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Dublin, Ohio, United States

Responsible for the product lifecycle, with a focus on enhancing relevance through customer alignment and technology insight.• Drives a strategic, unified vision for a complex and globally distributed portfolio• Provides leadership in emerging technologies, such as AI/ML, to maximize business impact• Partners with product and technology leadership to drive modernization and improvement across a variety of current and legacy systems• Analyzes trends within technology and effectively enables their adoption by relevant business units

Dublin, Ohio, United States

Responsible for development designs, solutions and for all defined qualitative attributes of OCLC’s Resource Sharing platform• Responsible for technical leadership and architecture for major OCLC systems.• Provide leadership to organization in specific area of expertise.• Responsible for architectural artifacts and technical health of assigned domain.• Leads and contributes to cross functional design efforts between Resource Sharing platform applications and both internal and external dependent systems.

Leads and architects the enterprise environments for all business units within the Sarnova family of companies• Advocated for and lead the selection and implementation project for SAP Hybris to unify company ecommerce properties, driving a shorter cycle time between enhancements and a reduction in costs• Architected the API between SAP Hybris and Microsoft ERP systems, creating a future services roadmap• Coordinated multiple business units and delivery teams, both on and off shore, in the successful delivery of SAP Hybris. See: https://www.boundtree.com• Consulted on projects to develop custom bidding and rewards applications, while driving alignment to new services roadmap. Architectural alignment drove both implementation and support cost savings

Directs Core Systems Architecture and DevelopmentManages the development and deployment of proprietary POS systems• Multitenant architecture supports 12 separate lines of business • Provide insights into the current state of the business, sales performance, individual technician/CSR performance, survey results, online and marketing performance• Designed and built OLTP and OLAP data sourcesDirects Ecommerce and Online Strategy10x growth in online sales contributed to the doubling of divisional revenue over 5 years• Lead the design and development of www.searsgaragedoors.com and www.searsclean.com • Integrated testing platform to conduct A/B testing and multivariate testing of website changes• Market-level paid search strategy with 450 campaigns and spend of $7 million• Combines classic concepts of marketing segmentation with online toolsets

Dublin, Oh

Software Architecture and ProgrammingResponsible for architecting and building an Enterprise Financial Data Processing SystemLead teams in development, BA and QA environments• Core system built around accounting, financial, transactional, and investment concepts• Interacted regularly with testing, production, sales & marketing, clients and others to communicate and discuss requirements and schedules• Kept abreast of current technological trends to maintain market competitiveness. Imaging technology and electronic documents, Check 21 legislation, signature capture, and others

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Strategy And Leadership, 3.7

Master Of Science (Ms), Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering, 3.7

Activities and Societies: Marching Band - Trumpet Section Leader

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering, 3.8

Activities and Societies: Marching Band