Danica Novakovic

• Lead strategic development for business users to customers engagement with customizations to enable Shopify to D365 integrations
• Spearheaded innovative approaches to resource allocation and strategic planning with saving of 80% on headcount for company wide re-structuring
• Lead in-depth revision of implementation for Business Central D365 Microsoft Applications on usability and customer access
• Scaled from 1 to 6 new sights for greenhouses that would grow various products - tomatoes/ lettuce / berries / cucumbers
• Enabled business operations with ticket tracing within Jira
• Leveraged marketplace trends to create solutions and refine business strategies
• Monitored expenditures to mitigate risk of overages with cut down in cost across board in 90% fo CAPEX expenses
• Maintained expansive knowledge on widely accepted design principles for developing applications within Production / Ted and dev environments via ITIL principles
• Monitored and coordinated workflows to optimize resources
• Tracked post-deployment bug reports to recognize and resolve trends among user-reported faults and complaints
• Drafted and distributed reports to assist board members with critical business decisions
• Oversaw supply chain functions to verify inventory levels and budget adherence
• Worked closely with organizational leadership and board of directors to guide operational strategy
• Documented processes and drafted SOPs to comply with regulations and company policies
• Performed cross department feedback on needed improvement areas of cross team assistance of testing, evaluating and bug tracking efforts
• Delineate between growers support systems and SOC controls systems for better scoping of auditing
• Re-establish overall architecture for greenhouse / packing and growers systems across board for climate tracking enablement
• Provided security strategy for SOC controls with tools to validate auditors requests in publicly traded company

Business Systems: ERP, Manufacturing and Lab Systems:

• Created roadmap for ERP scaling while goring from 5k customers to international lunch across 5+ countries and scale to 20K customers
• Enabled Growth of Applications team from 2 to 10 team members
• Enabled EDI for touch-less order processing, warehouse shipments and invoicing process
• Enabled Sales Promotions process with implementation of TPM system
• Enabled Analytics with Implementations of Tableau company wide and effective transparency of 80% for business stakeholder
• Mentoring team on scoping, development and troubleshooting of solutions for Accounting, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Procurement and Finance teams
• Lead team of 6 on deployment schedule, incident / ticketing system for scaling of manufacturing process 3x12 hr shifts and recording in ERP to 6x24
• Implemented of iPasS solution for 12 different platform integrations and ~26 various data integration points.
• Implemented Industrial systems management software that accounted for 40% overall wasted materials reduction and scaling of future plants
• Lead SoX Segregation of duties (SOD) and for Accounting, Finance, Supply Chain, Procurement / Sourcing, Product Developments and Manufacturing departments, as well as ITGC controls implementation enabling IPO system readiness
• Managed budget assigned with reduction in cost of 60% with year over year growth and new initiatives implementation
• Led Shift of live ERP system from on-prem to full Cloud with zero incidents
• Supported implementation of warehouse management system software applications to enable centralized management of tasks
• Played key role in on-going network design, reevaluation and optimization to keep pace with company growth

• Review and analysis of finance system finding ways to utilize existing ERP components and finding opportunities for integration of custom solutions in effort to streamline business process
• Performed upgrade of Financial System for departments: Accounts Payables AP, Account Receivables AR, Cash Management CM, General Ledger GL, Procurement, and Fixed Assets FA from legacy systems to cloud resulting in 80% improvement of operations transactions
• Lead team on requirement gathering, building, testing implementation and training of Procurement solution for Finance and Operations teams
• Review design, and maintained third party integrations with AMEX for expense tracking
• Developed integration for Royal Bank of Canada check and expense payments
• Managed project for redesign of Chart of Accounts with third party solutions.
• Identified and created metrics reports in Crystal that would serve C- level executives on better understanding of discounted products for contract based sales
• Created and manager various reports with SQL for finance, legal and operations teams in both BI Business Objects and in APEX
• Maintained and troubleshot various parts of Oracle E-business suite for finance teams
• Reviewing and repair various packages in PL/SQL for Finance system