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Corporate Reporting Delivery System
Nike – Canada  

Role: Production Support Manager for Nike Corporate Information. Project Manager to the ‘Canada Reporting Delivery’ project.

Challenge: I was asked to be the ‘new sheriff’ for Nike Corporate Information and was given the highest priority to put Nike corporate reporting on schedule and keep it there until new technology could replace it.

Action: Assembled a virtual team including over 30 staff, business, and vendor experts. I worked with them to discover, select, and implement alternatives. We narrowed fifty choices down to the eight with the most benefit. I tasked the work out to available resources on four architectures and wrote the project plan to run two projects at a time.

Results: Cut reporting preparation time in half and added six months to the development window.

Nike Financial and Corporate Reporting Integration
Nike International

Role: Project Manager to the ‘Nike International Integration’ project.

Challenge: Replace a patchwork of solutions with a single point of entry as well as integration with financial and corporate reporting.

Action: Replaced International order, pro forma, customs, and sales systems. Led analysis, requirements, and development. Integrated with Finance and removed duplicate entry, errors, and bottlenecks.

Results: A fully integrated system with savings of $225K / year on vendor contracts alone.

European Finance Reorganization
Nike – Europe Headquarters, Holland

Role: Project Manager to the ‘Nike Europe Reorganization’ project.

Challenge: Gaining the trust and cooperation of people who are working themselves out of a job.

Action: Coordinated regional and country management to define entities, processes, and transactions. Performed analyses throughout Europe. Designed policies, databases, and interfaces. Directed development and integration with global staff.

Results: Successful completion and ROI less than two years. Nike Leadership Award

Storage and Distribution System
Americold

Role: Development Manager for the Americold ‘Storage and Distribution System’ project.

Challenge: Come into a runaway project, bring it under control, and finish it.
Action: Multiplied communication in development. Introduced project management including vendor management. Led peer reviews. Began data management reviews. Performed integrated testing.

Results: Team understanding and focus on objectives and time lines. Successful completion and implementation of the project.

Accounts Receivable Realignment
Nike

Role: Project Manager to the Nike USA ‘Accounts Receivable’ project.

Challenge: Create a world class Accounts Receivable and Credit Management system.

Action: Built alignment between vendors, top management, and the business unit. Presented a proposal for vice-presidential review; including project objectives, schedule, resources, and risk.

Results: Received $750K funding to replace the Accounts Receivable and Credit Management systems. The implementation was very successful, the primary stakeholder won Finance employee of the year.

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