Patterson Companies
Shirley Walz is an experienced software engineering leader currently serving as the Director of Software Engineering for Cloud & Technical Operations at Patterson Companies, Inc. since February 2015, while also providing advisory services at AdvisoryCloud since April 2020. Previously, at Thomson Reuters from January 1999 to December 2014, Shirley held multiple senior director roles overseeing IT services, data center portfolios, and legal technology initiatives. Responsibilities included strategic project management, resource allocation, and budget administration, alongside extensive collaboration with various business units. Early career experiences include roles as a systems architect at West Publishing and as an adjunct professor at Metropolitan State University. Shirley holds a Master's degree in Software Engineering from the University of St. Thomas and a Bachelor's degree in Business Computer Information Systems from St. Cloud State University.
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Patterson Companies
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Patterson Companies, Inc. is a value-added distributor focused on providing a customer experience to professionals in the dental and animal health markets. The Company operates through three segments: dental, animal health and corporate. Dental and Animal health are strategic business units that offer similar products and services to different customer bases. Dental provides a virtually complete range of consumable dental products, equipment and software and turnkey digital solutions. In addition it provides value-added services to dentists, dental laboratories, institutions and other healthcare professionals throughout North America. Animal health is a leading, full-line distributor of animal health products, services and technologies. Corporate segment is comprised of general and administrative expenses, including home office support costs in areas such as information technology, finance, legal, human resources and facilities.