Jul 2024 – Dec 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos · Wichita, Kansas, United States

Mar 2021 – Jul 2024 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Wichita, Kansas, United States

Nov 2016 – Mar 2021 · 4 yrs 4 mos

Jan 2015 – Oct 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos

May 2013 – Dec 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Manage business requests from initiation to deployment. Collaborate with business users to determine drivers and develop solutions. Understand business processes and how technology can aid business users in providing value while reducing waste and overhead. Ensure that technology solutions complement the business needs, as well as fulfill compliance obligations. Train users and provide support during implementation.
• Focused on the Logistics and Accounting Functions

Jun 2012 – Apr 2013 · 10 mos · Wichita, Kansas Area

• Collaborate with Compliance experts to determine optimal IT solutions to ensure adherence with regulations. Enable those in the field to execute upon regulatory drivers through administration of Enviance system. Implement new compliance calendars for our 20+ locations, as well as provide analytical reporting for scorecarding and auditing.

Dec 2009 – Jun 2012 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Wichita, Kansas Area

• Analyze requirements to determine need versus want, and help recommend a solution – whether process change, system change, or a partnership of the two. Gather and document current processes, clear business requirements, and system limitations from business subject matter experts and IT system analysts. Develop tests to assess if changes will meet the needs of the business, and train and educate those who are impacted by the change in process or system.
• Utilized understanding of CMS Business Unit and Shared Service processes and applications to help facilitate Business Impact Analysis activities, identifying and documenting critical processes, applications that facilitate those processes, and operational and financial impact due to loss of processes.
• Attended Lean Six Sigma Black Belt training and execution of Support Reduction project for Cargill certification.
• Coordinated and taught Lean Six Sigma Green Belt training for CMS Shared Service groups, including employees from IT, Plant Floor Systems, and Legal. Served as project mentor to newly trained students to aid in tool selection and project reviews
• Served as Campus Recruiting Team Lead for Kansas State University. Developed strategic plan to outline on campus efforts to drive increased student interest in Cargill, especially with diverse students.

Aug 2008 – Dec 2009 · 1 yr 4 mos · Wichita, Kansas Area

• Helped develop and implement role via Project and Portfolio Management project work. Established and ensured compliance to processes for work intake, evaluation, prioritization and scheduling, and execution. Developed departmental project execution and financial spend reporting for the Business Units with active work requests.
• Attended Lean Six Sigma Green Belt training and execution of Late Truck analysis project for Cargill certification. Additional Green Belt project work on Project and Portfolio Management process development and launch.
• Served as Campus Recruiting Team Lead for Fort Hays State University. Mentored new recruiting team members, and built upon established contacts to strengthen relationship with the school.
• President of the Cargill GROW Council (Group Responsible for Orienting and Welcoming New Employees). Drove further development and maturation of council through refinement of a detailed strategy to incorporate Cargill foundational ideas of Strategic Intent and Branding, as well as the development of satellite locations to reach additional new hires.

Jul 2005 – Aug 2008 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Wichita, Kansas Area

• Joined the Cargill Meat Solutions IT Logistics team as part of the Transportation Management System project. This project was a multi-year effort to provide automation, efficiencies and optimization for many manual processes used from routing a load to filing a claim in the CMS delivery supply chain. Automation using the vendor-supplied tool, Sterling TMS, has proven successful in providing ongoing value.
• Led testing phases of Iteration 3 and 4 of the TMS project, developing an innovative way to consolidate test plans into concise and repeatable scripts, while coordinating issues with technical team and vendor.
• Change Leadership champion, encouraging IT staff to use communication and analysis tools to determine change readiness, setting and executing a change plan to increase project success, and tools to ensure change engrains itself.
• Led Business Analyst focus groups to mentor others on Business Analysis techniques, and encourage collaboration and best practice sharing.
• Served on Campus Recruiting team on behalf of Cargill Meats and Cargill, Incorporated. Recruited highly successful new college hires and interns whose goals aligned with Cargill principles, while building a network with faculty and staff.
• Member and Vice President of the Cargill GROW Council (Group Responsible for Orienting and Welcoming New Employees), a North America employee resource group, from 2005-2009. Hosted Lunch and Learn opportunities with Senior Management and Business Unit leaders, mentored new hires, and trained new members.

May 2003 – Jul 2005 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Wichita, Kansas Area

• Recruited to join the Cargill Meat Solutions Data Warehouse team as a Business Intelligence analyst and report writer. Worked closely with business users to determine reporting needs, create automated scorecards, and develop reports that drive business decisions.
• Developed Price of Non-Conformance reporting used to illustrate lost opportunity in market place.
• Performed supply and purchasing analysis with corporate purchasing to aid in the development of supplier selection and contracts.
• Instrumental in gathering financial data from previous sales to validate Cargill’s legal position in Mexican Anti-Dumping lawsuit.