Barbara Thomas

Retired

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

About

Experienced technology leader with 30 years’ experience recognized for success in assessing and integrating IT assets in projects for Merger, Acquisition and Divestitures at Fortune 500 medical device company. Demonstrated ability to execute programs across infrastructure and applications. Proven ability to execute infrastructure and applications integration and separations aligned with business strategies. Proven team leader with experience building cross-functional and multi-national teams working in PMO 8 years. Demonstrated ability to successfully engage stakeholders across organization including executives.

Experience

  • Retirement at Career Break
    May 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Director at EY-Parthenon
    Sep 2022 - May 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos

    I am working in Transaction Strategy & Execution based in the Minneapolis, MN USA office.

  • Medtronic (Full-time · 23 yrs 10 mos)
    • Senior Program Manager IT M&A
      Apr 2016 - Oct 2022 · 6 yrs 7 mos

      Responsible for Merger, Acquisition, and Divestiture in the IT function. Includes diligence, integration planning, and integration/separation execution. Process owner for M/A in IT. Also responsible for global IT strategy building. Key strength is applications and integration in any region of the world.

    • Senior Program Manager PMO
      Apr 2010 - Apr 2016 · 6 yrs 1 mo

      Successfully led enterprise programs across business functions, organizational units, and geographies Recognized for managing infrastructure upgrades, business divestiture, manufacturing operation startup, software implementations, software upgrades, and statutory tax compliance.

    • Change Management Program Manager
      Dec 2003 - Nov 2010 · 7 yrs

      Led Communications and Change Management activities for multiple SAP deployments: in Asia Pacific, Europe, and the Americas Developed and deployed Change Management methodology in partnership with implementation partner

  • HB Fuller (14 yrs 11 mos)
    • Manufacturing Systems Analyst
      Jul 1991 - Dec 1998 · 7 yrs 6 mos

    • Production Scheduler
      May 1990 - Jul 1991 · 1 yr 3 mos

    • Implementation Team User Liaison
      Dec 1989 - Jul 1991 · 1 yr 8 mos