Brad Sears Email & Phone Number

Ridgely, Md

Maker of Distinctive Wet Shaving Accoutrements dedicated to producing some of the finest hand-crafted shaving brushes currently available. We offer shaving brushes in our own classically-inspired designs and, through our collaboration with world-renowned English knotmaker Lee Sabini, the iconic Morris & Forndran patterns. Under this arrangement, Brad hand crafts Morris & Forndran brush handles as well as our own, by hand, on a manual wood lathe in our Maryland Eastern Shore workshop.

East Stroudsburg, Pa

Sole proprietorship providing quality web development and maintenance support to the Fine Arts and Crafts community.

Specializing in Project Management, Transitional Management and Business Architecture.

Successfully led green-field IT divestiture of Wyndham from the former Cendant Corporation completing on-schedule, $2 million under budget. Built the Corporate PMO and IT Contract Management Office, gave leadership to their Directors - consistently saving 10 - 20% against budgeted project spend and realizing >$1 million annualized contractual cost savings. Managed outsourced data center and disaster recovery relationships reducing project cost overruns 80%, increasing project completion 35%.

Managed $8 million Documentum implementation - building and leading 40+ person cross-functional project team.

Developed study and specific steps to transform a failing organization saving $200k/year. Created System Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and supporting processes for Fortune 100 client.

Provided program quality standards and hands-on oversight of Y2k infrastructure and application remediation efforts in nearly 30 Business Units across U.S. for Fortune 100 services client. Managed major systems enhancement project for a Fortune 100 defense contractor.

Built first GNMA fund portfolio management system for Investment Counsel client enabling firm to enter multi-million $ line of business.Led teams that built Corporate, Government and Municipal bond trading systems for supra-regional brokerage client enabling expansion of client Municipal Bond trading unit and automating Corporate and Government trading units.

Executive Education, Management & Leadership

Accounting

Bachelor'S, Applied Music