Joseph C. Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Smyrna, Ga, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

• Serve as product manager and development manager of MMS, Floor & Decor’s ERP system. Heavy matrix work with other IT functions such as order management, transportation management, warehouse management, inventory/replenishment and point of sale to help them integrate with MMS as part of their delivery of new functionality.• Serve as product manager for data warehouse/enterprise reporting team. Responsibilities include nurturing strong working relationships with business stakeholders, prioritizing requests and extracting requirements from business and other IT teams to onboard new datasets, ETL processes and canned reports. Primary tools used by the team are SSIS and Cognos Analytics.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

• Served as the primary representative of Merchandising for major business transformation projects, involving tools such as the STEP PIM and Bamboo Rose Procure to Pay systems• Managed team responsible for SKU onboarding and maintenance processes, including regular attribute verification and data collection• Managed team responsible for pricing/cost management, including weekly maintenance as well as quarterly maintenance such as chain price resets and markdown events. Supported new store openings with initial price setup, market pricing reviews and generation of initial price signage• Collaborated with eCommerce team to review and revise product attribute taxonomy for category teams• Managed team responsible for new vendor onboarding, including EDI onboarding, and administration and tracking of buying agreements, liability insurance and subsidy/chargeback programs• Served as primary liaison between Merchandising and Information Technology and helped the team articulate and develop requirements for system changes and associated operational changes• Designed and executed operational reporting to identify inefficiencies and opportunities to improve internal processes• Assisted and coached other business teams on how to access data and build reports to support their needs• Served as an advocate and consultant for Merchandising Coordinators (category teams)• Served as a primary subject matter expert on the Loftware Label Manager suite and consumable store signage

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

• Played leading role in the planning and execution of a large item data attribute rationalization effort.• Established item data governance process and redesigned governance request intake process.• Provided deep assistance to other business teams in retrieving item and sales data from various sources.• Trained suppliers and other internal associates on various initiatives related to Item Data Management.• Transformed a standalone SQL Server environment into a legitimate tool for aggregating data from different parts of the company and provided complex dashboards and reports in a fast-paced shop. I accomplished these things using mostly SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and was completely self-taught.• Led various contractors who maintained our SQL Server 2008 environment and provided technical expertise.• Assisted legal team on numerous occasions in resolving and preventing regulatory issues regarding the products we sell.• Developed solution to report online item onboarding cycle time to drive the reduction of onboarding time.• Developed data quality compliance integration and penalty processes for non-compliant suppliers• Oversaw planning, training, reporting and implementation of numerous item data collection efforts• Developed and implemented ETL processes to introduce supply chain exceptions encountered by various distribution centers to suppliers via the STEP application

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Home Depot USA and Home Depot Canada• Gathered and documented extensive functional and technical system requirements for Home Depot's custom handheld applications and successfully defended these requirements in front of numerous review boards.• Gathered and documented extensive functional and technical system requirements for the Episys Retail Enterprise Suite and successfully defended these requirements in front of numerous review boards. Episys Retail Enterprise Suite is the software solution used by The Home Depot to generate shelf-edge labels and signage to align with strategic business initiatives.• Deployed software and firmware changes to 2,000 retail stores without interrupting business operations.• Identified defects in Home Depot's implementation of the Episys Retail Enterprise Suite (labeling engine) and partnered closely with Episys to resolve these defects.• Served as lead configurator of the Episys Retail Enterprise Suite.Home Depot Supply Canada• Managed the conversion of affiliate branches from legacy systems to Infor’s SX.enterprise package. This included data mapping and developing data extraction utilities.• Designed specifications of custom functionality to meet business requirements not provided by SX.enterprise and worked with Infor to turn these specifications into a finished product.• Provided functional and technical support to end users of SX.enterprise.

Mba, Operations Management And Supervision

B.S., Management Information Systems