Paul Strauss Email & Phone Number

NEW YORK, NY, US

• Vince is a global luxury brand manufacturing women's and men's apparel and accessories.
• Project Manager for cloud-based implementation of Microsoft Dynamics AX. Created and maintained project plan and cut-over plan. Prioritized, assigned and tracked support issues. Coordinated with internal and external.
• Defined new processes for software development, change control and issue tracking (JIRA). Led transition to Agile release planning and integrated support model for entire applications suite, including ERP (DAX), BI.

Vernon, CA, US

• Dutch LLC is a global manufacturer and retailer of three contemporary, luxury brands: Joie, Equipment and Current/Elliott.
• Project Manager for $3+ million, pioneering implementation of Microsoft Dynamics AX in the cloud, including one of the first implementations of Microsoft Dynamics Modern POS. Project featured fully integrated Retail.
• Managed team of seven external, on-site business analysts, three internal business analysts and team of offshore and onshore developers and coordinated with business sponsors and key stakeholders in requirements.

• Kellwood is a leading U.S. apparel manufacturer with a brand portfolio including Vince, Rebecca Taylor, Parker, Sag Harbor, Briggs NY, Democracy, Jolt and XOXO.Director, Ongoing Applications and Governance, May, 2013.
• Directed team responsible for supporting retail applications for two brands with estate of 41 brick and mortar stores. Coordinated with internal and external resources to provide new solutions, resolve support issues.
• Spearheaded the design and implementation of Omni-channel solution to integrate direct-to-consumer customer and transaction data between online (Venda) and brick and mortar stores (Epicor). Led the integration of.
• Managed integration of new acquisitions into Kellwood’s operational platform, including the successful integration of the Parker, Rebecca Taylor, Zobha and Adam brands. Directed the divestiture and closure of.
• Established a formal, standard testing process with a dedicated team of four onshore and three offshore resources for functional and performance testing across ERP, E-commerce, Reporting Services and WM applications.
• Introduced QA best practices through implementation of Mercury Quality Center to track test requirements, build a reusable test repository, track and report test results, estimate test effort and project resource.

US

• Russ Berrie is an industry leading designer, importer, marketer and distributor of gift, infant and juvenile consumer products with several international, wholly owned subsidiaries.Manager, Order Processing, September.
• Led the design, specification and implementation of cross platform consignment sales program integrating EDI, ERP and PkMS applications that is the first of its kind in the industry, resulting in sales of over $1.
• Directed team of thirteen order entry specialists and re-engineered sales order and customer management processes, resulting in increased productivity and accuracy and added efficiencies in the order to cash.
• Managed international team of testers that included technical consultants and business users as part of successful JDEdwards One World ERP software implementation. Scope included ERP and interfaces with EDI, PkMS and.

US

• Danskin is a 100-year-old manufacturer and importer of women's dance and active wear and one of the leaders in its industry.
• Played lead role in design, development and marketing of third party hosted B2C online store, resulting in online retail sales exceeding $75,000 per month in the first year.
• Primary technical contact for launch of third party hosted B2B site, including data format specification, data and image preparation, process design and database design for data storage and sales reporting.