Tia Thomas has over 8 years of supply chain experience, including 3 1/2 years implementing Coupa systems. She has completed 3 full Coupa implementations for large companies, demonstrating excellent functional and technical skills. Her experience includes configuring Coupa for procurement, invoicing, reporting, sourcing, and contracts modules. She also leads supplier enablement, creating training materials, and ensuring projects are on timeline.
B. Lee Jones was a recipient of the prestigious CIO 100 Award for Enterprise Application Integration. Lee is a widely published and quoted authority on Enterprise Application architecture/integration, computer and network security, international information technology (IT) management, Regulatory standards(ISO CoBit, ITIL, ITSM, HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley), Machine Learning and Blockchain Technology.
Lee is an Elite Expert for IMS Expert Services and a GLG Scholar-Technology, Media and Telecom Councils and Expert Witness for Gerson Lehrman Group and serves as an IT adviser and contributor to Information Week, CIO Magazine, CIO Insight and several other leading industry publications. Lee and his COB/CEO were featured in State of the CIO. Lee has been a featured CIO speaker at the Stanford GSB High Technology Conference, featured CIO speaker at the UCLA Anderson School of Management BIT Conference, featured speaker on CIO Talk Radio, featured in the debut of myglobalcareer.com and featured panelist at the CIO Breakfast Briefing at NGDC and featured CIO speaker at the IT Management Conference in NYC. Lee was the Keynote Speaker at Interop Information Week Leadership Summit, Blockchain for Business Track Chairman for Blockchain Expo North America 2019 and Keynote Speaker at the Edge Computing World 2020.
Dear Hiring Manager,
Summary
I have experience in building successful capital equipment corporations including being an entrepreneur of my own. My expertise includes product development, manufacturing standardization Logistics, customer service and management I have held the positions of Director of Operations, VP of Operations and Chief Operations Officer, Marketing and President and CEO. My responsibilities have included engineering, manufacturing, GMP/ISO, Quality Control, HR and Customer Service worldwide with profit and loss responsibilities.
I have a proven track record providing consistent results in high-pressure environments. I believe my greatest contribution has been in the mentoring, developing and education of quality individuals. My goal is to create an environment where individuals can grow to their greatest potential. It is my belief the primary responsibility of a manager is to the customer and employees. The results of this practice generates excellent relationships with investors, partners.
CAREER EXPERIENCE
• Startup and turnaround companies
• Capital expenditure
• Sales
• Marketing
• International distribution and service
• Customer service
• Manufacturing
• Logistics
• CRM
• ISO, FDA and PMA
• Countries I have done business with:
Canada, England, Europe, Philippines, Japan, Vietnam, Russia, India, China, Mexico, Santo Domingo, Corsica, Norway and Turkey.
PRODUCT EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
• Medical imaging
• Imaging equipment
• Imaging centers
• Digital X-ray equipment
• Service of MRI, CT, Ultrasound, Digital X-Ray and C-Arm (digital)
• Service and repair of refurbished and new medical equipment
• Biomedical equipment
• Medical device industry
• Medical diagnostic
• Medical equipment distribution
• Channel marketing distribution and OEM
Sincerely,
Mark Falkowski
Giovanni Montesanti
Giovanni Montesanti has a mosaic background – exposed to many different ways of working and several different cultures. He has tangibly demonstrated a clear ability to amalgamate those experiences into a coherent whole.
He will impress both internal partners and external clients as much with the quality of my strategic & long-range thinking as with the strong technical skill-set he brings to the table.
Visionary perspective with crystal view of the future. Significant expertise in communication including: Integrated marketing communication strategy and marketing communication campaign, orchestration of all touch points on marketing communication and overall brand, develop digital media strategy and digital media planning, advertising agency management, marketing communication plan, marketing event & executions, and product branding.
As an experienced Change Agent & Partnership Management, he will be ever cognizant that this is a journey. He certainly has a bias for risk-taking and will err on the side of bold thinking rather than playing it safe.
Fearless in the face of even difficult situations – indeed, likely attracted to steep learning curves and complex change management challenges – he focuses on the positives, establishes clear priorities in keeping the overall marketing vision, and acts with speed to both optimize under-performing members of the team and capitalizes on and expand its existing strengths. Possessing incredible learning agility and a results-oriented mind-set.
He is focused on total human centricity with a deeper understanding of the ecosystem, the consumers & customers’ needs and wants, and community authenticity.
Able to spot trends and connect the dots. He can see around the corner. Looking at the same data that others have available, he identifies issues that most pass by or ignore.
