Providing a variety of consulting services to Private Equity, manufacturing, distribution, and retail clients including strategic planning, implementing Balanced Scorecard, pre-acquisition diligence, post acquisition integration management, ERP selection, ERP Project Management, ERP Project Rescues, post-live optimization, and Interim CIO/COO services.

Interim/Fractional CIO & Executive Advisory services for clients facing significant organizational changes including post merger/acquisition process harmonization, ERP deployments, ownership transitions, acquisitions and/or divestitures.Representative Projects:• Company Confidential - Senior Operations Advisor for $100M manufacturing company struggling to implement key components of their manufacturing systems. Guiding management team through the change management process associated with establishing BOMs, Routings, and other manufacturing system components.• Arsenal Capital Partners – Serve in an executive advisory capacity to guide a new portfolio company through a transitional ERP implementation in preparation for a rapid acquisition based growth strategy.• LifePlus – Senior Project Manager – Provide senior level project management and advisory services to this global manufacturer and distributor of supplements with a focus on their ERP deployment and related interface development efforts.• Dynatect – Interim CIO - Originally hired to create a detailed strategy for aligning the operating processes throughout these distinct business units at this $110M Private Equity owned manufacturer. I successfully developed and received board approval for an 18 month ERP and process harmonization project. Retained full time to execute the strategy.• Infor - Global Project Manager – Called in to take-over a severely at risk project at a $2B customer with a project budget of more than $2M and over 25 resources – successfully transitioned project to completed. • Infor - Global Project Manager - Served as Global Project Manager at a medical device manufacturing division of Hitachi for a new ERP deployment involving more than $1M in resources and three different technology platforms including Syteline and SalesForce.Com

TriMark USA, Inc. is the country's largest provider of design services, equipment, and supplies to the food service industry. TriMark offers food service operators a new level of service by combining the hands-on support and local market knowledge of a strong regional supplier with the purchasing strength, industry expertise, and delivery capabilities of a national company. We work closely with our customers, which include national restaurant chains, independent restaurant operators, healthcare facilities, entertainment venues, and many other segments, to provide the products and services that will help them operate more efficiently and realize better bottom line results.My role at TriMark focused on maximizing enterprise value through the measurement, evaluation, and refinement of business operations. I led teams charged with creating continuous improvement cycles for the entire portfolio of TriMark companies. I had a significant focus on post acquisition process harmonization - up to, and including managing the process and teams in their centralized operations support team as they take over key business functions temporarily while transferring the knowledge to the divisional team over a longer period of time.Other critical initiatives include COBIT, ITIL, and the governance of the enterprise PMO. These process focused initiatives helped my teams ensure alignment with the business while also providing visibility into the service levels our internal and external customers' experience.

As the senior technology executive in the Americas for this $400M private-equity owned global marine electronics company in a critical turn-around situation, I was responsible for merging post-acquisition technical operations for five distinct companies. This included reducing operating expenses and overseeing technical teams in America, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, and Canada. I designed and implemented new systems to support evolving business strategies including e-business web portals for distributors, vendor managed inventory, and lean manufacturing.Successfully deployed a new ERP for all the Americas operations including an extremely complex ERP and Advanced Planning and Scheduling system in our Ensenada, MX manufacturing plant going live on time and under budget. This allowed for global consolidation of all manufacturing into one facility with all the benefits inherent in that structure.

I provided executive leadership to this India and Massachusetts based professional services company as their Chief Operating Officer. Implementing process and financial controls to manage costs while also providing CIO advisory services to strategic customers regarding globalization of technical architectures, I oversaw the marketing and sales pipeline activity while leading the engagement cycle for complex service offerings.Served as technical adviser and managed the development of data centers in India and the US to support our SaaS and hosted products in a "follow the sun" model for Oracle, Microsoft, and Siebel BI products.

As the technical executive for this 190 year old, private equity backed, shoe and safety clothing manufacturer and retailer, I was responsible for streamlining all business operations through effective refinement and standardization. I led the national project team to support the implementation of Oracle ERP, including warehouse management, materials planning, while designing from scratch and deploying a fully integrated, state of the art mobile POS system - all while managing the relocation of the national headquarters from Pittsbugh, PA, to Westboro, MA.

Brought on at a critical turning point for these two high-tech sister companies to build and support an infrastructure capable of delivering SaaS ERP functionality to the global not-for-profit and academic community. Tasked with re-defining the technical vision of both companies, building a new technology team from the ground up while creating a new business model for delivery of core product lines.I built redundant, world-class data centers using Sun, HP, Dell, Cisco, & Proxim hardware with Solaris, Linux, and Windows operating systems running SQL, MySQL, and Oracle data platforms hosted through Citrix, IIS, and Oracle Application Server technologies

Part of a team of managers charged with product development, methodology enhancement, and business process codification. Responsible for conducting national executive seminars on e-business and business process change management, and acting as product manager for new deployment and implementation methodologies.

I created a new technology department at this extremely entrepreneurial, internationally distributed beverage firm as it re-invented the juice industry. Technology became a significant strategic differentiator as I deployed systems that improved the distributor and customer experiences – helping us achieve extraordinary growth as we were placed #13 on Inc. Magazine’s list of the 500 Fastest Growing Companies until we were ultimately sold with revenues of over $120M.Among many other initiatives, I led a team of twenty technical and functional staff as the project manager and technical lead for an 18 month Oracle ERP/CRM implementation that redefined every single business process in the business - from warehouse management, supply chain, to the sales management function.