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Northville, Michigan, Us

Kingsville, Ontario, Ca

Worked Hands on with Developers, Business Analysts and Architects that designed, developed, tested and supported a web based (.net/angular) Grower Supply Portal. Collaborated with Supply Chain Directors and Inbound Planning/Procurement teams to completely reengineer the entire Forecasting, Pack Scheduling, Shipment Process and API’s (ERP, TMS) to optimize and improve the flow of Crops from the Growers across North America to the Distribution Centers. • Improved Corporate Communications by implementing a Digital Signage solution allowing individual departments to upload Digital content via a web-based application or API. • Enhanced Corporate Security by consolidating 3 Access Control Systems into a single cloud-based system to track all employees’ door access privileges via their badge. • Improved Corporate efficiency by facilitating the rollout of O365 (SharePoint, Teams, and One Drive) working closely with the SharePoint Administrator and 3rd Party teams. • Upgraded Corporate work environment by managing the complete construction and infrastructure remodel of the Satellite office.

Responsible for R&D Infrastructure projects including writing requirements, SOW’s, project plans, issue lists, cost summaries and project status reports. Coordinate and facilitate the completion of a variety of internal and external IT projects that involved changes to (LAN, Wireless, A/V, Power, Networking) together lead to the successful deployment of a virtual engineering room, conference room upgrades and other enterprise products/services. Collaborate with business partners, engineers, and technical teams to ensure that the use cases/business requirements are clear and well defined. Directed the efforts of technical resources, contingent workers, associates, and 3rd party vendors to deliver projects on-time and within budget.

Chicago, Il, Us

Managed a team of system engineers that developed/maintained the Exceed and Manhattan Warehouse management systems to support the Kmart Distribution Centers. Main liaison between the project stakeholder and multiple application development teams that were responsible for delivering project on times and within budget. • Increase warehouse efficiency and reliability by 50% by converting to a new platform and infrastructure performance tuning • Shorten the delivery time to the stores by 3 days by bringing the Import/deconsolidation in house • Oversaw 3 picking and routing projects that increased the warehouse productivity• Reduced lost revenue by approximately 1 million annually by implementing expiration date enhancements

Chicago, Il, Us

Lead a team of system engineers that developed all of the supply chain interface transactions between the Host systems and Kmart distribution centers. Additional responsibilities included leading small to medium supply chain projects involving multiple application development teams, including supporting Import, Return Goods and Yard management systems. Key contact between the business partner and the project development teams required for the overall project delivery life cycle. • Significantly reduced data errors and increase warehouse efficiency by reengineering the ASN receiving process • To become SOX compliant streamlined the vendor access of multiple applications by moving to a single vendor portal with new LDAP, TAM Groups and firewall rules. Also retired old servers by using new data sources. • Shorten the delivery time of customer orders by 2 days by in sourcing the DOT com activities • Increased the number of flow paths in the DC Network by creating an automated DC to Store Mapping process assigned at the item level

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Designed and coded supply chain interface transactions that would be used between the distribution centers and host systems to track merchandise being received and shipped to the stores . Made changes to several mainframe programs to become Y2K compliant.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Responsible for corporate EDI system. Installed/upgraded EDI Gentran translator and set up all of the supply chain EDI transactions. Worked closely with high volume EDI trading partners to tailor certain transactions specifically to their requirements.