Be Digital or Die - Predictive Analytics for Digital TransformationFintricity
A look at leveraging big data and predictive analytics for digital transformation. This deck was presented at the Predictive Analytics & Innovation Summit in London. 10th May 2016, by Alpesh Doshi, Founder of Fintricity.
Hackathon 3.0 idea Carbon footprint on blockchain with IoTSanjay Talukdar
Idea Owner: Leading role in preparing the business case and low fidelity wireframe for a blockchain & IoT use-case for manufacturing organizations for managing carbon footprint along with a carbon trading platform with a smart contract embedded and presenting in the Hackathon which was selected in the top 10 ideas among a list of 100+ ideas submitted for the Hackathon.
B. Lee Jones was a recipient of the prestigious CIO 100 Award for Enterprise Application Integration. Lee is a widely published and quoted authority on Enterprise Application architecture/integration, computer and network security, international information technology (IT) management, Regulatory standards(ISO CoBit, ITIL, ITSM, HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley), Machine Learning and Blockchain Technology.
Lee is an Elite Expert for IMS Expert Services and a GLG Scholar-Technology, Media and Telecom Councils and Expert Witness for Gerson Lehrman Group and serves as an IT adviser and contributor to Information Week, CIO Magazine, CIO Insight and several other leading industry publications. Lee and his COB/CEO were featured in State of the CIO. Lee has been a featured CIO speaker at the Stanford GSB High Technology Conference, featured CIO speaker at the UCLA Anderson School of Management BIT Conference, featured speaker on CIO Talk Radio, featured in the debut of myglobalcareer.com and featured panelist at the CIO Breakfast Briefing at NGDC and featured CIO speaker at the IT Management Conference in NYC. Lee was the Keynote Speaker at Interop Information Week Leadership Summit, Blockchain for Business Track Chairman for Blockchain Expo North America 2019 and Keynote Speaker at the Edge Computing World 2020.
Dear Hiring Manager,
Summary
I have experience in building successful capital equipment corporations including being an entrepreneur of my own. My expertise includes product development, manufacturing standardization Logistics, customer service and management I have held the positions of Director of Operations, VP of Operations and Chief Operations Officer, Marketing and President and CEO. My responsibilities have included engineering, manufacturing, GMP/ISO, Quality Control, HR and Customer Service worldwide with profit and loss responsibilities.
I have a proven track record providing consistent results in high-pressure environments. I believe my greatest contribution has been in the mentoring, developing and education of quality individuals. My goal is to create an environment where individuals can grow to their greatest potential. It is my belief the primary responsibility of a manager is to the customer and employees. The results of this practice generates excellent relationships with investors, partners.
CAREER EXPERIENCE
• Startup and turnaround companies
• Capital expenditure
• Sales
• Marketing
• International distribution and service
• Customer service
• Manufacturing
• Logistics
• CRM
• ISO, FDA and PMA
• Countries I have done business with:
Canada, England, Europe, Philippines, Japan, Vietnam, Russia, India, China, Mexico, Santo Domingo, Corsica, Norway and Turkey.
PRODUCT EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
• Medical imaging
• Imaging equipment
• Imaging centers
• Digital X-ray equipment
• Service of MRI, CT, Ultrasound, Digital X-Ray and C-Arm (digital)
• Service and repair of refurbished and new medical equipment
• Biomedical equipment
• Medical device industry
• Medical diagnostic
• Medical equipment distribution
• Channel marketing distribution and OEM
Sincerely,
Mark Falkowski
Giovanni Montesanti
Giovanni Montesanti has a mosaic background – exposed to many different ways of working and several different cultures. He has tangibly demonstrated a clear ability to amalgamate those experiences into a coherent whole.
He will impress both internal partners and external clients as much with the quality of my strategic & long-range thinking as with the strong technical skill-set he brings to the table.
Visionary perspective with crystal view of the future. Significant expertise in communication including: Integrated marketing communication strategy and marketing communication campaign, orchestration of all touch points on marketing communication and overall brand, develop digital media strategy and digital media planning, advertising agency management, marketing communication plan, marketing event & executions, and product branding.
As an experienced Change Agent & Partnership Management, he will be ever cognizant that this is a journey. He certainly has a bias for risk-taking and will err on the side of bold thinking rather than playing it safe.
Fearless in the face of even difficult situations – indeed, likely attracted to steep learning curves and complex change management challenges – he focuses on the positives, establishes clear priorities in keeping the overall marketing vision, and acts with speed to both optimize under-performing members of the team and capitalizes on and expand its existing strengths. Possessing incredible learning agility and a results-oriented mind-set.
He is focused on total human centricity with a deeper understanding of the ecosystem, the consumers & customers’ needs and wants, and community authenticity.
