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Greater Chicago Area

Specializing in business transformation with a focus on modernizing the technology stack. Engagement manager understanding business requirements, leveraging technology solutions, and improving processes to deliver stakeholder value.

Itasca, Illinois, United States

• Managed team of 8 in North America, Europe and Asia focused on web development and customer experience platforms. Oversaw Service Desk staff supporting 2 greater Chicago area locations with 500 employees. Reported to.
• Managed $1.5M IT online budget, reducing spend 10% year over year, by introducing new technology platforms and hiring lower cost consultants and offshore employees.
• Migrated vendor-hosted services into company-run Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment, decreasing spend 50%.
• Led development team that created Serverless AWS environment, eliminating costly licenses and producing API feeding product data, supporting websites, SalesForce and E-Commerce site.
• Implemented team collaboration tools including Slack and Atlassian-JIRA / Confluence, growing productivity 10% per resource.
• Deployed Jitterbit ETL tool, allowing for disparate business systems to be connected and transact data.

Itasca, Illinois, United States

• Directed team of consultants, vendors, and 4 internal staff focused on web development and E-Commerce solutions. Reported to CIO.
• Led project team in replacing 10-year old antiquated website with new site, allowing for global expansion of brands and maintained by internal staff.
• Partnered with Sales and Marketing and built out technology team of vendors and consultants, facilitating execution of $1M website development project on schedule and under budget.
• Liaised between IT team and business stakeholders at acquired company ERP integration project, leveraging corporate enterprise resource planning system for new brands and products.
• Implemented Informatica PIM, developing central repository for hosting company product data.
• Decommissioned 750K square foot manufacturing facility and relocated remaining corporate staff to 15K square foot office space, constructing build out with new network / telephony infrastructures.

Franklin Park, Illinois, United States

• Reported to the General Manager and supported all technology requirements for a 750,000 square foot manufacturing plant and office space housing 1,000 employees.
• Team lead for PC technicians and service desk associates.
• Network Administrator supporting file sharing and e-mail applications.
• Created an Ethernet based star topology with a fiber backbone and 450 network nodes.
• Installed wireless access points for 100% facility coverage supporting both office and manufacturing environments.
• Established advanced warehousing, time and attendance and shop floor data collection systems integrated with ERP system.

Franklin Park, Illinois, United States

• Reported to the Industrial Engineering Manager and Plant Manager responsible for streamlining manufacturing processes, improving efficiency and reducing costs.
• Co-Developer of new replacement parts cage and inventory control system that automatically generated replenishment reports as stock on hand was depleted.
• Maintained incentive rates for union manufacturing facility.
• Created layout drawings for manufacturing equipment and product layouts for warehouses.
• Performed time studies and cycle counts to verify 100% efficiency and utilization.
• Controlled part and equipment drawings to latest revision assuring everyone was working with the same revision.

Associate Of Science In Business

Industrial Engineering