Lester Amidei Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas Area

At SDC, we help our clients manage data through effective EAI, ETL, Data Virtualization and improved data quality. We do not believe that businesses should be limited to single data sources - we federate data from unlimited sources and present clean data in just about any form you could ask for. Imagine easily choosing data from multiple systems such as SAP, AIX, SFDC and Oracle and producing them in XML, REST, SharePoint List or Flat Files in minutes. With over 50 years of combined experience working with Global 1000 clients, SDC specializes in data integration, big data and data quality for Enterprise Software and SaaS solutions. Our consultants have worked with clients utilizing SAP, Oracle, Salesforce.com, Microsoft SQL and SharePoint, just to name a few. Our mission is to deliver the highest quality of data, by utilizing cutting edge technologies to integrate disparate systems and properly design the data flow within your enterprise. We work with your team to become more agile in providing quality data for your customer.

Houston, Texas Area

Work with Managing Partners and staff on investment and consulting opportunities. FrontStreet is a merchant banking and consulting partnership. FrontStreet works with individual investors and private equity funds to finance, acquire and manage assets and companies – primarily in the energy sector. Provided management and expertise to investment projects and management teams in operational areas – with emphasis on petroleum refining and marketing, environmental management and systems management. Projects have included:• Joint Venture 50% interest in U.S. refining and marketing company with 5 refineries, marketing in 17 states.• Petroleum marketing chains in the Rocky Mountain area and the Northeast.• Large convenience store and petroleum marketing company in 16 states.• Large U.S. refining project partnering with foreign state oil company.• Studies and advice for clients involving numerous refinery acquisition and revamp projects.• Oil Production Company• Consultant and expert witness in International Chamber of Commerce mediation case involving $4B dispute.• Major ski resort development in the Adirondacks.

Houston, Texas Area

Responsible for all aspects of provider of Work Force Management solutions. EmLogis is a startup software company that provides its solution through a Software as a Service (SaaS) model. Major focus was on re-launching the solution through redirecting the customer engagement model and achieving an industry leading product suite:• Introduced an ROI Selling process with an early introduction of a value model and pro forma showing the customer’s executive team the compelling economics of EmLogis’ solution applied to their business.• Changed the engagement model from a customer install, expert system to a state-of-the-art approach combining SaaS and optional services, all delivered over the internet.• Developed new Business Activity Scheduling product for customers who want to automate the scheduling and tracking of the business activities they are performing for their customers, while automatically determining their labor requirements and maximizing customer satisfaction.• Added new product to suite to create state-of-the-art forecast of activities that drive business activity and labor demand across long-, mid- and near-term timeframes.• Built sales, sales operations, support, marketing, website, SEO, web sales and billing to support new launch.

Pleasanton, California

.Reported to General Manager-Industries Solutions of world's second largest provider of HR and ERP software. Responsible for defining and guiding development of industry solutions for the energy industry (utilities and oil & gas) and for internal support and external marketing of those solutions.• Collaborated with Products & Technology group to build CRM, SRM and FMS for Energy products.• Supported Global Account Sales Executives with product and industry expertise, including sales calls to select customers and prospects. • Developed partnership with Quorum Business Solutions, Inc., to integrate their upstream oil & gas accounting, land management and joint interest billing solution with PeopleSoft’s ERP solution to create the most comprehensive integrated solution in the upstream market.• Provided press and analyst support in Energy space including briefing meetings and consulting meetings with major analyst firms and authoring a number of published articles on PeopleSoft solutions and thought leadership bylines. Responsible for marketing collateral, sales force training, presentations and collateral.

United States

Reported to SVP and General Manager-Process Industries of world's third largest software company. Responsible for new business areas, such as Consortium Trading Exchanges (“CTE’s”) and private electronic marketplaces.• Major CTE wins with over $1 trillion total annual marketplace revenues projected include Quadrem (mining & metals), ForestExpress (forest products), Trade-Ranger (oil & petrochemical), and Elemica (chemical).• Engaged in private marketplace development with global, Fortune 100 companies in the oil & gas, chemical, pharmaceutical, forest products, building products, food processing, glass and metal industries.