Able to spot trends and connect the dots. He can see around the corner. Looking at the same data that others have available, he identifies issues that most pass by or ignore.
Be Digital or Die - Predictive Analytics for Digital TransformationFintricity
A look at leveraging big data and predictive analytics for digital transformation. This deck was presented at the Predictive Analytics & Innovation Summit in London. 10th May 2016, by Alpesh Doshi, Founder of Fintricity.
Hackathon 3.0 idea Carbon footprint on blockchain with IoTSanjay Talukdar
Idea Owner: Leading role in preparing the business case and low fidelity wireframe for a blockchain & IoT use-case for manufacturing organizations for managing carbon footprint along with a carbon trading platform with a smart contract embedded and presenting in the Hackathon which was selected in the top 10 ideas among a list of 100+ ideas submitted for the Hackathon.
Build a Mobile Foundation to Drive Digital Transformation InitiativesPerficient, Inc.
Mobile has been adopted faster than any consumer technology in history. In an always-on, always-connected world we expect the information we want to be available whenever and wherever we want it. As customer expectations rise, you need to change the way you work and engage with them.
While highly engaging user experiences are critical, you’re often faced with aging technologies on supporting back-end systems that can hinder innovation. You’re challenged to transform the mobile experience by delivering high-quality, secure and scalable mobile experiences quickly.
Our webinar covered:
-Top mobile trends that are driving digital transformation and delivering significant business value
-Key process and architecture improvements that speed development and ensure stable, scalable, and secure mobile services
-Tips for establishing a flexible mobility strategy and architecture for app development, mobile app management, mobile device management, and integration approaches
Increasing Business Agility with Platform-as-a-ServicePerficient, Inc.
Cloud has become a popular tool, representing a much larger problem domain that encompasses:
Consumerization of IT via smartphones and tablets
Knowledge of smartest and best solutions available to the enterprise at a reasonable cost
Inclusive scale, performance and availability for enterprise applications at no additional cost
Value-based products and services with nominal cost for change
These four factors drive business agility, which is the number one reason businesses are considering cloud according to Gartner Group. Still, for many, cloud represents an intangible entity requiring tangible examples to bring the value proposition to life.
Learn how you can:
Leverage emerging IT capabilities afforded by cloud, PaaS and DevOps automation
Demonstrate the speed and ease with which you can deploy modern cloud applications across multiple cloud service providers
Drive agility within your organization with cloud solutions
HfS Webinar Slides: How Cognitive Systems like ignio™ Simplify Batch Jobs Man...HfS Research
Batch jobs are the lifeblood for thousands of businesses—many of which run millions of batch jobs every year. Unfortunately, managing these high volumes of batch jobs has become a huge nightmare: numerous errors require a large amount of resources to validate and isolate the problems. Even then, batch jobs still run into unexpected outages, while Service Level Agreement (SLA) violations threaten the proper operation of the business.
This webinar demonstrates how ignio™, the world’s leading cognitive system, has been helping customers tackle this complex problem. We share real world examples on how ignio™ is implemented and highlight the lessons learned from these implementations.
Attend and learn:
Why batch job management issues are affecting business operations
How Cognitive systems like ignio™ solve the complex issues of batch jobs management
How implementing ignio™ resolves customer problems—using real world examples
Insights from practitioners on how this is implemented and the lessons learned from these implementations.
Speakers:
Dr. Maitreya Natu, Digitate
Dr. Thomas Reuner, HfS Research
Victor Thu, Digitate
My current CV: I love technology, connecting all the dots (❓❗️), and being influential in key decisions. I enjoy working on projects that make use of my extensive research, critical thinking, emotional intelligence, cultural competency, competitive analysis, innovation & sourcing skills. I believe in the power of collaboration, inclusion & transparency in today's diverse global workforce. I am also a big fan of the potential with Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics, Cloud, The Internet of Things (IOT), and Big Data.
I am also passionate (and very concerned) about our planet's health and the environment at large. As a Citizen Scientist, I am actively involved in volunteering in various environmental organizations-it's exciting to see our research being published in scientific journals which will in turn help shape policies! And am also equally passionate about Social and Racial Justice causes and movements. So many challenges to tackle, so little time. But: I always say "When there's a will, there's a way"!邏
I like to think of myself as an Open Sourcer (h/t @Amybeth Quinn).
On that note, in 2007 l was the winner of the 2nd #Sourcecon challenge, which was very hard! Went to the GrandMaster Challenge, but the super smart Mike Notaro won the crown. Since then, I consider SourceCon peeps like family. And more currently, the #SOSU folks are also amazing-the virtual #SOSUV conference was awesome!
☛ Lastly, I am located in Bellingham, WA & work virtually, globally.
