Meghan Loomis

PHR

Principal

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Meghan Loomis is a principal with Baker Tilly’s digital solutions practice. She has spent her career helping clients drive back-office transformations using technology as an enabler of change. During her time with Baker Tilly, she has championed and led the research, development and growth of several key technology alliances. She drives transparent communication in building new relationships and works to ensure mutual benefit and success.

Meghan has had a crucial role in growing the firm’s digital solutions federal practice. With amassed years of experience migrating clients to modern technologies in the commercial space, and applying that depth and breadth of experience. Meghan brings forward lessons learned from the private sector and marries that with the unique challenges, complexities and requirements of the federal sector in order to provide elegant solutions for Baker Tilly’s federal clients. She also works with our technology affiliates to ensure product enhancements are incorporated to support the evolving needs of the federal sector.

Meghan believes rigorous project management and pragmatic change management are the keys to successful projects. She focuses on collaborating closely with clients and delivering meaningful results in a style that feels good. Meghan has led dozens of engagements to deliver quality work and maximize value to her clients.

Meghan has experience working with private and public sector organizations across many industries and of all sizes ranging from $200 million to $20 billion in annual revenue.

Experience

Defining new service offerings and methodologies: Meghan works to identify and develop new service offerings to meet the firm’s clients’ needs and accelerate the rate of change of business.
Engagement principal for federal agency in the intelligence community moving from legacy on premise applications to cloud. Led team in business process reengineering driving true transformation and allowing the client to harness the power of modern cloud applications.
Engagement director for federal lab looking to streamline supply chain processes across inventory and procurement. Managed team of resources in defining and solutioning Oracle Cloud Supply Chain Management to enable more efficient and effective business processes.
Engagement director for federal civilian agency looking to move from legacy on premise application to Oracle Cloud HCM. Oversaw project team in defining the requirements, solutioning and prototyping the future state design, and conducting iterative testing cycles.
Engagement director for HCM modernization effort for a federal civilian agency migrating to Oracle Cloud HCM. Led team in conducting a current state assessment, future state iterative design, and gap analysis to assess and mitigate risks. Oversaw business process reengineering efforts to drive future state design with minimal customization.
Engagement director for large Oracle HCM Cloud implementation within the Department of Defense. Supported team through testing strategy development, testing planning and preparation, and testing execution.
Engagement director for global assessment of Oracle Cloud EPM. Managed team of people to analyze the client’s environment, identify areas for opportunity, and provide leading practice recommendations to drive completion of the implementation and optimization of existing setup. Delivered final assessment and proposal for subsequent phases of work and transitioned to the delivery team.
Analyzed more than 450 legacy HR systems at federal client with military and civilian personnel. Assessed fit of those legacy systems for Oracle cloud. Developed roadmap for prototyping 10 modules of Oracle cloud to demonstrate that the application could meet the needs of the client. Presented the roadmap to key client executives, including the CIO, to gain agreement and sign off to move into the next phase and begin the prototype efforts. In phase two, served as the engagement director, overseeing the prototype efforts within Oracle cloud. Managed team of functional and technical experts to further define requirements, solution unique challenges, configure, and demo the business processes in a rapid sprint approach. Developed this prototype sprint methodology, including the approach and deliverables, to reduce risk and quickly build stakeholder buy-in for the client. Successfully demonstrated Oracle cloud’s ability to meet the client’s needs in all 10 workstreams.
Program manager for Oracle implementation at financial services institution with 250,000 employees. Oversaw global harmonization of talent management and learning processes to drive a first-class employee experience and achieve key engagement targets. Managed team of functional specialists to configure the unified design. Oversaw technical developers to plan, data map, develop and test over 15 integrations, more than 10 conversion objects and over 20 reports.
Program manager for 6,000 employee global acquisition for a high tech manufacturing client. Oversaw all aspects of HR integration during the planning and close phases of the acquisition, including payroll, strategic workforce planning, compensation, talent acquisition, talent management, and global mobility in order to ensure smooth transition for acquired employees. Acted as HR liaison into the larger integration team, raising risks, monitoring dependencies, and communicating key updates to the other functions like IT, finance, etc. Developed a merger and acquisition playbook that detailed a consistent methodology for HR integration from due diligence through execution for the client to use on future acquisitions.
Program manager for HR harmonization phase with global engineering company. Led team of more than 40 individuals to streamline and standardize HR processes worldwide after client went through several large acquisitions. Project impacted more than 20,000 employees through improved efficiencies and effective HR service delivery.
Program manager for global HRIS implementation of Oracle HCM Cloud Core HR, talent management, recruiting, and onboarding for a manufacturing organization. Managed integrated project timelines and cross-functional dependencies. Oversaw change management initiatives to improve global adoption across a wide range of end users and process participants.
Program manager for end-to-end HR processes and systems deployment for a global retailer with more than 35,000 employees. Developed and drove program timeline to hit key milestones and deliver on complex requirements. Developed ongoing support model, reporting, and standard operating procedures for the global HR functions, HRIS and IT organizations to help the organization become self-sustaining in their new environment.
Change manager for medical device company operating in more than 30 countries globally. Led change management planning efforts to ensure comprehensive and right-size change approach that aligned both with leading practices and client culture. Developed comprehensive stakeholder analysis, change readiness assessment and job impact analysis to understand the current environment and degree of impact for stakeholders. Leveraged the results of these analyses to drive complete training and communication plans that would focus on the right messaging, for the right audiences, with the right level of detail, at the right time.
Supported end user training and communications development and managed the delivery of these. Developed post go-live governance plans for the organization to leverage as they rotated their HRIS and IT organizations to manage cloud based applications for the first time and ensure they were positioned to take advantage of the continued innovation opportunities.
Project manager and business analyst for healthcare organization deploying Oracle Cloud talent acquisition. Led upfront project planning efforts to establish roles and responsibilities of core and extended team members, document project success criteria and develop detailed project plan from kickoff through post-production support. Managed internal and client resources to execute against project plan and hit key milestones. Managed technical and functional workstreams and provided analyst support around configuration, documentation, process design, testing and more.