Mark Sauntry
Saint Paul, MN 55104
www.linkedin.com/in/marksauntry
CAREER SUMMARY
Digital Technology • Regulatory & Legal Compliance • Project Management
Technology and process professional with a passion for advancing products and experience using broad experience in education, life, operations, management, and technology to bring people together, to learn, and to show compliant opportunities and best practices that improve customer and employee’s lives.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
§ Project Management through cross-functional teams to produce, deliver, and maintain IT software solutions. Have in-depth experience managing projects with Agile SCRUM and waterfall methodologies as well as transformation to Agile in a highly regulated environment. Project Management tools such as Microsoft Project, Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence), Rally, and more.
§ Bringing people together with technology through project management, product design, and process design. Have managed major cross-functional projects with millions of dollars of revenue impact through gaining buy-in with peer-level understanding and education.
§ Thinking for solutions to business, customer, and risk challenges. Used broad knowledge, self-learning, and broad thinking to merge multi-million-dollar companies, design processes and software, improve productivity, stop unnecessary tasks, and advocate for all stakeholders in projects
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Ramsey County, Saint Paul, MN 2018-Present
Election Judge / Assistant Head Judge
Ensure integrity of election process and enable voters during the voting process.
· Assisted record-breaking 2020 in person early voting working a variety of positions to assist voters, register voters, and ensure integrity of ballot process.
· Worked at polls as Precinct Judge and Assistant Head Judge from start to finish to ensure integrity of ballot count, registration process and documentation, and assisting voters.
GE Digital, Van Buren Township, MI 2014-2018
Senior Technical Product Owner
Manage HR Digital Technology needs and projects for GE Aviation, including ownership of internal hourly Applicant Tracking System (ATS) and oversight of payroll processing operations for 45,000 US-based employees. Team Compliance Leader, Export Control Focal, and Agile Transformation Leader.
· Collaborated with HR and IT partners to reduce elevated risk payroll transactions by 96% through streamlining systems and standardizing procedures.
· Manage offshore DevOps Agile development team and non-dedicated shared resources to maintain and improve custom built HR system.
· Regulatory owner and subject matter expert managing compliance with federal regulations including tagging for US Export Control.
· Core member of successful complete Agile Transformation team for $6B profit business in the Aviation industry.
GE Aviation, Van Buren Township, MI 2012-2014
IT Project Manager
Develop relationships to collaboratively shift the status quo and compliantly deliver projects for “start-up” innovative technology team within large, global, highly regulated aerospace business.
· Failed launching three major collaboration tools leading to improvement of one major policy and laying groundwork to implement corporate tools in use today.
· Launched WordPress in highly regulated environment to centralize and improve communication from leadership to over 60,000 global employees.
· Affinity Network Hub Leader of the Year for launching and growing Detroit GLBTA Alliance Hub to over 60 members.
GE Capital, Saint Paul, MN 2005-2012
Consumer financing for leisure and lifestyle products
IT Project Manager
Work with business partners to show opportunities for product improvements, risk improvements, and compliance changes in $4B profit consumer lending organization.
· Project Leader for Dodd-Frank regulatory changes supplying on-time delivery of compliant solutions allowing business operations to continue under new, significant regulatory changes.
· Selected for advanced product capabilities training including six weeks of in-person global training on technology and business growth strategies.
EDUCATION
Master of Management Information Systems
University of Phoenix, Online
Bachelor of Arts in Sociology
University of St. Thomas, Saint Paul, MN
CERTIFICATIONS
Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), 2012 (Scrum Alliance)
ITIL Foundations, 2011 (PeopleCert Group)
Six Sigma Green Belt, 2008 (GE)