Al Scherer, Mba Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Westchester, Illinois, Us

IT Development Director and Business Product Manager responsible for Order Management and EDI systems.Provided oversight and direction for on- and off-shore development managers and teams responsible for creation, support and enhancements of Java-based IBM Sterling Order Management system in support of Follett’s $700m/yr eCommerce business. Led teams responsible for development & enhancement of order & inventory management systems, standalone Spring MVC-based applications, IBM WebSphere MQ & Oracle database systems. Introduced programs leveraging Apache Camel open-source frameworks to automate application system support, eliminating many manual support tasks so developers can focus on value-added features & functionality.Enabled ship-from-store and buy-online-pickup-in-store (BOPUS). Introduced Third-Party Logistics program.Member - IBM Supply Chain User CommunityPresenter - Chicago IBM Order Management User Group - May 2019Webinar Presenter - Inventory, Supply Chain & Order Management - "How harmonizing inventory across stores enabled Follett to create a seamless omni-channel experience" - Jan 2020Panel Member & Presenter - IBM Action in Retail Virtual Conference - Jul 2020Led weekly “Core Team” Kanban Agile Development Team meetings to review task board, prioritize tasks and plan release iterations.Provided hands-on expertise and guidance of BI efforts to extract detailed order processing data into actionable business analytics.Managed vendor relationships and contracts. Managed capital and expense budgets for multiple cost centers.IBM Sterling OMS Expert, Oracle SQL Expert, IBM MQ Expert.

Westchester, Illinois, Us

Development Manager with hands-on experience in IBM's Java-based Sterling Order Management System and IBM Sterling B2B Integrator. The system coordinates system inventory and order fulfillment between Follett’s eCommerce system, efollett.com, and its 1,000+ physical and virtual stores, drop ship vendor partners and warehouse. Led design of several integration applications using WebSphere MQ, Java 7 and Apache Camel.Led team that built support web applications and business reports using Java, Spring MVC, jQuery and Hibernate JPA. The tools are used daily by store personnel at over 1000 sites across the US and Canada to support our $400m/year ecommerce business. Performed code and design reviews. Led cross-team design efforts to support business needs. Eleven-time nominee for Follett "Values in Action" award.

Westchester, Illinois, Us

Software architect and developer responsible for IBM WebSphere Commerce system.Was responsible for technical design and code reviews for development team efforts.Designed and developed Spring Core based applications and Spring MVC- and Hibernate-based web apps.Standardized design and development practices using UML design notation, static analysis tools and metrics, automated unit testing and peer code reviews. Introduced software development tools and toolkits including JUnit, EclEmma, Jenkins, FindBugs, Maven, log4j/slf4j & Artifactory. Extended EasyMock framework to automatically identify objects as mocks. Extended Open Source CheckStyle framework to enforce use of nested exceptions inside Java catch blocks.Was Follett representative to IBM Lab Advocate and Early Access programs for WebSphere Commerce and Sterling Order Management. These programs bring together key IBM resources and customers to discuss technical issues and provide input to their product roadmaps.Nominated twelve times for Follett Values-in-Action award. Professional certifications include: Sun Java Developer, Sun Java Business Component DeveloperSun Web Component Developer; IBM WebSphere Commerce v6 Developer; IBM Certified in Object-Oriented Design using UML.Areas of expertise include Java, J2EE, JSP, Ajax, Spring Core, SpringMVC, Hibernate, SQL, JMS, WebSphere MQ, XML, JUnit, Linux and bash scripting and scripting languages including Groovy and Perl.

As a lifelong learner, I review prerelease version of software development books for technical accuracy, presentation clarity and content flow. In this role, I have contributed to many books, including:o Youens-Clark, Ken. (2020). Tiny Python Projects. Manning Publications.o Perrin, Jean-Georges. (2020). Apache Spark in Action. Manning Publications.o Harrer, Simon et al. (2018). Java by Comparison, Pragmatic Bookshelf. o Clinton, David. (2017). Learn Amazon Web Services in a Month of Lunches. Manning Publications. o Subramaniam, Venkat. (2016). Test Driving JavaScript Applications. Pragmatic Bookshelf. o Bibeault et al. (2015). jQuery in Action, 3rd Ed. Manning Publications. o Urma et al. (2014). Java 8 in Action. Manning Publications.

Shelter Island, Ny, Us

As a Senior Technical Editor, I review prerelease version of software development books for presentation style, continuity and concept teaching flow.TItles I've reviewed include:- Brink et al. (2018). Real World Machine Learning.- Mardan, Azat. (2017). React Quickly. - Guinard, Dominique. (2016). Building the Web of Things.- Larsen, John. (2016). Get Programming with JavaScript.

Hands-on Development Manager responsible for Java and J2EE applications.Led Java development team to build a multi-threaded, real-time transformation and routing engine that processed and correlated store performance data into a system dashboard application displayed to in-store managers and aggregated for home office management.

Designed and Developed Java and C++ applications for Linux-based telephony systems.Created real-time graphical systems analysis tool using Java, XML-RPC, and ptplot open-source charting library. Managed vendor software interoperability trials, led customer presentations

Java/J2EE software consultant while also consulting manager for a team of 6 Intermediate and Junior Consultants.

Designed and Developed C- and Java-based applications.Designed and developed network monitoring suite that reduced system defects to 6-Sigma quality level; won Motorola U.S. Total Customer Satisfaction Award and was U.S. representative to global competition finals. Received “Innovation Disclosure” award for software package that generated C code from Excel spreadsheet data. This reduced programming defects by 86% while increasing software release cycle time tenfold.

M.B.A. With Honors, Finance, Management & Strategy

Bs, Civil Engineering