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Rainbow Shops or Rainbow is a moderately-priced American retail apparel company comprising several lifestyle brands primarily targeting teens, young women, plus size women, and children. Rainbow is also very popular among college students since the styles are fashion-conscious and affordable.Established in 1935 , the Rainbow corporation is based in Brooklyn, New York. The company operates stores under the brand names of Rainbow, Rainbow Plus, Rainbow Kids, Joyce Leslie, Dots, Marianne Stores and 5-7-9, among others. These sell fun and creative juniors, women's and kids separates, accessories, swimwear, lingerie, handbags, jewelry and footwear.Rainbow Stores are an average of 7,500 square ft. Each store’s merchandise mix varies by location, depending upon demographics and the size of the location. Larger stores usually carry juniors, plus, lingerie, shoes and kids departments.There are 900+ stores with a plus size department and 960+ stores with a shoe department. As of May 2023, the company operates over 1000 retail stores in the United States, 120 in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands and also our online business at www.rainbowshops.comWebsitehttp://www.rainbowshops.com

As consumer tastes change and the retail landscape evolves, new business opportunities and threats abound. We offer data, industry expertise, and prescriptive analytics to help our clients grow their businesses in a changing world.The world’s leading companies rely on us to help them measure, predict, and improve performance across all channels. They trust us to benchmark performance, guide strategic decision-making, and improve pricing, product management, new product innovation, customer segmentation, assortment, and sales forecasts.Our Assets:Point-of-sale data from over 600,000 retail locations, plus e-commerce and mobile platformsMillions of receipts from 130,000 consumers, the largest omnichannel panel focused on General Merchandise and Foodservice, covering all channelsMore than 12 million consumer surveys conducted each yearNearly 8 billion B2B transactions tracked annually in North AmericaAnalysts, client development teams, and researchers who deliver data-based insights and forecasts

Selected as a management consultant to integrate a newly acquired $1B company, DST, Inc., covering all technology infrastructure and operational applications into the Broadridge network/data center/application sets, as well as relocating two centers consisting of distributed digital, and in factory electronic financial statement processing. Contributed on the executive leadership committee, as well as participated in all M&A activity, from business case creation to acquisition right through to implementation.Delivered pivotal support in company’s vision to embrace Broadbridge ABCDs (AI, Blockchain, Cloud, Digital).Created and presented portions of the Board meetings translating deep-knowledge subjects, including Airgap, DC consolidation, and Outsourcing to Cloud providers, into understandable business outcomes-focused language.Served as a member of the Executive Transformation committee supporting the corporate infrastructure and application strategy.Instrumental in designing the infrastructure for the largest wealth management client onboarding (UBS) via the Center of Excellence. Tapped to lead the technology organization with an annual operating budget of $120M; Platform(s) exclusively support Wealth Management Capital Markets as well as Fixed income ($10T trading a day).Created a resiliency program for JPMorganChase, allowing for complete trade processing to perform successfully in a secondary data center. This enabled JPMorgan to successfully complete an internal audit requirement to perform this process two weeks a year. Migrated the Fixed Income platform, replacing the legacy hardware. This event migrated 41 Tier 1 financial intuitions in the fixed income business without a single client impact, improving the resiliency and modernizing the complete technology stack.

Developed a senior IT/application-centric team to support life science, medical device, and EMR customers. Directed IT and professional services including upgrades, project management, and customer engagements. Directed infrastructure, application, software, product development, project management, quality assurance, network administration, and enterprise architecture.Implemented a cloud managed services operation, offering end-to-end monitoring services and application dynamic solutions. Migrated SaaS customers with HIPAA and ITAR requirements. Managed the implementation/services of three new complementary products in a cloud-supported model. Including a supplier portal for CAPAs and two SMB offerings supporting quality management. Oversaw design and administration of the company's ISO27001 and e-trust certification programs. Negotiated and participated in selecting three strategic consultant partnerships, which produced a highly skilled and scalable workforce enhancing product lines and customer satisfaction.