Houston, Texas Area

Professional Services - Process IndustriesReported to SVP and GM-Process Industries. Responsible for consulting, custom development projects industry support and continuous business improvement initiative with customers across the process industries. • Created new industry-focused professional services organization by building, managing and developing a highly skilled and productive team of management and professionals with application and technology specialties in core R/3, New Dimensions products and industry solutions. • Exceeded revenue budget by over 20% with record margins in a year where software license revenues were down significantly.Oil & Gas Strategic Business UnitRecruited by SAP to form SAP's first industry-focused Strategic Business Unit. Put together a team of existing and new account executives and presales engineers and recruited a group of experts from each segment of the oil & gas industry to drive building out SAP's oil & gas solution. This model was copied to 17 other industries.• Responsible for acquisition of Price Waterhouse's Primas solution and securing Exxon, Texaco, Chevron, Amoco, Apache and others as industry co-development partners to work with SAP in creating the next generation oil & gas upstream solution. • Other new solutions built were Service Station Retailing and Traders and Scheduler's Workbench. • SAP’s market share in the O&G industry was increased from 30% to 80% driving Oracle’s O&G solution out of the marketplace.

Houston, Texas Area

Reported to Vice Chairman of Fortune 20 energy company. Responsible for Texaco's worldwide computing, telecommunications, and information systems. • Initiated customer-centric focus, organization and service delivery for both external and internal customers.• Created Competency Centers to focus resources around key strategies and initiatives – Global Integrated Suites, Knowledge Management, and Network & Infrastructure.• Completed two SAP implementations on time and on budget. Global Integrated Suites Competency Center had two SAP projects in implementation and two in the planning stage.• Took Texaco from an embryonic level of Internet activities in 1996 to Internet-based systems as the standard medium for customer information and interaction as well as for Knowledge Acquisition and Knowledge Sharing within the company.• Moved Texaco's data center into the top 10% of centers in the Real Decisions survey – with cost for equivalent value 59% of the survey average, 72 % of the average oil company and 72% of the average like-sized centers. • Standardized desktop environment resulting in first-contact problem resolution being raised from 35% before to 95% in the standard environment and costs cut in half. • Set up self-driven project teams accountable for performance against deliverables in contract with customer. Texaco's project execution rated best overall in Independent Project Analysis Inc.'s benchmarking survey. Also, rated best in customer satisfaction and meeting business objectives and second best in cost effectiveness at 87% of the average company's cost level.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Reported to President of Texaco’s domestic refining, marketing, and lubricants subsidiary, (“TRMI”). Provided leadership and P & L responsibility for Fuels Operations unit with annual revenues of $6 billion and 5,000 Texaco employees. Included wholesale and retail marketing through 6,000 outlets, four refineries with total capacity of 400,000 barrels per day, and pipeline and trucking distribution operations through 125 supply terminals.• Established Texaco as a leader in integrating express-sized quick service restaurants, such as Taco Bell and Subway, into convenience stores. • Used performance measures to increase refinery utilization by 10 percentage points and reduce Energy Intensity Index by 20 points while reducing operating expense per barrel and improving safety performance by 86%. • Grew market share from no higher than fourth in any state to No. 2 position overall in TRMI's marketing area. • Successfully introduced Texaco’s “Clean System3 Gasolines” resulting in increased sales and largest increase of any company in Product Performance ratings of customers surveyed by The NPD Group. • Developed a grass-roots, team-based initiative, "Plunge In," aimed at out-of-the-box thinking, which resulted in profit improvements reaching $170 million in 1997.

White Plaines, New York

Reported to Vice Chairman and headed corporate department responsible for strategic planning, economic forecasts and analysis, merger and acquisition activities and resource allocation planning. • Using input from a cross-section of the company, developed a new corporate planning system that greatly improved Texaco's window on its businesses and enhanced the financial community's view of Texaco. • Chaired both the Producing Planning Group and the Downstream Planning Group, whose members were the business unit managers around the world. These groups were responsible for developing the strategies, goals and capital allocation ($3-4 billion, annually) for Texaco's producing and downstream sectors, respectively.• Designed and drove a study that led to the restructuring of U.S. producing assets. This involved disposal of 300 under-performing, small, or non-core assets (approximately one-half its U.S. properties) in a sale to Apache. Reinvestment of sales proceeds and overhead savings into the remaining assets resulted in improvements in annual cash flow in the hundreds of millions, with only a small, short-term dip in production and reserves.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Chemical Engineering

Executive Program, Delivering Information Services Program

Accelerated Exec Program, Business Administration, Management And Operations

Executive Program, Fundamentals Of Finance And Accounting