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Plano, Tx, Us

• Company liaison working with NetSuite Professional services to support business strategy and migration to NetSuite ERP.• Facilitate 3rd party API integrations for order fulfillment and warehouse management systems to support USsupply chain and food LOT traceability.• Support integration with SaaS platform software to NetSuite for US market proof of concept.• IT infrastructure resource gap analysis with recommendation for opening positions and resource allocations.• SASE project review with recommendations for project roadmap.

Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, Us

Responsible for creating foundational IT department policies and procedures with the controls required for IT security and data loss prevention. Create the IT strategy for platform migrations to align with protecting company data and intellectual property.• Create department budget template capturing IT cost with ability to forecast and track budget variances. • Create remote work force strategy using cloud first/cloud secure approach.• Build vendor relationships for IT procurement and services.• Establish controls for reporting and audit requirements. • Oversee NetSuite implementation consolidating services for order to cash and procure to pay business process from various platforms. • Assist with Shopify to Magento migration creating platform for customer experience and subscription account management. • Establish EDI relationship and setup of trading partners for expanding growth in B2B channel. Documents mapped to NetSuite were 850, 855, 860, 810. 852 capture to AWS.• Oversee infrastructure design and build for new US office and manufacturing locations.• Oversee final stage build out of Costa Rica office.• Establish US data center infrastructure for future disaster recovery and business continuity plan.• Manage IT staff mentoring technical development aligned for each person’s personal and professional goals.• Manage external developers and create controls for offshore developer access to company infrastructure.

Responsible for the assessment, design, and implementation of information technology infrastructure to support corporate directives in securing intellectual property, trade secrets, and formulations. Establish IT governance and controls to protect corporate assets.• Evaluate information technology current implementations. Generate baseline architecture and align technical road map to enhance security and data protection.• Design information security management system to align with IT policies and procedures documentation.• Design Information technology policies and procedures for IT team guidance, training, and ISMS controls. • Develop Information security training guidelines for training all new employees and recurring training for all existing employees.• Develop DR and IT policy testing procedures for semiannual review of IT polices and procedures to help identify areas where modification and enhancement are required. • Design network infrastructure for protecting corporate intellectual property and R&D equipment located on-premise, data center private cloud, and public cloud.• Develop corporate IT budget for visibility into IT spend.• Create forecast for IT budgets aligned to company growth.• Direct migration strategy to Office 365 from GSuite and Dropbox for Business.• Design and implement data center build out and technology architecture.• Manage deployment of endpoint management and encryption technologies.• Implement ERP migration from MSFT Great Plains to NetSuite.• Direct EDI migration aligned with ERP implementation.

San Francisco, California, Us

Responsible for creating direction in the areas of IT operations, governance and oversight to improve business continuity. Review, advise and execute global IT strategy. Direct technology assessments and create recommendations to increase global business performance.• Direct global collaboration between offices in Shenzhen, Pune, Cork, New York, San Francisco and Cape Town• Assess, design, implement and manage global cloud strategy• Manage IT infrastructure build out for new offices in Pune, India and New York• Evaluated business processes for newly acquired companies and align to company standards for data integration and security• Direct global Office 365 exchange migration team• Develop upgrade road map, business requirements, and management for on premise and cloud platforms• Maintain ISO 27001 compliance and reporting• Implement and manage security best practices with eCommerce division aligned for PCI compliance

Responsible for developing and executing on the IT strategy to support rapid growth: business process analysis, product life cycle management, requirements definition, vendor RFP process, vendor selection, project management leadership, integration, documentation and internal training for all users. Responsible for managing the day-to-day IT infrastructure: ecommerce platform, physical retail outlets, wholesale channels, and internal services.• Developed the end-to-end merchandising ERP platform strategy and successfully executed the implementation resulting in 250%+ increased in throughput • Developed the strategic roadmap, business requirements and implementation plan for a new ecommerce platform that automated store fulfillment processes, effectively lowering order processing time from 3 hours to instantaneous look-up and order allocation for in-store fulfillment• Designed migration strategy and oversaw IT team for VOIP conversion of internal users and geographically dispersed retail store locations, reducing telecommunications expenses by 50%.

Managed the day-to-day operations and support of all technology email, active directory, database administration, intranet site, Digital Asset Management server administration.• Achieved over 50% savings by conducting an audit of all IT leases, telecommunications and other IT related expenses, and eliminated unnecessary spending.• Conducted a digital assets workflow analysis for delivering content on the web, and successfully implemented IT infrastructure changes with no adverse impact on the ongoing business processes.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Managed the day-to-day troubleshooting support of global employee base, and provisioning unix email, active directory accounts, and training for all newly hired employees. • Successfully led the migration of the corporate Avaya PBX system from Nortel PBX.• Implemented and maintained SOX Compliance controls and reporting.