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Professional Experience Summary

 

Global Industry experience working within Financial, Healthcare, Insurance, Agriculture/Food, Pharmaceutical, Retail, Consumer Products, Government, DOD, Aerospace, Bio-Technology, Semiconductor, Transportation, and Business consulting services.

 

Experience overseeing global Cross-functional project teams located in North America, Winnipeg and North Lethbridge Canada, Monterrey Mexico, Wolverhampton and Aberdeen United Kingdom, Stuttgart Germany, San Paulo Brazil, Sydney Australia, Yokohama Japan, Kulim Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong China.

 

Cross-functional role experience within Engineering, Manufacturing, Product Marketing, Sales, Supply Chain Mgmt., Quality, IT, Accounting, Business Intelligence, Project, Program, Portfolio Mgmt. and e/PMO's.

 

Generating Results

  • Instrumental in establishing a framework for Infrastructure technology and building appropriate best practice standards and templates as identified through Maturity Study.

  • Successfully built and led enterprise-wide portfolio services team focused on overseeing $63M in strategic project component investments, prioritizing current and future demand for strategic capital spend and establishing a balanced enterprise-wide portfolio.

  • Instrumental in tracking and reporting all change with regards to delivery and associated budget implications as well as benefits and escalating issues and risks as appropriate.

  • Led a continuous improvement culture utilizing Six Sigma/Lean methodologies to improve tools, systems, and business processes.

  • Established a forward-looking 18-month demand/capacity baseline to assist business unit resource managers with an appropriate level of planning for their individual portfolios.

  • Demonstrated ability to coach leadership and teams to maximize their effectiveness and efficiency in processes.

Stakeholder Partnership

  • Demonstrated success working with executive team setting strategic portfolio goals and objective criteria for aligning project component investment dependencies to organizational strategic intent.

  • Instrumental in building strong relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders.

  • Successfully analyze an organization's critical business requirements, identifying project investment component deficiencies, and potential opportunities for enhancing competitiveness.

  • Developed innovative, fact-based and achievable Information Technology (IT) strategies and operating models to enable business strategies

  • Instrumental in building Six-Sigma continuous improvement processes across seven Rockwell BU’s, linking customer innovation to product development, providing a 9% enterprise capacity increase.

  • Ensured appropriate financial and reporting processes were in-place to provide the right level of transparency to program team members and stakeholders.

Team Management

  • Effectively establish workforce optimization prioritization parameters for Cargill improving organization service capability and Enterprise delivery; saving BU’s an average of 16% in capacity alignment efforts.

  • Consistently managed teams reporting "green" on employee satisfaction surveys, indicating team members with a high-level of engagement with positive results.

  • Demonstrated ability to serve as the trusted voice and advisor to help the senior management determine, articulate and execute business vision, mission, strategies and tactics to deliver execution plans.

  • Effectively secured resources needed for delivery, escalate issues and anticipate project specific risks to ensure timely and on-budget implementations

  • Fostered cross BU resource collaboration, leading multi-disciplinary teams in both strategic and implementation engagements, adding value to clients across functional enterprise.

Strategic Alignment

  • Recognized for developing vision, strategies, and solutions resulting in 6 and 7 figure cost savings.

  • Led strategic global Enterprise Architecture initiatives overseeing cultural and logistics issues across seven continents.

  • Demonstrated ability to leverage complex qualitative and quantitative analysis to develop strategic insights and help identify value creation and transformation opportunities.

  • Influential in developing business unit portfolio prioritization - providing strategic direction in aligning the execution of right projects at the right time, establishing a 12% increase in delivery.

  • Developed consistency with regard to presentations, reports, external correspondence, staff meetings, scorecard information, etc.

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