Steven Beverly Email & Phone Number

Gilbert, Az, Us

Sonoran Desert Crafts is a wife and husband founded small business selling art lesson plans for teachers, and sold scrapbooking kits designed in-house and manufactured in the US.I am responsible for the technology stack, accounting, finance, and general LLC business administration activities. For technology, I manage the Google Workspace and SaaS platforms, including the Shopify store administration including item setup, search engine optimization, subscription management, theme updates, external platform integrations, and accessibility content. For accounting, I manage the financial transactions entries into QuickBooks, month end closing activities, monthly state tax filing, and annual federal tax filing. For finance, I manage the financial reporting, cash flow forecasting, payment processors, money transfers, and fraud claim investigations. For business administration, I manage all business filings with State and Federal agencies.Key Achievements:- Planned the business pivot from designing and selling physical goods to designing and selling art lesson plans for teachers to use in their classrooms.- Developed an inventory and component tracker to provide accurate financial forecasts and profitability by tracking the cost of goods sold (COGS) for every product down to the item manufacturing cost, tax, and shipping costs.- Maintained 100% accurate accounting records in QuickBooks by classifying each transaction, attaching an invoice on every record, and reconciling each account monthly to ensure accuracy to the penny.- Achieved a 0% fraud rate by implementing Shopify and PayPal fraud prevention controls to automatically reject medium and high fraud risk transactions.

Recruited to build out the IT function and lead a global IT team of 9 employees and 5 service providers for a cloud native e-commerce startup. Transformed and standardized business operations across 24 acquired companies through strategic roadmaps, process improvements, and innovative solutions that drove growth, efficiency, and customer satisfaction.As an experienced technology leader coming from a Global 100 company, I brought a unique blend of strategic planning, technical expertise, and operational management skills to drive business growth and transformation by implementing innovative solutions for complex business problems. I drove revenue growth, improved security posture, reduced costs for IT and business processes, and enhanced employee productivity through process automation. My expertise spans technology planning, enterprise applications, service management, cloud architecture, project management, e-commerce, IT support, and cybersecurity, with a strong focus on data-driven decision making to drive continuous improvement across the business.Key Achievements:- Integrated 8 business acquisitions generating $115M in revenue ahead of schedule by developing a cross-functional M&A project template to provide the functional M&A teams with a standard and repeatable integration playbook.- Improved just-in-time inventory demand planning accuracy from 40% to 90% by integrating AI into the process to evaluate transit times, manufacturing lead time, and sales projections to determine best order size and order date.- Led the integration of AI into the e-commerce listing management that increased sales conversion rate by 13%, reduced time for product detail page creation by 95%, and increased weekly listing management from 100 to 2,000.- Led ERP transformation initiative that grew wholesale revenue from $1.5M to $22M in 1 year by integrating retail partners and 3PL warehouses into NetSuite ERP, and automating the sales, operations, and finance workflows.

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Led a global IT team of 40+ employees in the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific regions for IT infrastructure support, software development, and projects. Managed global strategic IT initiatives, integration projects, operations process improvements, IT support for API/EDI integration platforms in the Americas region, and software development for internal tools and services.My ability to work cross-functionally to investigate and resolve complex business problems, frequently spanning multiple countries, led to being promoted and given responsibility to govern the IT relationship with Amazon globally on top of my existing responsibilities for the Americas region. I worked closely with two amazing colleagues from Sales and Operations to stand up the Amazon governing board, an executive group that strategized on innovations pioneered for Amazon and scaled to work across the global customer base. Our efforts to operate as strategic intrapreneurs improved organizational capabilities globally and resulted in $300M in new revenue and $50M in reduced expenses.Key Achievements:- Directed IT infrastructure support and project management for global Amazon integrations, global integration platforms, and Americas API/EDI integrated customers that delivered annual revenue growth from $500M to $800M.- Delivered the global customer integration platform upgrade project on schedule and within budget by automating test case analysis from 100 to 5M per day that resolved 500+ code and configuration defects before release to production.- Achieved PII, GDPR, and VAT22 compliance and reduced Operations expenses by $25M annually by developing new customer data integration specifications that reduced manual data entry from 25% to 2% on 1M daily shipments.- Improved critical infrastructure availability to from 83% to 99.9% by designing new application monitors to capture internal application health that enabled early warning before an outage and resolution of the problem root cause.

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Led the Americas region IT team of 6 employees for IT infrastructure support, software developments, and project management. Managed Americas region strategic IT initiatives, regional integration and infrastructure projects, IT support for API/EDI integration platforms and customers in the Americas, and software development for internal tools and services.* Reduced misrouted shipments by 2M packages annually that reduced operational expenses by $40M.* Developed a new shipping label specification that increased revenue by $9M and reduced expenses by $0.5M.* Developed a shipment data platform that reduced billing team expenses by $1.5M and billing write-offs by $4M.* Developed a digital commercial invoice that increased revenue by $4M and reduced expenses by $0.5M annually.

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Led 3 IT teams of 11 US employees for infrastructure support, software development, project management, and customer support. Managed US strategic IT initiatives, infrastructure projects, IT support for API/EDI integrated customers, software development of internal tools and services, e-commerce marketplace apps and integrations, and vendor relationships.* Developed an API log analytics platform that decreased IT cost by $6M and IT support from 3 days to 15 minutes.* Eliminated $2M in operations expenses for data entry by resolving customer shipment data transmission issues.* Developed a shipment delivery analysis platform to achieve 100% compliance required to retain Apple’s business.* Bootstrapped a third-party vendor program that generated $28M in revenue in the first 2 years of operation.* Developed a Shopify app to support DHL Express as a carrier that increased revenue by $1M annually.

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Led a team of 2 US software engineers for internal tool development, custom data integrations for customers, and new business capabilities development. Developed automated solutions for operations and customer service processes, and integrated shipping systems into customer IT environments to automate warehouse processes.* Reduced operations expenses by $8M annually through a third-party shipment creation and tracking process.* Developed a consolidated customs clearance process that eliminated $0.5M in customs clearance fees for a customer.

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Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), International Business

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Information Systems