Mergers & Acquisitions Experience
COMMON: Integration of Dayton’s, Mervyn’s and Hudson’s
Timeline: 1998
After years of doing business under three independent operating units, Dayton Hudson Corporation (now called Target) opted to exploit the cost benefit of integration. The project was focused on eliminating redundancy in the support software systems Maryrose was detailed as the designated expert for the mainframe environment for the Target operating environment. Her scope was evaluating mainframe development support tools and providing recommendations on which of the three operating companies’ tools to retain and rollout to the other two operating environments. She also managed the implementation of directives that resulted from those decisions.
This effort earned Maryrose a sterling reputation as a team player, most especially in a diverse, cross-functional team across a large organization.
Divestiture of Marshall Field’s to May Co.
Timeline: 2004
In 09/2004, Target Corporation put up for sale one of its operating entities, Marshall Fields. Maryrose was then a manager productionizing the new development project replacing Marshall Fields’ warehouse and order systems. Her responsibilies included integrating the development across all the production platforms (mainframe, Unix, across Target and Marshall Fields’ operating environments), conversion of the legacy applications, QA, rollout and implementation. Given the breadth of Maryrose’s experience, she was selected to be detained for the divestiture efforts, taking on more responsibilities on other projects (such as multi-channel sales support). Maryrose supported the conversion of Target systems to May Company and sunsetting applications after the conversion.
The result of the effort was a resounding success. In 02/2005, Maryrose turned over Marshall Fields’ warehouse and support systems, multi-channel sales systems and peripheral applications to May Company with little incident.
Seagate Acquisition of Maxtor: Integration
Timeline: 2005
Now having the expertise and experience in the Mergers & Acquisitions after successfully navigating two distinct programs in that space, Maryrose was called upon one more time at Seagate Technology, to lead an effort for the Sales and Marketing IT team for the integration of Maxtor into Seagate. The directive for this program was very high level. The instructions were to minimize integration and instead roll out Seagate systems into Maxtor. This was a very challenging endeavor as Maxtor was using SAP systems, and Seagate, Oracle ERP systems. Also, the effort spanned three geographic environments for systems: Scotts Valley, CA, Denver, CO and Minneapolis, MN (both Normandale and Shakopee locations).
The effort was completed successfully in six months with Maryrose receiving a personal letter with kudos from Seagate’s Chief Information Officer.