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New Britain, Ct, Us

Responsible for identifying and enabling new business process capability opportunities in critical business functions such as pricing, supply planning and demand forecasting with the goal of hardening key processes with respect to market volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity.• Developed organization of Centers of Excellence, focused on key business functions employing data and analytics solutions to reinvent business processes to be data driven; with notable successes in mitigating inflationary cost impacts, responding to component constraints and measuring and improving supply chain performance.• Partnered with leading consultant organizations; Kearny, Deloitte, Accenture and others to rapidly develop analytical models employed across the business using the SBD Data Lake Ecosystem and Toolset to facilitate time to market and supportability. • 2021 CIO.com FutureEge50 Award Winner, recognizing the impact of the Data Driven Transformation activity outcomes and successes.

New Britain, Ct, Us

Reporting directly to Global CFO and responsible for global data analytics and data science strategy, data ecosystem development, data governance and quality management system, and identifying data-driven transformational opportunities across the business. • Established first SBD Advanced Analytics and AI, Enterprise Scale Data Science team focused on Predictive and Prescriptive analytics modelling to reimagine and transform business functions across the organization. • Partnered with external organizations including Gartner, ODSC, WiDS and local universities to promote Stanley Black and Decker as a destination for Data Science professionals and recruited 40+ Data Scientists and Engineers over 3 years.• Developed an engagement and operating model that facilities rapid collaboration, iterative development, business process creation and measured adoption. • Led the creation of SBD’s first Enterprise Data Lake environment, built on Snowflake and AWS and using industry leading solutions from Attunity, Talend, DataRobot, Collibra and others to enable a sustainable, validated, governed and secure ecosystem for organizational wide data analytics, machine learning, reporting and automation.

New Britain, Ct, Us

Led Technology Strategy, Solution Delivery and IT Operations for Stanley Engineered Fastenings, Stanley Infrastructure, and Stanley Oil and Gas business units, a diverse set of businesses across the globe representing ~ 30% of Stanley Black and Decker revenue. • Transformed the business perception of IT from ‘order-taker’ to ‘trusted-advisor’ through a strategy of building credibility, delivering value, and building deep domain expertise across the organization. • Led the implementation of SAP S4 Hana in the European region of the Stanley Engineered Fastenings business, transforming and standardizing business operations across 7 countries, eliminating 6 legacy ERP systems and driving $40m of benefit.• Led the integration of two $1B revenue acquisitions into the Engineered Fastening and Stanley Infrastructure organizations, including synergy opportunities across people, process and technology.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Biogen is one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies, with a focus on developing therapies for serious neurological, autoimmune and rare diseases. Founded in 1978, it has grown to become a $10.8B revenue company with more than 6,000 employees worldwide.Technology leader responsible for strategic planning, solution delivery, infrastructure engineering, operations, and a team of 500 people supporting over 6000 employees and partners across Biogen sites, manufacturing facilities, and patient service centers globally. • Drove strategic, organizational, process, and operational change across the IT organization that led to increased rigor, quality, and precision in delivery commitment confidence levels.• Transformed the business perception of IT from ‘order-taker’ to ‘trusted-advisor’ through a strategy of building credibility, delivering value, and building deep domain expertise across the organization. • Established a culture of accountability, credibility, value creation, and financial discipline, including the development of KPIs to measure performance. Executed to within 0.5% of 2015 budget and a 50% increase in on-time program delivery. • Established employee engagement and organizational change management strategies and initiatives to help drive adoption of new operating models and software development methodologies. • Partnered with VMO to close key renewals with software vendors like Microsoft and Oracle to reduce contractual spend by more than 15% in costs over the contracts’ terms.• Founded initiatives to encourage innovative ideas aimed at improving employee experience, productivity, or new business capabilities and established a cadence of releasing an enterprise-wide technology innovation every 45 days.• Attracted a group of experienced executive leaders from across a diverse group of industries and internally and developed a highly functional and effective senior leadership team.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

IT Vice President for Biogen Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Corporate Systems responsible for Operations Technology, Finance, HR, Legal, and Corporate Affairs IT ecosystems. • Built a cross-functional and high-performing team, operating cadence, and executive steering groups for a $65M global Oracle EBS R12 upgrade delivered successfully on time and on budget for both the Operations and Finance organizations. The solution included a new Product Master Data Management toolset and end-to-end Product Life Cycle Management solution and process and introduced Demand Planning/Sales & Operations Planning for first time.• Eliminated poor performing technologies, rationalized applications, and established a culture of operational excellence that transformed the stability of key components of the IT environment across a user base of 10,000 users.• Built trusted business partner relationships and transitioned all IT system-related activities for HR systems previously owned within the business, including the implementation of new SaaS-based HR tools and Learning Management Solutions.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

