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Chicago, Illinois, US

• Architectural leader for the marketing, distribution, and client portfolio, providing leadership to both the business and technology teams to drive solution directions and recommendations that advance the strategic.
• Partnering with business leadership to consult on technology solutions, provide governance, oversight and strategic insight to all work in the marketing and distributor domain
• Developing architectural strategies for cross domain/ enterprise capabilities that serve as foundational components for the business
• Researching industry and emerging trends in technology as it relates to the marketing and distribution domains and recommending appropriate use cases and considerations for advancement
• Serving as the primary leader driving initial phases for large initiatives to identify and solve for critical business decisions, solution assessments, and recommended architecture.

Mclean, Virginia, US

• Through close interaction with CIOs and Business Partners, I deliver a future-focused EA strategy outlining the evolution of company application portfolios from current to future state.With an aim of achieving the.
• Secured $2M cost by centralizing Salesforce support at the organization; decreased license costs based on usage and value delivery.
• Accelerated consistency and standardization within business processes and technology, resulting in saving overall total ownership cost by defining reference architectures.
• Uncovered business growth opportunities by transforming vet clinic sales execution processes and improving Intelligent/automated capabilities developed on the connected Salesforce Consumer Goods platform.

Midland, Michigan, US

• Amid the development of Azure cloud-based solutions in terms of accomplishing digital transformation milestones, I steered a qualified global team of 10+ employees, developers, architects, and DevOps engineers.For.
• Played an integral role in planning and enforcing efficient market conceptualization and innovation workshops by working with multi-disciplinary teams at potential stakeholders’ levels for ensuring the execution of.
• Spearheaded all aspects related to the integration of microservices and application programming interface (API) for expediting digital CX initiatives by optimizing modernization of the company’s enterprise IT platforms.
• Allowed teams to swiftly deliver solutions to business along with minimum risk of production changes and rapid business adoption.
• Simplified cloud-based solutions design and construction automation via strategic leadership and development of DevOps processes.

Chicago, IL, US

• During this tenure, I provided leadership support and guidance to marketing leaders across regions in terms of availability, delivery, costs, and functionality associated with e-Commerce and digital marketing.
• Devised and applied digital shelf strategy that enabled business marketing, eCommerce, and sales teams to collaborate and publish personalized digital assets and product information towards all sales channels along.
• Planned and employed future-focused business strategies/plans by leading implementation regarding centralized digital marketing tools/processes.
• Managed e-Commerce and technology partners for monitoring contractual negotiations and management, while assisting the company in reaching defined goals.

Chicago, IL, US

• In this assigned role, I directed the planning, coordination, and management of all activities related to the design, development, and deployment of customer-facing digital experiences in terms of mobile, social, and.
• Outperformed and achieved $100M+ annual revenue by re-launching gevalia.com and tassimodirect.com (online direct-to-consumer platforms), while administering project worth $5M.
• Explored lucrative sales opportunities and endless aisle that linked retail store experience with mobile online e-Commerce channel for mitigation of shrinking shelf allocation via virtual assessment for overall.
• Possess exceptional skills in guiding and partnering with Kraft Heinz brands to define new omnichannel, including email, social, ecommerce, and advertising initiatives.

Stamford, CT, US

• Oversaw portfolio of web projects involving planning and prioritization of high-quality eBusiness products. Communicated with business users in identifying and aligning their needs and functional requirements with.
• Led the automation of employee records management, as well as accounts payable and ordering processing operations after building and implementing over 70 EMC application Xtender systems at PB sites in Africa, Europe.
• Made the design and development of an advanced ASP.NET global shipping application possible that helped provide rich internet application functionality and incorporate Web 2.0 features such as AJAX and RSS Feeds
• Served as driving force behind acquisition of $10M in annual business contracts after spearheading the deployment of total postage management system that increased performance, reduced wait times, and provided greater.
• Spearheaded the design of the company’s B2B J2EE web application, an eBusiness product the produced $2M in annual revenues
• Succeeded the completion of $6M migration project from company’s web portal www.pb.com to a new WebSphere platform within a year

Minneapolis, MN, US

• Recruited to spearhead a team of 8 Target employees and consultants tasked with developing and implementing a new, web-based inventory tracking system. Provided training and guidance to internal Target employees to.
• Streamlined Target’s supply chain operations after building and deploying the new, web-based inventory tracking system built using ASP.NET, VB.NET Enterprise Services/COM+ Objectives, JavaScript/DHTML, XML/XSLT, IBM.
• Ensured that changing requirements did not delay project schedules by devising and implementing a collaborative change management process to identify and prioritize business-critical requests.
• Created system design approaches using industry established design patters and modeled new system functionality using use case documents written in UML.

Centennial, Colorado, US

• Coordinated entire project lifecycles to ensure the on-time and within budget development and implementation of high-quality web applications and e-commerce websites. Leveraged strong requirements gathering and.
• Led the development and implementation of a secure, browser-independent application for the Colorado Intergovernmental Risk Sharing Agency (www.cirsa.org) that enabled users to submit property, casualty and workers’.
• Met and exceeded CIRSA’s expectations by enabling new customer signups on the new web application, which helped the agency grow from 12 to 30+ local municipalities within a year.
• Ensured compliance with mandatory State Government deadlines for delivering CIRSA’s new web application by working closely with the agency to develop project schedules that specified launch dates for each product.
• Championed the successful build and deployment of various e-commerce sites, most notably boppy.com, cyberrebate.com corporateexpress.com and spyderco.com.

Detroit, MI, US

• Served as an IT business partner tasked with turning around underperforming client projects and bringing them back on track. Leveraged strong business and systems analysis skills to identify, diagnose and troubleshoot.
• Ensured that a critical MCI legacy mainframe system would continue to function at the start of the New Year by skillfully leading the team of 10 consultants who validated Y2K date infections and completed the migration.
• Effectively monitored and maintained MCI Worldcom’s DB2 production databases in compliance with service level agreements.
• Achieved recognition as Compuware Employee of the Year in 1999 after demonstrating superior technical leadership and project management skills.

Worldwide, OO

Developed functional and technical requirements for a new Canadian Savings Bond application.

CA

Hired to design and develop a new Canadian small business tax registration system using COBOL, CICS, JCL and DB2.

Designed and implemented enhancements to existing store-wide POS applications.

Greenwood Village, CO, US

Coordinated planning, development, and implementation of an IBM DB2 database application to support sales forecasts.

Bachelors, Computer Science

Mba, Marketing