PATRICIA LAUVER

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SUMMARY

Skilled performance-driven team and project leader with consistent ability

to meet targets of multiple projects in diverse industries in both global

and local environments. Adept at balancing cost versus effectiveness of

technical solutions. Demonstrated managerial and technical strengths

include:

Product life cycle costing Cross-functional project management

International experience Information Systems design and

implementation

Effective communications Information Technology (IT)

Interfacing business and IT Team leadership, development and

coordination

EDUCATION

2009-ITIL, 2008-SAP Financial Accounting, 2008-Evonik Process Model

workshop, 2005-Value IT Seminar, 2003-SAP BW and Portals Conference, 2002-

Developing Executive Leadership AMA Seminar, 2001-SAP Processes in Sales

and Distribution, 2000-ASAP Certification, 1999-Data Warehousing

Conference, 1996-Project Management Seminar, 1993-SAS, 1985-GTE

Supervisory Development Program, 1985-Annual Reliability and

Maintainability Symposium,

Post graduate courses in Operations Analysis, Statistics and Computer

Engineering

MBA, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH USA

BS, with honors, Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

USA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

The University of Akron 1/10 - present

Adjunct Faculty

. Teaching an evening MBA course, Management and Organizational Behavior.

Evonik 11/99 - 7/09

Global Process Head Evonik Shared Services (IT Application

Services)

Essen, Germany &

Parsippany, NJ 1/08 - 7/09

Competence Center Head Degussa Shared Services (IT Application

services) Krefeld, Germany 1/05 - 12/07

Information Officer Degussa Food Ingredients (food ingredient

manufacturer) Freising, Germany 10/03 - 1/05

Information Officer Degussa Flavors & Fruit Systems (flavor & fruit

preps.) Woodlawn, OH 11/99 - 10/03

. Led upgrades of 2 different SAP Business Intelligence (BI) systems as

well as expansions of their functionality. One system was migrated from

3.1 to 7.0 and the other from 3.0B to 7.0.

. Led a project to integrate a new acquisition into the Evonik SAP

environment.

. Led projects on the SAP systems my group supported to accommodate a

reorganization of business units and a corporate name change.

. Joined the program management (PM) team on a Customer Relationship

Management (CRM) project halted for non-performance. Implemented good PM

practices and tools to ensure that the project would end successfully.

Key accomplishments were project plans, realistic status reporting, task

force management and scope management.

. Leveraged SAP expertise across sites, regions and clusters.

. Mentored first time team managers to successfully accomplish team

management responsibilities.

. Built a global team atmosphere with staff who previously worked only

on 1 system and in 1 location.

. Planned, marketed and led a SAP 4.6c global implementation project.

Successfully met the budget of 13 million Euros and 1 year timeline

target including as addition SAP's BW/BI module. The team included 20

external consultants and over 50 part-time internal business and IT

staff. SAP modules implemented were FI, CO, SD, MM, WM, PP-PI, QM,

EH&S and BW/BI.

. Ensured effective use of information technology (data and voice

communications, network hardware/software and systems) to satisfy user

needs and support achievement of the BU's strategic direction.

. Verified, marketed and led implementation of an innovative approach to

protect sensitive data which saved the company over $.5 million.

. Set strategic direction for the IT department to satisfy business

requirements. Established procedures for approving and managing IT

investments in the BU.

. As an active member of Post-merger Integration Team for SKW/Alex

Fries/Alfrebro, was responsible for determining how to merge the IT

departments and efforts.

. Managed staff of up to 35 people located at up to 8 different sites in

the USA, Germany and France responsible for support of globally used SAP

systems and infrastructure.

. Significantly reduced external IT efforts and effected a process

change so that external staff worked for IT and not directly for the

business.

. Negotiated contracts and managed various vendor's staff and efforts,

including its.on GMB, its.on NAFTA, GFI, Deloitte, BearingPoint,

Itelligence, DEC, Oracle and others for several employers.

