Patrick Somers Email & Phone Number

United States

Berwyn, Pa, Us

Directs the Client Services, and Solutions teams in all efforts related to the successful 4R solutions implementation and ongoing service delivery. Determines and directs the teams from the standpoint 4R resources, in the various processes to drive the most efficient and effective implementation and ongoing delivery of 4R services. ________________________________________

Experienced retail and marketing technology consultant providing strategic IT plans, IT / business alignment efforts, vendor platform selection / implementation and hands-on project management capabilities for all technology platforms.For a multibillion retailer, over a five month period, successfully managed outsourcing of a financial platform used to manage stock transactions. Engaged by a leading multibillion dollar warehouse club retailer based in the northeast to provide program management services to implement new POS applications.

Norwalk, Ct, Us

Led the technology strategy and implementation for $750 million Internet marketing company with IT budgets of $15-$19 million and 130 IT professionals internationally. Helped accelerate strategic move to Internet Marketing through an aggressive shift in focus across all facets of IT, with nearly 70% of top line business attributed to Internet Marketing efforts.

Norwalk, Ct, Us

Hired to lead IT efforts on several strategic business efforts: to establish a broad-based business intelligence platform for use throughout the organization and to establish an Internet platform and technology team to support the company’s initial endeavors into Internet marketing. Ultimately responsible for 70 IT professionals internationally, focused on online marketing systems, loyalty systems, membership systems, data warehousing applications / infrastructure, Internet applications / infrastructure, project management office, billing systems.

Conceived, designed, marketed and sold software solutions aimed at mid-sized retailers. Expanded company from two-person partnership to an organization with 14 employees, 15+ retail customers and two software package offerings. Aggressively grew award-winning company from $300K to $1+ million in annual revenue in three years. Named to the Philly 100: fastest growing privately held companies in the Philadelphia region. Visionary, Evangelist and Chief Architect for innovative, unique, complete business intelligence / data warehouse, ViewPoints ® solution designed for small-to-mid-sized retailers. Sales and services of ViewPoints® to retailers including brand names like Brook Brothers, contributed $1 million in revenue over three years. Viewpoints® was viewed as innovative, featured in retail and technology trade publications, and featured as an in-store BI solution utilizing Fujitsu wireless devices at the National Retail Federation annual conference in January 2000.

Hired by an entrepreneurial specialty retailer to establish a retail technology platform for rapid expansion and growth. Built an IT infrastructure from the ground up, establishing technology framework to support aggressive expansion. Technology implemented enabled company to expand from 5 store locations to 30, including geographic expansion along the east coast, moving from multiple small offices to centralized corporate office facility housing a small data center and over 100 corporate employees. Established 120,000-square-foot distribution center designed to support up to 70 stores all in less than two years, increasing sales to nearly $30 million.

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Reported to VP MIS of $1 billion national consumer electronics retailer. Responsible for all IT development and support, including technology platforms across all functional areas, both in-house developed and packaged solutions. Directed staff of 30 managers and developers, responsible for systems to support of 200+ locations including; stores, distribution centers, regional offices and service centers. Full planning/budgeting responsibility.

Reported to CIO of privately-held $700 million regional department store chain. Directed planning and implementation of warehouse management, distribution, in-store, and home delivery systems to support 23 stores, as well as distribution centers and corporate office users.

Reported to VP Systems Development of $3 billion discount retail chain with nearly 400 stores. Promoted from programmer to Director of Distribution Systems over a 9-year period. As Director, led staff of 25 responsible for planning and implementing distribution systems in host mainframe and distributed mini systems environment.

Bs, Computer Science

Computer Science