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Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

• Reported to the Director Enterprise Information Delivery, Business Engagement. Dual role capacityexecuting business engagement and solution delivery for enterprise and agile Ecommerce portfolio of projects.
• Developed business requirements and technical specifications coordinating with business teams, data providers, technology vendors, internal IT teams and external solution delivery partners
• Owned program operating budget and decision-making responsibility over services and… Show more Reported to the Director Enterprise Information Delivery, Business Engagement. Dual role capacityexecuting business.
• Owned program operating budget and decision-making responsibility over services and solution delivery partners.
• Drove adoption of a cloud based digital data platform through on-boarding of key data sources anddevelopment of new processes. Fundamental goal was simplification of overall technology footprint while accelerating.

Greater New York City Area

• Reported to Director, Global Ecommerce - B2B, Entrepreneurial, and Consumer & Commercial Solutions.
• Responsible for formulation and planning of Ecommerce business and software strategy.
• Drove execution of strategic projects and business enablement activities.
• Advanced Newell Brands' B2B Ecommerce presence.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Reported to Director, Global Ecommerce Experience & Operations.Partnered with enterprise IT, Ecommerce data science and business stakeholders, to architect, implement and operate Ecommerce data warehouse solutions.
• Incorporated various Enterprise IT data sources conventionally located in silos including ERP, finance, point of sale, retailer and clickstream data.Partnered with enterprise IT teams, Ecommerce teams, Stibo Systems.
• Incorporated various Enterprise IT data sources conventionally located in silos including ERP, finance, point of sale, retailer and clickstream data.Partnered with enterprise IT teams, Ecommerce teams, Stibo Systems.
• Participated in vendor technology assessment, selection and on-boarding.
• Integrated enterprise master data sources from SAP to Stibo Systems product content management solution.
• Provided technical leadership to Newell Brands' global Ecommerce product information management team.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Reported to Director, Ecommerce Product Management & DevelopmentPartnered with enterprise IT teams and Adobe Systems and Experian Marketing Services to implement Adobe Analytics (Adobe Insight / Data Workbench) and.
• Lead migration of systems and processes to cloud based infrastructure for increased flexibly and scalability maintaining existing operational overhead while increasing breadth of responsibility.
• Responsible for measuring, scaling and monitoring Ecommerce platform performance during seasonal promotional periods across multiple Newell Brands' web properties. Show less

Greater Atlanta Area

• Reported to Director, Ecommerce Product Management & DevelopmentResponsible for execution of strategic projects. Worked along side business stakeholders and enterprise technical teams to transition Newell Brands'.
• Included high complexity and high volume data involving various retail partners and Ecommerce systems.
• Developed methodologies to support automated order flow into SAP… Show more Reported to Director, Ecommerce Product Management & DevelopmentResponsible for execution of strategic projects. Worked along side business.
• Developed methodologies to support automated order flow into SAP through variant configuration for custom, made to order business.
• Developed and operated systems integrating kiosk, point of sale, operational and master data into Adobe Analytics (Abobe Insight / Data Workbench) to enable analytics in a new strategic retail sales channel.
• Developed and operated interfaces supporting customer segmentation and analysis for campaign prospect selection, execution and conversion measurement. Show less

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

• Reported to Senior Manager, Ecommerce Product DevelopmentDeveloped and managed essential data integration processes having high customer and consumer visibility. Types of data included orders, shipments, pricing.
• Reduced lead-time and risk by moving from homegrown, purpose built data integration solutions to a single enterprise integration platform.
• Developed pricing engine to support complex promotional activities enabling B2B and… Show more Reported to Senior Manager, Ecommerce Product DevelopmentDeveloped and managed essential data integration processes having.
• Developed pricing engine to support complex promotional activities enabling B2B and B2C sales via an Ecommerce platform.Publication Mentions:IT Business Edge, Lessons Learned in Switching from Hand-Coding to a Data.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Reported to Founder and CEOResponsible for architecting, developing and implementing software solutions aimed toward managing distributed renewable energy resources. Challenges included integrating high frequency financial market and system signal data by leveraging complex event processing methodologies on cloud based technologies.

Frederick, Maryland

• Developed and maintained product information including data-sheets and application notes working closely with product engineering, sales, field support and customers.
• Developed in-house web-based marketing and sales applications supporting customer relationship management, lead generation and new business acquisition.
• Developed engineering data management applications (Thermal Sensing Products Division) providing a common interface for structured and non-structured information by… Show more
• Developed engineering data management applications (Thermal Sensing Products Division) providing a common interface for structured and non-structured information by linking disparate data sources ranging from CAD.
• Taught technical courses ranging in size from 10-50+ people bridging a variety of skill levels and concepts.
• On-boarded CNC based manufacturing technologies including turning, milling and wire EDM.Publication Mentions:Professional Boat Builder, Total ImmersionBy Nigel Calder March 2007 Show less

Frederick, Maryland

Courses Taught: Computer Aided Architectural Design and Drafting, 3D Modeling and Design.

Ms, Computer Science

Received Laureate of Department Scholar April 2007,Cumulative 4.0 GPA

Bs, Computer Science

Received Gillard Prize (Computer Science) April 2002

Aas, Mechanical Drafting Systems