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.

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.

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.
• 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

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.
• 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

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.
• 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

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.
• 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.

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.
• 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

• 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

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.

Bachelor Of Fine Arts

Activities and Societies: Print Club

Master Of Science - Ms, Information Technology