained continuous improvement portfolio, effectively working with the Vice President of Finance and Vice President of Supply Chain to streamline processes with cost-effectiveness initiatives.

New Orleans, LA, US

• Advised the CAO, Senior Vice President of Corporate Business Services, and Vice Presidents on continuous improvement strategy, industry case studies, benchmarking, and goal-setting to implement business-critical.
• Established and enacted a closed-loop process for value realization and benefit capture through a pipeline, resulting in $195,000 in cost savings and $860,000 in bottom-line value.
• Implemented a CI business partnership model, supporting business partnerships as well as providing leadership, mentoring, and coaching in the implementation of CI methodologies: Lean Six Sigma, Agile, and PDCA, as well.
• Increased and bolstered automation governance maturity by effectively benchmarking best practices to accelerate implementation of CI initiatives within business processes.
• Initiated Lean Sigma and Agile, using Kaizen events and Scrum teams with employee engagement and business unit-led ownership of Lean efforts.
• Refocused business goals on waste reduction, quality, cost-effectiveness, process efficiency, safety, regulatory, and compliance to best meet customer, shareholder, community, and employee needs.

New Orleans, LA, US

• COE Leader for Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and other intelligent automation tools Automation Leader for Nuclear, Shared Services, Supply Chain and ITGrew a team of two managers and three leads and employees to 24.
• Supported the Intelligent Automation Team in building 110-plus bots aligning to $325,000 in cost avoidance, 55,000 hours saved, and $250,000 in bottom-line operations expense cost savings.
• Executed Meter-to-Cash (M2C) CI and automation projects, using Automation Anywhere, leading to $150,000 in savings, as well as a decrease of 18 contractor full-time employees.
• Evaluated CI and automation potential for 250 processes across the company, leading to an enterprise pipeline of $2.5 million in value.
• Oversaw and led crowdsourcing activities for digitization, consolidating reporting and Lean processes with prioritization aligned to enterprise metrics and KPIs.
• Procured and developed in-house machine learning (ML) platform solutions in partnership with the data services team to analyze IOT data and invoice processing systemic issues for nuclear operations and finance.

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

Lead technical delivery of Finance Digitization efforts utilizing the digital factory approach which increases execution efficiency. Business partnerships include US, CA, LATAM, UK Countries. Technical strategic implementations ensure agility to automate manual processes using robotic process automation tools. ENTERPRISE AGILE COACH - Agile Transformation.

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

• AGILE RELEASE TRAIN ENGINEER |AGILE COACH
• Served the Customer Transaction Domain as an Agile RTE for feature delivery, with shared oversight of 26 scrum teams to coach and advocate agile best practices,
• Led Scrum of Scrum meetings and managed PI planning.
• Served on a core team implementing the Self-Organized Team strategy. BENEFIT DELIVERY:Manage releases and projects that entailed new solution design; legacy system integrations and cost savings to stores in US, Canada.
• UK Financial system framework build-out for Legacy to SAP integration to support competitive instant discounting at the register.
• UK E2E system Retail to SAP improvements for coupon processing generated a $1.8M cost savings.

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

• ENTERPRISE PROGRAM & PROJECT MGMT MATURITY:
• Coached Agile teams and Scrum Masters for continuous improvement and feature delivery.
• Increased Project Management adoption via the Program Governance initiatives
• Coached education and shared best practices within the Project delivery community
• Increased project governance adoption among leadership verticals ( VP-Dir-Sr Mgr) IT GOVERNANCE:
• Optimized Program and Project framework maturity and adoption by over 50% within the International, Global E-commerce and Strategic Services through training mentoring and consulting PMO EVANGELISM: Market and.

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

• GLOBAL REPLENISHMENT PROGRAM:Replace the legacy system, inforem (inventory forecasting and replenishment), with GRS using JDA software to make order and sales forecasts more accurate and event impact more measurable
• Established governance and processes and plans for Budget, Release Management, Build Coordination, QA and Development for Program delivery.
• Managed data mapping activities for SKU to Item relationships on over 10 million SKUs
• Led Data Management projects for Supplier to item relationships, over 8 million items
• Implemented Demand, Forecasting, Collaboration tools for Global Suppliers and Replenishment ORDER MANAGEMENT PROGRAM:Replace the legacy system with oms to make purchase order and purchase agreements accurate and.
• Successfully improved Program service delivery so that 2 subsequent releases for Wal-Mart’s Order Management System (OMS) came in on time and 2 weeks ahead of schedule with no major and critical defects with project.

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

• SECURITY/COMPLIANCE SOLUTION DELIVERY:Resolved issues with password complexity, generic team and application id usage and database connectivity issues for Informix and UDB for PCI and SOX compliance. USER AUTHENTICATION
• Deployed Centrify for Active Directory on enterprise wide servers for the Stores, Home Office, SOX and PCI and Finance, with over 100 stakeholders for strategy, planning, design, testing and execution
• Increased User Authentication across 600 web farms, 22,000 UNIX/LINUX servers and 11,000 Informix and 100 DB2 UDB databases
• Increased UNIX/LINUX Server Log traceability for SOX and PCI compliance

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• SOLUTION DELIVERY:Managed business process redesigns; system upgrades, conversions and installations for credit and lending operation and automated credit and lending month-end reporting
• Directed staff of 6 direct reports, 4 vendors and IT resources of 60 Finance, Accounting and Credit Databases responsible for all IT functions with the SMAC business unit.
• Provided technical understanding of the business unit’s systems, capabilities, and respective technologies.BUSINESS STRATEGY ENHANCEMENTS
• Created business process redesigns for automated credit and lending month-end reporting.
• Created maintenance strategies for production systems/programs/applications.
• Developed of project definitions, cost/benefit and risk analysis, work plans, progress reports, and presentations.

Las Vegas, NV, US

• BUSINESS CONTINUITY INITIATIVES:
• Executed data center role swapping activities in a 24/7 environment for 64 casino properties as Project Manager on the Data Center Business Continuity Program.PROJECT GOVERNANCE:
• Improved and guided the governance activities for 25 Information Technology projects: project plans, issue and risk registers, status reports, communication plans, travel plans and testing schedules as a part of the.
• Managed PMO standards for gate/stage criteria and deliverables.
• Project Management activities for Casinos for IT System Disaster Recovery, Slot Operations, New Construction
• Audited Slot Operation project contracts and purchases for a $1.5 million cost savings.

Memphis, TN, US

SOLUTION ENGAGEMENT AND PROJECT EVALUATION:Managed solutions engagement review process for Project Funneling and Global Support initiatives of over 2500 opportunities annually for customers with at least $1 million dollars incremental value to the business.Facilitated via process documentation, management and alignment, meeting facilitation, ad hoc.

Mba, Operations And Information Systems

Bs, Math/Biology Double Major