Gregory Jones
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Summary
Greg is a highly qualified and accomplished Project and Program Manager with extensive experience leading cross-functional teams and coordinating multiple projects simultaneously. Expertise: Demonstrated success in translating business issues into business solutions including opportunity identification, requirements development, delivery, support, and analysis. Strong Data Management, Business Intelligence, Application Development and Implementation, and Infrastructure experience. Core Skills: Full lifecycle experience in scoping, designing, developing, deploying, and supporting enterprise-scale business applications and business intelligence software. Managed large project budgets of up to $15M, on and offshore resources, and teams of up to 100. Soft Skills: Outstanding leadership abilities; able to coordinate and direct all phases of project-based efforts while managing, motivating, facilitating, and leading project team initiatives.
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Management Consultant
Project Consulting Group
01.2020 - Current
Project Manager “Data Center Move”
Hunter Fan
01.2020 - 01.2024
- Built project plan, scheduled/facilitated project meetings
- Direct team that includes FTEs and vendors partners (4) to execute plan
- Monitored and communicated program status, risks, and plan progress
- Created systems architecture with primary focus on data interaction between systems
- Documented and cataloged software attributes in all the engineering, operations, and ecommerce systems
- Led re-hosting of PTC Windchill/Flex and Creo CAD systems
- Managed third party vendor for system acquisition and implementation
Senior Consultant
Ameriprise Financial
Minneapolis
01.2022 - 12.2023
- Collaborated with client management team to establish a Data Governance practice for cleaning and maintaining critical data in company core systems
- Led data cleansing effort to update multiple data domains for compliance reporting
- Led post-acquisition harmonization of benefits strategy, system, operations, and processes with projected savings of $800K in annual operational expense
- Created and maintained executive leadership, stakeholder, cross-team, and vendor relationships and support required for successful implementation
- Led business team through governance process to receive approval from CEO, CFO and three boards of directors for benefits recommendations
- Established comprehensive integrated planning across client and vendor applications
- Liaison between procurement and vendors to on/off board with new combined benefits
- Managed third party vendor for system acquisition and implementation
Senior Manager
MTS
01.2018 - 01.2020
- Managed Master Data Management Department which included recruiting, training, motivating, and directing cross-functional technical team and developing/leveraging organization-wide customer, vendor, and material master data
- Managed analysis, acquisition, and warehousing strategy, and translated organizational vision into actionable Sourcing, Engineering, and Service Department applications – emphasis on SAP (ERP) and Stibo (MDM)
- Served as Master Data liaison, consulting with the VP and senior leaders, evaluating and providing strategic business plan feedback and direction, recommending viable application-development opportunities, and maximizing development resources, efficiency, and return on investment
Project/Program/Department Manager– Data Management
Toro Company
01.2010 - 01.2018
- Designed and implemented the data strategy for the Toro Company
- Managed multiple strategic initiates that resulted in the creation and implementation of the Information Factory (Data Warehouse, Data marts, unstructured Data) including access to internal (i.e., SAP, PDM-Link) and external data (i.e., Sales force, Channel – M2M), rapid data acquisition (SSIS, Simplement), data modeling (MS SQL Server, Visual Studio), and Business Intelligence tool (MSBI)
- Designed and Implemented strategy for Big Data using channel partner, cloud technology
- Created and implemented new customer real time web-based system using share point services
- Designed and implemented company data warehouse using web-based Microsoft SQL server backend
- Implemented International Invoice processing and share point process to allow dispersed geographically staff to access and update information in real time basis
- Implemented a global time and attendance solution (Concur) that saved the company over $100K annually while creating single data source for indirect expenses data
- Partnered with finance to implement Order to Cash application (Vistex)
Program Manager/Operations Manager
United Equity Funding
09.2006 - 12.2009
- Led $50M operation with geographically dispersed teams
- Designed and executed multiple strategic programs and projects
- Strategic initiatives resulted in revenue growth of over 40% and reduced operational costs with increased customer satisfaction
- Implemented plan to expand sales offices into new territories
- Directed implementation of investor portal to give real time visibility to accounts, investment history and ability to update personal or business information
- Installed Project management discipline for all company projects using requirements, risks, schedule and budget as core factors
Senior Project Manager
Mystic Lake
05.2003 - 09.2006
- Led multi-million-dollar enterprise-wide projects to successful completion; provided project management, vendor selection/ management, team leadership, project budget and overall technical design
- Led vendor selection process for both tool and support providers
- Wrote request for proposals for several projects (Business Intelligence, Inventory control, Human Resource Systems, Security Systems, etc.)
