Paul Dawson Email & Phone Number

San Diego, Us

Reporting to President, overseeing all aspects of technology and innovation including strategy, teams, systems, services, and cybersecurity. • Developed and implementing first IT strategy for the company in alignment with overall strategy• Implemented a comprehensive cybersecurity program to mitigate security and compliance risks including technical defenses, training, policies, and communications• Assessed skill and capability gaps and hired seasoned leaders to add digital, architecture, portfolio management, infrastructure, and cybersecurity capabilities

Travel around the US and Mexico, mostly by motorcycle.

Thousand Oaks, California, Us

Reporting to CEO, oversaw Information Technology, systems, and services, with responsibility for understanding business needs and customizing and delivering technology solutions for the unique requirements of JAFRA. Built IT strategy with budget of $20M, supported by team of 65 full time staff plus vendors in four countries.• Led a complete transformation of the IT function, a ground-up rebuild of the core infrastructure, applications, cybersecurity, and governance, including reorganization. • Rebuilt IT’s relationship with the rest of the senior leadership team and transitioned IT from order-taker mentality to business partnership. • Unified IT management and processes across the US, Mexico, Germany, and Indonesia, and built a team of skilled technologists to align capabilities with business needs. • Replaced homegrown web software with modern e-commerce, improved SEO and customer experience, and streamlined checkout. • Improved scalability, security, and resiliency by migrating SAP on HANA, Infor ERP, and e-commerce systems from on-premise to the AWS and Kyndryl (IBM) clouds; reduced run costs by over $1.5M. • Replaced MPLS network with SDWAN, saving over $500k annual run cost. • Implemented cybersecurity program including technology, policy, training, penetration testing and MDR capabilities.• Insourced infrastructure management from legacy vendor to in-house team saving over $1M annual run cost. • Led implementation of governance across IT, including executive oversight of investments, ITIL, SDLC, KPI management, and security processes.• Implemented Tableau and Microsoft analytics and BI capabilities. • Led technology sunsetting for Brazilian, Italian, and Russian markets when carved-out of the company. • Oversaw carve-out of all technology and related contracts from parent company in preparation for company sale. • Replaced Lotus Notes and multiple home-grown systems with Microsoft O365 and SharePoint

Thousand Oaks, California, Us

• Joined JAFRA with the mission to create a Program Management Office and implement pipeline and project management processes where none existed. • Built a Project Management team in US and Mexico to ensure process and to manage concurrent projects • Implemented governance and tracking of the project and demand portfolio and managed pipeline of projects and requirements for planning of budget, resources, and priorities with regular reporting to US and German executives. • Rolled out PRINCE2 project management methodology aligned with German parent company guidelines• Appointed interim CIO in August 2016.

95877 Bezons, Fr

• Provided leadership to teams implementing global SAP Procurement, Finance, and Controlling processes at multiple US locations for Daimler (Mercedes-Benz, Freightliner, Western Star). Consulting role, 100% travel.

Frankfurt Am Main, De

• Recruited by T-Systems to manage the transition of services then the Application Support function for SAP and middle-ware systems for the $120 billion distribution operations at McKesson Pharmaceutical. • Led a team of 30+ across locations in the US and Mexico supporting all modules of SAP in a SOX / DEA / FDA regulated environment.• Developed and documented support processes for service provision, trained team members, then managed compliance.• Led stabilization of service delivery during and after transition from legacy vendor. • Managed service level compliance and reported key metrics to executive management of McKesson and T-Systems. • Oversaw the scrum team for break-fix and minor enhancements.

Reston, Virginia, Us

• Lead both business and tech teams for various projects for the Volkswagen Group in the Americas.

Reston, Virginia, Us

• Business Unit Project Manager for SAP logistics system implementation at Volkswagen Argentina. Foreign service assignment from VW Group of America. • I was brought in by Volkswagen Germany to recover a failed project and lead the business team through implementation of a global SAP solution for distribution.• Partnered with the local VP of Sales and Marketing and the CIO to rebuild morale of the demotivated project team and implement a practical approach to a successful project.• Led business team in definition, testing, cleansing, training, change management, and cut-over activities.• Collaboration with and oversight of the IBM technical project team.• Led communication and alignment with parent company management in Germany.• Implemented and communicated business process changes to accommodate the new system.

Reston, Virginia, Us

• Foreign Service Assignments to Germany, Japan, and Brazil.• SAP projects in Germany, Russia, South Korea, Brazil, and Japan, focusing on B2B e-commerce, order to cash, and logistics flows. New implementations and upgrade projects from 4.x to ECC. 𝘕𝘰𝘵𝘦: 𝘛-𝘚𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘢𝘤𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘝𝘞 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘛 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯 2006.

Reston, Virginia, Us

• SAP Sales & Distribution Consultant. • Business analysis, blueprint, design, implementation and production support of SAP for Volkswagen of America, responsible for ordering and supply chain processes including e-commerce integration.• Upgrade project from 3.x to 4.6𝘕𝘰𝘵𝘦: 𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘝𝘞 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘛 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘳 "𝘨𝘦𝘥𝘢𝘴".

Mérida, Yucatán, Mx

• Inside sales representative for a manufacturer of electromagnetic components.

Bachelor Of Arts

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