Louise Tung

Microchip technology – Chandler, AZ [1993-2021]

Associate Director of Enterprise Applications in Information Technology                          

My career at Microchip started as an IT software engineer, creating software applications by wearing multiple hats as project manager, business analyst, developer, tester, trainer, and production support.  Over my 27+ years career, my responsibilities have continued to expand to a management role supporting business operations in a complex global manufacturing industry. As an associate director, my major job responsibilities include, but not limited to, the following:

• Manage $10M+ capital budget and expenses, build and manage a team of 80+ employees working on 100+ projects at any point in the entire technology stack at worldwide locations
• Support Sales, Planning, Manufacturing, Logistics, Inventory, and Finance activities using tools such as ERP, Salesforce, Web Applications, EDI Biztalk, SharePoint, Azure DevOps, Oracle and SQL databases, and ServiceNow.
• Lead the acquisition integration to absorb $2B revenue by working with 10 sub-teams and 250+ WW users to migrate systems from acquired companies into the Microchip application platform. Integration activities include data migration, legacy system decommissioning, feature migration/development, testing, training, go-live preparation, and post implementation support
• Drive long-term strategic planning and short-term tactical implementation of IT application architecture, development, consolidation, and resource allocation
• Create and present slides for weekly integration status update to C-level executives, quarterly vital few updates to WW IT employees and stakeholders, and highly visible projects to business units
• Prepare and host weekly staff meetings, quarterly full team meetings, IT global conferences, project discovery sessions, project testing and training sessions onsite and online
• Organize and conduct hiring interviews, and perform coaching, mentoring, and employee career development. 
• Negotiate vendor contracts and license agreements and working with Legal to create consulting agreements

Sr. Manager of Sales and Collaborative Applications (2012-2018)

Manager of Collaborative Applications (2006-2011)

Principal Software Engineer – (1999-2005)

Sr. Software Engineer (1993 – 1998)