Adam Clarke Email & Phone Number

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States

At Zinpro, we are driven to deliver business and nutritional solutions to improve animal wellness and performance and contribute to a healthier, more sustainable world. I lead Information Technology globally. The IT team creates, deploys, secures and supports innovative technology solutions for our co-workers, customers and business partners. We work with world-class technology (SAP, SalesForce, Microsoft, LabWare, NetApp, VMWare + many more) to make sure that our 5 manufacturing plants, regional sales offices in 11 countries, and our employees are able to deliver our products and solutions to our customers in more than 70 countries worldwide.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Free Bikes 4 Kidz MN is a non-profit organization geared toward helping all kids ride into a happier, healthier childhood by providing bikes to those most in need. The public donates gently used bikes, we organize thousands of volunteers to clean and refurbish them, and then we give them away to kids in need.I am currently a board member with FB4K, having volunteered many times over the past 8+ years.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Leader of the IT team at QBP. We are a bicycle company that builds innovative, world-class brands, and distributes bicycle products from the best vendors in the industry to over 5,000 bike shops. We have 4 distribution centers in North America, and 1 in Taiwan.I'm responsible for the global IT strategy at QBP, staffing, budgeting, and ensuring that our incredible 40+ person technology team consistently delivers creative, innovate solutions for our business. IT is comprised of several sub-teams including E-Commerce development, SAP ERP, Distribution Center Systems, Business Intelligence, Desktop Applications, Infrastructure, Support, and Project Management.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

IT leader responsible for deployment, support, and enhancement of enterprise applications at QBP. Also oversee global project management across IT, and responsible for entire IT department budgeting and forecasting. Functional teams I lead include:• SAP ERP team. Built team from the ground up during a 2-year SAP implementation. Support and enhance SAP ERP, CRM and GTS. • DC Systems team. Responsible for supporting and enhancing HighJump WMS and other distribution center systems. • Business Intelligence team. Responsible for business intelligence and data warehouse development. Primary technologies include SAP Business Objects, Jasper Reports, and Microsoft SQL Server.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Leader of the database and business intelligence team at QBP. Also became leader of legacy ERP/ecommerce team in December of 2011 (no title change)• Technical architect of QBP’s enterprise data warehouse, business intelligence, and database landscape. • Formed and led cross-functional group of business users who prioritized and scheduled all incoming BI and data warehouse, ERP, and Ecommerce requests.• Implemented agile development methodology for Business Intelligence team.• Project manager for SAP data conversion/migration.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Primary DBA for MSSQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL database systems.• BI developer focusing on Jasper reports and MSSQL• Simplified and virtualized MSSQL architecture, resulting in significant savings.• Automated and standardized many repetitive DBA tasks, including monitoring, smart index tuning, and backup process.• Architected open source SAN for backup systems, saving storage costs over existing SAN, and also increased redundancy.• Project Manager for companywide Business Intelligence implementation

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Alpine ski racing coach for Team Gilboa, based out of Hyland Hills in Bloomington, Minnesota. Gilboa provides a program that gives athletes, from first time racers to future U.S. Ski Team members, the chance to achieve their competitive ski racing goals, and is recognized by the USSA as one of the top 30 ski racing clubs in the country.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

- Administered Sybase, MSSQL, and Oracle databases.- Responsible for performance tuning, security, and managing upgrades/patches.- Helped coordinate upgrade of 100+ Sybase dataserver environment from ASE 12.5 running on HP UX to ASE 15.03 on AIX.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

-Primary DBA for Microsoft and Oracle databases-Managed HighJump WMS System-Led process improvement efforts for IT department

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

-Worked with sales team to provide customized hardware and software solutions for Cisco IP based call centers.-Answered questions on RFP’s from potential customers.-Configured servers for customers based on call center size and call volume.-Checked sales quotes and statements of work for technical accuracy.