Held responsibility for the entire infrastructure and application suites supporting a petroleum transportation business. Partnered with the senior management team to determine business needs and develop an appropriate technology plan. Introduced a strategic training programs that utilized internal and external class settings to instruct staff in all areas of 'shrink-wrapped' and vessel product offerings. Designed and implemented a full Verizon hosted disaster recovery solution.Virtualized all servers, implemented a SAN solution and Avaya IP/Office phone system.

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Highly motivated IT Services Consultant, Managing Systems Integrations, Technical Project Management, and Business Analysis with proven success in engaging and managing highly-skilled technical teams to design and deploy innovative infrastructure and application solutions. Operated in most vertical markets including but limited to: Financial Services, Manufacturing, Real Estate Management, Government Agencies, Software Development, Retail Distribution, and Retail POS, and Non-for Profits.Successful client engagements at the Town of Oster Bay, NORD/LB, First Eagle Investments, Schroders Management, Arizona Beverages, New York and Company, Inc., SL Green, Major League Baseball, Thompson Reuters, NBTY, PC Richard and Son and Girl Scouts of America. Created competitive advantages by utilizing cutting edge technical and business acumen, innovating solutions and influencing positive change across the enterprise. Achieved corporate objectives through passion, commitment and expertise. IT projects successfully completed: Data Center Re-locations, DR turnover, Enterprise Vault Implementation, Compliance Accelerator, E-Discovery, N-Series implementation, NetApp implementation, work load virtualization, IT Assessments, E-mail migrations to Exchange 2010.

Vice President, Technical Services / Divisional CIO: Directed the design and implementation of key projects in support of more than $3 billion in revenue. Led and developed technology staff that performed mid-range systems infrastructure/management and application implementation in support of fixed income, payroll, and dealer services. Prepared and managed all IT budgets in support of monthly, quarterly, and strategic plans—totaling $37 million annually. Managed MQ-Series connectivity to all financial exchanges (for each client). Reported directly to the Chief Operations Officer with matrix reporting lines to three divisional GMs, Service Delivery, Corporate Compliance Officer, and Corporate CIO. Wrote and managed client SLAs and provided the required technology to support their batch and online business. Was a member of the President’s corporate vision team; managed an executive peer group.

Executive Director & CIO/CTO, Technology & Corporate Infrastructure: Led the company’s technology operations; provided key project management (design and implementation) in support of a two-fold increase in revenue to $1.6 billion. Oversaw a $25-million annual budget as well as 125 diverse IT personnel (WAN, LAN, Internet, Telecommunications, Enterprise Application Integration, Client Server, Help Desk, Data Center, Operations, and Disaster Recovery technology groups). Tasked with providing support to the company’s growing business; modernizing all IT systems as well as the corporate infrastructure; establishing a global forum to promote collaboration, discussion, and standardization; and facilitating Y2K compliance. Participated in setting the strategic direction for the company’s eCommerce activities as part of a seven-member executive corporate committee. Provided complete data center management; implemented disaster recovery with an IBM Business Recovery Center. Coordinated annual security audits. Created and published corporate standards regarding Information Security and Electronic Communication. Extensive domestic and international travel: Tokyo (Japan) as well as Hamburg and Frankfort (Germany).

Director, Technical Services: Managed all application and technology conversions — on time. Converted all back office applications from legacy Mainframes to new Midrange IBM technologies. Built a new data center in New York, along with a team to support all operational aspects of the new data center and its underlying infrastructure with remote operations in Greensboro, NC.

Provided technical support for JPMorgan/Chemical Bank’s - Midrange System infrastructure (24). Supported and managed all trading applications for GSFX, MBS, MUNI’s, GMI (CBOT) and FX. Managed a complete in-house disaster recovery infrastructure. Extensive travel to San Paolo (Brazil) and Buenos Aires (Argentina) as well as Geneva and Zurich (Switzerland).