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Lincoln, Ri, Us

Massachusetts, United States

Recruited to take over technical leadership of struggling startup with new business model to develop IT function, lead technology development, drive hypergrowth, and support company sale. Defined technology vision and product roadmap, built development team, launched disruptive new products, and took company to industry leadership.✔Defined technology direction, help build a 45-person software team, developed industry-first products, opened offices in Holland, Poland, and Mexico, maintained 80% y-o-y growth rate, and created core technology instrumental in profitable 2023 sale.✔Architected and lead them that developed innovative ML cost-predicting system for logistics bids accurate to within 3% that gave sales teams significant competitive advantage and bid flexibility✔Created industry-first shipment aggregator solution organizing shipment variables from multiple customers to maximize efficiency without overloading vehicles, slashing shipment creation times from 10 minutes to <2 seconds and eliminating 15 FTEs.✔Implemented fully virtual "work from anywhere" operations platform enabling work from home, enabling full productivity and seamless customer service during Covid crisis with no outages.

Wyoming, Rhode Island Area

Contract role to restructure production infrastructure, integrate systems, and eliminate manufacturing inefficiencies. Applied Lean manufacturing processes, implemented full systems monitoring to gauge results, and automated order placement and tracking. Managed team of 10.

Houston, Texas Area

Recruited to build company's IT department and define technology direction and roadmap in support of global sales expansion. Created IT operations, formed 25-person solutions development team, architected and implemented cloud-based IT infrastructure with integrated ordering, processing, and fulfillment processes.

Houston, Tx

Built pioneering-commerce website capable of 10K orders per day in absence of off-the-shelf systems that drove company to dominance in luxury goods e-commerce market. Managed customer website, IT operations, and infrastructure with IT and software development team of 75.

Houston, Texas Area

Bonner and Moore AssociatesOil Refinery Optimization SoftwareAs a member of an Venture Capital Firm, we turned around this 42 year old consulting company for the sale to Honeywell.