PS: Alternate spellings of my name: Susie Tonini, Suzie Tonini, Sue Tonini, Suzi Tonini, Susan Tonini, Susi Tonini, Susanne Tonini, Suzanne Tonini-oui, c'est moi!
►Talent Stack:
★ TalentX Intelligence & Research
★ Qualitative and Quantitative Research
★ Investigative & Market Research (OSINT, ESRI)
★ Competitive Analysis, Strategy & Evaluation
★ Advanced Internet Research Techniques
★ Cross-functional trusted & strategic partner to all lines of business
★ Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&l) and Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) advisor, ally and liaison.
★ Deep Sourcing Expertise
★ Talent Mapping & Pipelining
★ Community Management
★ New & Emerging Technologies Evaluations
★ Talent Branding/Social Media Management
*Disclaimer: The statements made & opinions expressed here are solely mine & do not necessarily reflect the views & opinions of my current & former employers.
Contact me directly at stonini [at] gmail [dotcom]
#BlackLivesMatter #TalentIntelligence #Sourcing #Research #TalentBrand #DiversityandInclusion #D&I #inclusion #equity #equality #justice
Marketers are learning that today's more advanced content management systems (CMS) provide flexible, full-featured and easy-to-use tools to make frequent and rapid content edits without IT involvement. Modern content management systems make it easier to improve search engine visibility and provide powerful ways to engage website visitors.
This presentation explains how Perficient's Sitecore CMS implementation optimized Perficient.com and enabled the delivery of fresh, engaging content to our visitors. Within a year of the site re-launch, Perficient experienced a 142% increase in traffic to the site, while blog visits have increased 95% and white paper downloads have increased 113%.
Align Business Data & Analytics for Digital TransformationPerficient, Inc.
Your success in the digital world relies primarily on how well you manage and analyze the data coming from disparate internal systems and external channels. You need to understand how to innovate and leverage digital data to drive sales and productivity.
Existing principles driving traditional data architecture are inadequate to support the volume, variety, and velocity of this new data ecosystem. In these scenarios, information governance (master data management, metadata, data quality and data governance) becomes highly critical in terms of providing the context for operational, competitive and advanced analytics.
Companies require a data architecture and strategy that can support efficient digital transformation by unlocking the value in all data sources to provide mission-critical insights and informed decision-making.
Our experts covered:
-Five information management pillars necessary for digital transformation
-Stages of digital information maturity, reflecting the typical path of an organization implementing this new data ecosystem
-Issues, challenges, and approaches to governing this new architecture
HfS Webinar Slides: Becoming an Intelligent OneOfficeHfS Research
The rise of the As-a-Service Economy is rapidly evolving and emerging solutions, such as Automation, Analytics and Digital technologies are providing a catalyst for enterprises to adopt intelligent and adaptive operating models in a radically different way.
Coupled with a customer-first approach, organizations need to rethink and redesign operating models to support this convergence toward intelligent operations.
In this webinar, experts from HfS Research, Cognizant, Warner Bros., and CoreLogic discussed the impact of aligning back, middle and front office approaches – resulting in new operating models that are increasingly “born digital,” data rich, and outcome-based, in support of the business to which the strategies align.
Wach this webinar replay and learn:
How end-to-end processes need to bring together customer experience with operational agility
Understanding the disjoint between upper management “vision” and middle managers’ trepidation with “how to get there”
How an outside-In approach can drive a “middle office first” strategy to fix the digital/operations divide.
View the webinar: http://www.hfsresearch.com/pov/hfs-webinar-becoming-intelligent-oneoffice
Creating a Successful API Program to Drive Digital TransformationPerficient, Inc.
API management is a driving discipline in the digital transformation movement that can unlock tremendous business value. Because APIs intersect at IT and the business, it’s important to understand how they can be used. APIs can connect inventory management with resource planning for better operational efficiency, integrate with partner organizations for increased sales, and push data to and from a mobile device for the connected enterprise and consumer. The core concepts of APIs are technical in nature, but their business applications are almost limitless.
Creating a successful API program goes way beyond choosing the right tool. The supporting components and disciplines (some tried and true and some emerging) around API management are a critical component of the comprehensive picture.
In this webinar, we discussed:
-The building blocks of a strong API program
-How to get executive buy-in
-Supporting components and disciplines of API management
-How APIs help to build a world-class digital business
Lower Total Cost of Care and Gain Valuable Patient Insights through Predictiv...Perficient, Inc.
