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Managed enterprise-wide IT projects with budgets in excess $1M USD

Greenville, Sc

- Supported store-level supply chain by working directly with Receiving and Freight teams to ensure correct inventory counts and timely receipt and stocking of $4-5 Million of merchandise annually - Worked with store management to support the store making its quarterly and annual sales goals - Supported store organization by ensuring accurate stock levels of on-shelf products - Became certified to operate lifting and moving equipment to enable me to support every department by carrying out projects that required movement of heavy and bulky material

United States

- Responsible for running day-to-day business & IT operations - Responsible for purchasing of equipment, services and vehicles- Responsible for creating and maintaining relationships with customers and vendors- Planning and facilitating freight movement all over the US

North America

IT PROJECT MANAGER, NORTH AMERICAManaged all phases of project life cycles for business units in the US, Canada, Mexico and the Philippines footprint. Worked with management and stakeholders at all levels of the organization to plan and execute projectsCreated and delivered project status presentations to stakeholders and senior managementManaged supply chain projectsManaged movement of lines of business between locationsManaged projects teams ranging from 5 to 20 on projects with budgets ranging from $200K USD to $750K USDKey projects included Office 365 migration for user in the entire footprint, off-site data backups in Canada, relocation of 10 lines of business to plants throughout the footprint and build-out of new office for sales force in Silicon ValleyDIGITAL SERVICES MANAGERWorked with key stakeholders and the sales team in sites in the US, Mexico and Germany to contribute to producing €16.7 billion in world-wide revenue.Developed new digital offerings to add to and enhance our offerings and address pain points of customers and prospective customers.Managed internal and out-sourced resources to add new offerings to our catalog.Analyzed our digital offerings against our competitors’ to predict areas for expansion of our digital catalog. Trained sales team to make sure they had a solid understanding of our digital offerings, met with members of the team to discuss ideas that they had about our additions to our digital offerings and effective ways to sell those to customers.Assisted with RFP process.APPLICATION & WEB DEVELOPMENT MANAGERManaged a team of developers based at plants across the US supporting 6 sites in North America.Managed outsourced resources to ensure compliance with requirements.Worked with key stakeholders to drive projects to successful completion on time and on budget.Worked directly with customers to manage customer relationships.Led development team to leverage each other's skills to prevent duplication of effort.

Greenville, Sc

- Worked with key manufacturing managers to understand their needs and pain points and create project plans to address changes & improvements in processes- Managed projects from planning to implementation- Provided updates and status reports to stakeholders and management- Worked in Jomar ERP system to support the needs of Corporate & Manufacturing users; created & updated screens written in JSP, manipulated XML & Crystal Reports.- Implemented MS Team Foundation Server 2010 for managing work items & source code control- Customized SharePoint front-end portals for TFS to allow users to submit & monitor requests- Created workflows for intranet pages- Created sites & worked directly with SharePoint administrator to set up SharePoint sites- Maintained VB application that ran process to build-up cases of yarn for shipment and improved the labeling functionality to provide improved visibility & more usable data- Created VB scripts to retrieve data out of Jomar ERP system for custom tags & tickets

Greenville, Sc

- Worked with key stakeholders to create project goals, timetables and deliverables- Provided updates and status reports to stakeholders and District management- Managed projects from planning to implementation- Developed web-based electronic Request For Employment application to be used by management to request assignment of job candidates to available positions. Development platform was ASP.NET, VB.NET, SQL Server & Lawson ERP- Developed web-based application to allow accounting staff to process utility bills and prepare files for upload into Lawson ERP Accounts Payable. Development platform was ASP.NET, VB.NET & SQL Server- Worked with development team members to help define requirements for web-based application that will be used to assign students to the schools they will attend next school year and to manage school assignments throughout the school year. Development platform will be ASP.NET, VB.NET & SQL Server- Worked with development team members to begin establishing development standards and best practices.- Wrote VB.NET & stored procedures to enhance exception processing by changing the hard-coded exception processing to a model that allowed exception definitions to be managed remotely and downloaded to the hand-held device- Assisted another developer who was new to ASP.NET in re-writing an application

