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Goleta, California, Us

Aquaflo Supply is an agricultural and plumbing retail supply company based in southern California.Head of IT. Responsibilities include to manage and provide an IT strategic vision, planning and support for thirteen branches offices, a Co Lo site in California and Cloud systems located in North Carolina.Report to President and Owners. Overall responsibility includes management, support, implementation and development all aspects of IT in the Aquaflo organization.As a core member of Sage X3 ERP 2017 implementation team. Responsible for new IT Infrastructure at the data center and branch offices. Included ERP software implementation, performance, networking and printing. Developed interfaces to Sage X3 ERP database providing simple data extractions using a BI dashboard designer, SQL, Excel and Crystal Reports to give valuable data analytics. Agile principles adopted to develop software. Changes made in small increments of prioritized code reviewed regularly to ensure accurate final product.Project manager and hands on technical analyst on significant upgrade to Sage X3 ERP application. Software version four years out of date. Project required separate configuration of new servers, a new database environment, and coordination of several consulting teams. Project took 1½ years to implement

Irvine, California, Us

Provided IT support and strategic planning for the global corporations of Interlink and Qualstar. Interlink. Executive office in Camarillo, Manufacturing in China, R&D in Singapore, Logistics in Hong Kong and Sales represents around the world. Total staff approx. 80. Qualstar centralized in Simi Valley with a total staff of approx. 50. Sales representatives in Asia, Europe and US. In both companies managed, supported, implemented and developed all aspects of IT. Supervised an outsourced IT consultant group in China and small IT staff in US.Responsible for the assembly of a new fully integrated ERP system built from the data architectures of multiple disparate systems that managed business operations. Researched, reviewed, selected and implemented an ERP system to replace the two organizations current configuration taht was a blend of Infor FACTs, Macola ERP, ERP FACTS (SQL), Filemaker and Excel systems. Top second tier packages were selected. MS Dynamics, Sage X3 and Infor and compiled a detailed RFP on current configuration, the scope of work and specific requirements. Led ERP selection team. Organized demos and selection process. Negotiated ERP purchase and appointed Project Manager on implementation.

Sole proprietor of computer consultancy that provided: Project Management services, Systems Analysis, Networking expertise, Custom Programming, Web Design and Development, PC troubleshooting and upgrades. A full service IT support and development company for small to medium size businesses

London, Gb

Executive IT manager of departments based in Hollywood, FL and Cleveland, OH. Management of technical personnel in both locations. Responsible for daily operations and all IT projects impacting the division. Member of IT Steering Committee that specified corporate technological strategies and to oversee the implementation of agreed solutions.

Newtown, Pa, Us

Managed and Directed 11 Programmer Analysts to maintain, develop and support company wide Voice and Data systems, Local Area Network, PC Systems Support and PC application developmentfor the entire organization. Other management responsibilities included a FileNet imaging system, DEC voice response system and a dat communications system for Admission Officers at 167 Law Schools.

Intercompany transfer from UK in April 1986. Maintenance, detailed design, code testing, debugging, documentation and implementation of in-house data communication software. Evaluation of current DEC communications software and devices. Senior member of 4GL tools team. Lead the transition and implementation of 4GL tools to U.S. Provided training to programmers. Installation consultant on site in Germany and England. Technical support for in-house and international application developers. Software developer involved in the analysis, design, coding and testing of enhancements to the 4GL In particular, Database management, Screen builder and Software management.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science

Bachelor'S Science (Honors), Computer Science