Dr. Denise Blais
Danbury,CT
Summary
Recent graduate with doctoral degree in Business Administration focusing on Information Systems Management. Knowledgeable Systems Analyst with a 30-year history of progressive leadership and project management skills. Extensive experience working with senior management to solve complex business problems. Aligning teams and driving collaboration and cohesion to complete projects on time and within budget.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Principal Systems Analyst
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals
10.2016 - Current
- Designing future IT architecture for capturing spend in 100+ countries for superior automation, analytics, risk monitoring, and risk avoidance.
- Designing and leading effort to build innovative Spend API to coordinate global spend capture for accurate reporting, risk mitigation, and data insights; significantly improving efficiencies.
- Used critical thinking to break down large problems, evaluate solutions, to develop multi-year plans to automate global spend capture integration where no automation existed.
- Led request for proposal process for new global spend capture solution to make final decision.
- Successfully implemented and launched new cloud spend capture solution for U.S. and cross border regulatory requirements on time and on budget.
- Devoted many hours providing business expertise in training employees on Value Management Expert Series helping IT identify increased performance toward BI's key value drivers.
Senior Business Consultant for Corp. Communication
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals
08.2013 - 09.2016
- Identified business requirements for global corporate communications and worked with developer to meet business needs.
- Managed outsourced intranet developers for enhancements, bug fixes, and testing MyBI intranet site.
- Developed and executed manual test scripts for new releases to MyBI portal ensuring zero defects at time of implementation.
- Built key PMInet Sales Portal using Sharepoint 2013 platform.
Principal Business Analyst
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals
07.2005 - 07.2013
- System Lead for custom SupplierXchange application used for capturing over $35 million in healthcare spend.
- System Lead for Ariba Procurement (Ariba Buyer) application used to source over $70 million in supplies and services.
- Led testing team for successful upgrade of SAP version 4.7 to ECC 6.0.
- Developed and conducted training sessions for over 1500 suppliers.
- Transitioned daily support to regional helpdesk to focus attention on launching new strategic supplier portal.
- Applied Six Sigma principals to streamline incoming helpdesk tickets to ensure reduced ticket volumes and improved SLA performance.
Education
Doctor of Business Administration - Information Systems Management
Walden University
Minneapolis, MN06.2022
Master of Science - Information Systems
Pace University
New York, NY05.2006
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration
University of Southern Maine
Portland, ME05.1994
ACHIEVEMENTS/HONORS/AWARDS
CTCertification - Teaching English As A Second Language
I-to-I
Portland, ME2008
Skills
- Business/Technical Expertise
- Customer Orientation
- Teamwork & Collaboration
- Analytical Thinking
- Effective Communication
- Training
- Operational Excellence
- Agility & Accountability
- Innovation & Change
- Process Improvement
- Enterprise Architecture
- Regulatory Compliance
Timeline
Senior Principal Systems Analyst
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals
10.2016 - Current
Senior Business Consultant for Corp. Communication
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals
08.2013 - 09.2016
Principal Business Analyst
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals
07.2005 - 07.2013
Doctor of Business Administration - Information Systems Management
Walden University
Master of Science - Information Systems
Pace University
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration
University of Southern Maine
ACHIEVEMENTS/HONORS/AWARDS
Certification - Teaching English As A Second Language
I-to-I
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