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Liberty Hill, Tx, Us

Lisle, Il, Us

Leading the team deploying the enterprise data platform and driving analytic use cases across the enterprise.

Dublin, Ireland, Ie

Driving innovation with lean startup and agile processes to scale results and create a repeatable innovation competency across global IT. We are pressing a culture of innovation and value capture with our dual focus on emerging technology and data-driven innovation.

Dublin, Ireland, Ie

Lead efforts in the development and maintenance of the Hydraulics Group's information technology architecture to assure support of business operations, strategies, and optimization of investment to ensure the group's global competitive market advantage.Eaton Hydraulics is a global leader in the hydraulics industry with 2009 revenues of $1.9B providing services, systems, and solutions for both mobile and industrial applications.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Plan lead for EMS World Wide Field Operations, the go to market function for our $8B Enterprise Mobility Solutions business. EMS includes Government and Public Safety and Symbol businesses.My team manages short and long term IT systems projects and enhancement roadmaps for our Go To Market Systems, Bid and Quote, Customer Service Portals, Order to Cash Oracle 11i systems, Reporting and Data Warehouse Solutions, and Service and Call Center systems.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Lead all Motorola’s information management and data warehouse initiatives, driving $30M+/year in Business Intelligence project spend across all businesses and functions. Created Motorola’s Enterprise Datawarehouse (Oracle RAC 10G + Netezza “Smart Farm”) with a largely outsourced team (220 people, 70% in low cost regions) and built a large series of custom, web-based operational dashboards to standardize reporting of shipments, inventory, and order book, globally synchronizing feeds from 14 Oracle ERP environments every 4 hours. Established the enterprise data model, the metadata toolset & apporach, and implemented the enterprise customer master (Oracle Customer Hub Solution) to standardize our view of customers across BU’s and deliver meaningful analytics for top line and bottom line growth. I am integrating my multiple environments which include Hyperion Essbase, Oracle RAC 10g (2), Oracle 9i (2), Netezza, Brio, Cognos, BO, BOXI R2, and OBIEE+.

Lead the Global Logistics and Fulfillment IT function to drive portfolio prioritization and strategy for our $38B integrated supply chain organization. Drive major global initiatives such as Warehouse Systems Consolidation across our 14 Oracle instances, Transportation Visibility, Hubbing Standards, Retail Strategy, Warehouse Optimization, and Inventory Data Warehousing. Delivered the first Integrated Supply Chain Dashboard for global metrics reporting in 10 weeks to integrate 15 metrics across our 4 businesses.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

As the IT Director for our $8B global Networks supply chain, I defined the Networks’ IT portfolio and re-architected our Business Intelligence strategy. Lead an aggressive information delivery project to provide intelligent dashboard content similar to “My Yahoo”. Our dashboards pull real time production data from our extended EMS/Outsourced Supply Chain, monitor the data for real time control and issue escalation, and marry it with final assembly/demand/order backlog to create competitive advantage in customer responsiveness and delivery. This transformed the operation by eliminating manual spreadsheets and dramatically improving responsiveness/cost with digitization.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Ran our 500+ person global Supply Chain Quality operation across 11 sites and $12B in revenues, reporting into the VP of the Supply Chain. Achieved a 25% reduction in Cost of Poor Quality in 2002; and a 20% reduction in 2003, each equating to over $100M in direct P&L savings year over year by organizing teams tied directly to P&L cost centers such as rework and warranty. The Supplier Chargeback process recovered $7M in 2003.Improved our factory quality beyond 5.7 sigma (achieved 5.71 Sigma globally by April ’03). Achieved an 80% improvement in Delivered Quality out of our newly built, greenfield distribution center, and passed an ISO9003 audit in the first 9 months of operation. During that same time, we went from worst to best on our most critical customers’ scorecards, AT&T and Verizon. I built critical relationships with our customers establishing the First Article Inspection process to self-certify our quality, enabling AT&T to eliminate their incoming inspection.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Setup an internal organization to enable “Design Anywhere, Build Anywhere” by expanding the regional New Product Introduction Centers around the world. Ran 7 NPIC's with over 400 engineers and 150 technicians located in Korea, Singapore, China, Illinois, New Jersey, California, and Florida; and interfaced with 11 global design centers. The NPIC’s take product from 100-unit prototypes through 20,000/day production within a few weeks and have run over 1,500 prototype builds within the last 2 years. Administered a $60M annual budget.Developed design for manufacturability (DF”x”) standards and drove these across all product platforms leading to 3 points of pre-tax profit for the cell phone division in 2002. Virtually eliminated cost of poor quality at launch through very high quality cellular phone product launches from 5.6 to 5.9 sigma, cutting defects by over 75%. Executed the first multi-site, simultaneous cell-phone launch with repeatable 5.7 sigma.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Lead an 80-person engineering team with a $7M annual budget to drive manufacturing cost reduction technologies. Developed and drove Paging’s $2 conversion cost roadmap. Drove product modularity and manufacturability through cross-functional teams resulting in step function improvements in manufacturing cost along a 45% learning curve. Maintained Paging’s worldwide 5-year manufacturing technology roadmaps. Successfully deployed Direct Chip Attach (DCA) technology including large-scale ramp across multiple facilities. Developed a test software platform with new CORBA and Java technology and deployed globally while driving to SEI level 4.

Ms, Mechanical Engineering

Ms, Management