Provides project management consulting for ERP projects focused on improvement of business processes.

Directed continuous audit of all projects resulting improved project performance. Provided coaching to project managers, created project management standards and initiated rigorous metrics management. Implemented increased project management maturity. Virtually eliminated negative project surprises for the leadership team.

Provided Leadership of Global Programs including P&L responsibility for programs.• Provided project management to a European retailer for a large ERP implementation. Established a Program Management Office and project management disciplines. Performed project planning and monitoring and consulting on ERP implementation practices.• Assumed control of a stressed program delivering systems in 3 Middle East countries. I made project management changes and successfully completed development, testing and deployment. The challenges included managing teams from 5 global locations, implementing an Oracle Retail ERP system, and completing development of a large bespoke omni-channel capability.• Assumed control of an Asian retailer's stressed ERP program and managed its deployment. The challenges included managing teams from 4 global locations, implementing Oracle Retail, and implementing a large data analytics capability.• Took over implementation management of an struggling ERP implementation for a US retailer. Provided project management and project roll out guidance. Established a new project team and new methods and approaches. The project stabilized, went live and met its objectives.Logic Lab Responsibilities• Provide leadership to an internal Research team to add new consulting capabilities and enhance existing capabilities.• Deliver new consulting capabilities and technologies including:• Use Hadoop and NoSQL data bases as hot backup for Oracle Retail data.• Enable data extraction and analysis from Hadoop environment.• Access unstructured data from Twitter, Amazon, and other web sites.• Convert unstructured data to structured data using Natural Language processing, Machine Learning and other non-traditional approaches.• Enhance existing consulting capabilities in areas of BI for Oracle Retail data, Change Management and Training, Requirements Management and Testing• Enhance Logic methodology to incorporate improvements to delivery capabilities.

Responsibilities included:• Led a global team to build and support the implementation of a set of advanced custom web services to perform enterprise product/store clustering. • Managed a team of consultants to provide global, functional support for SAP financial users. Support was provided to users in the US, UK, and Japan. I managed US, Indian and Chinese support team members.• Managed a large team of test professionals who performed full lifecycle merchandising application testing, including performing QA inspections and stage gate checks.• Served as project manager for a major implementation of Oracle Retail for US electronics retailer and managed a team of six project managers and a large consulting and internal IT team.• As an Executive Consultant for the IBM Software Group in Europe, assisted clients to model business processes, define opportunities for process improvements and define the business and technical architectures required.