Walter Pickel Email & Phone Number

Konstanz, DE

Assisting suppliers, distributors, and retailers with beverage alcohol supply chain solutions by leveraging 20 years in beverage alcohol and the fintech industry. Helping clients make decisions that are efficient and actually make economic sense.

Tampa, FL, US

• Leveraging my almost 20 years with Fintech and Fintech's alcohol beverage clients, I helped management with ad hoc business reporting and analysis, sales reporting, analytic client research, and working with.
• Drove collaborative efforts with development teams to bring about ongoing product enhancements.
• Coordinated and supported cross-functional teams on ad hoc business reporting, sales reporting, and various report analysis.
• Led automation of routine procedures for employees through design, development, and integration of functions with Excel (SQL; VBA).
• Engaged in evaluation and analysis of intangible variance factors to effectively address and resolve complex issues and situations.
• Utilized data analysis skills to create heat maps helping Sales/Marketing define campaigns.

Tampa, FL, US

• Maintained complete oversight of development resources, timeline planning, and resource acquisition, while also collaborating with and directing cross-functional teams accountable for deployment and operation of AWS.
• Demonstrated acute SQL knowledge and served as first point of contact for all system reporting.
• Optimized client offerings through ongoing visitation and discussion of Fintech products and services with various clients.
• Acted as central resource in modelling and analyzing feasibility and potential profitability of new products, features, and enhancements.
• Propelled collaborative efforts with development and support teams to enhance business performance forecasting and monitoring.

Tampa, FL, US

• Oversaw, coordinated, and delegated daily tasks and operations, including banking, DevOps, network engineering and development, partner and client data transformation and integration, and quality assurance.
• Generated 68% EBITDA growth by streamlining and enhancing operations and increasing penetration of new and existing product offerings.
• Oversaw SAS 70 and SSAE 16 annual audits.
• Spearheaded build-out of Fintech’s Remote Disaster Recovery Center.

Tampa, FL, US

• Directed and motivated team of nine developers, network operations, quality assurance and testing, and client implementation while also serving as Principal Develop in complete code rewrite of all Fintech internal.
• Managed SAS70 audits and implementations of auditor’s recommendations.
• Led build-out of Fintech’s On-Site Data Center from concept through launch and beyond.
• Played instrumental role as Principal Developer in Fintech’s first customer-facing web-based application.
• Achieved substantial reduction in force ranging from 36 FTEs down to 24 FTEs.

Diving since 1985, Walter grew up diving golf course lakes for golf balls and the black rivers of the South Carolina low country in hopes of treasure or anything historic. In the US Navy, he became a diver and worked as a ship’s diver (submarines) and as an underwater husbandry diver (submarine tender). After moving to Florida and a break from diving.

New York, NY, US

Underworld (w/t) – Member of a team of intrepid explorers and expert cave divers that are on a deadly quest to explore and find the answers to history’s buried secrets that are submerged in underwater caves across the globe. But finding the answers could cost them their lives. The truth they seek is deep underground in a haunting, alien landscape few.

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Alpharetta, US

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