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Latham, New York, Us

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Long Island City (Queens), Ny, Us

A leading cultural, social services and networking organization.Responsibilities: strategic direction, organizational cohesion, brand positioning/brand identity, operational efficiency; fiscal transparency, enhancing public/stakeholder confidence; report to Board of Directors consisting of leading business executives; securing operational funding from private and government, foreign & domestic, sources; managing developer for capital upgrades at service location.● Defined the key pillars of the organization's mission and ethos as: Community, Culture, Care.● Revived a failing enterprise, bringing it through several growth phases: conducted an in- depth strategic analysis, developed a strategic roadmap to solvency and future growth, oversaw all development. Result: solvency achieved in under six months; public and stakeholder confidence restored; strengthened governance; sustained growth since; three-fold increase in budget since '09, not including capital project expenditures of 1M+. Expanded service offerings four-fold. Negotiated strategic partnership with Solace House NY.● Successfully navigated a campaign to deleverage $1.1M in mortgage debt, while working closely in parallel with grant sources to maintain an uninterrupted operation. Result: Organizational stability and sustainability through debt-free ownership of its single greatest asset. ● Remodeled, enhanced and re-energized an aged service location: led the board, community, and design team; secured commitment of capital funding from Irish Government; lobbied NYS Assembly on the back of Irish Gov success, resulting in additional funding, to seed a $1M+ capital program ; managed bidding; oversaw entire project, prevented scope-creep, without shortchanging needs/vision. Result: achieved full ADA and NYC building code compliance, including the installation of an elevator, a considerable architectural and structural undertaking in an older, pre-existing building, without service interruptions;

New York, New York, Us

Java programming language & information system modeling courses (UML).

Custom installation of ERP and CRM systems for clients in multiple verticles, including lighting, parking and foodservice industries.

Elk Grove Village, Il, Us

A leading supplier of disposable products to the US foodservice market, and leading authority on food safety. Management investor. Five-fold company growth from '99 to investor exit in '07.Responsibilities: leader of all customer facing systems, external and internal system integrations; oversaw adoption of new systems and processes by users; charged with introducing disruptive technologies in an old-fashioned, change resistant industry, during a period of rapid technological changes. Reported directly to CEO.● Implemented technology for 'ease of doing business': persuaded company to invest in fledgling industry electronic trading hub to reduce supply chain costs and inefficiencies for buyers and sellers; implemented real-time integration between ordering, customer service, inventory, shipping; addressed back-order system and logistics issues. Result: 80% of customer sales on- boarded to electronic trading; 45% ROI in trading hub at exit; 50% drop in back-orders.● Unleashed the power of an organization's data: extracted data to revamp model of state(s) of business and processes (data flow), matching and normalizing it with data stored external to ERP; developed software resources to extract and report on the data of the business, from ERP. Key to development of service metrics of value to customers. Result: increased client retention (60%) and satisfaction, profit margin (5%), and sales by customer (20%).● Integrated multiple warehouses across the US into onto Warehouse Management System (WMC), with live link to ERP system. Physical inventory and inventory valuation aligned to within 0.01%. Inventory control quality increased dramatically, eliminating unnecessary backorders, due to lack of and poor data, by 100%.

Application development using Java technology and Oracle, 3-tier MVC architecture, for hospital patient case management systems. Agile programming environment. Responsible for UX design and 3rd party app integration.

New York, Ny, Us

Founded as an initiative of the Irish immigrant community of Brooklyn and Queens. Set organization on the right course to become the leading provider of low-cost immigration services in New York City that it is today, with a multi-cultural client base, and a 1M+ operating budget.

Master Of Science, Business Information Systems

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Mechanical