Laura Kohl
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Experience
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Morningstar
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United States
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Chief Information Officer
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Apr 2021 - 2 years 9 months
Chicago, Illinois, United States Leads Morningstar’s global technology by transforming employee experience, processes and tools. Brings leading technologies, partnerships and practices to Morningstar and drives growth of product and service excellence and operational productivity.
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Ulta Beauty
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United States
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Retail
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700 & Above Employee
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SVP, Enterprise Applications
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Sep 2019 - Apr 2021
Chicago, Illinois, United States Responsible for all enterprise application development, including eCommerce, enterprise and guest mobility, data analytics, cloud migration, integrations, loyalty, marketing, merchandising, finance, HR, supply chain, and store and distribution center technology.
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United Airlines
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United States
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Airlines and Aviation
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700 & Above Employee
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Managing Director, Field Service Delivery & End User Engineering and Support
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Jun 2016 - Sep 2019
Chicago, IL Lead Global field support services and end user engineering organization of 550+ team members with budget over $225M. Responsible for infrastructure and support at Corporate and 330+ airport locations, deploying new technologies and services for premium customer and employee user experience. Developed strategy and deployed collaboration tools, including the deployment of O365 company wide, end user engineering and mobility, proactive and preventative maintenance with use of analytics… Show more Lead Global field support services and end user engineering organization of 550+ team members with budget over $225M. Responsible for infrastructure and support at Corporate and 330+ airport locations, deploying new technologies and services for premium customer and employee user experience. Developed strategy and deployed collaboration tools, including the deployment of O365 company wide, end user engineering and mobility, proactive and preventative maintenance with use of analytics and AI. Successfully completed airport network and end user refresh to over 360 airports, upgrading Wi-Fi, WAN, LAN and 50,000+ end user devices with no business disruption and 30% decreased IT related flight delays.
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Managing Director, Infrastructure/Platform Engineering
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Jan 2015 - Jun 2016
Chicago, IL Built and ran a world class IT engineering team of 150+ professionals, employing new technologies and services for on-demand computing and continuous delivery capability. Responsible for data center services and all computing platforms, including cloud, PaaS, hybrid, on premises, mainframe, middleware, network, voice, storage and end user technologies, including tools.
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Grainger
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United States
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Retail Office Equipment
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700 & Above Employee
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VP, Global Market & Supply Chain Business Integration, International CIO
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Sep 2013 - Dec 2014
Lake Forerst, IL Business Integration and technology leader responsible for International and Global Supply Chain delivery and strategy including distribution center (eg. inventory planning, warehouse management), eCommerce, Export, and Global Sourcing. Responsible for technology and integrations for M&A globally.
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VP, Global Enterprise & Architecture
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Mar 2012 - Aug 2013
Lake Forest, IL
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McDonald's
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United States
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Restaurants
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700 & Above Employee
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Regional CIO, Senior Director I/T, US, Latin America & Canada
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Sep 2000 - Feb 2011
Directed IT due diligence for largest franchising deal in McDonald's history and deployed first ERP system for Company. Led a team of 50+ IT professionals with staff budget of $15M+. Direct support for 14,000+ store locations and 22 regional offices with 3,000 employees including IT Strategy, Help Desk, Field Support Services, Deployment and Sourcing. Manage 75-100 strategic technology suppliers with contract values up to $75M.
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Senior Manager I/T, Manager I/T Corporate Controller Group
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Jan 1995 - Sep 2000
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Supervisor I/T, Credit and Collection
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Dec 1993 - Jan 1995
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Application Developer/Systems Analyst
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Jan 1989 - Dec 1993
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Education
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Washington University in St. Louis
Executive Programs -
DePaul University - Charles H. Kellstadt Graduate School of Business
MBA, Management Information Systems -
University of St. Francis
Bachelors of Science; Bachelors of Business Administration, MIS; Finance