Niels Lundsgaard
**** *. ****** **** • Fox Point, WI 53217 • 414-***-****• Cell: 919-***-****• acqzyc@r.postjobfree.com
Business Process Analyst Lead
~Successful Business, Technical, Systems, and Project Professional ~ Solution Focused~ Excellent Collaborator
Motivated leader in engineering, operations, and system implementation.
Versatile, intuitive and self-directed professional committed to identifying solutions and breaking barriers to drive business objectives and generate lasting improvements.
Core Competencies Include:
SAP for Operations (MM, PP, QM, others)
Systems functionality and data quality
Product and Development Engineering
Training Development and Delivery
Manufacturing Management/Engineering
Process Mapping and Re-engineering
Six Sigma Quality – Cycle Time Reduction
Electrical / Electronics Manufacturing
Lean Manufacturing, Value Stream Maps
New Product Industrialization
Proven background in getting things done and leaving a lasting impact
Professional Experience
Process Integration Analyst Lead – Johnson Controls - Milwaukee, Wisconsin January 2015-present
Drove integrity of Fortune 100 global business design by mapping and reviewing process details with individual functional groups as part of a global SAP deployment.
Applying prior industry and system knowledge to project methodology, addressed production, supply chain, controlling, planning, engineering, master data creation, and order management activities.
Planned, constructed and executed three major cross-functional process integration workshops in which over 50 key business opportunities were identified. This involved creating 20 detailed business scenarios.
Coordinated with project executives, process owners, subject experts, and process modellers to drive complete and accurate project design content.
Alliance Ambassador, Consulting Industry Expert – Raleigh, North Carolina 2011-2015
Working with SAS, a leader in business analytics, provided business process solutions to strategic customers, matching system capabilities to business environments and challenges.
Business Process Manager – Schneider Electric – Raleigh, North Carolina 2004-2011
Deployed SAP in North American Operations, re-engineering business processes and guiding the organization to accept the change, applying expertise in SAP MM/PP/QM modules with involvement in WM/PM modules.
Designed, tested, trained, and deployed a new SAP PP/MM/QM/PM/WM data change process, collaborating with key users from 9 affected plants. Trained five Australian facilities on this approach also.
Built a high-performing business process team by securing executive support and attracting a high level of talent from 3 manufacturing locations. Areas include shop floor production, plant replenishment, product configuration, preventive maintenance, engineering change process, and data migration
Deployed SAP with minimal service disruption, having developed a solution and approach which met business needs, ensured data quality and trained all end users.
Industrialization Manager– Schneider Electric – Raleigh, North Carolina 1996-2004
Brought new product designs to full production in multiple manufacturing locations, using concurrent product and process development, including procurement, fabrication, electronic assembly, final assembly, and test.
Designed manufacturing processes for new products in 3 different plants, meeting project and cost targets, applying sound manufacturing approaches, running production simulations, developing process FMEAs, and continually communicating with the team and sponsors,
Partnering with the highly regarded McKenzie group, drove 20% base cost reductions at 3 plant locations by identifying key office and plant floor opportunities using value stream mapping, work-route mapping, and labor studies.
Managed project capital and expenses, submitting capital requests to senior management and tracking costs during the project.
Managed team which provided manufacturability input to product design to minimize cost and complexity.
Additional Related Experience
Order Engineering Manager– Schneider Electric – Columbia, S. Carolina
Managed engineering group for standard and custom electrical control products. This group designed special configurations daily and maintained the integrity of standard designs.
Development Engineer – Schneider Electric – Raleigh, North Carolina
Lead the engineering effort for new product development projects, including a new, much simpler single spring pressure switch, using innovative approaches.
Product/Manufacturing Engineer – Furnas Electric – Osceola, Iowa
Implemented design and manufacturability improvements to electro-mechanical products, using engineering analysis and collaborating with vendors..
Education
Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering
Iowa State University – Ames, IA
Computer Technology
SAP MM, PP, QM (also some WM, FI/CO, PM) / AutoCAD (3D) / Microsoft Office: Visio - Project - Access
Awards and Recognitions
Senior Staff Special Recognition and Award: For ‘Substantial Accomplishment for success in deploying SAP to over 2,000 users at plants with sales over $1.5 B per year’. June, 2011
Management Recognitions for successful product Developments: Development of the Ultima Integrated motor starter, Size 5 contactor DC redesign, Grounded Operator Interface, others. 1996-2001
Dynamic Quality Award: Global award for success in developing new “Soft Start” motor controller. 1998
Quality Silver Certification: Plant-wide certification. Managed the only group in the plant to achieve this level of performance. 1995