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Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Clic Thought Consulting is a strategic advisory consulting firm specializing in IT and business transformation.• Leading manufacturer of wire and cable. CIO advisor on analytics strategy, integration strategy, governance and enterprise architecture. Build and executed Digital Transformation capability roadmaps by combining Human Centric Design with Business and Technical Architecture. Program manager leading SAP Master Data Governance system and data governance program implementation. Built and executed architecture strategies for micro-services integration cloud analytics, and Enterprise Information Management practice.\• Boutique retail consulting company. CEO advisor for building out Enterprise Information Management line of business.

Edison, New Jersey, Us

Baltimore, Maryland, Us

$5B+ global wholesale and direct-to-consumer fashion and apparel company. Hired to build a world-class IT organization; oversaw analytics, master data, PMO, enterprise architecture, and business relationship management. Provided leadership of overall IT architecture and delivery strategy. Managed team of 10 direct reports and a team of 60+ teammates located in the US, India, Asia, Europe, and Central America. Directed budgets up to $120M OPX and $75M CAPX.• Built enterprise architecture organization, eliminating redundant applications saving $9M in recurring costs, by creating future vision architecture strategy and implementing architecture governance.• Architected $500M re-platforming of 25 major foundational technologies. Reduced operating costs keeping UA budget flat over five years.• Led modernization of business intelligence and analytics that generated new capabilities and saved $800K in recurring OPX costs by executing strategy to transition from SAP HANA to Snowflake.• Built project management office (PMO), improving project quality from 20% to 90%; defined project management processes, implemented project management software, and established the team.• Rebuilt Master Data team by rearchitecting Profisee implementation, creating Data Steward positions, outsourcing data entry and building out master data governance program. • Transitioned SAP applications to AWS, saving $1M in yearly OPX expense and eliminating 90% of SAP downtime.

Cicero, Illinois, Us

Private $6B wholesale distributor of wine and spirits, operating in 15 states and Canada.Charged with creating enterprise architecture team and expanding business intelligence capabilities. Led Enterprise Architecture and Business Intelligence teams in IT group with four direct reports and a team of 16. Played a key role in executing a multi-year software strategy and architectural roadmap. Managed quarterly and annual budgeting process.• Built Enterprise Architecture team, significantly impacting project quality thorough project reviews, technology decisions, and impact innovations.• Orchestrated groundbreaking salesforce automation on the iPad, resulting in reduced sales planning time by 75%, zero ordering errors, and an increase in supplier satisfaction by 23%. Delivered real-time access to product information and order verification.• Spearheaded innovation as one of the first ten companies in North America to implement SAP HANA, resulting in real-time data from 41 data sources that produce reports in seconds which were previously not possible.• Successfully partnered with the corporate sales team to get approval for a $5M+ project to transform Business Intelligence moving all sales reporting into the SAP HANA/Business Objects landscape, establishing a data governance function and a Business Intelligence Center of Excellence.• Implemented ITIL to standardize IT processes, driving down incidents by 50% and improving business satisfaction by 30%.• Led architecture team on five SAP implementations.

Cicero, Illinois, Us

Executed systems analysis, programming, and project management activities of ERP core application systems, and enterprise departmental application systems. Managed SAP development teams, including interviewing, hiring, training, and performance review. Led initiatives to improve efficiency and delivery processes. Managed vendor / contract negotiations.• Accelerated SAP implementations with significant ROI / business capabilities and 200% impact on operational efficiencies.• Outsourced SAP maintenance offshore allowing internal SAP resources to concentrate on SAP implementations.• Implemented Redwood job scheduling for SAP that processes 13,000+ jobs per day, improving security and job control.• Architected wine and drink list web application, using agile methodologies, which allowed salespeople to create wine / drink list proposals in PDF format providing a strategic differentiator.

Cicero, Illinois, Us

Promoted to start the first PMO at Charmer Sunbelt and create efficient approval process for new projects. Managed large projects, including SAP implementations, and PMO governance structure.'• Achieved recognition as the first in the company to become PMP-Certified.• Drove multiple process improvements such as implementing MS Project Server to manage project resources, track time, and report status across the portfolio and HP Quality Center to centrally house requirements and test cases.• Led three successful SAP ERP implementations.

Master Of Science, Management Information Systems

Bachelor Of Science, Finance