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Merion Station, Pa, Us

Mesa, Arizona, Us

Conshohocken, Pa, Us

Conshohocken, Pa, Us

After successfully standing up a Program Management Office I have expanded my leadership role within the IT organization of David's Bridal. As Vice President, Portfolio and Program Management I am now responsible for Vendor Management, IT Finances and Governance, New Ventures and Strategic Portfolio and Program Delivery.

Conshohocken, Pa, Us

Director of Program Management Office (2017 - Present)Promoted to stand up a Program Management Office at David’s Bridal to govern and support the recently aligned IT and Business 3 Year Strategy. Accomplishments in first 90 days included:• Established an enterprise project portfolio to support our new agile methodology• Initiated an IT Steering Committee• Built an online project request intake portal to replace the decentralized, informal process • Configured JIRA and Confluence workflow to support new request funnel to multiple agile teams leveraging a combination of Sprint or Kanban boards

Conshohocken, Pa, Us

Director of Enterprise & Store Systems (2015-2017)Area of ownership expanded to include Store Systems when business strategy shifted towards transforming the in-store customer experience via new technology solutions. Mobility, enriched clienteling tools and Omni-Channel enablement were the focus of the transformation. My team expanded to 17 resources and was now responsible for over 20 vendor relationships and 32 business applications. • Increased revenue by $15M annually by implementing Ship from Store / Pick Up in Store programs leveraging Manhattan Associates Store Inventory & Fulfillment• Achieved a 4.5 customer satisfaction rating by introducing mobility into a pilot group of stores by replacing our legacy POS with Infor’s (previously Starmount) Converge Commerce Mobile POS• Successfully launched the first two iOS based David’s Bridal proprietary applications on our AWS platform strictly adhering to our Agile and DevOps methodology. • Spearheaded the effort to decouple non-essential functions away from our legacy POS to create a path for a vendor cloud solution that avoided heavy customization.• Owned creation, maintenance and rationalization of entire IT capital budget ranging between $14M and $20M annually, never exceeding a fiscal year plan.• Held Business Unit-IT steering committees with my strategic partners in Finance, Supply Chain, Merchandising and Stores to prioritize requests, provide governance and project updates.

Conshohocken, Pa, Us

Director of Enterprise Systems (2010-2015)Promoted to lead the Enterprise Systems team with the primary goal to successfully replace our aging ERP solution to allow for international growth and multi-channel expansion. My team consisted of 9 resources and I assumed ownership of 8 vendor relationships and 18 business applications.• Lead the successful implementation of Microsoft Dynamics/NAV ERP. The project was divided into three phases. Project team consisted of 26 resources from the vendor, IT and business units. It was delivered on-time and under budget with no significant production issues.o Launched a multi-language, multi-currency Point of Sale (POS) and ERP to allow David’s Bridal to operate their first international retail locations. David’s Bridal now operates 18 international stores in Canada and the UK with over $30M annual revenue using the NAV/LS Retail platform. o Merged the growing eCommerce business onto the ERP leveraging multi-channel functional. eCommerce revenue has grown over 225% since the migration.o Migrated David’s Bridal’s existing US Retail Chain to the new NAV ERP with zero business interruption. • Upgraded Manhattan’s DOM and PkMS solutions to combine our Retail and eCommerce Distribution Centers into a Single Pool of Inventory to enable Omni-Channel fulfillment which saved the company over $4 million dollars in inventory carrying costs.• Implemented Manhattan’s Inventory Optimization & Demand Forecasting to improve our sales forecasting capabilities which resulted in a $5M annual inventory savings.• Created and maintained an enterprise application and integration master for the IT department which included over 50 applications and 250 integration touch points.

Conshohocken, Pa, Us

Senior Business Analyst (2006 -2010)Joined David’s Bridal as a Sr. Business Analyst with the primary responsibility to act as functional lead on building an Enterprise Integration platform and launch a new world class Order Management system.• Implemented Microsoft’s Biztalk to support real-time integration between multiple best-of-breed vendor solutions.• Implemented Manhattan Associates: Distributed Order Management (DOM) to allow David’s Bridal to open a second distribution center and manage multi-channel fulfillment and reach 99.5% fill rate.

Senior Business Analyst and Project ManagerAMN Healthcare is the largest healthcare staffing company in the US with approximately $900 million in revenue in 2005. Lead the following successful system implementations during my tenure with AMN: • Implemented Salesforce.com’s CRM product suite to automate Lead Management, Contact Management, Campaign Management and Email Marketing. • Lead the design, testing and roll-out of an internally developed Microsoft.NET application to manage AMN’s $100M housing and lease management operation. • Delivered an internally developed application called PROPEL. A profit calculation engine built to measure achievable margins in different selling scenarios.

Served as a Business Consultant in Andersen’s Supply Chain Team. • Merger and Acquisition: Managed the Integrated Workplan for a Retail Acquisition. • WMS Implementations: Implemented Optum’s Warehouse Management System at Tyco Electronics and Angelo Brothers Company. • Software Selections: Conducted ERP Software Selections for three manufacturing companies. ERP selection finalists included SAP, JD Edwards, Oracle and Peoplesoft.