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Rochester, Ny, Us

Responsible for Strategic Planning and Management of the Global Information Technology Department• Oversee all technology operations (e.g. network security) and evaluate them according to established goals• Analyze the business requirements of all departments to determine their technology needs• Devise and establish IT policies and systems to support the implementation of strategies set by upper management• Purchase efficient and cost-effective technological equipment and software• Identify the need for upgrades, configurations or new systems and report to upper management• Inspect the use of technological equipment and software to ensure functionality and efficiency• Coordinate IT managers and supervise computer scientists, technicians, and other professionals to provide guidanceProjects Included• Maintaining all corporate systems current with releases. The main systems included Microsoft Dynamics GP and Vicinity Manufacturing. • Implemented the Unitrends Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery Appliance. • Responsible for evaluating and implementing the HighJump Warehouse Management System and barcode scanners to manufacturing and distribution sites.• Responsible for acquiring almost 200 thousand in NY State Grants for the organization.• Responsible for implementing Office 365 and Microsoft Teams corporate wide for employees to have the option of working from home during COVID.

Rochester, Ny, Us

Responsible for Strategic Planning and Management of the Global Information Technology Department• Oversee all technology operations (e.g. network security) and evaluate them according to established goals• Analyze the business requirements of all departments to determine their technology needs• Devise and establish IT policies and systems to support the implementation of strategies set by upper management• Purchase efficient and cost-effective technological equipment and software• Identify the need for upgrades, configurations or new systems and report to upper management• Inspect the use of technological equipment and software to ensure functionality and efficiency• Coordinate IT managers and supervise computer scientists, technicians, and other professionals to provide guidanceProjects Included• Maintaining all corporate systems current with releases. The main systems included Microsoft Dynamics GP and Vicinity Manufacturing. • Implemented the Unitrends Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery Appliance. • Responsible for evaluating and implementing the HighJump Warehouse Management System and barcode scanners to manufacturing and distribution sites.• Responsible for acquiring almost 200 thousand in NY State Grants for the organization.• Responsible for implementing Office 365 and Microsoft Teams corporate wide for employees to have the option of working from home during COVID.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Responsible for Managing Projects for Ortho Clinical Diagnostics• Project Manager and Senior Consultant for China and Japan salesforce.com implementations.• Project Manager for South Korea implementation of a content management website.• Project Manager for the transition to Saba e-Learning Management System (LMS).• Project Manager and Senior Consultant for the implementation of OpenText Archiving from HPTRIM as part of the Ortho Clinical Diagnostics overall SAP transition from Johnson & Johnson. • Project Manager and Senior Consultant for the vendor selection of a Global Sales Enablement application. • Project Manager for the Digital Marketing Governance Committee which consists of a Governance Executive Committee, a Governance Steering Committee, and Governance Champions. Responsible for the Digital Marketing Project Charter and the inventory of all company Digital Assets.

Troy, Michigan, Us

Responsible for Managing the implementation of HighJump Warehouse Management Application for Zotos International.• Developed a detailed Project Plan for a runaway failing project. • Created Project Charter and Risk Management documents.• Implemented Steering Committee and Communication plan for stakeholders.

Responsible for Managing Projects for Xerox Corp. following the XIM TTM Process.• Project Manager for an IT Mandatory project for upgrading the application from a Visual Basic 6 platform to the most current .NET platform. Completed all five TTM phases, obtaining all required coherences.• Project Manager for a GSA Compliance project for Pricing Exception Approval Code. Completed all five TTM phases, obtaining all required coherences. • Project Manager for the Contract to Cash front office applications. This includes over 50 Requests for Action.

Buffalo, Ny, Us

Responsible for Managing of all Information Technology Projects for the organization. Projects consist of Network Infrastructure, Business Process Reengineering, Software Selection and Implementation, Software Development, and Help Desk. Responsible for being the Account Manager and Customer Service Lead for the entire customer base. • Project Manager for designing and executing the Network Infrastructure for a Large Fortune 500 Organization. The infrastructure consists of 16 virtual servers, 20 switches, firewall, backups, disaster recovery planning, and future growth planning. • Responsible for Business Process Reengineering, Software Selection, and the Implementation of new Software Packages for multiple clients.• Responsible for managing multiple software development projects following the full Software Development Lifecycle. Responsible for managing two large software development lifecycle systems for General Motors for Warranty Tracking, and for Manufacturing Line Production Tracking, replacing older homegrown legacy systems.

