Bonda Ellingson: Manager, Data Integrity and Business Process in Lakewood, CO

Evaluate current product data tables, identifying missing or insufficient information, and develop governance policies to ensure future data consistency. Review existing processes, identifying gaps and faults from product development thru account management, and develop new processes in order to optimize performance and ensure compliance with data quality. • Analyzed various Product Information Management / Digital Asset Management (PIM/DAM) solutions to determine best fit for Navajo and completed implementation of Salsify platform within 60 day timeframe. • Identified key data inconsistencies between purchasing, manufacturing, and sales for the same product information. Organized work groups to document field definitions and their use, then developed process to ensure data fields are correctly populated during item setup. • Cleansed product data on over 2500 skus to bring them up to compliance with newly-defined standards, making them accessible to create digital channels and catalogs. • Mimicked print versions of product catalogs in digital format thru Salsify, enabling smaller customer accounts to access and/or download product information they need for item setup in their systems. This saves account managers from pulling the same information multiple times for each of their customers.

Organize, maintain, and direct processes of data integrity team of nine and provide subject matter expertise on master data and system functionality to merchandising, finance, accounting, supply chain, and operations teams. • Managed item integrity on over 350,000 active / 625,000 total skus, defining product information standards and implementing processes to maintain those standards. • Defined and implemented data governance standards for over 70 product attributes enabling more consistent data for merchandising and financial reports. • Developed annual archive and purge process for sku data that fit within Sarbanes-Oxley documentation and retention requirements, allowing more efficient data flow by limiting obsolete skus. • Develop queries and reports to identify opportunities to improve data integrity as well as measure associate productivity and the efficiency of operating processes. • Act as subject matter expert in AS400 merchandise operations and purchase order systems in order to solve a wide range of highly complex multi-disciplinary problems having company-wide impact. • Proactively identify gaps between systems and processes, define requirements, and perform functional acceptance testing of development deliverables for merchandising operations.