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Manhasset, New York, United States

Manhasset, New York

• Led all strategic planning, coordinating, directing, and designing for operational activities related to ERP, EDI, and Telecommunications across North America; always in alignment with overall business strategy..
• Evaluated and implemented the new ERP system to support back office functionality.
• Served as a trusted advisor to department heads; helped identify issues, developed and streamlined procedures and solutions leveraging the ERP system and other data sources.
• Spearheaded development initiative utilizing agile methodologies. Selected Contributions:  Lead project team to evaluate and select a replacement ERP system.  Lead business integration and technical implementation of.

Warren NJ

• Led all strategic planning, coordinating, directing, and designing for operational activities related to ERP, EDI, and Telecommunications across North America and Asia; always in alignment with overall business.
• Evaluated, re-designed and successfully re-implemented the inherited failing ERP system.
• Served as a trusted advisor to department heads; helped identify issues, developed and streamlined procedures and solutions leveraging the ERP system and data warehouse.
• Spearheaded development initiative utilizing agile methodologies.
• Oversaw 24-hour support to multiple offices across the globe.

Budd Lake NJ

• Provided strategic direction, leadership, and management of IT. Selected to handle an interim responsibility of managing, sourcing, and planning operations in 2010. Managed a team ranging between 9 to 23 resources and.
• Responsible for providing continuous support to remote offices in China and the US.
• Collaborated with planning and operations team to transition back-office functions to the Shenzhen location.
• Led a cross-functional team in the search, analysis, and selection of a new ERP system.

Scottsdale AZ

• Direct report to the CEO responsible for strategic planning and day-to-day IT operations. Managed a budget of $750K and a team of 7 resources spread across multiple office locations.
• Collaborated with department managers to help identify business requirements to improve key business metrics tracking.
• Headed the development & implementation of new system requirements for metric collection and reporting.
• Led a cross-functional team in the search, analysis, and selection of a new ERP system.
• Provided ongoing support new ERP system, Apprise software, a progress database platform ran on Unix/NT network.

Scottsdale AZ

• Managed and supported all internal applications, including AS 400 and NT legacy systems for 8 remote offices with a team of 3 members.
• Directed the selection and implementation of a financial package to support GL, AP, and AR functions.
• Led the development of an application to support financial aid tracking, program scheduling, attendance, grading, and other business functions.
• Created and implemented new user ticketing systems to track, prioritize, and provide status updates on system enhancement requests.
• Worked on cross-platform development in RPGII (AS 400), Progress (Unix) and Crystal Reports (NT).