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Redmond, Washington, Us

Retail and Consumer Package Goods Helping lead Retail and Consumer Goods Customers in Digital Transformation and Omni-Channel leveraging Microsoft's portfolio in Azure, Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365.

Your strategic partner, enhancing IT resiliency, risk mitigation and business continuity through digital transformation.We enable resiliency of technology and operations for businesses, big or small. We provide guidance and tools that reduce the cost and complexity of IT through our experience, best practices, and partnerships. Deliver innovative, capital-lite, comprehensive capabilities and product offerings for our clients to achieve resilience and meet compliance requirements.Experience that crosses multiple industries, and includes designing and implementing technology solutions for some of the world’s most notable brands.Provide multiple, industry-leading technology platforms to ensure our clients can operate anytime, anywhere and under any circumstance.

New York, Ny, Us

Northbrook, Il, Us

Manage a team of 100 operations, development, and offshore employees with accountability for overall cost savings, maintenance, and P&L up to 3% of total revenue.• Wrote the Strategic Information Systems Plan (SISP) to transition a highly-custom RPG application framework to a hybrid cloud technology and package application utilizing an Enterprise System Bus to improve revenue within all sales channels, including Brick and Mortar, e-commerce, B2B, and Franchises • Reduced supply chain labor costs by over $1 million per month by implementing bar code scanning, store applications for shipping and receiving, shelf labels for Open-to-Buy and Inventory-on-Hand management, and scan vs item entry at POS • Reduced overall IT operating expense by $2.5 million forecasted for three years by utilizing third-party maintenance providers for hardware and software• Decreased Information Security and PCI compliance operating expenses by $1.6 million dollars by replacing point security solutions and Trustwave with SRN, Camodo, Fortinet, and BMC Security platforms to increase security awareness and achieve PCI compliance• Partnered with the COO to utilize GT Nexus to convert legacy EDI, WebEDI, and Amber Road Trade Management to a single platform to shorten AP payment windows and improve merchandise availability to meet execution plans in domestic regions while reducing operating and labor expense• Delivered an enterprise data warehouse to automate reporting, standardize dashboards, and reduce operating expenses through more efficient and powerful tools on EMC and Microstrategy platforms• Improved the Crate and Barrel e-commerce site by restructuring web development with Pivotal to move to Microservices and cloud agnostic ability across Amazon to Azure• Proposing transportation management system (TMS) to increase operating efficiencies in the network, including load brokering, OTR, Home Delivery, and reduction of detention expenses

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Directed a team of 32 staff engineers, service delivery managers, sales professionals, and engagement managers across nine service centers spanning five states. Managed a $15 million operating budget with oversight for inventory control, critical response, and SLA adherence.• Managed key account relationships, including ExxonMobil, Walmart, ATOS, HPE/EDS, Marsh and McLennan, Ensono/Acxiom, and drove revenue from $50 million to $500 million• Provided OEM hardware maintenance, consulting, and implementation services to a portfolio of over 800 clients and grew the Southwest Regional sales contract revenue from $7 million to $20 million within five years• Accountable for the negotiation and management of multimillion dollar service consulting engagements with a focus on profit margin and service delivery, and successfully grew service consulting from $100,000 to $2 million in annual revenue• Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the corporate IT team providing direction and business process identification for new SAP and Click Management systems and led the conversion from MAS500/Singlepoint Dispatch and Ticketing System to a custom Sharepoint application• Drove the evolution of mobile service delivery application for the field and integration to a centralized ticketing system for field service mobility

Licensed agent for Health/Medical, Life Insurance, Fixed Investments, and Long-Term Care/Home Health Care coverage in the state of Wisconsin. Developed sales, continuing education, and personal growth plans and advised clients in all aspects of insurance and investments based upon individual needs assessment.

Irving, Texas, Us

Key member of the strategic leadership team which guided the company through scaled growth initiatives, expanding from 400 to 1200 stores, five subsidiaries, and seven distribution centers within five years. Led Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) with full accountability for a $25 million annual P&L and all capital budgeting for funding new or additional corporate systems.• Directed a team of five managers and 105 employees, including administrators, analysts, engineering operations, and call center staff• Led the planning, acquisition, and implementation of computer equipment, software applications, hardware and printing peripherals, and software upgrades and maintenance for all internal systems• Sat on the executive committee defining business strategy related to corporate systems across Financial, Merchandising, Advertising, Logistics, Marketing, Real Estate, Accounting, and Human Resources• Implemented Merchandising Data Warehouse utilizing the Microstrategy Data Warehouse Application suite of products and directed Michaels.com with software package, including IBM Websphere Application Server and Java life cycle development• Oversaw the planning and implementation of High Availability Cluster Multiprocessing (HACMP) cluster in the corporate credit and e-commerce systems, and configured high availability, load balancing, and test server in a cascading resource group

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Director Open SystemsIBM Business Partner providing IBM System Solutions

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

IBM Solution Architect and Solution Specialist

IT Technical Specialist

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Unix System Administrator

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer And Information Systems Security/Information Assurance