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Information Technology Director Data Science and AI

Valspar is a global leader in the coatings industry providing customers with innovative, high-quality products and value-added services. Our 11,000 employees worldwide deliver advanced coatings solutions with best-in-class appearance, performance, protection and sustainability to customers in more than 100 countries. Valspar offers a broad range of superior coatings products for the consumer market, and highly-engineered solutions for the construction, industrial, packaging and transportation markets. Founded in 1806, Valspar is headquartered in Minneapolis. Valspar's shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange (symbol: VAL).

Steve Jenkins is a Global IT Director with more than 25 years of experience in Packaging coatings product development and IT at Valspar. He is currently responsible for designing and implementing technology solutions for global R&D, quality and regulatory processes.Steve has led global ERP (Oracle) deployments, implemented master data management & data quality solutions, has strong understanding of R&D IT and has strong project and program management capabilities (PMP since 2009) , and is excited about opportunities for data science Specialties: -Working with stakeholders, executive and senior management, teams and users from many different regions and cultures-Flexible and logical with good planning, organization and communication skills-A strong leader and problem solver who works well under pressure-Managing virtual teams-Global ERP implementations-Master Data Management / Data Governance-Enterprise Architecture-Data Science / Machine Learning-Identity Access Management-Change management-Project Management - PMP credential (since 2009)-Technical understanding of the manufacture and development of coatings and paints, quality control and color matchingPresented at Gartner EI & MDM conference (2015), IRM UK ED & BI Conference (2014), IRM UK MDM & DG Conference (2015), Informatica World (2014), and many other Informatica MDM / DG events (2014-15). Active participant in the MDM / DG, CIO and IT Leaders communities in the UK