Melanie Smith

• Executive Director with over 30 years experience in Aerospace & Defense industry, Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) sector, and insurance industry. • Transformational leader who focuses on talent development, collaboration, business partnering, and internal controls. • Proven track record in challenging assignments in information technology, including multi-dimensional technologies and business intelligence monitoring and analytics implementations for sales and manufacturing. • Experience in managing complex process re-engineering, change management, cross-functional and international projects requiring leadership, vision, and people management. • Designed and led global development and implementation of multi-dimensional applications aimed at business intelligence, collaboration, sales planning/forecasting/reporting and analytics, cost center management, and plant-level overhead monitoring and analytics in the manufacturing environment. • Designed and led the information technology department’s global Sarbanes-Oxley effort for application controls (26 countries) and general computer controls (51 countries). • Tasked with developing the global information technology policies. • Participated in several cross-functional continuous improvement projects aimed at reducing process complexity and streamlining workflows.