Tom Laplante (Lee) Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

Houston, Tx, Us

Southlake , Texas, Us

RobotLab.com is the worlds largest and most experienced implementer of robotic solutions. Las Vegas Robotics, LLC will be implementing robotic solutions to the hospitality, cleaning, education, restaurant, entertainment and office industries throughout the Las Vegas market.

Provide fractional and interim CIO/CTO/COO/CDO/CSO services to companies of various sizes.• Interim CIO/CTO for rapidly growing Healthcare service provider.• Board of Advisors member for an online gaming startup company. Developed data analytics strategy, digital marketing plan, and road-map to segment customers by demographics.• Interim CDO (Chief Digital Officer) for an e-sports company.• Fractional COO and Chief Strategy Officer for a west Texas golf entertainment company• Temp CIO for a crowd sourcing real estate portal to provide 1031 exchanges with $1B+ in listings.• Board of Advisors for Dor Technologies a retail foot traffic counter solution.

Inspire.world offers a revolutionary new way to fundraise combining online retail, mobile marketing and advertising used to raise money virtually for Non-profits, Schools, Teams and Churches requiring NO COST and almost NO WORK. Our unique white label model integrates web-based fundraising with mobile-based within our fundraising hub to generate multiple ongoing revenue streams virtually for these worthwhile causes.Organizations remain transfixed in the physical world and are desperate for a digital fundraising solution for a web and mobile dominated world. We’ve created a fundraising hub model for these organizations which will make much more money, much quicker and with the ease of digital and social media messaging to their existing networks.

Dallas, Texas, Us

Recruited to fix technology platform and create processes to enable growth from $38M to $400M in revenue within 3 years. Built Corporate and Site technology teams to implement all technologies. • Enabled a $1.2M revenue-per-site increase by reducing site build times 3 weeks, resulting in more first-year business for new locations. Introduced standard processes and methodologies.• Facilitated $350,000 in added revenues per new site by introducing eCommerce capabilities to drive pre-opening membership and retail item sales.• Slashed conference call costs from $250,000 to $5000 (98%) by switching to VoIP.• Contributed to a $Multi-million marketing deal with major global network provider.• Selected to participate in presentations to prospective investors regarding expansion into China, India, Japan, South Korea, and Australia.• Negotiated a 25% reduction in pricing for an enterprise labor scheduling system that enabled a 10% decrease in labor costs.• Increased profit margins 15% for all TopGolf locations by developing standard operating procedures and reporting on all aspects of site operations. Conducted site visits to train and review SOP’s with GM’s.

Led technology and management consulting for large companies. Managed solution development, project management, customer relations, proposal design, budgets, and more.• Improved customer satisfaction 13% for a client by leading a data mining and predictive analytics project that identified customer satisfaction levels for a manufacturing firm.• Directed the construction of 3 Sports Book locations in Las Vegas simultaneously. Reduced build costs 15% by negotiating lower pricing with vendors.• Delivered $3.9M in savings for Charles Schwab by recommending a BI reporting tool.

Las Vegas, Nv, Us

Served in a BU-CIO role, working with CFO and executive team. Established PMO to deliver projects on-time and on-budget. Led the Innovation and New Technology Group. Negotiated software and vendor contracts. • Reengineered the IT governance model and implemented an IT Steering Committee.• Negotiated an $8M savings for a Time & Attendance software solution at Harrah’s Entertainment.• Saved $12M by negotiating a long-term, $25M deal for outsourcing fixed assets and A/P functions.• Delivered annual savings of $12.5M by leading a project to consolidate HR functions for 49 casinos and also Finance functions for 49 casinos.

Managed the design and delivery of projects for clients of this boutique business and technology consulting firm. Clients included NCR, Worldspan, Cingular, and AVNET. Led project life cycles and teams.• Reduced order to payment times 75% for NCR Global Customer Services by simplifying maintenance service offerings and delivering new sales and marketing strategy recommendations.• Saved Worldspan $500,000 per year in disaster recovery costs by leading a DR review that reduced recovery time from 3 to 1 days.• Delivered $1.5M in annual savings for AVNET by recommending outsourcing of network operations.

Global, Us

Sales, account management, project management, and solution development. Supervised up to 15 project managers and as many as 200 indirect reports. Administered project budgets up to $55M.• Led the consolidation of 3 data centers, saving $3.5M for Unilever. Developed the methodology and reduced 3,000 servers to 500 through virtualization. • Raised Ameritrade’s Keynote ranking from 19th to 7th in 3 months through data center improvements.• Saved $500,000 in development costs each for Hyatt, Cendant, Holiday Inn, Hilton, Starwood, and Marriott by developing a new business model to manage how they wrote APIs for online travel agents. • Sold a $5M PeopleSoft solution to a manufacturing firm and completed the project 66% ahead of time.

Amsterdam, Nl

Built and relocated this data center from Memphis to Atlanta. Managed the technical and operational groups to run this 24X7 facility.

Louisville, Ky, Us

Managed all technology and data center functions for this top tier beverage company.