Learn how predictive analytics for healthcare can enable your organization to make proactive decisions that can have a profound impact for both patients and care providers. We discuss current and emerging healthcare trends and the positive impact that predictive analytics can have on your organization by:
Optimizing Resource Utilization: Better allocate nurses, clinicians, diagnostic machinery and other resources by predicting future admission volumes
Enhancing Patient Care: Proactively treat patients by more accurately predicting the chance of a chronic condition or the response to medications and therapies
Improving Clinical Outcomes: Analyze treatment success rates to improve treatment plans, minimizing complications and readmissions
Increasing Income and Revenue: Prevent fraudulent behavior and identify opportunities to collect missing income
Saturation, Maturation and Consolidation: TBR's Computing Devices Benchmark W...TBRMarketing
The astounding growth rate of smartphone and tablet sales has plummeted from low double digits to high single digits, as is customary in maturing markets. Mobile device growth hit the wall at an alarming rate because adoption of the device grew so fast. At the same time, new products are met with an increasing level of boredom. Smartphones and tablets are good products, but they are only getting slightly better. Increasing sales and boredom with products are making customers change their approach to these devices, and vendors that recognize and address the changes can continue to progress in an increasingly challenging product category. On July 22, Principal Analyst Ezra Gottheil and Analyst Jack Narcotta discussed the causes and effects of this sudden slowdown in growth and made recommendations on what vendors can do in the changed marketplace.
Questions for discussion included:
• What are the winning configurations, and what form factors do they displace?
• Which markets fit these configurations?
• What are buyers looking for, and how will buyer expectations change?
TheInfoPro is a leading IT advisory and research firm that provides real-world perspectives on the customer and market dynamics of the enterprise information technology landscape, harnessing the collective knowledge and insight of leading IT organizations worldwide.
Cashing in on Mobile Payments with a Winning StrategyPerficient, Inc.
Is your organization ready to execute on new thinking in payments? Does your infrastructure accelerate time-to-market for new services? The boom in smart phone sales and mobile usage is changing the way consumers pay for products and gain access to new banking services.
Perficient will help you navigate these paradigm shifts and address the technologies reshaping the payments ecosystem that will drive your digital strategies. You'll learn about:
A holistic view of the payments value chain - banking and retail
A technical review of evolving payment architectures
How you can provide innovative service utilities for greater consumer adoption
Framework enablers to support rapidly growing transaction volumes
Adapting your existing payment models to support the omni-channel experience
Move from Business Intelligence to Advanced Analytics by Integrating IBM SPSS...Perficient, Inc.
Standard business intelligence reports and dashboards are effective tools to describe the state of your organization or department. However, there are many questions that these tools cannot address, such as:
Why is this happening?
How will my organization be impacted if these trends continue?
What will happen next?
How can we change the outcome of this situation?
Advanced analytics tools are necessary to accurately and quickly address these questions through statistical analysis, forecasting, predictive modeling and intelligent optimization. By integrating advanced analytics solutions with existing business intelligence platforms, your organization will be better positioned to extract actionable insight from your data to gain a true competitive advantage.
Learn how your organization can extend its business intelligence investments in IBM Cognos TM1 by integrating with IBM's leading advanced analytics platform, SPSS. We'll discuss the capabilities of TM1 and SPSS, integration methodologies and strategies, and demo an integrated analytics environment.
Healthcare Portals: 5 Core Practices to make a Great Digital ExperiencePerficient, Inc.
Presenter: Mark Polly, Director, Portals, Content & Social, Perficient
We discuss five core practices that healthcare organizations must implement correctly in their portals to
achieve an excellent digital experience.
RESPONSIVE GOVERNANCE FOR EVOLUTIONARY TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMSThoughtworks
This presentation focuses on practices to implement the appropriate controls, systems and processes to support modern delivery methodologies and architectural styles in a way that doesn't slow down delivery and introduce friction.
The Collaboration Imperative in eProcurement – More than just Procurement and...SAP Ariba
While Procurement and IT may have historically struggled in the deployment and adoption of business initiatives, today’s increasingly-networked economy is making collaboration even more critical. However, rather than increasing the strain on this relationship, we are actually finding cloud technology offers new opportunities for collaboration and alignment inside of the corporate walls, as well as with global partners and suppliers.
In this session, explore some key lessons learned around leveraging a cloud strategy, increasing collaboration, and extending the business view to a more holistic level.
Build a Mobile Foundation to Drive Digital Transformation InitiativesPerficient, Inc.
Mobile has been adopted faster than any consumer technology in history. In an always-on, always-connected world we expect the information we want to be available whenever and wherever we want it. As customer expectations rise, you need to change the way you work and engage with them.
While highly engaging user experiences are critical, you’re often faced with aging technologies on supporting back-end systems that can hinder innovation. You’re challenged to transform the mobile experience by delivering high-quality, secure and scalable mobile experiences quickly.
