Oversight of software engineering for multiple enterprise applications to support over 6,000 NAPA stores in US, Canada, and Mexico with varying development technology stacks both on premise and cloud-based solutions. Provide IT leadership for Store applications to ensure technology compliance and changing trend in the application engineering space.Management of $11.5MM operational and capital IT budget for Store Systems enterprise applications.• Created high-performance Agile (Scrum & Kanban) team structures by increasing team engagement in strategic business and IT aligned projects.• Reduced development cycle time by more than 30% through better backlog management, leveraging automation, implementing CI / CD principles, and microservices.• Delivered key Point of Sales (POS) capabilities to integrate sales and inventory data with NAPA’s enterprise inventory management system to increase NAPA’s omnichannel sales resulting in +10% same store sales growth• Created new cross-functional application development team to focus on NAPA’s pricing strategy by leveraging data science and development of new pricing applications. • Initiated a 5-year strategy for all Store Systems, Point of Sales (POS), Pricing, and Enterprise Store Web Applications, including People, Process (Methodology, KPIs, IT Best Practices) & Technology (Application Health).• Increased APG IT’s Gartner Maturity Assessment score by more than 500 percentage points by implementing development best practices relative to application delivery (CI/CD) and application strategy (DevOps).

Development of Point of Sales (POS) and Store Systems to support NAPA stores, contributing to a significant portion of NAPA’s $8 Billion in annual revenue. As part of the leadership team, instrumental in facilitating the transformation of Automotive Parts Group (APG) IT into an enterprise class technology organization as well as a respected IT partner to NAPA’s business teams.• Reduced the number of POS versions from more than 20 versions to a single version equating to a ~35% reduction in development resources.• Fostered a culture of project delivery within tight timeframes by leveraging IT best practices such as Agile (SCRUM) methodologies versus traditional Waterfall processes.• As part of NAPA’s expansion to Mexico, implemented Point of Sale (POS) solutions to support localization. • Translated strategic and tactical business plans into application delivery and operational plans to delivery key capabilities such as NAPA Rewards and Integrated Payment (EMV) for POS to increase retail presence.• Re-platformed various store systems application to more current technology stack and facilitated the deprecation of redundant or obsolete applications.• Successfully delivered enterprise APG communications portal on SharePoint 2016 platform in Azure with a custom Identity Management (IDM) solution.

Software Engineering Manager - Omnichannel Selling 07/2007 – 08/2014As part of Macy’s Inc. Multi-Channel Strategy system owner, introduced a Store Fulfillment systems strategy and solution to enhance customers’ Omnichannel Selling experiences by exposing Macy’s Inc. multi-billion dollars of inventory to all brick-and-mortar stores, .com, and mobile. • Developed and implemented a centralized, scalable, dynamic and cost-effective enterprise Store Fulfillment application solution as part of Macy’s Inc. OmniChannel selling strategy to expand Macy’s Inc. direct-to-consumer and e-commerce footprint.• Strategically defined systems solution to capture lost sales by eliminating channel-specific inventory by introducing Multi-Channel selling system capabilities resulting in increase annual online revenue of $2 Billion+.• Generated significant online sales penetration and incremental sales which triggered a rapid rollout of Store Fulfillment to all Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s store locations within 2 years of pilot.• Enhanced Multi-Channel selling, specifically Store Fulfillment, capabilities to incorporate Buy Online Pick-Up in Store (BOPS) as a service offering to Macy’s, Inc. customers.• Introduced mobile application picking features for Store Fulfillment operations to significantly reduce the need for specialized, dedicated staff for picks and pack processes, increasing operational efficiencies by approximately 55%.• Reduced per store start-up cost for Store Fulfillment sites by excess of 85% (~$50MM vs. $7.5MM).• Implemented ConnectShip as an enterprise shipping component for multi-carrier capabilities, rate shopping, efficient carrier identification for multiple shipping origins included more than 530 stores and four warehouses.

Provided leadership for the development of strategic WMS initiatives concerning application development, implementation and support of IT systems, architecture, and systems reliability for Macys.com and Bloomingdales.com online fulfillment. Managed support resources for Manhattan Associates Open Systems (WMOS) multi-tier web application running J2EE, C++, Oracle 10g, and Microsoft SQL Server in addition to Mainframe applications.

Application Development Manager 02/2003 – 07/2007Managed a software development team of Developers, Technical Leads and Database Analysts to meet global (U.S. EMEA, and APAC) needs of the business for the WMS product development and implementations. Warehouse Management applications included Exceed (WMS), PKMS and custom developed WMS applications. Managed and tracked the progress of multiple development projects. Managed estimating implementations cost for development, work plans, project, resource planning and allocation, and preparing annual budgets in excess of $3.5MM.

Lead Software Developer/Analyst 03/1998 – 02/2003 Provided expertise and team leadership for architectural design, development, and enhancement of custom Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), and Supply Chain Management solutions for domestic and international customers. Responsible for resource allocation, and project estimates for managed services solutions. Developed solutions using various technologies including Progress 4GL, WebObjects, Java, Visual Basic and Oracle.