Kevin Brown Email & Phone Number

Norcross, Georgia, US

CSG was merged with Whitecap to form a multi-billion dollar Construction product distribution company focused on the concrete and accessories market. I transitioned from VP of IT integration(CSG) to IT director(Whitecap) responsible for the legacy CSG IT. In addition I have responsibility for our combined Canada business, consisting of Brock White Canada.

Denver, Colorado, US

Construction Supply Group (CSG) is a PE entity that has grown to 1 B in sales in a 2 year time frame. I actively participate in an executive leadership role in the acquisition and consolidation of Construction Distributors to build a best in class distribution company, supporting the concrete construction environment. Most specifically working to.

Dallas, TX, US

• Develop IT strategy, and support day-to-day operations for GEXPRO Services, a $300M P&L. Support world-class Supply Chain Services outsource provider, specializing in developing and managing production inventory.
• Created and presented project plan, completed analysis and prepared budget to replace 3 legacy systems with QAD Cloud, winning approval of improvement projected to save $1.5M and beginning first phase to implement in.
• Attained responsibility from outgoing leader on 3 of 5 waves of conversion projects, replacing legacy ERP system to all electrical distribution businesses.

Boston, MA, US

• Supported HR, Finance, Quality, Sourcing, Legal, EHS, Acquisitions and Oracle applications. Worked directly with CFO and Quality and Sourcing leaders to develop strategy and vision. Oversaw team consisting of 19 people.
• Implemented a Global Hyperion solution with specifically designed cubes successfully in 9 months, creating strategy for General Ledger (GL) and time and attendance system and allowing leaders to react quicker to market.
• Supported Oracle Application by taking request from various locations and determining priority and critical nature of needs, delivering productivity enhancements.
• Led 3 M&As for Industrial Solutions, acquiring large deals up to $3B that impacted multiple P&Ls.
• Served as gatekeeper for $56M IT budget, driving monthly discussions around performance to OP.
• Coordinated the S2 bottoms-up planning used to build OP, managed a $4M section of overall budget, and led EM contractor service bullet train team, delivering savings of $2M.

Boston, MA, US

• Worked with team to deliver productivity enhancements to Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and supported delivery of Variable Cost Productivity (VCP) targets. Owned Global Manufacturing quality applications.
• Drove Requisition Engineering strategy and decided on strategic tool set to be used going forward, creating roadmap to start converting.
• Acted as provisional Co-CIO for Industrial Solutions, helping new team adjust to current business practices and integrating into 1 family.

Boston, MA, US

• Handled all Industrial System's and Lighting's manufacturing applications, supporting VP L&I Manufacturing and staff. Served as CIO for GELS and GE Lighting Systems with $130M in sales. Directed team consisting of 52.
• Collaborated with Global Supply Chain team, delivering productivity enhancements to MES and enabling VCP targets to be obtained.
• Worked aggressively with account owners and CIO on $42M budget management, ensuring quarterly I&E and cost-out targets were met and delivering OP loaded and 57 projects as well as 98% of commitments.

Boston, MA, US

• Managed Industrial Supply Chain supporting Manufacturing and Industrial Supply Chain VPs. Administered over 40 plants. Directed team consisting 49 employees and 10 – 20 contractors with 39 direct reports.
• Served as CIO for GELS and GE Motors, defining strategy and delivery of expected targets.
• Delivered over 40K hours of cycle time reduction, 60K hours of productivity and $3M in cost benefits from a 3-year productivity challenge by using Six Sigma background to accomplish and exceeded all expectations.
• Implemented Oracle ERP for Motors, delivering successfully with minimal impact to business functions.
• Directed $10M budget, facilitating delivery under OP by $400K each year.

Boston, MA, US

• Responsibility for all Global applications across all technologies. These included XPD2 legacy OSB, BI platform, GESUPPLY.Com, Web(Java) productivity applications, JD Edwards in Mexico, and Siebel.
• Implemented major projects to XPD2, the GE Supply core OSB system, delivering 3MM plus in productivity to the business.
• Delivered a QAD solution to Singapore operation, an Oracle solution to our China operation, our Global Sales and Orders BI solution, and implemented Oracle for our Ireland operations.
• During this time I was accepted into EIMP (Experienced Information Management Program), a two year program, and Graduated from that. Delivered two projects where one was about using reusable code with CR&D, and the.
• Direct responsibility for a 6MM budget at the high point. The entire team consisted of 15 GE heads and 100 contractors with 7 direct reports

Greenville, SC, US

• Integral part of the reinvigoration of six sigma at GE Supply. I was a key member of the DFSS Book of Knowledge, adding IT into it.
• Large focus on lean six sigma to root out all non-value added activities
• Delivered two major projects. First was implementing XPD2, our legacy OSB into our Mexico operations, handling multi-currency. The project took us 9 months and it was delivered to budget, with no major problems at go.

Greenville, SC, US

• Supported XDP2, a legacy OSB system, from Operations to development. This role was created to keep the lights on while another team was off looking for a replacement alternative for XPD2.

Greenville, SC, US

Led the global B2B group responsible for adding partnerships and transaction relationships. Over the course of this tenure we added 50+ relationships with multiple different transactions required. I developed a plan to outsource our EDI mapping to GEIS allowing us to focus on adding partnerships versus the non value added work of creating maps.

Greenville, SC, US

I designed and developed new functionality for our legacy OSB system written in a CICS/IDMS/COBOL environment.