Candy Smith

Experience

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  Real Estate REsource Partners

  Jan 1996 - Jan 1998

  Software Engineering Manager

  Managed development team to design and implement custom software solution for Union Pacific Railroad to track over 700,000 leases

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  Acuity Brands Lighting

  Jan 1998 - Jan 2014

  Managed the integration of acquired Controls companies onto the Acuity standard systems footprint, eliminated duplicate transactions, redundant systems and month-end journal entries by 90+%. Managed projects from order to cash including business process definition, gap analysis and systems integration planning, delivery and sustainment. Promoted to deployment manager and served as business thought partner to drive continuous improvement across shared services (IT, Finance, HR, Legal, and Revenue Realization). Selected as a member of the initial deployment team for Corporate Lean Initiative to drive continuous improvement within the Finance and IT organizations. Selected as first Train the Trainer (T3) candidate from IT for rollout of Corporate Six Sigma initiative. Worked closely with IT leadership team as project manager and peer mentor for key process improvement projects, (e.g. enterprise-wide job scheduling, shipments without freight process, purchased planned receipts process, and pricing exceptions process). Promoted to Senior then Lead: managed the design, development and implementation of software and hardware solutions. Liaison between corporate users and IT development staff to define user requirements for manufacturing systems.

  • Senior Project Manager

    Jan 2010 - Jan 2014

  • Manager, ABS (Lean Six Sigma) Deployment

    Jan 2005 - Jan 2010

  • Acuity Business System (ABS) Lean Six Sigma Leader

    Jan 2004 - Jan 2005

  • Six Sigma Project Manager

    Jan 2002 - Jan 2004

  • Senior/Lead Business Systems Analyst in IT

    Jan 2000 - Jan 2002

  • Standard, Business Systems Analyst

    Jan 1998 - Jan 2000
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  CMB Global Partners LLC

  Jan 2015 - Jul 2015

  Senior Project Consultant

  Managed projects and value stream transformations utilizing IT and Lean Six Sigma principles and methodologies on a contract basis.

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  Plum Creek (acquired by Weyerhaeuser)

  Jul 2015 - Feb 2016

  Project Manager/Analyst

  Performing business analysis and project oversight for developing system requirements for Land Resources Business

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  Weyerhaeuser

  Feb 2016 - May 2021

  Product Manager

  Performing business analysis and project oversight for developing system requirements for Land Resources Business

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  EY

  May 2021 - now

  • Manager | Digital Product Management

    Aug 2022 - now

  • Senior Technology Consultant

    May 2021 - Aug 2022