Haileyesus Abate

About Haileyesus Abate

With over Seventeen years of Global level leadership experience. Solid experience in driving national and International business Strategy and corporate planning, responsible for a full-life cycle of Business process starting from inception, initial preparation of the business analysis and modeling, preparing entry documents including Legal and Service Level Agreements, SOW, PLA, and other needed artifacts to address the terms of reference for national and international needs. Traveled to many countries, including Walmart International markets in support of my programs. Worked as Executive Director in an International assignment. Successfully accomplished delivering strategic solutions on schedule and within budget reporting to the most senior executives. Led CORE programs, corporate affairs and Business intelligence efforts leading a team of highly talented onsite offsite and offshore resources. Interpersonal talented and experienced in driving efforts with offshore and on-site resources on customer facing project management. Established solid networking all around the globe, and influences. Solid experience in addressing holistic business environment mapping out industrial structure, market/trade strengths and weaknesses, distribution channels and mechanisms, financial and regulatory institutions structures, buyer characteristics and needs, market access issues. Taught Statistics and Mathematics at a university level focusing on parametric and non-parametric data analysis, calculate, integrate, and evaluate descriptive and predictive analyses.Several professional certifications, awards, two masters degrees (MBA, MSc in CIS), BSc in Elec. Eng, PMP, CSM and professional expertise in the following:

Experience

1. Head of Global Transformation Strategy - Pmp, Msc, Mba, Csm, Eeng

   Walmart

   Mar 2008 — Present

   Leading several Global transformation programs in Walmart including Corporate Affairs,CORE, Business Intelligence, MDM, Master Integration programs. Led Financial Transformation and WalmartOne Program that has impact on fortune one corporations’ 2.5 million employees directly, and before that MDM and the largest Business Intelligence implementation. Worked consistently with internal and external partners establishing networks, maximizing the resources to achieve business goals. Traveled to several Walmart International Markets in support of international assignments and Programs I am leading.Led Global Finance Transformation Program Focusing on Master Data Integration and Business Intelligence. Successfully implemented the systems for United Kingdom, North America, Japan and Mexico and Argentina. These systems include development of solutions with integration of terabyte sized multiple databases, and SOA enabled solutions. Other responsibilities include developing and growing resources; strategic planning; monitoring budget; tracking milestones; estimating resources; managing consultants contracts; resource management; communication with stakeholders; risk identification, assessment and response; enforcing agreed upon methodologies; writing updates and performance reviews; and performance reporting. Led the effort to plan major releases, new projects from the aspect of organizational and business requirements, project scope, schedule impact, resource requirements, work-package and deliverable.Providing supervision and development opportunities for Associates by training; mentoring; assigning duties; Building a team-based work environment; establishing performance expectations; providing recognition and rewards; coaching for success and improvement; and ensuring diversity awareness.Continually building networks with strategic partners such as IBM, Infosys, SAP, Deloitte… and enforcing the knowledge transfer through the process.

Education

• WC University of Pennsylvania - MBA Program

  MBA, MBA

  1996 — 1997

• Bible Academy

  Avionics Enge

• Temple University

  MSc. CIS, Computer and Information Science

  1991 — 1992