Brian Draper Email & Phone Number

West Bloomfield Township, Mi, Us

Walled Lake, Michigan, United States

Oversee all software development for Real Greens suite of SaaS products for the lawn care industry including Development, QA, Scrum and UI/UX.

West Bloomfield, Mi

Providing independent IT and Operations consulting services

Southfield, Mi

Responsible for running all technical development and IT infrastructure, as well as Merchandising, Inventory Management, and Production. Initiated a multi-year plan to migrate a myriad of disparate tools and technologies into a cohesive single platform, including cloud migration (AWS / Azure) that resulted in increased efficiency, revenue growth and increased client satisfaction. Established new products and processes designed to reduce, or eliminate, long standing business challenges. A few… Show more Responsible for running all technical development and IT infrastructure, as well as Merchandising, Inventory Management, and Production. Initiated a multi-year plan to migrate a myriad of disparate tools and technologies into a cohesive single platform, including cloud migration (AWS / Azure) that resulted in increased efficiency, revenue growth and increased client satisfaction. Established new products and processes designed to reduce, or eliminate, long standing business challenges. A few of the challenges that were overcome included:Enabled significant revenue growth over a 3-year periodDeployed backorder management software resulting in the elimination of 20,000 average backordersAutomated company reporting practices resulting in 50% faster fulfillment time and millions in savingsNew technology development required building the technical development team from 2 to 20 people over 18 months and instituting procedural rigorDeveloped and implemented all new merchandising, inventory, and finance applications increasing efficiency and enabling revenue growth Show less

Dearborn, Mi

Managed Global Technical Development, Video and Print Production capabilitiesOrganized full-service technical development hub in Shanghai to serve Asia Pacific Region Implemented company-wide Business Intelligence reporting tools to enable a data driven business management modelManaged existing hubs in Buenos Aires, Bucharest, Prague and New Delhi

Royal Oak, Mi

Oversee all RTT USA Operations including Studio, Data Prep, Development, Professional Solutions, Creative, Account, HR, IT, and FacilitiesImplemented structured Project Management capability and matrixed reporting structureEvaluated existing operational landscape and implemented improved necessary processes and reportingImplemented formal training and development programs

Responsible for running the operations of Team Detroit’s ~1200 employees.Implemented highly successful bottom-up annual scoping process for the ~450 person Digital groupLead Global Team Ford offshoring initiative setting up production hubs in Buenos Aires, Bucharest, Prague and New Delhi

Responsible for running the operations of Team Detroit’s ~400 person Digital group.Implemented a series of operational initiatives that focused on utilization, forecasts and client reporting to streamline the ability to manage the Digital businessResponsible for maintaining key client relationships across Ford’s Brand and Enterprise Digital Marketing groups.Responsible for growing Digital revenue 20%+ for 2011.Designed a fully integrated, cross-functional… Show more Responsible for running the operations of Team Detroit’s ~400 person Digital group.Implemented a series of operational initiatives that focused on utilization, forecasts and client reporting to streamline the ability to manage the Digital businessResponsible for maintaining key client relationships across Ford’s Brand and Enterprise Digital Marketing groups.Responsible for growing Digital revenue 20%+ for 2011.Designed a fully integrated, cross-functional, production capability.Designed a new cross-channel holistic agency process. Show less

Member of the Digitas Detroit Leadership Team, guiding the direction and operations of the Digitas Detroit office.Member of the Digital Solutions Group Core Leadership team, guiding the operations and direction of an organization of 350+ people.Responsible for managing key senior client relationships across GM’s marketing and operations organizationsResponsible for overseeing all digital production operations for eight automotive divisions, cross-divisional operations… Show more Member of the Digitas Detroit Leadership Team, guiding the direction and operations of the Digitas Detroit office.Member of the Digital Solutions Group Core Leadership team, guiding the operations and direction of an organization of 350+ people.Responsible for managing key senior client relationships across GM’s marketing and operations organizationsResponsible for overseeing all digital production operations for eight automotive divisions, cross-divisional operations, corporate promotions, CRM, Service and Parts Operations, and OnStar. This includes P&L responsibility for this portion of the GM account, in which I met or exceeded margin targets every year.Led definition and rollout of the next generation internet strategy redefining the user experiences across all divisional and cross-divisional sites, sitelets, OLA and emails.Led definition and deployment of the next generation internet strategy new platform development to support the above mentioned presentation layer standards.Business Enhancements Portfolio, including Owner Strategy, Saturn Retailing, Configuration Business Process Outsourcing and similar initiatives. Show less

Responsible for a variety of high-profile promotional site and sitelet rollouts, facilitating divisional and cross-divisional online and offline media deployments spanning internal systems, factory floor production systems, fulfillment operations, and web operations.Responsible for effort to rapidly re-deploy GM’s Certified Internet Dealer program, inclusive of GM OneSource (lead management and consolidation suite), GM Dealer Websites, and 3rd Party Lead Program.Responsible for… Show more Responsible for a variety of high-profile promotional site and sitelet rollouts, facilitating divisional and cross-divisional online and offline media deployments spanning internal systems, factory floor production systems, fulfillment operations, and web operations.Responsible for effort to rapidly re-deploy GM’s Certified Internet Dealer program, inclusive of GM OneSource (lead management and consolidation suite), GM Dealer Websites, and 3rd Party Lead Program.Responsible for Shop & Buy Tools PortfolioResponsible for pilot implementation of distributed data platform Show less

Managed data model team and QA that was responsible for the implementation of all vehicle data for five major automotive brands consumer facing on-line configuration tools.Developed and executed a data model transition plan to reduce client's operating costs (approximately $3.5 million annually) and improve website data quality (over 80% reduction in initial errors, and 25% greater testing coverage) all while reducing overall headcount by 50%Initiated and staffed Data Modeling… Show more Managed data model team and QA that was responsible for the implementation of all vehicle data for five major automotive brands consumer facing on-line configuration tools.Developed and executed a data model transition plan to reduce client's operating costs (approximately $3.5 million annually) and improve website data quality (over 80% reduction in initial errors, and 25% greater testing coverage) all while reducing overall headcount by 50%Initiated and staffed Data Modeling Team, generating an incremental $1 million+ in revenue annually. Show less

Provided development support to Ford's Build to Order Web Application Worked as a JSP developer to migrate FordPartner.comWorked as a lead developer in the complete re-write of the FordPartner and FordVehiclePrograms from Java to ASP/COM.

Responsible for full life cycle of online GM Canada configurator.Performed business process analysis for all database development. Maintained and tested data for GM Buypower Configurator.