- Implemented a data warehouse, business intelligence solution across the enterprise; as well as new automated ticket redemption system, new purchasing software/process for retail, and high-speed credit card system
- Led ETL effort using Data Stage
- Built extracts from multiple data sources (SDS, Opera, and MICROS POS..
- Etc.) and transformed data
- Loaded data in data warehouse using Microsoft SQL Server as repository
- Led business intelligence project using ProClarity software and Microsoft Analysis Services
- Built executive dashboards and departmental scorecards
- Performed data-mining techniques using 9-digit zip to identify and increase trips for high level guests
- Led data cleansing project using Trillium software
- Removed duplications and performed address standardization
- Implemented a new security system using RFID technology, automated ticket redemption system, new purchasing software/process for retail, and high-speed credit card system
Senior Consultant
JICO Inc.
06.1998 - 04.2003
- Planned and implemented the replace of company data systems
- Converted all company systems applications including Oracle Financials, Oracle payroll and the main Oracle database
- Managed the replacement of entire network and computer system for multi-million-dollar manufacturing company
- Replaced all the computer and network hardware with Cisco and Hewlett Packard systems including converting the storage to a new million-dollar SAN system
- Designed and Implemented Sales Marketing Automation
- Provided project planning and project estimates for cost and schedule to clients
- Established new accounts and expanded existing clients
- Managed over fifty consultants in the field, responsible for the recruitment of senior IT professionals
- Led the effort to identify and install the corporate document management system
Post Holdings
01.2021
- Provided guidance for implementation of Salsify PIM system
- Provided technical expertise for best practices for MDM
- Performed data analysis for Salsify PIM implementation
Education
Master of Business Administration - Business Administration And Management
University of St. Thomas
St Paul, MN 05-1990
Bachelor of Science - Applied Mathematics
University of Wisconsin
05-1986
Skills
- Data Warehouse
- ERP
- Facilitation
- Business Analysis
- Business Intelligence
- CRM
- Vendor Management
- Executive Dashboarding
- Application Development
- Data Management
- Process Design
- Infrastructure
- Hardware and Software Conversion
- Resource Allocation
Key Project Initiatives
- Led a team that designed and implemented an eco-system to collect, analyze and use information from all the internal/external applications.
- Implemented global application which allowed the retirement of several legacy applications while creating an automated rollup of information for the organization. This required finding, understanding, and cataloging applications from multiple countries.
- Led and implemented strategies to access ERP information in near real time and real time to meet corporate goals and KPI.
- Led the implementation of a company’s business architecture to reduce cycle time.
- Led data standards team for several organizations.
Industries
- Healthcare
- Manufacturing
- Hospitality/Gaming
- Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
Roles
- Program Manager
- Sr. Project Manager
- Sr. Consultant
- Operations Manager
Timeline
Senior Consultant
Ameriprise Financial
01.2022 - 12.2023
Post Holdings
01.2021
Senior Management Consultant
Project Consulting Group
01.2020 - Current
Project Manager “Data Center Move”
Hunter Fan
01.2020 - 01.2024
Senior Manager
MTS
01.2018 - 01.2020
Project/Program/Department Manager– Data Management
Toro Company
01.2010 - 01.2018
Program Manager/Operations Manager
United Equity Funding
09.2006 - 12.2009
Senior Project Manager
Mystic Lake
05.2003 - 09.2006
Senior Consultant
JICO Inc.
06.1998 - 04.2003
Master of Business Administration - Business Administration And Management
University of St. Thomas
Bachelor of Science - Applied Mathematics
University of Wisconsin
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