TRACEY JOHN ROHDE

$2 Billion - 2,600 employees

Reported to VP-IT - Led a team of 13 - IT peer to Architecture & Strategy, Applications, Infrastructure, and Data & Analytics.

Responsibilities included:

• Hire, develop and evaluate PMO Governance Team - RTE, Scrum Masters, Coach, Portfolio Manager, Vendor Manager, Procurement Analyst, Asset/Lease Manager, Product Owners
• Technology delivery and support (PMO) -performance management of the Agile Release train leveraging Scaled-Agile
• Develop and execute on technology strategy
• Technology Financial Management - budget creation, adherence, forecasting - PO creation and invoice process
• Asset Management (ITAM) - desktop/server lease schedules
• Established ITSM/ITIL processes (CAB, incident,problem)

Successes Include:

• Built and transformed technology delivery (PMO) by establishing agile "fusion" teams - 17 teams, 145+ members
• Optimized staff performance by designing comprehensive training programs tailored to agile roles
• Strong supplier negotiation experience saving consistently $1MM each year in savings
• Navigated company through periods of significant change, maintaining focus on long-term strategic goals
• Successfully matured technology financial management from ad-hoc to predictable and measurable
• Established vendor relationship management score carding

$8 Billion - 15,000 employees

Executive working with all IT functions -Governance, PMO, Strategy, and Business Relationship Management. Providing full strategy support for the following areas in all business segments:

• Product Development, Engineering, Manufacturing Support – PDM/PLM, enterprise vendor contract management, MES, desktop and server hardware lifecycle support, budget planning, security requirements, program/project Management
• Web Services & Collaboration – Sharepoint, Unified Communications, collaboration (Box, Dropbox, OneDrive).
• After Market Support – All Warranty Claim Application life cycle support – Integrations, SOX compliancy.
• ITSM/Governance Support – IT Performance through analytics

Senior Manager of IT PLM Engineering Systems Team.

Functional responsibilities included:

• Service Desk
• PC/Desktop Support
• Server/Architecture
• Application Ownership/Middleware
• Application Development/Programming

$8 Billion 31,000 employees

Held Leadership roles in MFG, Product Engineering, New Product Development, and Engineering Services. Responsible for Kohler Companies PLM efforts - $15 million

• Ensure that projects are managed effectively to achieve success, communication, clear objectives, performance management and staff development.

Key Contributions

• Created 5 year PLM roadmap for Kohler K&B Group
• Identified Five Million dollars of indirect labor savings
• Lead benchmarking efforts for PLM Vendor selection (Windchill, SAP, Matrix One, TeamCenter)
• Negotiated over 4 million dollars of software savings