Leading continuous improvement in processes and technology that support our product catalog information systems. Product Lifecycle Management platform champion. Product Information Management platform champion.

Design, develop, and implement a successful deployment strategy for Microsoft Office 365 and the new ways of working it enables. In partnership with change management, communications, and training team create and implement a change strategy supported by communications and training strategies that enable successful adoption and use of Microsoft Office 365 and the new ways of working. Coordinate change plans, communications, and training activities with the Technical Delivery Project Champion. Accountable for steering team coordination for project updates and decision process. Engage globally as an ambassador for new ways of working.• Established the multi-year program strategy and implementation roadmap, project charter, and lead the high-level project planning and forecasting• Established the governance process and decision-making model, and role descriptions• Provided strategic and situational leadership for the global implementation and change management plan• Delivered project and program presentations, hosted leader Q&A sessions, and increased project support and awareness globally

Responsible for a global team of IT professionals and overall program leadership, including analysis, design, build, delivery and sustainment for applications and services within the Communication, Collaboration, and Knowledge Management area. Systems including Social Collaboration and Team Applications, Conferencing Applications, Gore’s content management system, Gore’s Enterprise search platform, and other web systems supporting communication and collaboration with our Associates and Customers. The role has accountability for designing, building, pricing, and enhancing the Communication and Collaboration application portfolio.• Developing and driving the Enterprise Communication and Collaboration Systems service; • Leading a team to support and maintain the long-term Communication and Collaboration systems plan for the enterprise

Responsible for a global team of web professionals, and a portfolio of projects and services. • Lead the Enterprise Web Team (a diverse global team of eMarketing and IT Associates) to develop and leverage enterprise solutions, strengthen our brands and meet business objectives online using eMarketing Systems. • Gore.com for Japan: Lead the project through all stages, including leadership alignment and business analysis, solutions design and planning, and implementation through sustainment. Included establishing/hiring necessary resources and partners in Japan, training and managing resources in Japan, designing and implementing the translation network and systems integrations, and transitioned into sustainment/support with the global team.• IT Intern Program Champion - Led the formation and organization of the IT intern program with HR Recruiting partners to formalize enterprise opportunities and mentors, interviewing and screening candidates, mentoring and evaluating performance in the role, and hiring successful candidates into full time positions. • Enterprise Mobility and Mobile Apps - Developed the enterprise mobile application strategy and processes. Working with Vendor partners and team members to establish guidelines and processes for development and deployment of apps, managing submissions to Apple, vendor/partner guidelines, and sharing best practices in the web marketing community of practice. • Enterprise Mobility Core Team member• Enterprise Web Technical Team, HR Technology Steering Team member, Social Media Core Team, Associate Online Integration Committee memberDemonstrated success in motivating, coaching, and leading technical design teams to achieve results. Consistently recognized for completing projects on time and within budget.

As part of the Enterprise Web Team, I operated as a senior analyst, information architect, and web developer, for many successful web marketing and technical projects from initiation through sustainment.• Lead architect and SME for the enterprise Content Management System (Fatwire ContentServer/Oracle WebCenter Sites). Provided expertise and experience in all areas, such as: site architecture, asset/data model, business rules integration, design integration and templates, workflows, translation network integration (data import/export), publishing, caching, performance tuning.• System Analyst and Developer for Oracle/Endeca Enterprise Search for applications design, development, and implementation• Gore.com - Technical lead, developer, and data/IA architect for main corporate web site and a significant globalization project. Included Fatwire 5.5 implementation, upgraded to v6.3 and migration to Oracle DB, custom workflows for content approvals and translation export integration, template development and design integration)• Gore-Tex.com and Windstopper.com - Lead Architect and template developer for our Fabrics division’s web sites built in Fatwire Content Server 6.3. These 2 sites were built and implemented in seven languages each.• Elixirstrings.com - Lead Architect and template developer • Gore-Workwear.com - Lead Architect and template developer. This site has been globalized, and implemented into seven locale sites: www.gore-workwear.co.uk, www.gore-workwear.de, etc. • Other sites developed and supported include: www.rideoncables.com, www.gorebikewear.com, www.gorerunningwear.com, www.cleanstream.com, www.canmorepipebag.com, www.tenarafabrics.com

Intranet - Gathered business requirements, designed and developed applications (primarily in ColdFusion) for our corporate Intranet, including our Global Reporting System, the Global Forecasting System, event calendar, Password self service, Change Control log, and many others. Application development and support, including data model (Oracle, DB2, and SQL experience), visual design (HTML, CSS, Flash, XML, JavaScript, Ajax, etc.) and user testing.Internet - Web developer and content management system developer (Fatwire CMS, JSP’s, HTML, CSS, Javascript), www.gore.com, www.goreelectronics.com, www.glidefloss.com www.elixirstrings.com, www.gore-tex.com, www.windstopper.com.Extranet - Web Developer, custom applications for customers and outside processors (JSP’s).

Provided direct hardware and software support for over 250 local users and 25 remote users (Field Sales). Created and taught user training sessions and orientation programs. Organized and built new support structure with improved coverage for multiple facilities. Hardware experience includes: building, repairing and upgrading desktops, laptops, and servers. Network wiring upgrades, installations, and troubleshooting. Server installs and upgrades.Managed Novell NetWare (v. 3.11, 4.11, 5) network with Shiva dialup access through NDS. Z.E.N. - administration with groups and profiles. Executed backups and file restorations (using Arcserve). Maintaining and upgrading the file server. Installing additions to Network wiring, upgrading and troubleshooting. Forecasting and planning for all expenditures in the department.