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Responsible for providing IT strategic direction and ensuring that all systems necessary to support operations and objectives are in place. - Created plan to stabilize systems following ERP implementation and developed IT strategy for future technology landscape.- Created a multi system solution revolutionary to the Sod industry allowing real time.

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

Responsible for the global development organization supporting 5 separate business units and over 1000 applications.- Led implementations, enhancements and upgrades of multiple applications including Oracle EBS, Infor BPCS/LX, iScala, Salesforce CRM and Salesforce ServiceMax.- Developed a cost justification and plan with IT leadership team to outsource.

Mississauga, ON, CA

IS Business Partner responsible for managing the relationship between the IS department and the Frozen Bakery business unit. Primary duties include understanding business issues/opportunities, understanding IS offerings/solutions and providing recommendations to drive continuous improvement. - Worked with financial and sales teams to streamline the trade.

Mississauga, ON, CA

Responsibility for Supply Chain Planning, Sales and Distribution, Customer Relationship Management and EDI with shared accountability for BI reporting and development. Reported directly to the Chief Information Officer with indirect staff of 75 and more than 100 including outside consulting.- Member of IS Leadership Team responsible for leading.

Battle Creek, Michigan, US

Director on the Commercial Business Systems team with primary responsibility for managing the upgrade of the SAP systems.- Managed the SAP R/3 upgrade to ECC 6.0 for the instance that supports North and South America within time and within budget.- Managed the SAP upgrade for Europe including R/3, APO and BW.- Served as Budget Coordinator for the.

Battle Creek, Michigan, US

Director of IT Strategy responsible for providing strategic direction for IT initiatives.- Engaged with project teams on new IT initiatives to provide direction on best practice for both process and tools.

Battle Creek, Michigan, US

Responsibilities included managing PMO, Development and QA functions.Managed global rollout of SAP-APO to remaining sites including Mexico, South Africa and South America. Rollout tasks comprised of defining current business process, analyzing business requirements, configuring software, testing and implementing.Managed all approved project requests.

Supply Chain PMO lead at SoloCup managing the PMO team responsible for Supply Chain Projects.- Defined projects required to integrate newly acquired company into current organization.- Managed project to redefine the DFU hierarchy in preparation for merging the two organization's Demand Planning systems into one.

Sub-contractor for BearingPoint as Demand Planning team lead for group conducting proof of concept for feasibility of Supply Chain Planning System. Modules included Manugistics Networks Demand Planning, Collaborate and Networks Supply.- Led Demand Planning implementation team including creating and managing project plans, documenting system configuration.

Member of Information Systems management team with budget of $30 million reporting directly to the Chief Information Officer. Negotiated contracts for acquisition of new software and consulting resources. Presented proposals to executive committee for allocation of funds for software purchases. Staff of up to 35 including outside consultants.- Member of.

Managed areas of Demand Planning, Capacity Planning, Deployment, Transportation Planning, Freight Pay, EDI and HR.- Maintained current systems, implemented requested changes from users, suggested and implemented improvements to business process and supporting systems and managed software vendors for both Manugistics and SAP.- Hired, coached and mentored.

Selected by management as member of team to convert Keebler mainframe systems to client server within strict timeline. Conversion to client server included implementation of SAP and Manugistics.- Directed supply chain team, including outside consultants on project to convert from mainframe to client server based processing platform in less than two years..

Member of systems support team located within Logistics Department. Primary area of support was Systems Administrator for Manugistics DRP/MRP system.- Manugistics System Administrator duties included serving on Manugistics Steering committee, managing upgrades, configuring software, documenting changes to business processes and training end users.- Served.

Member of project team implementing Manugistics DRP and Deployment modules.Responsibilities included designing and building interfaces, configuring software,documenting business processes and training end users.