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I continue to operate my own company and provide consulting for ERP Program and Senior Project Management, ERP Vendor Selections, Interim CIO Services and Enterprise Architecture services.I bring to clients a structured methodology and success tracking approach that assures successful implementations.

Served as Co-Program and Senior Project Manager for the implementation of a year-long, critical phase of a Global Infor M3 Solution. Advised, planned and directed ERP activities of the Program Management Office (PMO) with 7 Project Managers and 8 Business Workstream teams comprised of over 115 team members from North America, Asia and Europe. Instrumental in putting place Program Management tools, metrics, and disciplines to insure successful progress tracking and implementation. After 3 Conference Room Pilots and a extensive Unit Testing and System Integration testing the project completed with a nearly flawless go live.

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Served as the ERP Director and Program Manager first as a contractor and then as Deputy CIO for Cuyahoga County for the County’s $36M ERP Program. Under Jack’s leadership the program that had been stalled for almost 2 years with no modules implemented 20 of the 23 targeted modules in production. This included a replacement of legacy Human Resources, Procurement and Financial systems for the Infor ERP solution including significant configuration to accommodate unique public sector accounting and procurement processes.

Responsibility as the Program Manager for the Financial ERP implementation forCuyahoga County, Ohio. This includes program management, project management, managing the Main Sail implementation support team, coordinating the system integrator (Infor) and county team efforts and briefing County Council members and stakeholders to keep them appraised of project progress and challenges.

Provided program guidance and project management consulting services for the HFS agency wide implementation of SAP Financial, Inventory and Asset Management systems under the state’s ACTS Program (Accountability, Credibility, Transparency Sustainability). Jack held primary responsibility for managing the project team for implementation that will place $22B of state expenditures under SAP ERP financial management.

Provided consulting services to evaluate and recommend ERP solutions for Small andMedium Sized Businesses. These projects typically involve providing a full range of ERP consulting from recommending a suite of vendors to evaluate through evaluating and running project kick-off and project management monitoring activities to ensure success.

Provide advice and assistance to the Air Force, A4 Commercial Mobile Technology Office regarding Air Force enterprise architecture and strategy including vetting mobility requirements for the Air Force’ Target Baseline architecture’s five year plan. Also worked with various Air Force organizations to resolve current mobile related issues.

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Primary technical trusted advisor for I.T. and ERP related solution architecture for a major DoD contractor for a very large supply chain proposal. An analysis of existing legacy systems and operating architecture was conducted and followed by an Evaluation-of-Alternatives and a recommended ERP solution that would replace multiple legacy systems.

Designing the DoD Supply Chain end-to-end processes of the future for inclusion in the Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA). These processes brought together the best of the commercial Supply Chain Operational Reference (SCOR) model with DOD processes and practices to provide a standard against which ERP and other key logistics systems effectiveness could be measured. Built end-to-end models of all DOD logistics processes, mapped to performance measures / metrics and proposed changes to the current DOD Architecture to bring efficiency to the OSD systems evaluation process.

Navy Supply Systems Command (Under Main Sail, LLC) - Mechanicsburg, PA January 2002 to December 2012.Jack held Leadership roles in ERP logistics projects management and oversight forDOD, Navy and DOE implementations. He also acted as a Senior Solutions Architect for BusinessDevelopment activities and Trusted Advisor to key clients.Project Manager for the first DOD Navy program to implement SAP WarehouseManagement with RFID and wireless AIT (named BRE – Bangor RFID Evaluation). This was the first time these technologies had been implemented together for the Navy and the work was done in support of U.S. Navy Trident Nuclear Submarine Operations and maintenance program in Bangor Washington. This program was a groundbreaking component of Navy ERP and is the template for the first Navy ERP warehouse and logistics implementations that use RFID and other advanced AIT. The resulting solution from the BRE has been implemented at over 100 Navy warehouses globally.Jack was the senior architect and program manager for implementation of the Navy’s first MDM (Mobile Device Management) system initially used for securely managing all Navy ERP AIT wireless handhelds, currently being expanded to manage wireless handheld devices across other areas of the Navy.Senior Architect and designer for create RFID solutions for a large Department of Energy contractor. This solution is used in a highly classified environment to track the location and movement of critical assets throughout a large facility, including equipping forklifts with unique automated “inventory by just driving around” capability.

As a Senior Vice President Jack was responsible for the growth of the SAP Practice from 3 consultants to nearly 400 consultants and increased corporate revenue growth from $20 million to $62 million. Responsible for managing all aspects of the consulting business including staffing, service delivery and marketing with bottom line responsibility for financial performance. Management responsibilities have also included oversight of field administrative staff, IT Support Operations and systems.Jack led a technical team to develop a unique SAP Assessment and Upgrade methodology and tool set enabling the company to compete in the SAP Upgrade marketplace. The proprietary approach ties detailed technical objects to business processes allowing an SAP upgrade or assessment team to quickly determine which business processes are affected by technical work that has been done in a system. Program Manager and trusted advisor to a client for implementation of a $30 million complex SAP based multi-site, multi-company, international logistics distribution operation compressed into an 18-month delivery timeframe and comprised of several individual sub-projects staffed with over 150 people. Under this program the team implemented 21 warehouse facilities in 15 countries. This placed 6.4 million SF of warehouse space and 2000 employees, speaking 11 different languages under SAP Warehouse Management.While growing the consulting business, performed roles as Senior BusinessConsultant and/or Project Manager in a variety of settings with responsibility for multi-project oversight and on-target delivery.Led the company in two major acquisitions of other corporations and insuring the successful assimilation of the personnel and practices. Served as a trusted advisor to two large consulting companies providing advice and assistance in starting and structuring their SAP ERP practices.

· Senior Consultant and SAP Project leader for ICI Chemical manufacturing and inventory management implementations· Independent business consultant and advisor to senior management in a series of startup companies· Division Director for a timesharing company – primary architect of companies Service Bureau architecture· Successful turnaround President of a small IT computer manufacturing company· Data Processing Manager for Bayliner Marine Corporation – built a custom ERP system for boat manufacturing

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