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Leader, project manager, analyst and implementer on software design and development projects in industries including retail, healthcare, manufacturing and food safety. With user experience design and business process analysis has designed or re-build websites and software applications.

Quantuvos provides a scalable coaching solution for organizations and a personalized experience for individuals. Our technology uses sophisticated algorithms to ensure every individual is well-matched with a coach and can receive coaching anytime, anywhere with all the benefits coaching brings.Cofounder and head of technology vision and implementation for this professional training and coaching company. Led the design and implementation of a best-of-breed, scalable systems on Microsoft Azure, Python, PostgreSQL, Power BI, Power Automate and Atlassian Jira. Teams managed included UI researchers and designers, software developers and testers as well as UAT testers. Hands-on work included business process design, UI design, roadmapping, Power BI report building, M, SQL, and Google scripting and Power Automate.

Baltimore, Md, Us

Managed the direction of software products/services from market analysis, industry conferences and analytics, building/advocating business cases for product direction, roadmaps and features, client interviewing, user testing, business requirements, wire-framing, specifications, and managing scrum masters and business analysts in our scrum development environment. FoodChain ID (previously The Global ID Group), with offices in the US, UK, Germany and Brazil, offers a range of testing, certification and advisory services to the agrifoods industry. The company's services support the production of safe, ethical and sustainable food. GID offers food safety certification under the BRC, SQF, ISO 22000 and GlobalG.A.P. standards. GID's subsidiary, Genetic ID offers pathogen, allergen, speciation and authenticity testing and is a leader in the testing of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The company also certifies under a number of standards for sustainable agriculture include ProTerra, RTRS, Bonsucro and ISCC. The ProTerra standard verifies that agricultural companies do not use child or forced labor, employ fair trade practices, use sustainable agronomic practices and are environmentally responsible. Our Brazilian subsidiary certifies over $3 billion of soy annually sourced from 9,000 farms as being sustainably grown and socially responsible. GID's FoodChain ID subsidiary is the leading Technical Administrator for the Non-GMO Project, an initiative of the organic and natural foods industry to provide third party verification of the non-GMO status of products carrying its seal. FoodChain ID has verified over 40,000 products from 2,500 companies and 12,000 suppliers in over 100 countries.

Columbus, Oh, Us

Software and reporting quality control services on ERP implementation including Oracle Retail Management System's (RMS) BIP, Microstrategy Systems, C and iSeries reporting platforms.

Kieler, Wi, Us

Led the ethnographic inquiry, design, implementation and QA testing team for a new ERP system targeted for a 10,000-employee nationwide sanitation services organization including order management and order processing on a Macola ES foundation. Methodology included ethnography, UML modeling, user interface design.

Managed 4 person team to design legacy fulfillment systems enhancements for the implementation of a new direct order management application from Sterling Commerce (Yantra). Scope managed included order fulfillment systems across 4 North American distribution centers, their processes and their integration with order management, inventory management and order capture systems.Facilitated the success of the project through senior management's Six Sigma toll-gate process

Senior Design Lead at direct retailer of legacy fulfillment systems enhancements for the implementation of a new direct order management application from IBM’s retail management system (Sterling Commerce, Yantra).

Alpharetta, Ga, Us

Guided sales, product development and marketing teams for retail industry targeted products including manufacturing-to-retail data synchronization product.Established product positioning, product design and pricing.Engaged in pre-sales and re-built customer relationships for this software solutions provider during rough market times. Managed partner relationship with GS1 US and 1SYNC as well as initiated new partners and customer relationships. Applications included data synchronization, product information management, supply-chain visibility, invoice management and data connectivity in both managed service and licensed software form..

eCommerce revenue boosting, warehouse logistics, forecasting, replenishment, sales tracking and merchandise planning projects.Domains include warehouses, assembly lines, merchandising, product development and labor improvement at manufacturers and retailers.

Norcross, Ga, Us

Developed Call Center Strategy with Care Services Group.

Re-engineered warehouse processes and implemented an ongoing physical inventory cycle-counting process.

One of four founding executives of a new retail outlet concept. Built a 6 store outlet chain in 7 months with only an idea and a tight budget. Team built the physical, operational, technical and personnel infrastructures for stores from Virginia to Nevada.

Led product development, product pilot installation, customer service and strategic business planning and budgeting at this medical informatics start-up company. Technologies included artificial intelligence, database analysis and the internet to provide early detection of breast cancer in mammograms for radiologists.

Meriden, Ct, Us

EMS was an ARG copmany.Managed a 15 month effort with Eastern Mountain Sports to roll-out a new direct distribution channel for this 70 store brick-and-mortar chain. Built strategy and project plans for development of logistics and operational functions. Managed the plans including over 40 people across 7 companies to develop eCommerce and entertainment Internet site and form new business organization.

Directed successful electronic commerce strategic planning, development, and technology hosting and maintenance program for American Retail Group companies.

Alameda, California, Us

Uptons was an ARG company.Managed an EDI team coordinating 200 vendors across ARG companies. Managed a team of 10 persons in the development and implementation of Intranet systems across four companies.Managed a cross-company team to develop web-based interfaces to legacy human resource systems

New York, Ny, Us

Achieved dramatic improvements for major consumer product and retail corporations using business process re-engineering, facilitation of employee-management teams, management of change and development of advanced information systems. These include the following. Increasing customer service productivity over 300% within 3 months by redesigning the sales process and developing a retail sales tracking system for a jewelry manufacturer. Increased inventory turns from 3 to 5.7, reduced total inventory by 37%, and improved in-stock at retail to a 95% benchmark by developing a Quick Response program and EDI systems for a crystal manufacturer/retailer. Reduced inventory by over 20% and increased manufacturing capacity by 15% with the re-engineering of business processes for a large jewelry manufacturer. Reduced throughput time and increased inventory and shipment accuracy through the design of distribution center management systems and procedures for various manufacturers and retailers.

Wrote and tested C and Assembler firmware for CT220 terminals emulating DEC VT220 terminals.

Masters, Business Administration

Bachelors, Information And Computer Science