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La Crosse, Wisconsin Area

• Festival Foods is a Wisconsin company that employs more than 8,500 associates and operates 34 full-service supermarkets.
• Developed a multi-year, strategic roadmap yielding year-over-year ROI growth and cost containment. Delivered a comprehensive digital roadmap and e-commerce strategy resulting in over $115 million in additional annual.
• Initiated the company’s first comprehensive security and PCI-compliance programs resulting in zero security… Show more Festival Foods is a Wisconsin company that employs more than 8,500 associates and operates 34.
• Initiated the company’s first comprehensive security and PCI-compliance programs resulting in zero security breaches.
• Implemented an IT Steering Committee to align IT with business units, enabling delivery of value-based initiatives. Increased business growth and agility with significant store growth and $140 million in sales.
• Transformed IT culture to one based upon authenticity, caring, collaboration, compassion, honesty, and open-mindedness, resulting in value-based solutions and seamless delivery.

Eau Claire, Wisconsin

I gained Board approval for solutions key to growth + revenue potential for this $12B, Tier 1 home improvement retailer. Via restructure + an offshore recruitment/retention strategy, I shaved $24M off the budget. Today I manage a $90M IT budget + team of 300+An advocate of IT policies, procedures + ITIL-based standards, I introduced a PMO + IS steering.

Eagan, MN

I rebuilt the IT organization for this $4.2B U.S. operator of restaurants and 38K employees –building a cornerstone IT environment within 16 months that supported an interruption-free $29M HQ relocation, the company going public, and its acquisition of 300+ new stores.Along the way, I overcame entrenched leadership resistance to increased budget and IT.

Roanoke, Virginia

I ensured technology integration throughout 2 major acquisitions that added 1000+ stores to our portfolio for this $3.2B auto parts retailer with extensive distribution + warehousing facilities. Saved $4.4M via voice + data contract renegotiations. Reduced FTEs via data center automation.Through IT upgrades, automation and vendor negotiations within the.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

My efforts supported 2X revenue and store growth via the concept-to-execution implementation of a cutting-edge BI/Data Warehousing solution – enabling targeted merchandising and marketing for the first time for this $9.3B grocery/convenience/fuel station chain. In this role, I managed a $20M budget and a team of 60.In addition, I implemented a Decision.