Performance based, hands-on IT & Business executive with more than 25+ years of experience and leadership across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Proven business acumen operating within complex organizations providing unique, cross-functional, executive skills to help companies digitally transform solutions and processes into value added tools and resources. Strong leader able to perform in the board room, lead teams, and motivate individual contributors to accomplish objectives and implement integrated solutions while consistently exceeding expectations.• Equity carve-out, consolidation and optimization of systems and solutions for acquisitions.• Obtained 50% reductions in TCO licensing, development, maintenance and support, while increasing value.• Led worldwide parts distribution resulting in an operational excellence of zero daily misses (flawless execution) on standard and AOG shipments increasing shipment lines per day by more than 30%.• Leveraged Canadian development expertise (near-shore) to facilitate development and maintenance support at an overall cost reduction of more than 25%.• Successful implementations of integrated IT solutions for CRM, CMS, eCommerce, ITIL, SAP ERP, Infor ERP, DR, Telecom, WAN, and LAN.• Leader of more than 8 major Aerospace SAP ERP implementations from strategy – planning – implementation – to value tracking (SAP ECC / SCM / eWM / MM / PP / FICO / SD / eWM).• Reorganization and targeted cost reductions around process optimization resulting in overall savings in excess of 20%.• Enabled advanced Worldwide distribution capabilities (Asia, Europe, U.S., Canada) with the first Aerospace wall-to-wall SAP ERP (eWM) system implementations.• Implemented and led the organizational definition and evolution for IT business partners and the BRM role.• Partner selection and contract negotiations for 3PL services and IT solutions & software (Salesforce.com, Mitel, SAP, Microsoft, ServiceNow, 3rd party, offshore, and nearshore development).• Successful negotiation, facilitation, and execution of contracts for leases (end of lease, new lease), supplier mandates, and data centers.MBA, Wichita State University | BA, Friends University. 10+ years direct distribution operations | 25+ years ITKEY WORDSAerospace, Logistics, PMO, Governance, Strategy, Powersports, Distribution, Leadership, Executive, CIO, CTO, VP IT, CEO, COO, Digital Transformation, Equity, Wholesale, Operations, Salesforce.com, SAP, eWM, Distribution, Logistics, IT, SAP ECC, SAP SD, SCM, SPP, Mitel, eCommerce, Episerver, Agility, PMO, Project Management