Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, TEC has 35+ dealership locations from Seattle to San Diego to the Midwest, serving thousands of customers across Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona, Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota.TEC Equipment features Mack and Volvo heavy-duty trucks, Hino and Isuzu medium duty trucks, Wabash trailers and Cottrell auto transport trailers. We offer a large and desirable inventory of new Mack and Volvo heavy-duty trucks and all makes of used trucks. Our full-service line-up also features quality parts, state-of-the-art service, collision centers and fuel, leasing/rental, financing, and insurance. Our locations are authorized service centers for Mack, Volvo, Cummins, Meritor, Eaton and Fuller warranties. TEC truly offers the convenience of one-stop shopping for all of your trucking-related needs.

• Provide organization level strategic planning, corporate vision, and implementation approach as a key member of the executive leadership team, expressing the ongoing ROI in strategic technology, data-driven decisions, and manufacturing automation. Successfully present business cases for complex technology initiatives requiring multimillion-dollar investments and extraordinary process change. • Build and deploy a company-wide business analytics desktop and mobile solution using PowerBI Enterprise, Azure SQL, market data, over 25 internal data end points, and Python/R. Built an analytics team to carry forward the effort through continuous improvement cycles and new initiatives.• Responsible for leading the company’s complete overhaul of our legacy enterprise systems, migration to SAP S/4 HANA, and organizational change management process using SAP’s Activate, Enable Now, Web Assistant, and SAP Analytics Cloud, providing fast time to value for 4000+ employees. • Led the lift and shift effort to migrate the company’s core IT infrastructure and application stack to the cloud enabling new technologies in Azure and AWS.• Developed several key team member leadership roles to facilitate all aspects of our enterprise infrastructure and cybersecurity allowing 99% availability to over 50 manufacturing, aquaculture, and distribution locations. Accurately budget multimillion-dollar hardware, software, and labor expenses.• Rapidly accelerate revenue per employee goals by leading a complete overhaul of our enterprise resource planning (ERP, move to S4/HANA) system, warehouse management system (SAP EWMS), manufacturing execution system (SAP MII MES/IIOT), transportation management system (SAP TM), sales and operations planning (SAP S&OP), and shop floor environment enabling real-time transactions for all business units. • Deliver the customer-facing e-commerce (B2C) with fulfillment in 30 days in response to Covid-19 food service market collapse.

• Accountable for formulating executive-level digital transformation strategies to optimize organizational systems, employees, and processes allowing ten-year revenue growth of over 26X and distribution in 71 countries.• Provide top-level strategic planning as a key member of the executive leadership team, expressing the immediate ROI in technology, application development, and automation ideas. Successfully present business cases for complex company-wide technology initiatives requiring significant investment and change. • Lead our internal application development team and build bespoke enterprise-wide desktop/cloud-based applications to optimize paperless workflows and blend disparate systems for supply chain, operations, sales, marketing and finance saving millions in SaaS, CapEx/Opex, and software license expenses. • Facilitate all aspects of our IT enterprise infrastructure and align IT staff allowing 99% availability to our 24/7 multi-location manufacturing environment. • Oversee all enterprise hardware and software while effectively keeping IT investments under 2% of total revenue through a careful blend of software as a service (SaaS), on-premise cloud (Nutanix), bespoke applications, microservices/API, and enterprise hardware to balance company uptime, budget, and performance expectations.• Champion a complete digital overhaul of our enterprise. Delivered innovative enterprise resource planning (ERP), warehouse management system (WMS), manufacturing execution system (MES/IIOT), electronic data interchange (EDI/OE), finance (AP/AR), quality assurance (QA), and shop floor environments enabling real-time KPI dashboards and rapidly accelerating revenue per employee goals.As CIO, I provide focused leadership for the development and implementation of innovative company-wide information technology initiatives. In addition, I deliver innovation initiatives that provide competitive advantage and align with fiduciary and strategic goals.

• Directed over 150 IT infrastructure projects from the ground up including Cisco ASA, Cisco routers, Microsoft servers, active directory, Exchange/Postfix mail servers, IIS/Apache web servers, SQL and Oracle database servers, DNS, cluster servers, security appliances, AV Push, and VPN servers.• Provide companies with full-service ERP migration planning, risk assessment, media development, web application development, network administration, server deployment, DevOps planning, PBX administration, and business continuity planning.• Planned, designed, programmed, and developed over 400 web applications using PHP, HTML/CSS, JSON/XML, ASP, PERL, Java, MySQL, Microsoft SQL, MS SQL, Bootstrap, and Flash. • Managed key customer relationships including sales, budgeting, marketing direction, maintenance, SEO, and problem solving. Developed one-year, three-year, and five-year strategic IT plans.

Network Elements, Inc. developed new types of network equipment building blocks by integrating its advanced ASICs with innovative high-speed optics, electronics, and software cores. The company provided customers with fully tested modular solutions incorporating optical interfaces and wirespeed processing for layers 2/3 through layers 4/7. These multi-gigabit/sec IP, Ethernet, ATM, SONET, and DWDM processing engines were integral to the next generation of switches, routers, gateways, servers and network edge devices. • Twice promoted within two years of service. Helped our CIO raise over $72M in VC funding by stabilizing business-critical systems, reducing operating expenses by 25%, and increasing availability of ASIC design and verification tools during series A/B rounds.• Led the IT department, including network administrators, DBAs, senior Unix administrators, senior Linux administrators, and co-managed services for 80 senior-level ASIC design and hardware engineers.• Managed a two-year hardware and software budget of $5.5M, and implemented change management plans for all Sun, Cisco, IBM, and Dell hardware.• Directed the administration of Mentor Graphics ASIC design, analysis, and verification tools.• Directed relocation to a 60,000SF facility. Responsible for developing the project plans for all voice, data, physical-level cabling, HVAC, security systems, server rooms, and network configurations.• Planned, designed, programmed, and built NEI’s web presence, including our extranet, intranet, ERP/MRP system, IT help desk, inventory database, and other database driven projects• Designed, built, and configured all of NEI’s Windows-based servers, including active directory FSMO, Exchange Enterprise mail cluster, RAID-based file servers, print servers, RIP engines, CVS repositories, Anti-Virus push server, DNS servers, SQL cluster servers, and web servers.

• Led the data engineering, installation, and maintenance of several complex networks for UPS, Stewart Title, and several other contract SMBs. Provided roadmaps for data networks employing Linux servers, Exchange servers, Windows servers, Cisco routers and switches, CSU/DSU, call routing, and PBX systems. • Trained clients, salespeople, and staff in the areas of networking and telecommunications operations.• Earned Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), Comdial FXS switch, FXT switch, DXP, Interchange, NT Voice Mail, and Wide Area System Networking certifications.

Created web-based front end, UI/UX, and backend software to remove manual processes from large scale printing, scanning, and storage initiatives for Nike, Tektronix, and PGE.Completed projects reduced production routing errors, sped up and authenticated artwork proofs, automated production scheduling, and improved quality assurance monitoring.Created using PHP, Perl, and JavaScript.