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Oakland, California, United States

Oakland, California, United States

My role at Lizard Monitoring leverages my 20 years of experience in the Retail Grocery sector as Project Manager.

Oakland, Ca

Developed Advanced analytic solutions for the retail grocery sector for energy management and store maintenance.Created development platform for energy and efficiency analytics for major automotive customer “Ford”.

Pleasanton, Ca

Led the consolidation of Safeway’s retail work order database onto Informix as Project Manager and Lead Developer.Partnered with all retail divisions enterprise-wide on developing and implementing continuous improvements to optimize business processes for work order management resulting in increased efficiency and productivity.Led the rollout of a new vendor management work order system that increased processing efficiency by 10x. Managed the development and delivery of client software that is compatible with Informix RDBS and Merant ODBC drivers.Aided in standardizing terminology and integrating best practices in work order manageme

Pleasanton, Ca

Lead Project Manager for Safeway Inc. Enterprise wide Carbon Footprint program.Scope 1, Scope 2, Scope 3. Data and scope gathering for Backstage, Retail operations, Production &Manufacturing, Logistics & DC operations.Carbon Footprint offset tracking; Solar, Co-Gen, Wind, Hydro.Offset tracking with coordination of Lead Certification and construction projects.Carbon Footprint program tracking the single largest consumer of energy in California Safeway/VonsServed as the Technical Coordinator for LEED Development program and Energy Management systems. Developed and implemented the LEED Development program to support Safeway’s Construction and Design Department on all small and large-scale LEED projects.Coordinated all technical aspects of the California Demand Response program that allowed Safeway to participate in the program to significantly reduce utility rates and charges for the largest single consumer of power in the state.Project Manager for Safeway Inc. Energy demand program. This program reduced energy consumption by optimizing HVAC and refrigeration systems. Deployed enterprise wide Energy Management systems upgrades for HVAC, lighting and refrigeration systems.

Pleasanton, Ca

Project Mgr for large-scale project migration of Legacy Work Order system to Corrigo for Facilities Management Enterprise Wide. Managed all development aspects to achieve successful deployment across the entire company for Facilities Management.Executed the migration of a Corrigo application from our DMZ to SaaS platform that resulted in faster development cycles and increased support; worked with SDG Accounting teams to develop a support program for Corrigo interfaces to Lawson.Played an integral role in building and establishing a new business group at Safeway, the Retail Facilities Service Center (RFSC). Partnered with all division retail maintenance departments to improve business processes and leverage new platform capabilities allowing Safeway to efficiently process 10x the volume of store requests along with the ability to rollout specialized maintenance programs for floor care. Executed Implementation of IVR for vendor onsite verification and Timesheet activation. This insured accuracy of vendor labor hours spent on authorized work.

Pleasanton, Ca

Project Manager and Lead Developer in the migration of Legacy Utility bill payment and analytics from Itron to a SaaS-based Verisae/Prokarma platform.Project manager for SAP BI tools for Utility analytics and integrations with ProKarma SAAS Utility database. Expanded the migration to include all utilities company wide beyond retail to allow Safeway Inc. to accurately calculate carbon footprints. Drove efforts to improve record keeping by scanning all utility bills for audit and utility dispute purposes and providing functions that allowed accounting to create more accurate accruals for budget forecasting.Integrated all of Safeway’s utility data into a single platform and successfully rolled out new utility analytics platforms that reduced utility costs by 2% generating multi-million dollar cost

Pleasanton, Ca

Delivered detail information security management and support with direct oversight of all secured access of Backstage Retail service providers. Provided tier-3 support to troubleshoot, analyze and resolve secured communication issues for all energy management systems (EMS), accounting and retail service management systems.Systems Analyst for Safeway Inc. Corp Construction and Design department Life Style remodel Project Ten Billion dollar project. Safeway's Utilities energy reduction project annual budget One billion dollars.Developed multiple applications including an application for a secured Vendor Portal and field services access (Iportal) along with the development of an application that provides secure REST and SOAP web services over HTTPS.Completed the implementation and rollout of two-factor authentication for all Retail Backstage service providers to provide an extra layer of security.Collaborated extensively with NOC and Threat assessment vendors to ensure all retail services vendors are compliant with all current and upcoming security standards.Supported, developed and integrated SaaS-based secured communications over Point-to-Point VPN.Completed point of sale (POS) security hardening for EMS and oversaw CISCO firewall rules management to secure service vendor access. Coordinated all service vendor access with INFOSEC. Maintained firewall rule management on VLAN for retail service vendors. Drove efforts to reduce costs, increase efficiency and enhance automation efforts via the development of new processes and technologies. Executed yearly Sarbanes–Oxley security and compliance audits to verify approved user access authentication.Project manager for securing Gas Station veeder root communication to service vendors.Participated in Chevron / Safeway (Just For You) customer loyalty project as test user.