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West Bend, Wi, Us

Fredonia, Wi, Us

Responsible for all Information Technology infrastructure and Business Systems software for our national presence in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Carolina.Responsible for, led, and navigated Guy and O'Neill through three (3) mergers and acquisitions and one (1) divestment from both the business systems and IT infrastructure perspectives. This includes successfully deploying Dynamics AX, RF-Smart, and Atlas reporting to two remote locations (Minnesota, and North Carolina), moving from existing network and infrastructure to the Guy and O'Neill standards, and the change management to ensure success.Currently working through digital transformation at Guy and O'Neill through inter-function collaboration, improved automation, wider roll-out of ERP, improved communication and visibility, and enabling the business to make quicker, and good decisions while moving faster.Providing strategic plans and recommendations to further enhance the business while keeping the IT infrastructure and application portfolio current, and safe.

Fredonia, Wi, Us

Overseeing and planning for all of Information Technology at Guy and O’Neill and affiliates; including Business Systems, and Infrastructure and Networking.

Fredonia, Wi, Us

Working with an internal team including Power Users, and other existing partners to maximize the company usage of Dynamics AX. Overall ownership of the ERP, EDI, and reporting process at Guy & O’Neill to help continue an aggressive and successful trend of growth.

Fond Du Lac, Wi, Us

Managed a team of technical and functional resources to maintain and support AX2012 as well as deploying D365 in the cloud.• Led Grande through two ERP upgrades. Recently completed the first phase of an ERP upgrade from on-site to the cloud (Dynamics365 modules: Finance and Accounting and Procurement) across the enterprise on-time and on-budget; also nearing completion of second phase of upgrade for Inbound to Outbound warehouse management, Procure to Pay and Order to Cash.• Manage and oversee efforts for integrating B2B customer facing EDI• Manage and oversee the integration of seven ISV and third-party applications with ERP including Treasury, e-commerce, Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), denied party screening for exports, AP Automation, Warehousing/RF barcoding and EDI• Maintain SDLC methodology using both Agile and structured project methodologies for executing projects• Maintain the ERP backlog and create user stories based on business user requirements. Ensure the requests and projects align with strategic objectives of the enterprise and strategic long-range planning• Liaison between the Executive Stakeholders and the project team and Business Technology team• Led efforts on business analysis and business process improvement in the enterprise during the extended requirement gathering sessions with the business. Reduced the number of customizations by 40% - eliminating low value enhancements with high maintenance costs.

Fond Du Lac, Wi, Us

• Manage the development and support of a Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 environment. Processes include Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, Financial Reporting and Warehouse Management.• Responsible for ensuring the strategic and enterprise initiatives were being met by the ERP system – Dynamics AX.• Responsible for career development, personnel decisions and coaching for a team of direct reports who are focused on ERP and supporting applications.

Fond Du Lac, Wi, Us

• Responsible for business systems application development and resource allocation for projects. • Manage activities related to the analysis, design, development, implementation and support of enterprise business applications (ERP, CRM, SQL and custom development).• Responsible for management including hiring, performance management, and associate development of the software engineering team.• Improve development efficiencies by working with senior leadership and the development team to implement SCRUM based agile methods to replace heavy waterfall processes.

Fond Du Lac, Wi, Us

Managing a group of Software Enginneers from Software Engineer I through Senior Software Engineers. Managing and performing activities related to the analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of new and existing software applications.

Fond Du Lac, Wi, Us

Involved in development and enhancement of many business applications including milk procurement and commodity price tracking, ERP using Microsoft Dynamics AX and a full library of SharePoint (MOSS 2007 and BDC) line of business applications.

West Bend, Wi, Us

District 5 Alderman for the City Of West Bend Common Council. Elected April, 2014. Currently the chairperson for the Finance Committee and the Long Range Transportation Committee.Responsibilities include approvals of city budgets, ordinances as well as other statutory authority.

Shorewood, Wi, Us

Senior Developer on various projects for a wide range of clients and needs. Project involvement ranging from proposal through design and implementation and support. Involved in the development of the Titan Content Management System.Designed and/or developed C# based, ASP.Net applications including: a swine feed model and budgeting application; an ecommerce solution from catalog through payment processing; an ePolicy Delivery add-on for an insurance brokerage intranet; and intranets and extranets for companies ranging from small to Fortune 500. These applications were n-tier applications built on the Microsoft .Net Framework and used Microsoft SQL Server, Windows and IIS.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Us

I designed and developed database applications using FoxPro for various clients. These projects included a cancer immunotherapy protocol tracking application for a large Milwaukee hospital and a health assessment application used by visiting nurses for a Milwaukee health-care provider.

Responsible for maintaining a 40 PC’s on a Pathworks Network on a VAX based system. I also developed a reporting system for positive drug tests passing through the MRO (Medical Review Officer) process.