Alex Fries 3/97 - 11/99

(30 million annual sales flavor manufacturer with plants in Woodlawn and

Monroe, OH and Mexico City)

Manager - IT Alex Fries Inc. Woodlawn, OH 3/97 - 12/99

. Marketed and then led a data warehouse effort using Seagate Info,

developed info-views of ERP application and trained users.

. Grew and managed staff of 6 IT professionals.

. Ensured effective use of information technology (data and voice

communications, network hardware/software and systems) to satisfy user

needs and support achievement of the company's strategic direction.

. Successfully completed a $.6 million project to replace a custom-

developed business application with a mid-tier process industry

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system (Ross Systems).

Belcan Technical Services 6/94 - 3/97

(part of 500 million annual sales Belcan Corporation providing technical

engineering services)

Information Systems Project Consultant Woodlawn, OH 1/95 - 3/97

Lynchburg, VA 6/94 - 11/94

. As a consultant for Alex Fries, led business requirements definition,

Request for Proposal, evaluation of alternative ERP systems, vendor

negotiation, planned and led implementation of a mid-tier process

industry ERP system. It was the first cross-process project and team in

the customer.

. Developed a MS Access prototype of a client/server decision support tool

to reduce key management report preparation time from 300 hours to 1 hour

for internal customer.

Kmart International - Headquarters 12/93 - 6/94

(part of 36 billion annual sales of second largest discount retailer

providing international systems)

Senior Systems Analyst Troy, MI and Mexico City, Mexico

. Supported implementation of the merchandising system for the first 2

stores in Mexico. Tasks included testing, training and documentation of

processes for the handheld scanner.

Belcan Engineering Group, Inc. 4/90 - 12/93

(part of 500 million annual sales Belcan Corporation providing engineering

consulting)

Senior Systems Project Engineer Blue Ash, OH

. Staffed and managed a department of 3 providing analytical systems

engineering services.

. Grew customer base from 1 department to 3 departments and established

first blanket purchase order for systems engineering services.

. Led team developing a statistical reliability analysis tool, using SAS on

an IBM mainframe, to normalize field data and complete analysis in 3 days

versus 6 months for a major aerospace contractor.

. Developed software quality engineering procedures based on a military

computer specification, MIL-STD-2167A.

CTA, Inc. 10/88 - 4/90

(part of the 30 million annual sales for information technology engineering

services)

Senior Systems Analyst Burlington, MA and Rockville, MD

. Led team to develop tool to raise static source code analysis

capabilities from 60% to 98% and develop a database system which reduced

engineering analysis time by 1 month for a U.S. Air Force program.

. Supported Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) efforts on the

Peace Shield air defense program.

HAY Systems, Inc. 4/86 - 7/88

(part of 97 million annual sales HAY Group, Inc. providing management

consulting services for US DOD projects)

Director, Cost Engineering Washington, DC

. Controlled project scope and efforts resulting in a $135K profit on 2

fixed price contracts totaling $635K for a major aerospace contractor.

Provided logistics engineering services.

. By rewriting documentation and proving business requirements were

satisfied, saved $100K revenues on $2M project threatened with

termination to support the VA's Integrated Data Communication Utility

(IDCU) program. Completed remaining tasks and obtained a $40K

continuation contract.

. Led the Boston-area operations and hired 2 engineers.

. Analyzed Life Cycle Cost (LCC) aspects of design alternatives and

documented results.

GTE Government Systems 4/85 - 4/86

(part of 1 billion annual sales GTE providing defense-electronics systems

for the joint services WIS project)

Analyst, Life Cycle Cost Billerica, MA

. Determined LCC characteristics of design alternatives, created status

reports, planned and wrote parts of proposals for follow-on project

phases.

SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS

Very Experienced with Microsoft applications (Project, Excel, Word,

PowerPoint, Exchange/Outlook)

Experienced with VISIO, Adobe Photoshop, Lotus Notes, FastTrack Schedule,

Primavera Project, Mindmapper

Prior programming languages experience (SAS, Ingres, FORTRAN, Basic)

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