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Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Leading the top-to-bottom Digital Transformation of this highly successful emergency preparedness organization.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Digital Transformation, E-commerce/Omni-channel Strategy, Ecommerce Platform Selection, and E-commerce implementation consultant. Clients included a young women's fashion retailer, a legendary guitar manufacturer/retailer, an industry leading plumbing and infrastructure giant, a rapidly growing life-sciences organization, and a 100+ year-old furniture.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Responsible for US, Canadian, and European technoligies, applications and infrastructure.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Independent consultant helping retail vendors improve their marketing and sales cycles with retailers, and helping retailers with their e-commerce and omni-channel strategies. - Performed interim CIO duties for a young woman’s fashion retailer. Strategized and co-sponsored the re-platforming of their e-commerce environment, re-platformed and expanded their.

Responsible for all e-commerce/multi-channel, stores systems, contact center, supply chain and back office application development and support activities for the Guitar Center, Musician’s Friend, Woodwind & Brasswind, and Music 123 brands, encompassing 2 e-commerce platforms, 2 contact centers, 3 distribution centers, and over 230 stores in 43 states..

Responsible for IT strategy and support for the Guitar Center division.- Co-executive sponsored and business architected the SmartStore project, a refresh of sales floor technologies and networks and a migration of the company’s store systems to a thin client/browser-based platform, establishing the foundation for all future multi-channel and cloud.

Member of the Executive Board; responsible for all North American IT strategy, operations and applications in support of 25 large format entertainment/fashion stores.- Championed and architected the company’s cultural shift to real-time reporting via implementation of an enterprise data warehouse that contributed to an $8M sales lift in its first 18 weeks.

Acting CIO for an international manufacturer of vitamins and dietary supplements. Member of the company's Executive Leadership Team responsible IT strategy and day-to-day management.- Participated in development of the company’s annual strategic plans, monthly reviews of fiscal and strategic performance, rollout of simplified performance review process.

Head of IS department; tasked with improving infrastructure stability and applications effectiveness.- Led operational stability improvements, which resulted in a 60% improvement in finished goods distribution, 20% reduction in raw and WIP inventories, accurate daily sales and inventory reporting, and a rec-ord 4 straight profitable months.- Developed.

Member of Executive Leadership team; responsible for IT strategy and daily operations of Koo Koo Roo’s domestic and international quick-service dining, Color Me Mine ceramics retail, and Hamburger Hamlet sit-down dining concepts.- Developed strategic plan that resulted in the establishment of a global communications network, stand-ardized Point Of Sale.

Internal SAP applications expert; US member of Nestlé’s Center of Excellence team responsible for strategizing and overseeing the global standardization of SAP sales and finance applications.- Piloted the SAP R/3 financial modules for Nestle USA’s corporate company; one of the first SAP R/3 implementations in the US.- Led the business reengineering process.