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West Fargo, Nd, Us

Responsible for advancing the practice of Enterprise Architecture in support of Doosan Bobcat's Global Digital Strategy.

Fremont, Ca, Us

Currently Driving Digital Transformation efforts for Lam's Global Information Services Team as the Workstream Lead for IT Transformation:Modernizing Lam’s & ITSM Future state Processes to support average annual budget of approximately $144MDriving Maturation of Strategies for Hyper-automation, API-first System Integration, and Design Thinking User ExperiencePartner to Lam OCM team as a fierce technical advocate for intentional Digital Adoption Practice to ensure global success of Lam's Digital Transformation StrategyDriving Inception of Enterprise-wide Knowledge Management Strategy to harvest both Tacit and Explicit Knowledge Sources as methods of self-service and growth accelerantsProviding Enterprise Architectural Guidance to other Value Streams across the Enterprise.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Served as advocate for Business Owners to potential SaaS vendors by reviewing Non-Functional requirements to ensure offerings were fit for purpose in the domain areas of Compliance/AML, Marketing, Finance, IT Project Management, and others.Participated as a key driver for adoption of MS Azure based Common Cloud Platform for redeployment plan for all on premise in house developed business solutions, led efforts to realize Target State and Transitional Architectures for Mission Critical applications. Collaborated with IT Ops and Cloud architects to realize Shift right, cloud native architecture for Barings. Facilitated and co-hosted multi-team workshops between Business and IT in order to support Business Capabilities mapping and consensus building for investment into a $15-20 Million platform to consolidate operations for all public and private investment teams. Introduced a Technical Debt ratings approach to provide an objective measure of mission critical systems of record across the digital estate for the enterprise to support investment dispositioning and reporting of technical debt up to Senior Management in financial terms. Worked with Application Development Teams to realize and published SDLC best practices and standards for .Net development efforts.

Hickory, North Carolina, Us

Supported a bi-modal operating EA model by incubating innovation that supports affecting corporate strategy, while working to standardize IT assets and business processes.Led multiple cross functional IT/OT converged teams in Proofs of Concept.Engaged with both the business and IT on driving Cloud Computing and Big Data initiatives.Advocated for Security Architecture regarding Identity Access Management.Driver for introduction of API–First based solution platform for replacing antiquated point to point integrations with B2B/B2C integration patterns.Supported current SAP S/4 Hana migration from existing prem ECC environment.Experience with Microsoft Azure Cloud platform implementations.Provided scalable project level architectural designs to support end to end solutions for multiple concurrent DevOps based Agile engagements.Collaborated and led as trusted adviser to the business for RFPs and technological road mapping.Driving participant for establishment and realization of IT Strategy.Critical lead for multiple integration efforts in M&A activities for application rationalization and synergy efforts.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Leverage business process supply chain execution acumen to solve enterprise level business problems in the areas of Warehouse Operations, Procurement, Trade Compliance, Environmental Health and Safety, and Sales; utilizing capabilities across ERP, WMS, CRM, EDI, and ESB technologies, while negotiating with Development Teams, Business Process Owners, and Executive Staff to architect multi-iterative solution approaches to expedite the process of adding value to ITs internal customers while maintaining the alignment of short term localized deliveries to long term enterprise level strategic goals.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Led a three person team to address various enhancements and issue resolution pertaining to the areas of Warehouse Operations, Procurement, and Inventory Control. Requisitions, as well as integrations between the ERP and Inventory Forecasting applications. Managed and/or coordinated development efforts on various projects to facilitate new business capabilities to support day to day operations as well as acquisitions of new product lines. Supported operational areas for major upgrade project of Lawson ERP from version 8.3.1 to LSF9.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Coordinated with Aviall Development Team to implement various solutions to integrate Aviall’s Lawson ERP and Catalyst WMS packages. Worked instrumentally to support ERP requirements in support of Catalyst WMS upgrade from version 8.3 to 10.2.Researched and resolved various Help desk tickets pertaining to issues in the Lawson ERP. Conceptualized and designed new architectural models for integrating disparate applications with electronic commerce capabilities.

New York, Ny, Us

Coordinate with the Infor architecture team to integrate the INFOR WM 2000™ product into Infor’s Service Oriented Architecture platform; enabling the WMS product to seamlessly integrate with LDAP authentication modules, Event and License management tools, as well as other stand alone Supply Chain Management suite applications. Participated in technical design of integrating Voice, RF ID, and other disparate applications into the INFOR WM 2000™ product architecture via utilization of WSDL technology. Completed functional and technical specifications to detail the complex design of integrations between the INFOR WM 2000™ product and other Infor tier one applications. Collaborated with Infor’s sales team to create global demonstrations of the INFOR WM 2000™ product for major client prospects. Supported ongoing developmental procedures for INFOR WM 2000™ by mentoring local and offshore development staff in areas of Business Analysis, Q/A, Coding, and Technical Design

Provided project planning and resource forecasting for release enhancements to the SSA 2000 WMS™ product. Led development efforts for web enabling the user interface of a 14 year old ASCII based SSA 2000 WMS™ product; revitalizing the sales prospects of the product to an estimated 25 Million dollars over the next three years. Coordinated the development efforts to integrate Web Services into the SSA 2000 WMS™ product to allow seamless connectivity to emerging technologies such as Voice and RFID. Coordinated all business logic support for converting over 1400 screens of the SSA 2000 WMS™ product from English only to be dynamically translated into seven different languages.Led all QA efforts for the integration testing phase for the release of the SSA 2000 WMS™ product. Researched and delivered Java and JSP solutions for warranty issues for the SSA Web-hosted Transportation Execution™ (formally Arzoon Life) product

Coordinated change management/promotion of all completed development for the release of the EXceed 2000 WMS™ product. Directed a staff of two developers to support issue resolution for the Exceed 2000 WMS™ product. Organized and distributed weekly builds to Quality Assurance for Unit Acceptance Testing. Held weekly correspondence with internal customers regarding for resolution of base issues. Organized discussions to attain optimal solutions for complex issues with functional staff.Led go-live implementations of the EXceed 2000 WMS™ product for leading clients operating in Grocery, Drugstore, and Home Improvements retail. Developed and estimated functional business requirements and technical specifications for customer enhancements to the base product. Conducted and directed development and unit testing of all enhancements. Implemented Y2K readiness enhancements for multiple client accounts.

Flower Mound, Texas, Us

Designed and implemented multiple processes to integrate incoming EDI transactions with WMS functionality to support specialized business requirements. Worked directly with multiple clients in the communications industry towards developing specific functional requirements to enhance their business practices as EDI trading partners. Developed various translation maps (PO, Invoice, ASN, etc.) across a broad range of EDI standards utilizing Premenos (Harbenger) EDI/400 mapping software. Responsible for daily direction and mentoring of other analysts on the EDI team. Performed regular reconciliation of inventory discrepancies between the ERP and WMS packages. Researched issues and provided solutions to causes of asynchronous balance discrepancies.