Product Owner/Program/Project Manager Resume

SUMMARY:

I partner at the intersection of business and IT in confidential, driving business change, growth and profitability by leveraging deep information technology leadership and expertise to define and support business strategies, and Lean business transformation for operational excellence.
I’m a strategic yet hands - on problem solver and change agent who thrives on taking on big problems, builds the high performance teams to address them, and gets things done.
Proven expertise and experience include:
Agile / WaterSCRUMFall Project Management
Business Process Re-engineering
Financial Systems Implementation
Financial Management/Budgeting/Forecasting
Third Party, Vendor and Offshore Management
IT and Business Strategic Planning

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Product Owner/Program/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Restarted the selection of new Financial systems after determining the one already selected would was not meant for the industry and would require significant customization.
NetSuite Media Industry Vertical Financial Systems and intelligent OCR for invoicing.
Program and Project Management, Requirements Definition, Partner Management, Accounting.
Managed 70+ person team of business process owners, BA’s, PM’s and third parties.
Microsoft AX to D365 for Finance & Operations, including LCS Lifecycle Services, PBM Business Process Modeler, VSTS Azure DevOps cloud technologies.
WaterSCRUMFall Project Management, Requirements Definition, Partner Management, Accounting.
Managed 60+ person team of business process owners, BA’s, PM’s and third parties.
Turned around a 3rd year stalled AX 2012 R3 implementation.
Developed Project Management approach, reconciled previous approaches and plans.
Implemented Team Foundation Server and Microsoft Project management in an iterative approach.
Lead the 150+ integrations / API’s workstream with 3rd party integrator.
Microsoft AX, TFS Team Foundation Server, Power Tools, MS Project, Visio.

Confidential, Eden Prairie, MN

Director of Finance Systems

Responsibilities:

Optimized operations through information systems, process and organization and transformation in this eDiscovery cloud-based SaaS and services business.
Re-engineered global Procurement and Project Billing.
Product Owner / Program Manager for global Agile / SCRUM implementation of Dynamics AX Finance/ERP system.
Upgraded eCommerce to meet current PCI-compliance requirements.
Managed global finance & accounting applications portfolio and roadmap.
Re-built accounting/finance relationships and collaboration with IT in order to successfully complete multi-year overdue information systems development projects.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Senior Vice President

Responsibilities:

Responsible for operations including IT, eCommerce/Digital Strategies, Finance and Accounting, Supply Chain and Logistics with this subsidiary of PepsiAmericas, from startup to national distribution.
Built and managed company Finance and Accounting and Supply Chain and Logistics functions
Implemented and Managed Information Technology
Responsible for developing the overall vision, strategy and structure for IT.
Established all operating processes and related information systems including accounting, order management, inventory management, B2C and B2B omni-channel e-Commerce, CRM.
Designed and implemented technical architectures and infrastructure.
Managed offshore development of “back-office” applications for sales reporting and analysis, promotion management, intranet and other functions. eCommerce / Digital Solutions
With Marketing, collaboratively managed all aspects of the omni-channel e-Commerce function including site strategy, user experience, content strategy, promotional campaigns (SEM & PPC) and other online/email marketing, affiliates, product merchandising, website development, customer service, web analytics and SEO.
Developed innovative mobile/SaaS combined CRM/Routing/Analytics tool for improved customer service and increased product turns.

Confidential, Eagan, MN eCommerce Development Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

For this large-scale eCommerce, Legal SaaS and Services company, lead a team of 60+ on and offshore software engineers in the development
Enhancement and support of high volume west.thomson.com and weg.thomson.com eCommerce and SaaS Customer Service sites.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

Lead the largest e-commerce services group in IBM. Managed project portfolio of $47M/year.
Hired and developed a high-performance team of 15 direct reports and 45 indirect reports, while leveraging hundreds of consultants and contractors.
Lead or directed projects as large as 100,000+ person-hours.