Our webinar covered:
-Top mobile trends that are driving digital transformation and delivering significant business value
-Key process and architecture improvements that speed development and ensure stable, scalable, and secure mobile services
-Tips for establishing a flexible mobility strategy and architecture for app development, mobile app management, mobile device management, and integration approaches
Increasing Business Agility with Platform-as-a-ServicePerficient, Inc.
Cloud has become a popular tool, representing a much larger problem domain that encompasses:
Consumerization of IT via smartphones and tablets
Knowledge of smartest and best solutions available to the enterprise at a reasonable cost
Inclusive scale, performance and availability for enterprise applications at no additional cost
Value-based products and services with nominal cost for change
These four factors drive business agility, which is the number one reason businesses are considering cloud according to Gartner Group. Still, for many, cloud represents an intangible entity requiring tangible examples to bring the value proposition to life.
Learn how you can:
Leverage emerging IT capabilities afforded by cloud, PaaS and DevOps automation
Demonstrate the speed and ease with which you can deploy modern cloud applications across multiple cloud service providers
Drive agility within your organization with cloud solutions
HfS Webinar Slides: How Cognitive Systems like ignio™ Simplify Batch Jobs Man...HfS Research
Batch jobs are the lifeblood for thousands of businesses—many of which run millions of batch jobs every year. Unfortunately, managing these high volumes of batch jobs has become a huge nightmare: numerous errors require a large amount of resources to validate and isolate the problems. Even then, batch jobs still run into unexpected outages, while Service Level Agreement (SLA) violations threaten the proper operation of the business.
This webinar demonstrates how ignio™, the world’s leading cognitive system, has been helping customers tackle this complex problem. We share real world examples on how ignio™ is implemented and highlight the lessons learned from these implementations.
Attend and learn:
Why batch job management issues are affecting business operations
How Cognitive systems like ignio™ solve the complex issues of batch jobs management
How implementing ignio™ resolves customer problems—using real world examples
Insights from practitioners on how this is implemented and the lessons learned from these implementations.
Speakers:
Dr. Maitreya Natu, Digitate
Dr. Thomas Reuner, HfS Research
Victor Thu, Digitate
My current CV: I love technology, connecting all the dots (❓❗️), and being influential in key decisions. I enjoy working on projects that make use of my extensive research, critical thinking, emotional intelligence, cultural competency, competitive analysis, innovation & sourcing skills. I believe in the power of collaboration, inclusion & transparency in today's diverse global workforce. I am also a big fan of the potential with Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics, Cloud, The Internet of Things (IOT), and Big Data.
I am also passionate (and very concerned) about our planet's health and the environment at large. As a Citizen Scientist, I am actively involved in volunteering in various environmental organizations-it's exciting to see our research being published in scientific journals which will in turn help shape policies! And am also equally passionate about Social and Racial Justice causes and movements. So many challenges to tackle, so little time. But: I always say "When there's a will, there's a way"!邏
I like to think of myself as an Open Sourcer (h/t @Amybeth Quinn).
On that note, in 2007 l was the winner of the 2nd #Sourcecon challenge, which was very hard! Went to the GrandMaster Challenge, but the super smart Mike Notaro won the crown. Since then, I consider SourceCon peeps like family. And more currently, the #SOSU folks are also amazing-the virtual #SOSUV conference was awesome!
☛ Lastly, I am located in Bellingham, WA & work virtually, globally.
PS: Alternate spellings of my name: Susie Tonini, Suzie Tonini, Sue Tonini, Suzi Tonini, Susan Tonini, Susi Tonini, Susanne Tonini, Suzanne Tonini-oui, c'est moi!
►Talent Stack:
★ TalentX Intelligence & Research
★ Qualitative and Quantitative Research
★ Investigative & Market Research (OSINT, ESRI)
★ Competitive Analysis, Strategy & Evaluation
★ Advanced Internet Research Techniques
★ Cross-functional trusted & strategic partner to all lines of business
★ Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&l) and Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) advisor, ally and liaison.
★ Deep Sourcing Expertise
★ Talent Mapping & Pipelining
★ Community Management
★ New & Emerging Technologies Evaluations
★ Talent Branding/Social Media Management
*Disclaimer: The statements made & opinions expressed here are solely mine & do not necessarily reflect the views & opinions of my current & former employers.
Contact me directly at stonini [at] gmail [dotcom]
#BlackLivesMatter #TalentIntelligence #Sourcing #Research #TalentBrand #DiversityandInclusion #D&I #inclusion #equity #equality #justice
Marketers are learning that today's more advanced content management systems (CMS) provide flexible, full-featured and easy-to-use tools to make frequent and rapid content edits without IT involvement. Modern content management systems make it easier to improve search engine visibility and provide powerful ways to engage website visitors.
