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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 resources in requirements definition, solution design, testing and implementation. • 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 (Microstrategy), order management (JOOR), E-commerce (Salesforce/Demandware), retail (MPOS) and tax (Avalara).

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, E-commerce (Magento), Tax (Avalara), Warehouse Management, Financials, Supply Chain, Domestic Production and Business Intelligence (QlikView). Project was executed in under ten months for 16 brick and mortar stores and three web stores and has led to double digit growth in EBITDA and significant productivity gains in the warehouse.• 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 definition, application design, conference room pilots, user acceptance testing and training. Established partially outsourced support model (KACE) with internal and external resources supporting applications hosted on Microsoft Azure cloud services.

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 to March, 2015• 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, facilitate new store openings and plan and execute upgrades. Applications supported include Epicor Merchandising, POS, Sales Audit and CRM and ShopperTrak.• 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 legacy retail applications with Microsoft Dynamics AX. Directed Change Control Board responsible for review, scheduling and approval of all application and infrastructure changes to test and production environments (ServiceWise).Director, Business Solutions Development, January, 2009 to May, 2013• 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 under-performing brands such as BLK DNM and Lamb and Flag.Director, I.T. Quality Assurance, August, 2005 to January, 2009• 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 requirements, resulting in 99% success rate for elimination of defects.

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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, 2004 to August, 2005• 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 million in first twelve months for pilot customer.• 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 cycle.Manager, Software Quality Assurance, November, 2002 to September, 2004• 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 Minisell.

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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.