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New York, Ny, Us

Implementing Infor M3 and S3 ERP systems.

Aliso Viejo, Ca, Us

Large Retail Company, Bentonville, AR• Managed a pilot migration of a retail in-store planning application running on an IBM physical server with AIX 5.x OS to a Citrix XenServer virtual platform running SUSE Linux 11 OS. Estimated savings of 20% on hardware and maintenance.expense yearly. The new vHost configuration has capacity to allow for remaining in-store physical servers to be virtualized for an additional 60% operational expense savings as these systems are migrated.

Miami, Florida, Us

• Worked with IT Security teams to implement a Bradford Network Access Controls system for monitoring and remediation of Wi-Fi and ensure endpoint compliance of security patch levels, O/S and appropriate logon access.• Implemented vADM (n-Layers) application for mapping of IP infrastructure to Application system groups within primary Datacenter. Information provided by vADM was to be used to identify potential systems for Datacenter Co-Location to secondary site.

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

• Working with Global Marketing teams, improved integration between Marketo Lead Management functionality into a SalesForce.com platform. Enhancements helped ensure better quality marketing leads and visibility of sales team qualification and feedback with an estimated improvement in sales conversion by 10%.• Implemented over 100+ prioritized business requirements/enhancements using a time-boxed iterative approach within three quarterly releases. • Guided teams of 8+ persons from various support departments and worked jointly with Business and IT management personnel to address project issues. Managed both internal client/contractors and external vendor teams.• Managed project budget of US $1.8 Million.

Miami, Florida, Us

• Provided technical leadership in the implementation of a full scale disaster recovery solution for all Carnival.com Ecommerce web properties at remote data center. • Working with multiple project teams, instituted x64bit upgrades to eCommerce marketing website Carnival.com with latest releases of Documentum Web Content Management, SQL Server 2008, Microsoft Commerce Server 2007 and WebMethods product suites.• Led project teams in consolidation of physical servers to virtual server technology. Virtualized 200+ physical Wintel servers with 10 VMWare ESX Host servers. Also, merged 12 physical Sun servers to virtual servers using Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 servers running Sun xVM Ops Center. Savings of over $1.4 million estimated in reduced system support resources, equipment purchases, and datacenter space and power consumption.• Setup multiple eCommerce testing environments to facilitate testing and rapid application deployment.• Managed upgrade and testing of Data Warehouse Infrastructure to latest releases of Solaris O/S, Oracle 10g and Informatica v8.• Facilitated technical projects within e-commerce web development and technical infrastructure teams by writing business justifications, obtaining funding, gathering requirements, promoting design reviews, managing external vendors, team building and project execution.• Guided teams of 8+ persons from various departments and worked jointly with Business and IT management personnel to address project issues. Managed both internal client/contractor(s) and external vendor teams.• Managed yearly project budgets in excess of US $1 Million.

Miami, Florida, Us

• Provided technical leadership and analysis for development and implementation of SAP Price and Margin Management by Vendavo to optimize pricing deals and ensure adherence to pricing policies within the SWS Florida Division. The Vendavo web-based pricing application replaced an existing custom legacy pricing application running on an AS400. Net-new technologies implemented included MS Windows Server 2008, IBM AIX p-Series server(s), and Oracle 9i databases.• Deployed Fiorano Enterprise Service Bus to extend use of existing EDI infrastructure for large accounts to automate handling of individual restaurant order, invoice and price catalogue distribution.• Upgraded SAP Process Integration environment to an improved technical infrastructure (XIPI migration, upgraded xp-series servers) to facilitate future growth and managing of company interfaces. • Guided teams (~20) from various departments and worked jointly with Business and IT management personnel to address issues. Managed both internal client/contractor(s) and external vendor teams.• In a complex technical environment demonstrated creative thinking and analytical problem solving ability to manage projects from planning through execution / completion within clearly communicated scope, budget and schedule.• Managed project budget of US $4.9 Million.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

• Recruited to serve as lead project manager ensuring corporate compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley 404 Access Control requirements, reviewing system access of 64 enterprise applications across 31 business units.• Directed the cross-site conversion of two distinct credit life mainframe systems, resulting in a cost reduction of over $1M in operations and programming resources.• Instituted corporate adoption of Method 1 and inspections processes, ensuring quality assurance.• Developed call center infrastructure by instituting enterprise reporting, rapid application deployment, pioneering automated call recording and implementing IT systems, hardware and software and technical support.• Employed IVR solutions using IBM DirectTalk for internal customer service department, allowing approximately 45% of calls to be handled via an automated agent.• Produced a 25% reduction in call times and training by implementing Rockwell Call Center Studio CRM solutions.

Master, Business Administration - International Business Specialty

Bachelor Of Science, Electrical Engineering