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Stamford, Connecticut, United States

Responsible for the strategy and delivery of all technology and information security for the company. Lana focuses on transforming IT to meet growing business needs.

Greater New York City Area

Secured exclusive distribution rights for start-up Italian skincare line. Acquired hands-on experience in all aspects of system development and expansion in start-up environment, as well as broad exposure to negotiation and management of partner relationships in the luxury beauty industry.

New York, Ny | $9.6B Annual Sales - $2.5B In North America ✦ 18,500 Employees

As a member of our enterprise global leadership team and key contributor to both regional and global IT strategy, I had the opportunity to lead and develop a talented cross-functional technology team and drive the continual optimization and alignment that enabled us to adapt and excel in a complex competitive global landscape. During my tenure, we successfully transitioned from a traditional approach to IT — as necessary cost center that supports the business — to a next-gen model where IT enables, drives, and aligns with the business to crystallize business objectives, providing the systems, analytics, and connectivity needed to excel. I set forth and executed against strategic technology roadmap and visions that supported over 2000+ business users, 4 large affiliates, 3 production factories, and 2 wineries.As a key technology leader, I managed of application, infrastructure, and integration planning for 4 large acquisitions and multiple brand purchases; established standards, governance, and change control based on a COBIT framework; and served as a catalyst for innovation within global IT. Application highlights included: ▶︎ Design and deployment of voice-enabled BI and user-centric CRM that empowered our sales force with flexible, powerful, and easy-to-user business applications.▶︎ Implementation of Oracle E1 across North America, centralizing and consolidating workflows for record to report, order to pay, procure to pay, and other enterprise process flows.▶︎ Concept-to-delivery leadership for deployment of enterprise BI reporting and analytics that provided the foundation to grow a culture of measurement that resonated with our corporate Thirst to Win directive.

New York, Ny

I managed and maintained our analytics and BI solutions, providing full lifecycle oversight to the roadmap for our strategic technology platform, which delivered insights and market data that shaped our commercial and business development strategy. Highlights included Cognos implementation that enabled the team develop and deploy analytical reports that drill down into the data at a granular level, and deliver data visualizations that transformed the way we interacted with the market. We partnered with finance and executive management to structure data warehouses that enabled the team to formulate underpinning analysis for forecasts and projections and build out complex models for commercial and supply chain initiatives.

New York, Ny

In progressively senior-level director roles, I spearheaded projects aligned to aggressive organic and inorganic growth deliverables, partnering with senior-level IT/business stakeholders on gap analysis, IT roadmapping, and strategic planning to build out our application footprint and infrastructure to meet our goals. I was a key team member during numerous RFPs for core business systems, including Hyperion and Cognos, and served on project committees throughout technology selection and implementation, guiding in-house and vendor teams through systems configuration, development, coding, and testing. Previous roles included Senior Project Manager from 1999 - 2001.

Westbury, Ny

I directed enterprise project teams from requirements gathering and scoping to delivery as primary project manager charged with orchestrating large teams comprising business and technical stakeholders on various initiatives. During my tenure, we performed enterprise implementations and upgrades, strategically outsourced support functions, and defined and institutionalized quality standards.

Master’S Degree, Applied Mathematics

Bachelor’S Degree, Applied Mathematics And Statistics

Activities and Societies: Mathematical Statistics Lab

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