Responsible for enterprise applications, technology services, data center infrastructure, network infrastructure, managed services across the enterprise technology landscape, technical & solutions architecture, application development, IT quality assurance and operational support for all shared / enterprise technologies.

Resposible for overall enterprise application systems development, implementation and support. Teams include several development groups (ERP, BI / Analytics, Data Services, website, CRM, other supporting business applications), IT QA and IT PMO. Team is responsible for overall technical architecture for supporting systems along with overall IT project delivery for application, infrastucture and IT operations.

Operatoring under two different consumer brand sites (www.buydig.com & www.beachcamera.com) along with being present in leading marketplace channels, Beach Trading is here to bring the best possible products and price to our customers. Leading the technology group, my focus includes technology implementation within the company along with supporting business change with the use of technology. Be it from custom development to commercial system implementation, this group is here to support the needs of our business.

Core Responsibilities• Provider direction, guidance and supporting corporate change management oversight to new enterprise initiatives that are either drive by or largely supported by a technology first approach• Direct, architect and serve as the executive sponsor for key system implementations including a new eCommerce platform, Order Management System and CRM system• Provide oversight and manage strategic and day to day aspects of the corporate infrastructure both at headquarters and their distribution centers• Manage multi-disciplined IT organization with focus ranging from helpdesk/infrastructure support to business application management, business intelligence management, software development and project management• Oversee and manage both an operational budget along with the corporate capital improvement budget with direct control over near 80% of the capital budget. • Lead project justification to support an implementation of SAP Hybris, overall site redesign and supporting business process changes which includedo 5 year TCO modeling both OpEx, CapEx spends while showing spend shift year over year between the two and net new spend overall and by budget groupingo Develop and lead the business case justification to the executive team and board of directors• Develop new approach for a CRM system using commercially available systems as the backbone with a focus on supporting internal needs along with external customer data needs for partnership / entitlement opportunities• Lead efforts for new email marketing campaign management system with a customer centric and highly flexible customer segmentation approach• Establish a DevOps approach for software development including multi-tiered development, QA and production systems• Transition infrastructure from a fully internal hosted environment for email and file servers to cloud-based solutions from Microsoft include a file server transition to SharePoint.

Core Responsibilities• Oversee all aspects of the company’s technology direction in building core systems to support operational needs• Technical architecture for all supporting integration points and custom application development• Build vs Buy decision for technology solutions• Establish, define and implement data security standards for collection and distribution of customer data collected from online channels to B2B customers• Project Management Office ownership along with corporate resource planning• Direction and accountable for professional services delivery for B2B customers• Accountability for site design and usability, reporting and analytics, integration to email and social campaign management systems and support resources• Operations oversight for departmental budgets, time management for client engagements and contract profitability• As a Sr Executive of the company, work closely with other Sr members, strategic advisors and board members to define the company’s growth strategy along with supporting tactical execution plans• Support efforts for outside capital investment fund raising through leading internal due diligence sessions, presentations to venture capital and private investors• Develop strategic to productize the core platforms designs for the company as either a licensable product or service model for other content verticals

Core Responsibilities• Provide strategic technical direction all consumer facing marketing applications includes the website and eCommerce platform, mobile solutions, social network solutions, campaign management and customer data management• Direct and manage ongoing corporate projects as well as support initiatives focused on consumer marketing systems• Manage capital and IT operational budget for the respective group• Work closely with other Sr members of the MIS group along with executive management on defining capital budgets and ongoing expense budgets• Aid and perform cost benefit analysis for requested projects and overall expense optimization for ongoing support and services• Direct and oversee a team of project managers, business analysts, developers and quality assurance analysts for support systems and projects• Manage vendor relationship for key service providers• Manage and oversee support infrastructure for website and eCommerce platform• Serve as IT sponsor for development efforts between store and web channels to bridge the gap between the two worlds through enablement of cross channel selling, customer data sharing and supporting business process changes.• IT sponsor to re-implement davidsbridal.com website leveraging a responsive design front end, current release of WebSphere Commerce and an entirely new user experience to the site itself

I stepped into this role after working within the group as a Project Manager leading the efforts to implemention IBM's WebSphere Commerce. Core responsiblities included- Management of the development, architecture and release deployment processes- Oversight and relationship management of our hosting center- Partner and interface with corporate development teams for integration into backoffice systems- Ensure highest level of development quality, quick and timely release cycles and remove development as an blocker for the business to move forwardKey Success Factors included- Implementation of edge caching solution from Akamai to support offload from application servers, thus reducing our hardware footprint and run cost on licencing by deflecting traffic to the edge- Redesign and development of site navigation, search and product page layouts which drove to higher CVR and AOV rates. - Stability a code base and platform that was riddled with performance issues and bugs along with justify and instill a process for ongoing performance testing and tuning which was lacking in the DevOps process

I served at ISC as a project manager for several years. While there I managed projects ranging from software development, systems deployment and integration, infrastructure deployment and other like projects within the Information Systems space. I also spent time there as a business analyst and systems architect.

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