Sam Russo, Msit, Acp, Aap 🏎️💨 Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Ga, Us

As Head of Automotive & Heavy Duty at Pivotree, I lead digital transformation strategies, optimizing data management, supply chain efficiency, and customer experience. Leveraging data-driven insights, I provide tailored solutions that redefine industry standards, fostering sustained growth. Through strong client relationships and staying ahead of trends, I position Pivotree as a leader in shaping the future of the automotive industry.

Member of a volunteer committee that is influential in developing, managing, and maintaining standards and best practices which govern the curation, distribution, and management of automotive catalog content. As a committee member, I am responsible for the inception and support of new ideas and work groups that are focused on advancing the position of data and content management within the automotive aftermarket.

Responsible for assisting both the ACPN program and social committees in executing year round planning and promotion of the annual Automotive Content Professionals Network/Connect Conference, an event attended by over 900 automotive aftermarket professionals each year

Remote

Roswell, Georgia, United States

Atlanta, Ga

Responsible for implementing the technology strategy and execution roadmap for GPC’s unified commerce platforms. Collaborates with internal stakeholders and external vendors on managing catalog strategies from a data management and integrations standpoint with a deep understanding of modern technology stack and agile delivery models. • Implement the technology platforms architecture and execute on roadmap to support build out the new commerce related capabilities needed for the unified commerce strategy • Overall engineering accountability for the Product Domain from a Product Master Data Management standpoint• Responsible for delivery and support of the Product MDM platform • Responsible for simplifying the complexity of the current Product MDM platform and reducing the technical debt and optimal total cost of ownership• Responsible for ensuring the Product Domain acts as the Single Source of Truth for Product Data in the Enterprise• Partner with peer leaders to accelerate and embed agile methodologies across the organization to increase customer-backed problem solving, increase the pace of solution delivery, accelerate innovation, and to enhance cross-functional collaboration • Recruit, manage, and motivate a team of engineers to develop best-in-class solutions

To help cultivate and inspire a team of developers to deliver the best possible solutions for the O’Reilly Auto Parts Electronic Catalog Team. We have a large scope project to take everything O’Reilly has created to be successful and implement a PIM Solution in the mix.

Swindon, United Kingdom

Product Manager for all OATS’ global customers’ catalogue data. Responsible for the global strategy to manage, store, and push out product data to all platforms. Develop and implement data governance best standards around automotive product data. Collaborates with business partners, subject matter experts, developers, and customers to establish project plans and drive them to successful execution.• Works closely with Sr. Data Scientist and Sr. Data Architect on improving data integrity and implementation of workflows so all solutions communicate with each other• Developing, recommending, and managing any partnerships to deliver both the cataloging solution for lubricant brand, global standards for different regions, and retailer solutions• Create operational policies, procedures, standards, guidelines, and best practices• Subject matter expert on ACES/PIES, Autocare Association, NAPA Vehicle Table/NAPA Data Model both internally and externally• Increasing knowledge in TecDoc and MAM• Enhances the capabilities to deliver solutions directly to retailers based on different requirements of retailer(s)

Atlanta, Ga

Leads team in initiatives to improve the aftermarket automotive industry data. Responsible for maintaining product taxonomy, defining product attributes, ensuring data quality, and data integrity. Responsible for leading a team of analysts, in-house and offshore, in working with Product Support to help resolve issues in the field, and work to help optimize user experience across all B2B and B2C platforms.• Helps in defining overall processes, methodologies, and strategy for the team• Maintains the Primary Product Hierarchy within STIBO STEP• Serves as subject matter expert for Autocare ACES/PIES knowledge• Oversees data model for optimal data integrity and quality• Manages requirements for product data from suppliers• Participates in regular industry calls to help improve the automotive industry data as a whole

Atlanta, Georgia

Maintain special projects including data audits of supplier data, large-scale reports, and improving work processes to be more efficient. Implements data standards and validation rules for supplier data. Maintains the education and development of other Content Data Analysts.• Collaborates across a cross functional team to ensure accuracy of data is met• Encourages teamwork across departments to get the best use out of each department• Developed innovative tools to increase efficiency and quality while juggling multiple competing deadlines• Serves as main point of contact for management and team for large report analytics• Acts as subject matter expert over all Motor Oil Data, responsible for major global motor oil supplier data and developing industry standards. • Responsible for identifying any inefficiencies, problem areas and/or potential improvements

Greater Atlanta Area

Maintained catalog data relationship with suppliers to ensure the best most accurate data is presented to customers to prevent loss of sale. Provided analytics to management regarding missing and/or incorrect data content.• Managed all Motor Oil Data, developed and maintain relationship with major global motor oil suppliers. • Designed and implemented a data cleanse project with all Motor Oil Suppliers to standardize and validate Motor Oil Data• Lead Analyst over a small team in charge of a large impact data clean-up project across all products and suppliers• Analyzed current system processes to create new ways to improve different processes and practices• Knowledge in Auto Care Association's ACES/PIES• SQL• Python Coding• Access• Tableau

• Advanced Excel skills including charts, formulas, functions, pivots• Ensuring we are always getting the right data from the right source• Possessing the aptitude to pull large data sets• Compile data down to a summary with complete accuracy• Ability to provide clear concise written communication• Automotive knowledge, background, & passion• Maintaining product data integrity through its life cycle• ACES (AAIA Catalog Enhanced Standard) = Year/Make/Model architect• PIES (Product Information Exchange Standard) = Marketing content architect• Comprehensive knowledge of Google Analytics• Providing accurate data sets for customers & co-workers• Issuing accurate reports in a timely manner

Marietta, Ga

• Main point of contact with client design teams to facilitate design adaptations across multiple components. • Responsible for brand management of nationwide accounts and maintaining brand equality. • Handlef all service needs for the account: including billing and coordination with computer artists and plate manufacturing departments. • Offered creative, constructive ideas for incoming work. Coming up with alternative ways of producing jobs for quality and cost effectiveness.

Greater Atlanta Area

- Worked with Switch Program Manager to develop target account list, built relationships, and continually evolved market development strategy and tactical game plan.- Managed scheduling and execution of event programming, and coordinate product- Assisted with recruiting, interviewing and hiring of brand ambassador team.- Managed and trained brand ambassador team with scheduling, messaging, and expenses.- Trained and supported distributor and accounts.- Managed execution of merchandising and POS.- Supported program activation, product redemption, mobile reporting.- Insured that all events are supported by both sales and marketing activation.- Assisted in managing the market development budget.

Bachelor Of Fine Arts

Activities and Societies: Print Club

Master Of Science - Ms, Information Technology