Melani Smith Weed
Vice President - Corporate Program Office, Program and Project Mgmt at Sertainty Corporation- Claim this Profile
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Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification
Caterpillar Financial Services Corporation -
PM Alliance
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Experience
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Sertainty Corporation
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Vice President - Corporate Program Office, Program and Project Mgmt
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2020 - Present
• Led a cross-functional project team to organically design and develop the first technical education program for the Sertainty UXP technology using Adobe Technical Communication Suite tools; to be utilized both as instructor-led and self-paced • Created new IP and patent development with innovative and gaming changing methology; added 2 provisional patents to the portfolio
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CTO Program Office
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2017 - 2020
Strategic and tactical technology planning, development management; Project design, deployment and internal systems. responsible for patents (development of new as well as extending existing). Establishing large technology partnerships and managing them. • Guided and managed senior as well as college graduate software engineering team • Interacted directly with key customer technical decision makers to advance Sertainty technology integration • Expanded technology enhancements… Show more Strategic and tactical technology planning, development management; Project design, deployment and internal systems. responsible for patents (development of new as well as extending existing). Establishing large technology partnerships and managing them. • Guided and managed senior as well as college graduate software engineering team • Interacted directly with key customer technical decision makers to advance Sertainty technology integration • Expanded technology enhancements leading to new intellectual property; patent continuations in 5 countries in addition to the United States • Guided technical project management from requirements thru implementation expanding our technology footprint from server-side into mobile and web • Led technology training for customer development teams working in healthcare, IoT, financial and government
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Director, Engineering
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2010 - 2017
• Assembled and managed an innovated team between 2 & 7 FTE and contract software engineers • Encouraged creative thinking to enhance the current technology platform moving into lightweight secure messaging protocol; leading to the expansion of our primary patent • Led cross-functional projects to create the technical documentation project management, testing and original website development
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IT Application Team lead / Manager
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2004 - 2010
• Designed and managed the development of a proprietary, multi-lingual/ multi-currency electronic financial products documentation and signing enterprise-wide solution • Recruited talented on / offshore software engineers and project manager team of 20+ for global internal and external customer base • Responsibilities included, product management, project and resource management, budget, 24x7 application support, domestic and international travel, 25%
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Earlier Career - Sr. Technical Business Architect, International Credit/Risk Manager
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1991 - 2004
Global customer engagement responsibilities in support of local financial/ legal contract requirements to automate preparation of legal contracts; 5 primary languages supported. Part of global expansion team for Cat Financial; technical lead for Sweden, Korea, Thailand and Peru ; primary lead responsibility for subsidiary legal and technical set-up in Lima, Peru. Global Corporate Credit Manager - South America / Australia / Korea / Thailand. Responsible to team of 6; worked with… Show more Global customer engagement responsibilities in support of local financial/ legal contract requirements to automate preparation of legal contracts; 5 primary languages supported. Part of global expansion team for Cat Financial; technical lead for Sweden, Korea, Thailand and Peru ; primary lead responsibility for subsidiary legal and technical set-up in Lima, Peru. Global Corporate Credit Manager - South America / Australia / Korea / Thailand. Responsible to team of 6; worked with local customer legal teams along with local and corporate attorneys - financial reviews and legal analysis, financial viability and legal contracting. Various roles in the both business and technology areas of the division
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Caterpillar Inc.
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United States
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Machinery Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Corporate Credit Analyst - FInanical Products division
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1989 - 1991
Responsible for the preparation and analysis of credit exposure and delinquency of the corporation; financial analysis of the Caterpillar Dealers portfolios with Financial Products division Responsible for the preparation and analysis of credit exposure and delinquency of the corporation; financial analysis of the Caterpillar Dealers portfolios with Financial Products division
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Education
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Franklin College
BA, Computer and Information Science -
Harlaxton College (Grantham, England) - University of Evansville
Study Abroad program, Economics & Political Science
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