This presentation explains how Perficient's Sitecore CMS implementation optimized Perficient.com and enabled the delivery of fresh, engaging content to our visitors. Within a year of the site re-launch, Perficient experienced a 142% increase in traffic to the site, while blog visits have increased 95% and white paper downloads have increased 113%.
Align Business Data & Analytics for Digital TransformationPerficient, Inc.
Your success in the digital world relies primarily on how well you manage and analyze the data coming from disparate internal systems and external channels. You need to understand how to innovate and leverage digital data to drive sales and productivity.
Existing principles driving traditional data architecture are inadequate to support the volume, variety, and velocity of this new data ecosystem. In these scenarios, information governance (master data management, metadata, data quality and data governance) becomes highly critical in terms of providing the context for operational, competitive and advanced analytics.
Companies require a data architecture and strategy that can support efficient digital transformation by unlocking the value in all data sources to provide mission-critical insights and informed decision-making.
Our experts covered:
-Five information management pillars necessary for digital transformation
-Stages of digital information maturity, reflecting the typical path of an organization implementing this new data ecosystem
-Issues, challenges, and approaches to governing this new architecture
HfS Webinar Slides: Becoming an Intelligent OneOfficeHfS Research
The rise of the As-a-Service Economy is rapidly evolving and emerging solutions, such as Automation, Analytics and Digital technologies are providing a catalyst for enterprises to adopt intelligent and adaptive operating models in a radically different way.
Coupled with a customer-first approach, organizations need to rethink and redesign operating models to support this convergence toward intelligent operations.
In this webinar, experts from HfS Research, Cognizant, Warner Bros., and CoreLogic discussed the impact of aligning back, middle and front office approaches – resulting in new operating models that are increasingly “born digital,” data rich, and outcome-based, in support of the business to which the strategies align.
Wach this webinar replay and learn:
How end-to-end processes need to bring together customer experience with operational agility
Understanding the disjoint between upper management “vision” and middle managers’ trepidation with “how to get there”
How an outside-In approach can drive a “middle office first” strategy to fix the digital/operations divide.
View the webinar: http://www.hfsresearch.com/pov/hfs-webinar-becoming-intelligent-oneoffice
Creating a Successful API Program to Drive Digital TransformationPerficient, Inc.
API management is a driving discipline in the digital transformation movement that can unlock tremendous business value. Because APIs intersect at IT and the business, it’s important to understand how they can be used. APIs can connect inventory management with resource planning for better operational efficiency, integrate with partner organizations for increased sales, and push data to and from a mobile device for the connected enterprise and consumer. The core concepts of APIs are technical in nature, but their business applications are almost limitless.
Creating a successful API program goes way beyond choosing the right tool. The supporting components and disciplines (some tried and true and some emerging) around API management are a critical component of the comprehensive picture.
In this webinar, we discussed:
-The building blocks of a strong API program
-How to get executive buy-in
-Supporting components and disciplines of API management
-How APIs help to build a world-class digital business
Lower Total Cost of Care and Gain Valuable Patient Insights through Predictiv...Perficient, Inc.
Learn how predictive analytics for healthcare can enable your organization to make proactive decisions that can have a profound impact for both patients and care providers. We discuss current and emerging healthcare trends and the positive impact that predictive analytics can have on your organization by:
Optimizing Resource Utilization: Better allocate nurses, clinicians, diagnostic machinery and other resources by predicting future admission volumes
Enhancing Patient Care: Proactively treat patients by more accurately predicting the chance of a chronic condition or the response to medications and therapies
Improving Clinical Outcomes: Analyze treatment success rates to improve treatment plans, minimizing complications and readmissions
Increasing Income and Revenue: Prevent fraudulent behavior and identify opportunities to collect missing income
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1. Tia Thomas- Senior Consultant
Summary
● 8+ years of Supply Chain experience in progressive roles
● 3 ½ + years of Coupa implementation and support experience
● Completed 3 full Coupa implementations for large companies
● Excellent functional and technical skills
● Enthusiastic and dedicated professional
Relevant Experience
Coupa Senior Contractor/ Project Manager – July 2015 - November 2015
Brookdale Senior Living
Coupa Business Analyst/ Project Coordinator Sep. 2014 – May 2015
● Completed a full Coupa implementation for a $4B global high-tech company.
