Lead and manage the IT operational efforts for a midsized retailer. Build and strengthen the working relationship between the business users and the IT department. Champion the efforts of developing, establishing, and executing industry best practices for IT processes while driving strategic level initiatives.

IT Project Manager working with Coca-Cola Bottling Co Consolidated on the ISS JDA Team.Manage medium to large IT strategic projects to help provide IT solutions for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the Supply Chain Planning organization. Projects Delivered:1. Migrate JDA Demand Planning and JDA Fulfillment Version 7.8 applications from an on-premise environment to a JDA Cloud hosted environment.2. Upgraded the Version 7.8 JDA Demand Planning and JDA Fulfillment applications to Version 9.0.3. Implemented data integrations of the SAP ERP system to interface master data and transactional data to support the JDA Demand Planning and JDA Fulfillment applications.CURRENT PROJECTS:1. Multi-year, $4.6M conversion project to rebuild the JDA Demand and Fulfillment Applications and migrate the data integrations between one SAP ERP environment to a different SAP ERP environment. As part of the migration efforts the Enterprise Integration Architecture is being completely replaced for the data integrations between the planning applications and the ERP system.

Build and Grow a working relationship between the supply chain business users and the information technology department.Help establish strategic direction and empowerment of technology within the supply chain line of business.Champion the process of developing and presenting executive business case requests requiring a technology component to help drive strategic level initiatives.

Managed and led the IT application development & support team responsible for the Planning and Inventory business applications systems. Partnered with the business units and the IT development and support teams to deliver the approved technology solutions.

Managed and led the development and implementation of IT application projects within the Supply Chain and Retail business areas.Managed a team of engineers supporting the enterprise service bus integration team.

Supported and maintained the inventory and retail IT applications and designing and developing new applications to assist in the operational activities of the company on the IBM AS/400 platform.

Managed a team of application developers responsible for supporting existing IT applications and designing and developing new applications to improve the efficiencies and effectiveness of the operational activities on the IBM AS/400, AIX and UNIX platforms.

Maintained existing computer applications and designed and developed new applications to assist in the operational activities of the company on the AS/400 platform.

Managed a team of 8 contract developers for the purpose of designing and building information systems for analyzing organizational objectives, methods and management needs on the Unisys A-Series and IBM AS/400 platforms.

Maintained existing computer applications and designing and developing new applications to assist in the administrative operational activities of the school district on the IBM AS/400 platform.