Maintain Project Plan in MS Project or Sharepoint. Schedule consultants and client resources from initial training to CRP, UAT through Go-Live. Maintain Backlog, Meeting Minutes, Weekly Reports, Time Approvals. Monitor the lifecycle of developments from specifications through testing and deployment.Client Profiles:- Rural Telecom – End-to-end, including Core Finance, Warehouse, Projects, Planning- 51 Store Supermarket – End-to-end, including Core Finance, Projects, Fixed Assets- Nutritional Product Manufacturer – End-to-End Call Center, Retail, Orders-to-Cash- Private Aircraft Manufacturer - Retail

Assist North American clients to design, monitor and improve quality plans by including 3rd party QC/QA services such as pre-production, during production and pre-shipment inspections, container loading supervision, and factory audits. Recommend operational excellence options such as factory pre-audits (Wal-Mart, Home Depot, P&G, Disney), SER/CSR audits, ITIL design, ISO 900x/2700x implementation, FDA/UL/CUL applications, supply chain and manufacturing process improvement, quality systems development and technology projects. Client profiles include manufacturers of appliances, apparel, toys, furniture, giftware, electronics, medical devices, head/footwear, and edible products.- Production Inspections (pre-production, during production, pre-shipment, container loading)- Product Testing (CPSIA, electrical consumer goods, textiles, toys, electric and manual tools, gifts, housewares, lawn and garden, transportation, packaging)- Factory Audit- Factory Visit Escort Service, Translator Service- Factory Quality Systems Development (train for ISO900x, ISO17002, SA8000 certification)- Process Development, Improvement and Adherence (change management, ERP systems, workflow, measurements and metrics)- Marketing Material Review (standard English, digital and web media)- Industry Trade Show Design- Source Factory Expertise - China, Vietnam, Thailand, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Korea

Maintain Project Plan in MS Project. Schedule consultants, maintain Backlog, Meeting Minutes, Weekly Reports and Time Approvals. Monitor the lifecycle of developments from specifications through testing and deployment.Client Profiles:- Non-Profit Organizations

With an emphasis on traceability, product development and QA/QC, Gradient delivers more than 100 species of seafood to customers in more than 20 countries.Developed business plan to bring to the US market a strong portfolio of unique high-end seafood products, including the award-winning Pasta del Mar (http://www.pastadelmar.com). Deliverables include publishing case studies, US and China trade show exhibitions, internet/print advertising, and social marketing.- Primary Expertise - Tilapia, Pangasius, Salmon, Cod- Factory Quality Systems Development (train for HACCP/Kosher/Halal, corrective action process)- Kosher Certification (Chatam Sopher, OU)- Product Packaging, Artwork- Factory Development (train for export readiness)- Production Supervision (during production, container loading)- Industry Trade Show Design- Source Factory Expertise - China, Vietnam

Employed a team of 25 developers and technologists to support and continuously improve the software/hardware for multiple ERP, POS and eCommerce systems, including Microsoft Dynamics AX, RedPrairie/Blue Martini, VMWARE, HP 3PAR & IBM EDI.- Extended marketplace presence to eBay and Buy.com, bringing in +3% incremental business.- Introduced Drop Ship capability for distributor-supplied products, including catalog import, vendor selection logic, costing and pricing logic, and sales tax rationalization, delivering first year incremental business of +4%- Consolidated POS into a single solution, increasing inventory accuracy, and reducing cost of support- Replaced multi-site incumbent SAN with higher capacity HP 3PAR SAN without increasing costs- Virtualized 90% of production server infrastructure on VMWARE, providing a hot failover position, allowing the eCommerce and distribution operations to continue unaffected by 2012 impact of Hurricane Sandy- Implemented financial modules of Microsoft Dynamics AX for Retail, including A/P, A/R and G/L- Continuous focus on personnel development, job function excellence, and career path motivation

Designed, developed and deployed Microsoft SharePoint workflow-enforced business processes using enhancements from the ShareVis extension. Solution uniquely provided a suite of metrics and analytics to measure process adherence and identify constraints.

Charged with defining and measurably improving key processes within the Global Operations Team, reporting directly to the COO. Critical to successfully facilitating rapid change required gaining swift endorsement and support from the COO’s other direct reports – the VP’s of Quality, Global Supply Chain, R&D and the Factory Managers. The initiative’s ROI benefited from the innovative approach of recruiting and training a team of 10 off-shore developers in China to use newly acquired workflow technology to impose process adherence.

In 2002, Kaz acquired Honeywell’s Consumer Products Division, increasing the company from 400 people at 3 locations in 2 countries to 4000 people at 16 locations in 12 countries in North America, Europe and Asia. In addition to the challenge of quickly disengaging from the greater Honeywell’s technology infrastructure, the acquisition came with a mature instance of Oracle’s e-Business Suite to which Kaz would migrate. An ex-pat assignment in Shenzhen (China) in 2004-2005 ensured the China factory’s successful adoption of Oracle Manufacturing.

Transaction volume and user count increases resulting from a series of acquisitions began to tax the backend systems’ proprietary architecture. Due to a lengthy track record of successful project management in software development, the “buy or build” choice was resolved by management in favor of a partial re-write and port to open (Unix) systems.

Developed integrated industry-specific software suites, provided tech support, hardware maintenance and external financial audits for 60+ client accounts with annual gross sales of $20m to $185m across the US.

The Center for Marine Development and Research at Kingsborough Community College operated a training center co-sponsored by India and the US. The students were primarily Indian nationals seeking training in US methods of information systems, plant management, quality control, procurement, laboratory processes and import requirement.