Director Of Information Technology
Currento I.T. leader with a successful career identifying and executing long and short term corporate technology objectives that have yielded tangible gains in efficiency and cost savings across all business and operational areas. o Implemented a corporate Intranet built on SharePoint, improving collaboration, information sharing, and providing a “single pane of glass” into disparate systems.o Partnered with manufacturing leadership building out a new factory, designing systems to automate floor work flow, including end-to-end raw materials traceability, point-of-use label creation, and automated production metric dashboards.o Follow continuous improvement practice with manufacturing management to modify systems and processes to improve efficiencies and help meet their LEAN goals. o Manage hardware and software operations/communications at multiple locations supporting corporate offices, call center, manufacturing, distribution center, and retail.o Developed BI dashboards and real time web-based reports, which also serves to maintain an understanding of critical data points and business needs of the organization.o Created a variety of custom solutions to support Cuddledown’s growing wholesale business to allow orders with unique fulfillment guidelines to be processed in line with traditional consumer orders.o Lead corporate PCI Compliance initiative to integrate ERP, eCommerce, and retail systems with a third party, end-to-end encryption and tokenization solution, exponentially limiting PCI scope and the effort required to maintain PCI compliance.o Upgraded virtualized environment to improve server utilization, backup, and DR plans while cutting server licensing costs in half and reducing the RPO to less than an hour and RTO to nearly instantaneous for mission critical applications.
