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Orlando, Fl, Us

Digital transformation leader for the implementation Epicor Kinetic as the common ERP platform across the entire portfolio of Correct Craft's businesses. Accountable for all areas of a multi-year ERP program including: organizational design and change management, business process alignment, software configuration and deployment and business continuity and resilience. A Lean Six Sigma practitioner focused on root cause analysis across multiple disciplines.

New York, Ny, Us

Strategic business partner to Estée Lauder’s North America business functions in the areas of: retail operations, supply chain, field education, corporate sales and E-Commerce. Responsible for aligning strategic technology initiatives with business goals by delivering robust technology solutions.

Northampton, Gb

Managed a portfolio of strategic IT projects supporting Marketing, Finance and Human Resources. Directed a development and support team of 15 including: project managers, business analysts and developers (25-30 including offshore and on site consultants) located in multiple international locations with an operating budget of $10.0 million. Collaborated with senior level business leaders in defining and aligning the IT portfolio of projects to the overall business strategy. Delivered projects utilizing Agile/Scrum and traditional Waterfall SDLC methodologies.• Developed a comprehensive application roadmap and strategy for Avon’s marketing applications in order to enable the digital transformation of the Avon’s business model through social selling applications and electronic brochures. • Implemented Media Beacon® a global digital asset management SaaS solution delivered to over 700 marketers worldwide resulting in a centralized and intuitive workflow for loading, approving and retrieving digital assets.• Led the IT due diligence effort in separating Avon North America’s marketing applications and transactional data for divestment resulting in a timely close of a $170 million sale to a private equity firm.• Implemented a customized cloud based (Azure) demand forecasting system with machine learning / Python algorithms for Avon’s operations in UK, Mexico and Russia. Improving the accuracy of the forecasts resulted in $3.4 million in annual savings as a result of recovered lost sales and reduced in inventory levels. • Led Avon’s IT transformation by successfully migrating all of Avon’s global marketing applications to a new data center in Dallas, TX resulting in a reduction of servers through virtualization and retirement of legacy applications by merging or retiring redundant applications.

Northampton, Gb

Global I.T. business relationship and delivery manager with respect to all aspects of Brand and Commercial Marketing Systems at Avon including: New Product Development (Dassault Systems), Product Formulation and Packaging (Advanced Software Design), Campaign Planning, Brochure Production and Omni Channel Publishing (Agility Multichannel) / Adobe Creative Suite). Partnered with senior business leaders to ensure global adoption of all of Avon’s marketing systems across markets in Latin America, Europe and Asia.• Enabled the digitalization of the Avon sales brochure and reduced the production time of the sales campaign by deploying a global Product Information Management System (Agility Multichannel) used by Avon’s creative teams in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, UK, Spain and Poland. • Standardized the creative tool set globally on Adobe Creative Cloud including InDesign, Photoshop and Acrobat Pro.

Northampton, Gb

Information Technology project delivery manager to the financial planning and analysis (FP&A) and consolidation functions of Avon Global Finance. Partnered with senior Finance managers to define new financial processes in the areas of forecasting, budgeting and consolidation leveraging Hyperion Performance Management modules including: Hyperion Planning, Hyperion Financial Management (HFM), Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management (HFqM) and Essbase reporting and analytics. Architected the collection of actual, budget and forecast data for Avon’s 80+ legal entities by integrating diverse data sources and mapping rules improving data quality and consistency. Drove the adaption of a new management reporting structure by realigning Avon’s legal entities across global functions.

Zurich, Ch

IT Head for the Latin American region and business partner to country General Managers in the implementation and adoption of all technology initiatives.• Developed a comprehensive IT strategy for AMCOR’s Latin American operations in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela including hardware, network and applications.• Implemented SAP R/3 on a single instance including the modules of Materials Management, Sales and Distribution and Finance. Completed successful implementations in Argentina, Colombia and Mexico. • Developed IT policies and procedures within the LATAM region were compliant with respect to Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 legislation. Tested the effectiveness of the controls on a periodic basis.• Standardized and consolidated the regions diverse electronic mail systems on Lotus Domino/Notes lowering the overall cost of ownership in the region while improving internal collaboration and communication.• Improved wide area network performance tor the region by transitioning from Frame Relay Circuits to MPLS circuits enabling the operations to leverage the network for voice, data and video while providing improved quality of service for business critical applications.

London, Gb

Provided 24 x7 support for all enterprise transactional systems in the areas of human resources, payroll and finance under SSA/GT’s Infinium suite of products running on an AS/400 platform. Delivered strategic systems capability in the areas of Labor Scheduling, Sales/Incentive Compensation, Call Center and Customer portals leveraging Siebel’s CRM application suite. Delivered executive reporting and analytic solutions to analyze customer profitability by leveraging Hyperion’s suite of business intelligence and data warehousing products.

Project Manager for the implementation of a global budgeting and management reporting application used to collect operational and financial data from diverse financial systems and platforms. Major responsibilities included software evaluation and selection, requirements definition, system configuration, testing and deployment. The application was deployed in the U.S., Hong Kong, Singapore and England.

Columbia, Maryland, Us

Liaison between Global Finance and Global IT in supporting Grace’s financial reporting systems on SAP/R3 platform. Technical SME with respect to applications used for budgeting, management reporting and SEC reporting. Integral part of SAP FI-LC implementation module for Grace’s 200+ worldwide reporting entities. Reduced the financial reporting close from 15 days to 7 days by eliminating non-value added activities, redundant reporting requirements and interim consolidation points. Ensured data quality and integrity of financial data submitted to Corporate from diverse general ledger and data sources.

Bs, Computer Science

Mba, Finance