A privately owned, $59B multinational computer technology company that develops, sells and supports computers and related products and services, Dell is one of the largest technological corporations in the world, employing more than 103,300 people worldwide.Led strategy, engineering, and operations for Dell IT's server, storage, backup and client infrastructure globally with a team of 550 people across 70 locations.• Led the back-sourcing of a 1050 person Infrastructure Engineering & Operations organization back into IT with an operating budget of $180M. Drove culture and behavior change globally, focused on value, not just cost; customer experience, not just SLA adherence; and agility, not just speed.• Established and led initiatives focused on virtualization, infrastructure life cycle management, and operational performance across the organization, leading to a reduction of 10k servers, the elimination of all end-of-life assets, a 12% reduction in Data Center power consumption, and a 40% increase in virtualization over 18 months.• Implemented rigorous project management discipline and cadence to improve on-time project delivery by 70% across a $45M project portfolio, a 20% reduction in production incidents with 98% resolved within SLA, along with a 10% reduction in baseline resources through automation and environment clean-up. Employee satisfaction 3% higher than rest of IT. • Developed three-year Data Center and Hybrid Cloud enablement strategy, reducing infrastructure solution delivery lead times by 75% through self- and dynamic provisioning of infrastructure.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Responsible for the strategy, definition, development, support, and maintenance of Dell's internal and contract global manufacturing and supply chain IT systems during a time of massive transformational change across the PC industry.• Led the analysis, business process re-engineering, and global deployment of Microsoft Dynamics AX to all Dell factories globally, eliminating 75 applications and 2000 servers, resulting in an annual cost reduction of $50M.• Drove lean manufacturing principles to minimize software customization; reduced factory IT system downtime by 75% and reduced software development lifecycle by 50%. Dynamics AX Case Study.• IT Strategist responsible for developing manufacturing and supply chain application rationalization strategy and architecture. Led the cross-functional analysis of the systems, people, and costs associated with each business capability and created the strategic IT plan to migrate to a consolidated global system.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Served as the system architect and lead developer for a number of real-time, mission-critical factory systems controlling the product flow through Dell manufacturing facilities and outbound logistics network. Directly responsible for business analysis and solution architecture, technical architecture, development, quality, deployment and ongoing stability of a global solution, developed and continually improved in line with changing business strategies over four years.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Senior IT Manager / Director responsible and accountable for Dell’s Global Material Fulfilment and factory floor Inventory Management solution employed in 10 Dell factories across five continents. Responsible for the end-to-end software lifecycle, product development, and material fulfilment models strategy. Solution patented : US7158856 B2.Software Development Manager: EMEA Factory Automaton & Inventory Management Systems (2001-2004)Senior Software Developer: EMEA Factory Automation Solutions (1999-2001)

IT lead in small engineering company responsible for all aspects of technology, including website design / maintenance and internal office infrastructure. Custom developed inventory control and order management applications, remote vehicle control manufacturing execution system, and onboard vehicle PLC software.• Engaged with customers to design and provide automated material handling solutions to blue chip organizations across Europe and around the world. Complete project management ranging from managing production, system programming, and quality assurance through to on-site installation.• Developed a multi-tier AGV navigation and logistics management system using VB6.0, C++ and interfacing with OMRON PLCs via radio modems based on industry standards, such as OPC UML, COM/DCOM, ODBC, and TCP/IP. • Completed installation and administration of a Windows NT local area network featuring dial-on-demand remote routing and security-firewall implementation. Designed and was responsible for the company’s Internet and Intranet web sites, including promotional and analysis activities. • Reduced indirect costs and increased business process efficiency through the development of a SQL server-based order, inventory, and Bill of Material management system.

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

Responsible for factory automation and implementation of an AGV (Automated Guided Vehicle) based manufacturing line for Hodaka (DC 220 / 230) range of digital printers. Based in Mitcheldean, Glos, I also spent 2 months in Rochester NY developing the Xerox Shop Floor Control System software solution.

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