Strauss Consulting partners with growing companies on business and IT consulting services Co-owner & Managing Director (11/16 - current) Clients Include:
•Flagship Pioneering
•Suite of startup life science companies funded by Flagship Pioneering
•Sunovion Pharmaceuticals
•Suite of startup life science companies supported by Baystate IT
•Multiple stealth startups Examples of Consulting Engagements:
•Led operational improvement for client consulting company including strategy, resource utilization, improving synergies across departments and businesses
•Member of Steering Committee -Responsible for managing Big 4 team of consultants during enterprise IT transition
•Owned process for review of KPIs and SLA for Managed Service Providers including eventual RFP/selection
•Partnered with company leaders to build multi-year IT roadmap to support future growth of sales and resources. This included budget, hardware and software
•Redesigned/Rightsized IT PMO including streamlining proces

Customer Success
• Responsible for the account management and customer success of key clients
• Demonstrated success through sales of additional consulting resources and services
• Through relationship selling- responsible for new client development
• Successful management of matrix organization across multiple vendors and competing consulting companies
IT Leadership
• Project Manager for Global HR department and Strategic Workforce Planning & Analytics department
o Project Manager across key projects in performance management, rewards and recognition, on-boarding process improvement and internal mobility
o Program Manager for Global Talent Acquisition Transformation (NA, EMEA, APAC)
o Built governance, roadmap and reporting for multi-year program
• IT Program Manager
o Partnered with leadership to build an Enterprise Program Management Office (PMO)
o Owned the change control process, risks & issues resolution tracking and executive reporting for $50M supply chain program
o Aligned and

Process Improvement Consultant & Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Lean Six Sigma
•One of the founding members of the Process Excellence Program (Lean Six Sigma) at Staples
•Trained fellow associates and business colleagues in DMAIC and Kaizen methodologies. Facilitated executive and company- wide Lean Six Sigma Programs
•Lean Six Sigma Lead for $1B business. In addition to project work, led training session for management team on the principles of Lean and project prioritization Process Consultant
•Led multiple teams to address process inefficiencies and redesign to create a more productive process
•Cross-functional projects included IS, IT, Customer Service, Marketing, Merchandising and Transportation
•Managed corporate wide Enterprise Process Map and maintained repository of all documented processes
•Mentored junior process professionals/project managers in best practice tools and techniques

Clients included: AstraZeneca, Bayer, Takeda, Sankyo, IPR Pharmaceuticals, BMS Project Management
•Successfully managed life cycle of a technology enablement project, including requirements gathering, tool selection, implementation process for Clinical Project Management function
•Managed global, cross-functional team of 15 (including clients, consultants and vendors across six countries) for the design and delivery of an integrated project management system and processes Process Design and Development
•Led global team responsible for developing the project management/resource management function at emerging Japanese pharmaceutical company
•Executed best practice assessments for project management and HR processes Change Management, Human Performance
•Managed team of training developers to create classroom, self-study and computer-based training including prototyping, conference room pilots and user acceptance testing
•Successfully designed communication plan and materials and de