Kristen B. Caldwell

Who : Kristen B. Caldwell Kristen is a partner with Business Value Group and is an energetic, flexible, quick-study who has spent over twenty-five years working with business application software with heavy emphasis in the manufacturing environment. She has project managed and has experience with many ERP systems : Oracle, SAP, AskManMan and multiple other enterprise support applications.

Clients think of Kristen as helping bridge the gap between information technology and business users

What : Kristen heads up our applications support and business process mapping competencies. Kristen is a highly proficient project manager and her foundation in Business Systems Analysis coupled with her high intellect and strong business acumen enables her to provide tremendous value to any business.

Results : A sample of some projects

Trimble Navigation, Sunnyvale Project Manager

Drove corporate Oracle Manufacturing implementation, coordinating project management team activities (completion of dependent side projects as well as all aspects of the main implementation) and outside consulting groups.
Provided on-going project management and business analysis to manufacturing and distribution operations.
Analyzed manufacturing business flow and data ownership; documented processes and trained users.
Defined and implemented strategy and tools for improved communication with contract manufacturers.
Implemented Demand Solutions forecasting tool.

Bay Networks, Santa Clara Business Systems Analyst

Mapped interfaces between SAP, Oracle database data staging area, and internally-developed bolt-on systems.
Tested new Oracle-based channel capture, information warehouse, and commissions systems interfaces; set up GQL models for users and validated against legacy systems.
Performed business gap analysis for and managed commissions project; managed channel pricing project.

LifeScan (a Johnson & Johnson company), Milpitas Solutions Lead

Drove launch of web-based new product development roadmap to streamline processes. Trained Innovation Processes (non-technical) employees in Milpitas and Inverness to provide ongoing support of the roadmap.

Kristen has a BA in English from UC Berkeley, and MBA from Santa Clara University and was certified CPIM with APICS