Designed, architected, and built a multi-tiered SQL contract/contact system for an energy company in Upstate New York. Worked with local Technology Firms to respond to RFP’s for taking over the Program Management function and Help Desk services.

San Ramon, California, Us

Responsible for all business applications throughout the organization. Manager of 40 Development Managers and Programmer Analysts in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Italy, and Australia. • Lead in defining needs for software modifications to new and existing systems, and recommendation/development of new software applications that offer increased productivity and cost savings. Responsible for working with business units for the creation of test plans, test cases, unit testing, regression testing, and system testing. • Responsible for managing the creation of a Sales Force Automation System which included mobile device solutions, and managing the delivery and deployment to the full sales force. • Creation of the departmental budgets and monitoring spending to stay within budget. Responsible for relationships with software vendors and consulting companies. • Maintain a formal schedule and management of projects assigned and pending. Periodically review this schedule with managers, users/project management team to ensure proper attention and priorities are given to each request.• Set the overall direction of Business Intelligence Systems for the CooperVision Management Team. Business Intelligence Process Owner responsible for Overall Business Intelligence design globally throughout the company. Responsible for the overall maintenance of all DBMS for all countries.• Some global systems responsible for are Baan ERP, Red Prairie Warehouse Management System, Red Prairie Workforce Management System, Logility Supply Chain Management, Internal E-Commerce Application, Global and Local Intranets, all Data Warehouses, and an Internal Sales System. Application development tools consist of Baan Tools, Visual Basic, .NET, ASP Pages, SQL Server Databases, and Business Objects.

Broomfield, Colorado, Us

Responsible for developing a Global Sales Force Automation System for a multi-billion dollar sales organization. The development effort was being accomplished using Clarify’s ClearSales application.• Responsible for a development team of over 15 people consisting of ClearBasic, Web, and Actuate Reporting Developers, Business Analysts, Quality Assurance Engineers, System Engineers, Database Administrators, and Hardware Engineers. • Responsible for working with the business to develop business and technical requirements, create design specifications, and track all enhancements until delivered to production in a structured release cycle. The applications resided on a Unix platform. • Responsible for all Project Management tasks, including monitoring all requirements, enhancements, data loads, quality assurance cycles, user acceptance testing cycles, and user training.

Responsible for building a team of Management Consultants that performed Strategic Information Technology Assessments and ERP Implementations. • Sold and billed over one million dollars of consulting within the first year.• Responsible for hiring and managing the technical team for development for the creation of all interfaces from the client’s legacy system, and implementing SAP’s R/3 system for a medium sized discreet manufacturing company in Rochester, NY. • Performed high-level Information Technology Assessments to Senior Management within multiple organizations.

Metairie, La, Us

Managed a project for the requirements gathering, ERP vendor evaluations and selection setting up the entire network environment, and implementing SAP's R/3 system. The modules implemented included FI, CO, AM, MM, PP-PI, and QM. Responsibilities included configuring all moduels and reengineering all business processes.

Oakbrook Terrace, Il, Us

Responsible for the Information Services Department of a $120 million dollar multi-plant facility and a budget of over a million dollars.Responsible for reengineering the entire business, setting up new business procedures, and implementing the Ross Integrated Manufacturing Software Package. This software package included the Client/Server version and was written using Oracle’s RDB.Responsible for converting from legacy IBM System 36 hardware environment to a DEC VAX environment. Responsible for telecommunications to and from multiple plants and Quaker Oats corporate headquarters in Chicago.

New York, Ny, Us

Responsible for solving data integrity problems for a major airline agency using the Cyborg Human Resource Information System. Responsible for developing, planning and implementing a conversion plan for movement to a new Cyborg release and moving from a Unisys to IBM hardware platform. Responsible for the selection and implementation of System Software Associates, Inc. (SSA) BPCS Integrated Manufacturing and Financial system using IBM AS/400 hardware for a large brewery in the Upstate New York area. Responsible for the implementation of the IBM Platinum Series of Financial Software on an IBM PC LAN for a major corporation in Upstate New York.Highly involved with the planning and implementation of Comshare’s FDC Financial Consolidation System for a large Chemical and Plastics Company.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Accounting

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Management Information Systems

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