- Worked in a VB.NET environment on both maintenance issues and new development on several of the company’s desktop & web products- Worked in a SQL Server environment to create and maintain stored procedures, accept and produce data feeds, update DTS packages to support desktop & web products- Participated on a team tasked with revamping the training and mentoring program for new hires & existing developers

Greenville, Sc

- Worked with stakeholders in the business to establish project goals, timetables and deliverables- Replaced a manual process with an application I created in VB.NET to automatically collect installation data sent from field offices, analyze the data, create & e-mail reports to various levels of management for review.- Worked on enhancements for a Pocket PC and Windows CE-based application written in VB.NET with SQL Server 2000 & 2005 database back-ends- Wrote VB.NET & stored procedures to enhance exception processing by changing the hard-coded exception processing to a model that allowed exception definitions to be managed remotely and downloaded to the hand-held device- Assisted another developer who was new to ASP.NET in re-writing an application

- Worked with business managers and business stakeholders to define project specifications and identify needs and pain points- Managed projects from concept to implementation- Conducted unit and user acceptance testing with business units- Worked with business users and manufacturing associates to implement projects - Developed a B2C e-commerce system - Full life cycle development in Visual Basic 6, VB.NET, Classic ASP, ASP.NET, HTML, FoxPro, CSS and MS Access - ETL - Created ETL processes to import, export and manipulate data from multiple data sources for import to and export from SQL server, Oracle and Informix databases using SQL Server DTS, SSIS- Maintained procedures and processes on an HP3000 and HP9000 platforms- Worked with internal staff & other consultants to produce financial reports for executive management from a Hyperion multi-dimensional database using Excel, VBA & Essbase to complete requirements- Acted as liaison between my clients and external customers, vendors and development teams- Managed e-commerce projects to redesign clients’ B2C & B2B websites- Used MS Project and Visio to produce project documentation- Conducted user training- Wrote a custom inventory management system used by Delta Airlines to handle parts ordered, stored and issued for engineering maintenance changesClients includedArthur Andersen, Atlanta, GACingular Wireless, Atlanta, GADelta Airlines, Atlanta, GAFacilityPro.com, Atlanta, GALighthouse Performance Systems, Atlanta, GALowes Company, Inc., North Wilkesboro, NCNewark In One, Gaffney, SC Sprint, Atlanta, GAUS Corps of Engineers – Walla Walla, WA District,Yoder Brothers, Inc., Pendleton, SC

Greater Atlanta Area

- Used Visual Basic & Access to develop a sales tracing application used to verify sales to customers & calculate sales force commission- Designed and administered corporate Intranet. A Windows NT 4.0 Server, running IIS and SQL Server was used as the platform. Procedure code used was HTML, VBScript, SQL and ASP- Selected company’s Internet Service Provider and maintained that relationship. Services included web site hosting, mail forwarding and backup DNS- Maintained company home page- Directed migration from Novell NetWare to MS Windows NT network operating system - Administered database, DNS and Intranet servers. - Prepared data for roll-over from HP3000-based legacy system to HP9000 UNIX-based BPCS ERP system running Informix- Assisted in implementation of BPCS ERP system

Greater Atlanta Area

- Used FoxPro to development custom POS software for commercial accounts- Maintained and updated inventory control system still used in convenience stores. - Provided technical support and training to clients both in the office and at customer sites- Hardware and software sales

Summerville, Sc

- Participated in testing and implementation of Computer Assisted Manufacturing software in a production environment - Trained plant workers in basic computer operations- Aided in troubleshooting network and assembly-line workstations

Virginia Beach, Va

Maintained the electrical system of F-14 Tomcat fighter aircraft.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

As, Computer Technologies

Diploma, College/University Preparatory And Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program