Russ is growing the MarTech business at Sirius, starting with Adobe. His business is on track for exponential growth, targeting to more than double in software sales and services between 2018 and 2020. Consistently solid delivery and partnering with Adobe on successful opportunities have built Russ and Sirius a solid reputation in the industry.Russ earns his client’s trust and business by demonstrating expertise in the Digital Marketing space and creating a tailored and clear Digital Transformation Roadmap. He has a strong ability to create a vision and phased execution plan out of ambiguity. By combining multiple business objectives, competing stakeholder priorities, and business challenges with current technology landscape and Adobe offerings into a clear vision, Russ gains client confidence in his team’s ability to deliver.

Delivered projects across the web / digital spectrum:o eCommerce and mCommerce implementations – full lifecycle plus ongoing operationso Mobile roadmap / strategy, mobile implementations, responsive UIo Portals - Internal corporate and Customer-facingo Cloud infrastructure, including Amazon Web Services and VMwareo Data center migrationo Web Security / Identity Access Management upgradeso Performance testing and optimizationManaged global teams of developers, architects, business analysts, and project managersAuthored Statements of Work, negotiated contract terms, and drove closure of new projectsMade significant contributions to internal PMO development and organizational processes

Managed two very large eCommerce projects based on IBM WebSphere CommerceManaged third-party QA and Reporting teamsOwned eCommerce PMO process improvementsDrove the vision, investment, and adoption of a delivery team management solution based on JIRA

Consulted for Retail industry clients:o Warehouse management system (WMS) implementationso Distribution center process optimizationo Enterprise application strategy roadmapso SAP Retail optimizationProvided retail industry-specific experience to customers on the current industry trendsAnalyzed retail back office system gaps to create enterprise business system modernization roadmaps

- Developed WebSphere Commerce front-end JSP pages- Created a standard eCommerce data loading tool set to provide simpler business catalog management- Performed XML data format translations using XSLT for millions of records in differing formats