Danica Novakovic

Client — Multi-Entity Holding Company (Confidential)

• Enterprise Consolidation: Built the strategy roadmap for consolidating multiple operating companies across distinct verticals, shortening month-end close across entities and giving leadership consolidated revenue visibility for the first time.
• ERP Architecture: Designed a multi-entity ERP model supporting manufacturing, warehousing, sales, and international trade under a single governed structure.

Client — Publicly Traded AgTech Company (Confidential)

• Systems Wind-Down: Maintained and then decommissioned operational ERP systems, transferring transactional history and processes into the acquiring organization’s platforms without loss of continuity or audit trail.
• Identity & Data Security: Migrated ERP environments from legacy user domains into new ownership structures while preserving access controls and data security throughout.
• Data Platform Migration: Moved Azure Data Lake assets and legacy workflows into the new environment with no interruption to downstream reporting.
• Operational Systems: Developed a crop tracking system for the harvesting process, creating a new revenue stream for the growing facility.
  Client — Keeneland Association
• Systems Assessment: Evaluated the technology estate across Sales, Racing, Events & Catering, Retail, and Stabling, producing a full process map and a prioritized set of gaps and improvement opportunities.
• Security & Data Strategy: Advised on security principles and data strategy supporting a move to a unified platform approach that materially reduced the organization’s attack surface.
• Platform Roadmap: Advised on the transition strategy for CRM, bidding platform, and sales systems. Engagement concluded when Keeneland brought the work in-house and recruited the role full time.

• Partnered with executive leadership, finance, sales, operations, IT, and external vendors to align technology investment with business strategy and governance, presenting outcomes directly to the Board of Trustees.
• Led enterprise modernization across sales technology, CRM, data lake, integration, and digital workflow workstreams supporting a high-volume auction and racing environment.
• Owned the transformation roadmap spanning CRM, middleware, data platforms, and legacy system optimization, reducing paper and manual document processing by 30%.
• Drove requirements, process redesign, vendor accountability, and operational readiness for mission-critical and customer-facing platforms.
• Implemented master data management as the foundation of the modernization program, establishing a single trusted source for enterprise data.
• Built an ontology layer translating business language into an AI-ready environment grounded in governed master data.
• Delivered a redesigned buyer web experience and cloud-based bidding application, improving engagement across 70% of registered users and cutting buyer onboarding from 27 steps to 5.

• Directed enterprise applications strategy and roadmap across ERP, HRIS, and application governance in a fast-scaling, publicly traded environment.
• Led Microsoft Dynamics 365 implementation and broader business process transformation, aligning finance, operations, and technology teams around scalable architecture and controls. Scaling to 4 different facilities over span of 2 years
• Improved IT service management discipline, application support, and stakeholder prioritization, implementing tooling, SLAs, and KPIs that strengthened reliability and business responsiveness.
• Enabled data governance through a data lake consolidating feeds from industrial packaging, shipping, and ERP systems, establishing baselines and output forecasting while removing 20+ manual steps from the planning process.
• Established and directed SOX, SOD, and ITGC implementation across IT systems, resulting in no significant findings in SEC filings and a high degree of auditor confidence in the control environment.
• Managed a $2.5M IT application budget, reducing it to under $500K through the Chapter 11 process while preserving system continuity, data retention obligations, and audit integrity.
• Created a proof of concept for blockchain-based supply chain transactions to improve visibility across growing and distribution.

• Led enterprise applications initiatives supporting rapid growth, international scale, and process standardization across business-critical platforms, culminating in full migration from legacy ERP to SAP.
• Partnered with Finance on budget forecasting across a $1M–$5M IT portfolio through the expansion phase.
• Directed SOX, SOD, and ITGC implementation for IPO readiness — full compliance delivered on time, with zero audit findings.
• Owned integration strategy and Informatica implementation, scaling EDI from 3 trading-partner integrations in year one to more than 2,000 by year four across national retail and foodservice accounts including Costco, Walmart, Publix, H-E-B, and Burger King — cutting order processing from three days to near real time.
• Established the data analytics function, leading transformation on Snowflake and Databricks across 35 data platforms.
• Delivered executive dashboards providing real-time insight into production trends, customer churn, and competitive position, accelerating decision-making across the business.

• Led analysis and delivery for financial systems enhancements, upgrades, controls, and process improvement in a compliance-sensitive environment.
• Led migration from legacy on-premises financial systems to a cloud-based Oracle EBS instance.
• Built the Apex reporting integration and delivered reporting tools used daily by the accounting team as well as custom procurement flow resulting in more visibility and automated approvals for purchases.
• Contributed to SOX and ITGC-aligned governance, bridging business and technical teams on system requirements and enterprise process change.