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Albuquerque-Santa Fe Metropolitan Area

Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States

Advisor to client companies in the Technology, Service, and Process and Product areas.

Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States

Member for the Marketing Committee and the Technology Committee.MentorTreasurer

Santa Fe, New Mexico Area

• Key Accountabilities:
• Responsible for providing business consulting directly to owner; included financial and operational analysis
• Relied upon to manage billing, cashflow and payroll; purchased project materials; scheduled shop floorKey Accomplishments:
• Skillfully guided owner through retirement transition by creating and executing strategic plan to sell assets, close the business and lease space in the building he owned

• Assistant Branch Manager - Midwest OperationsKey Accountabilities:
• Responsible for providing leadership to 3 direct reports, 100 management personnel and 600+ employees
• Relied upon to champion long-range strategic planning and orchestrate daily operations of distribution center
• Proficiently managed branch finance; created annual budgets, managed capital projects and operating expensesKey Accomplishments:
• Conceptualized and implemented small pack automation solution that substantially bolstered productivity
• Designed and expanded storage scheme to improve tube packing flow; enabled major expansion of product lines stored while enriching operational efficiencies

• VP in Information SystemsKey Accountabilities:
• Responsible for providing galvanizing leadership to 5 direct reports and 120+ employees
• Relied upon to orchestrate Information Security, Incident Response, Backup/Recovery and System Availability
• Expertly set long-term technical direction for voice/data networks, storage, computing capacity and software
• Efficiently managed IT Department budget and vendor contracts; reviewed company budgets as an OfficerKey Accomplishments:
• Spearheaded hyper-successful warehouse automations projects, which included in-house coding and business logic that empowered the systems department and enabled less reliance on contractors

• Key Accountabilities:
• Responsible for providing effective leadership to 8 direct reports and 35 total employees
• Relied upon to modernize software portfolio and database architecture; ensured software library valueKey Accomplishments:
• Pioneered modern Project Office; standardized and documented methodology for initiation, monitoring and learning from projects
• Catalyst to implementation of core business systems including Billing, Credits, AR, Cash Application, Purchase Orders, Receiving, AP, Supplier Payments and Financial Reporting Systems used to monitor the company
• Championed development and architecture standards, as well as system of peer reviews among developers

• Key Accountabilities:
• Responsible for providing leadership to up to 10 order fulfillment personnel and staff of 30 A/R employees
• Relied upon as Supervisor of Warehouse Operations to manage daily planning capable of ensuring order fulfillment flowed smoothly through warehouse
• Relied upon as Manager of Accounts Receivable to orchestrate credit, collections and aging of accounts receivableKey Accomplishment:
• Successfully automated mailing of collection notice letters during holiday slowdown, which enabled A/R staff to efficiently work the annual inventory

Western Springs, IL

• Key Highlights:
• Paid on-call Firefighter/EMT for my village; Certified Illinois Firefighter III, Fire Apparatus Engineer, EMT, and Hazardous Materials First Responder
• Served term as Treasurer and term as Vice President of the Western Springs Fire and Rescue Association

Greater Chicago Area

• Key Highlights:
• Managed software development projects for computer leasing company specializing in IBM and Plug-Compatible Mainframes
• Visited customers with sales people to setup connections into our systems for customer to manage their equipment portfolios

Greater Chicago Area

• Key Highlights:
• Designed and Built systems to support the administration of the museum and worked with a purchased package for the administration of the School of the Art Institute; used InfoBasic on a Prime Computer running Information

• Key Highlights:
• Part of tech support for the department of computer science. This was really fun because we ran several UNIX machines and (at the time) a new fangled local area network. As an academic institution we were early users.

Mba, Information Science

I focused on Business Policy and Information Science

Computer Science

2 Quarters toward a Master of Science in Computer Science. I ported a compiler written by a Comp Sci professor onto the machine in our.

Ab, Mathematics

I worked at the Art Institute, studied religions, the history of science, and math and computer science. I really enjoyed the Common Core.