Coupa Project Responsibilities:
Transitioned from Ariba purchasing, sourcing, and contracts to Coupa
Worked closely with internal supply chain team and Coupa consultants
Assisted in integration with SAP, where all master data lives
Identified segments to drive Coupa approvals for PO’s and invoices
Responsible for all communication on the project
Met with PWC to ensure auditing needs were met
Process flows:
Identified business processes by working with BPO’s
Identified business process flows to better communicate end result success for both purchase
orders and invoices ( Supply Chain and AP)
Developed integration specs, and held meetings with project groups to be sure all areas of
business processes were accounted for and approved
Scheduled and held meetings with project members to ensure timelines were met
Communicated timeline to project manager
Configuration:
● Assisted in configuration of Coupa e-procurement for purchase orders, invoices, financial reports,
budgets by commodity, withholding tax tables by country, fixed assets, sourcing templates/ live bids and
contracts module.
Master data loads and preparation into CSV templates
Worked with lookup tables and lookup values
Identified and configured approval chains
Commodity mapping
Coupa roles within the system - custom roles
Approval chains for PO’s, invoices, contracts
UAT
2. Contract Module:
Contracts module was the model so SOA would be assigned to the contract.
Coupa is developing but did not yet have the SOA as part of their contracts module.
SOA would change based on contract type and threshold.
Configured contracts module based on existing Ariba templates, area of business and amount of
contract.
Loaded all live and expired contracts for last 8 years as master data into Coupa.
Sourcing Module:
Developed international sourcing templates and worked with global employees to ensure their
suppliers would understand the bid requests.
Used custom fields to ensure all information was getting captured in requisitions and invoices so
that SAP transaction would be successful.
Supplier Enablement
● Enabled based on annual Supplier spend.
Used spend to determine which method Suppliers would invoice.
Set up meetings with Suppliers, business process owners and IT to explain transition.
Enabled 80% of Supplier invoicing before GO LIVE.
Deep dive helped pinpoint rogue spend and initiate conversation with BPO’s on migrating
business to preferred Suppliers which turned into cost savings for the year.
UAT
Training:
● Created training guides, held seminars, and recorded training for suppliers and end users on e-
procurement, supplier enablement (CSN), and invoicing.
Researched if needed and responded to questions regarding supplier enablement in Po’s and
invoices.
Trained suppliers on CSN, CXML specs, or CSV bulk upload.
Trained suppliers on how to assemble the hosted catalog CSV load.
SERVICE CORPORATION INTERNATIONAL, Houston, TX Nov. 2011- Sep. 2014_
Coupa Project Coordinator
Configuration and Implementation of Coupa e-Procurement and Invoicing.
SCI was transitioning from a decentralized to centralized system to maximize savings.
Main company initiative for 2014 to PO enable over 100 direct vendors on system.
Worked with project team within SCI, ensuring correct fields were on requisitions and transmitted
to vendors based on commodity, so that suppliers were able to process the orders without any
questions.
Worked with buyers to “deep dive” into business to centralize purchasing functions.
Determined which suppliers were to be enabled for punch-out / catalogs / or free-form vendors.
Catalogs were broken out by content groups so that certain locations would only be able to buy
specific product at a negotiated price from the vendor.
Worked with suppliers on their websites and upgrades.
Created training guides and trained all buyers on hosted catalogs and maintained the master
data.
Created training guides and trained all suppliers on Coupa procurement, invoice submission, and
contact information.
3. Scheduled and held weekly/ bi weekly meetings with suppliers and buyers to ensure timeline
was going to be hit.
Loaded Master data for supplier catalogs worked with Coupa team to load product images
through FTP site.
Conducted and developed UAT for Supplier Enablement.
Buyer – Granite and Bronze
Negotiated contracts with new suppliers, sourced suppliers, managed/ controlled cost to hit financial budget
period, strategic planning, wrote process orders, activate items, activate price increases, contract & vendor
management, cost negotiations, change management initiatives, webinar training, inventory management,
assist in marketing collateral, work with other departments on company initiatives.
Results:
Earned Promotion and bonus within first year. Collected over $15,000 in co-op funds. Assisted in development
and training of surplus online ordering system. Received award for outstanding performance in collaboration
from the Supply Chain group.
BELK Corporation, Charlotte, NC Jan. 2010 – Sep. 2011
Merchandise Assistant Buyer- Kitchen Electrics/ Luggage
Tasks were but not limited to pricing, in-store signing, store communication and merchandising, advertising,
writing purchase orders/ replenishment orders, planning, and analyzing sales for three rapidly growing
business departments and 300 stores.
Results:
Developed efficiency-enhancing workflow/process improvements that made it possible to accommodate
increasing responsibility. Gained invaluable knowledge of the Retail Business. Team received Buyer of the
Year Award 2010; Received Tiger Award for great performance.
Education
East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 2003-2007
Bachelors Degree in Interior Merchandising;Business Management Minor
Graduated on Deans List with Honors