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Dallas, Texas, United States

Dallas

• Fortium Partners is a national firm of former CIO's from top-tier companies, who serve as interim IT executives or as leaders of turnaround, rescue, strategic, or transformation initiatives. We bring only senior.
• IT strategist for Fortune 500 retailer identifying retail trends and their applicability, assessing retail applications and outlining a retail cross-channel applications strategy direction.
• IT strategist for a regional convenience store chain defining a three-year roadmap including recommended transformation initiatives for store marketing and customer engagement.
• IT strategist for a middle market food retailer guiding management through an enterprise IT vision, requirements definition and Retail ERP software selection.
• Program Director for the global market share leader for highly automated fulfillment center material handling delivering rapid same-day service for Amazon, FedEx and WalMart. Responsible for global strategic initiative.

Program Director responsible for global strategic initiative for Dematic, the $2B global market share leader for automated material handling equipment. Defined and designed a quote management application to greatly simplify and speed the concepting, estimating and quoting process to deliver greater accuracy. Directed the multi-million dollar project to.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Neiman Marcus Group, VP IS Retail and Enterprise Applications interim. Responsible for Store, Merchandising, Supply Chain, Marketing, Financial and Enterprise applications for three divisions with over $3B in annual.
• Michaels Stores Inc., Chief Information Officer interim. Directed a 600-person IT organization for this 1100-store, $4B retailer with 40,000 employees. Led transformation of project/service delivery performance and.
• Dallas County, Chief Information Officer (2010 interim) – Directed 80-person IT department for this 6500-employee $400M organization. Led creation of IT governance model and business alignment with exceptional.
• Bluarc Management Group - IT Infrastructure Director (2009 interim) – Stood up the technology infrastructure for this wind energy spinoff. Virtualized disaster recovery.
• American Eurocopter, Chief Information Officer (2008 interim) – Led infrastructure rescue after a major outage, stabilizing network security through a rapid technology refresh. Led implementation of SAP product and.
• Led Business Intelligence, enterprise performance management (SAP), sales and executive reporting implementations for Home Interiors & Gifts, Fitz & Floyd, Fisher Nuts, Pegasus Logistics, and Highland Capital.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Responsible for merchandising, supply chain, marketing, stores, and enterprise applications development for Neiman Marcus, Last Call and Bergdorf Goodman over $3B annually. Managed over 120 staff, $18M capital and $10M expense. Implemented thirty major projects and releases successfully in the first year, a mix of custom, cloud and packages, exceeding.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Directed 600-person IT organization for this 1100-store, $4B retailer with 40,000 employees. Led turnaround transformation of project/service delivery performance and results, engaging business executives and gaining business trust and alignment with IT, while building associate engagement and morale, and rebuilding working partnership with outsourcer..

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Developed a business-aligned IT strategy and roadmap approved by the executive team.
• Led Zale Direct multi-channel and eCommerce order-taking, fulfillment, CRM and integration requirements, and solution selection.
• Led redefinition of HR business processes. Guided executives through solution selection matching the redefined processes, leading to over $5 million in savings.

• Gap Inc. - Program Director over redefinition of transformed and integrated business processes across multi-billion dollar divisions Gap, Old Navy and Banana Republic, using software functionality to minimize.
• Directed software implementations of Retek driving business process change for Brooks Brothers, J.Crew and other retailers. For Payless Cashways, led the initiative leading to $20M sales increase and $19M inventory.
• New Media Network/ eGroove - Led strategic architecture, integration design, and planning for software implementation of multi-channel eCommerce including CRM, merchandising, and operations.
• Skinmarket - Directed the evaluation of software to meet requirements for multi-channel operations including web orders, CRM, fulfillment and distribution, merchandising, and stores.
• CFT Consulting was acquired by Answerthink (all experiences included here)

Managed over 100 staff and a $34 million budget during a turnaround of this $1.5B public company. Transformed under-performing IT organization while reducing IT department turnover from 40% to 10% through attention to vision, leadership, organization and communications. Converted international operation, migrating legacy systems to new platform and.

• Michaels Stores – Assessed merchandising systems, IT capabilities and plans, reporting to new CEO driving turnaround of this $1.5B retailer. Conducted special projects across merchandising for short-term improvements..
• KB Toys - Led development and implementation of an innovative inventory planning data warehouse for this billion-dollar 1000-store retailer. Led joint business/IT team that set long-term planning/.
• Initiated and led business-driven strategic information technology planning projects for apparel and hardlines retailers.

• Led projects developing strategic information technology plans for Jos.A.Bank and other retailers.
• Liverpool – Program Director who led requirements, design, custom development and implementation of a highly automated, RF-driven retail distribution center in Mexico.
• Consulted with U.S. retailers on their foreign operations. Performed on-site evaluations of European operations of a multi-national merchandising corporation which sources billions of dollars of merchandise worldwide.
• Consulted with major retailers outside the U.S., including four of the five largest in Mexico. Directed engagements from design through development and implementation, on-site in a foreign country. Directed the.
• Neiman Marcus – Evaluated the distribution center network, technology and operations, recommending geographic repositioning of distribution centers.
• NM Direct division of Neiman Marcus - Defined distribution center system requirements, and selected software used for direct marketing and fulfillment operations.

Master Of Business Administration

Bachelor Of Business Administration