Benjamin Werden
[dot com]- /in/benjaminwerden
- Michigan
I'm a senior automation engineer and software architect with 10+ years of experience building and leading enterprise automation programs that scale and endure. Proven track record of growing automation portfolios from the ground up, driving adoption across the organization. I bring a deep technical expertise with the ability to build stakeholder alignment, turning skepticism into support while freeing people to focus on more meaningful and impactful contributions.
Career Highlights
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Co-founded and grew Steelcase's enterprise RPA/BPA Center of Excellence to 30+ production automations across the organization.
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Delivered $320K+ in annualized savings while avoiding additional hires and over $500k of licensing.
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Led vendor evaluation that made UiPath the automation standard.
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Took ownership of a newly merged technical team with no strategic direction and built the agile practices and backlog that made it function.
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Voluntarily joined an IT cyber incident remediation team for 5+ weeks of 19+ hour days, engineering automation to harden systems at scale.