Responsible for providing the vision and leadership for designing, developing and implementing IT and technology initiatives that create customer and business value for all IT functions throughout NDC. This strategy-heavy role participates and contributes to the overall enterprise business strategy development, bringing a current knowledge and future vision of leveraging information and technology in business model design, business processes re-engineering, products and services development and support for competitive advantage.

Leading transformation initiatives from legacy platforms to primarily .Net platforms in the areas of corporate applications, integration services, enterprise services (.Net and webMethods restful web services), data warehousing, business intelligence/analytics and enterprise and business architecture. Development teams practice Agile/SCRUM in the go-forward suites and traditional waterfall SDLC in the legacy platforms. Develop and executing on strategic initiatives that include simplification, consolidation and modernization of platforms and support models while serving customer demand and introducing minimal/no customer risk during migration activities. Developed and continuing to enhance the product roadmaps under my direction. Creating architectural frameworks and injecting architecture gates into the two SDLCs. Driving a cloud-first initiative for go-forward platforms. Work daily with business sponsors/partners from Finance, Human Resources, Accounting, Sales, Marketing and Executive leadership to forge critical relationships and elicit solution opportunities. Budget driven in both investment and project initiatives and have built solid tracking and presentation capabilities to demonstrate progress or opportunities for improvement. Provide oversight, direction and vision for business applications in Archway’s enterprise technology portfolio including - Accounting and Financial Systems - Customer Relationship Management - Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence and Analytics - Order Management - Warehouse/Inventory Management - Integration Services - Human Resource Information Systems - Quote to Cash Teams reporting into my organization include Technology Management, Enterprise and Business Architecture, Development, Business Analysis and Quality Assurance.

Focusing on all aspects of Enterprise Applications including development, business intelligence, enterprise and business architecture/data warehousing, data analysis, order management, financial applications, enterprise application integration, consulting and off-shoring, where applicable.On-going strategic initiatives involve integration of merger/acquisition target platforms including sunsetting and retiring platforms, integration of business processes and cost-savings associated all while meeting the compliance and regulatory requirements of Payment Card Industry (PCI), Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA).Have successfully introduced Agile/SCRUM SDLC methodologies, resulting in significant projects delivered under budget and more quickly than estimated.Provide oversight, direction and vision for all business applications in Standard Register’s corporate enterprise technology portfolio including:• Accounting and Financial Systems• Customer Relationship Management• Manufacturing Systems• Warehouse and Distribution Systems• Customer Service Systems• Human Resources Systems• Quote to Cash• Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence SolutionsLeadership for a team of approximately 50+ architects, software engineers/developers and consultantsSuccessfully forges relationships with internal business partners and collaborates with business owners and IT peers on project objectives, scope, resources and budget trade-offs, with input on development of project plans and resource allocation while monitoring, managing and mitigating tasks and risks.Additionally, I lead from a technology vision perspective by staying abreast of technology trends and best practices while implementing these when appropriate and advantage is available. I drive the organization toward standardization and simplification of the technology footprint leveraging purchased packages and cloud offerings where appropriate.

ITS Supervisor- Managed Oracle and SQL Server DBAs, interacting with clients and other IT Managers to deliver results- Reported to the CTO to deliver both externally facing and internal projects throughout the project lifecycle.- Responsible for over 50 databases ranging in size up to 7 TB.Oracle 9i/10g Database Administrator- Oracle 9i RAC (Real Application Clusters)- Oracle Partitioning- Materialized View Replication- Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM)- Oracle 10g- Oracle 10g Enterprise ManagerSQL Server 7.0/2000 Database Administrator- SQL Server 2000 Clustering (MSCS)- Data Transformation Services (DTS)- Replication- Log Shipping- Administration- DDL / DML Development- Design / Code Review- 24/7 Production Environment

Microsoft SQL Server 7.0/2000 DBA- Database / Application Design- Administration- DTS (Data Transformation Services)- Replication- Active-Active SQL Server Clustering (MSCS)