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Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

South Jordan, Ut, Us

Mclean, Virginia, Us

New York, Us

Hungerford, Berkshire, Gb

Barnsley, Uk, Gb

Barnsley, Uk, Gb

Lenexa, Ks, Us

Wexford, Pa, Us

Led Teams across broad technical, financial, and business disciplines. Excel in guiding technical teams on business objectives, tracked progress to ensure project(s) are completed on time, on budget and within scope, thus promoting a level of shared accountability for achieving project deliverables/milestones. This included articulating project goals and scope, translating business requirements into technical/testable requirements, while always ensuring appropriate levels of application quality are adhered too at all times. Continually manage the implementation efforts of new project(s) and new business within current customer base. Maintain comprehensive documentation such as project plans, software issue reports, new feature requests, work breakdown structures (WBS) as well as other metrics during project implementation. Created cost-benefit analyses and ROI assessments that were used as the basis for decision-making on proposed IT implementation projects. Resolved numerous project issues including staffing shortages, tactical matters, scope creep and divergent business and user needs. Executed implementations for a large portfolio of national and international customers including Victoria’s Secret, Owens & Minor, Ingersoll Rand, Orgill, The Container store, Interline Brands, Phillips Feed, Medline, UPMC, Agar Food Service and Perkins Paper. International customers included Kennametal, Sinelco and InterDiscount. Attained numerous highly reference-able clients that supported a 20% increase in sales for 2010 through 2013. This was achieved through exceptional project execution as well as cultivating and sustaining strong vendor/client relationships.

Wexford, Pa, Us

Contracted to provide leadership and direction to project team for a NEW major enterprise medical supply distributor with 47 distribution centers nationally. Successfully managed the roll-out of 41 facilities in a time-frame of 10 months. Managed the entire life cycle of projects such as scope, budget, construction, implementation, training and pre/post go live support. Created user training documentation/curriculum. Assessed business implications for each project phase and monitored progress to meet deadlines, application standards and cost targets. Hired and promoted to Senior Project Manager to plan, schedule and execute all stages of enterprise software, hardware and system implementations. Assessed business implications for each project phase and monitored progress to meet deadlines, standards and cost targets.

Acted as the primary interface between clients and partners during the planning, installation and customer acceptance phases of all projects. Managed the implementation of Vocollect Voice solutions in a “proof of concept” and/or production system environment with the mutually agreed upon project plan. Managed implementation process and interfaced internally and externally to ensure all milestones were achieved successfully. Maintained comprehensive documentation of project plans, software issue reports, new feature requests, milestone and work break down structures, as well as other metrics during project implementation. Managed and Implemented complex concurrent projects including 18 projects in 2007 and 11 projects 2008. Clients included Pfizer, Toys R US, Sony Canada and NFI Logistics. Worked with WMS partners including Manhattan Associates, Red Prairie (JDA), Infor, Retalix, SAP and Oracle.

Tampa, Fl, Us

Provided leadership and direction to project team by understanding business processes, gathering requirements, identifying potential usability issues, managing scope, and ensuring that an appropriate level of application quality was maintained at all times. Orchestrated three ERP projects, and indirectly supported four other ERP implementations. Spearheaded the analysis and QA of the development of a warehouse management system for….Oversaw multiple WMS projects from concept to systems launch

Tampa, Fl, Us

Successfully managed and implemented 2 ERP and 4 WMS systems. Involved in the development and QA of migrating the WMS system from a character based system to a windows based environment. (Utilizing SQL and ORACLE databases). Cultivated strong and lucrative vendor relationships (TEKLOGIX and SYMBOL). Administered integrated products, customer relations and open support issues. Coordinated current customer sales for all integrated products, directly sold $500K of new software

Provided leadership and direction to project team by understanding business processes, gathering requirements, identifying potential usability issues, managing scope, and ensuring that an appropriate level of application quality was maintained at all times. Orchestrated three ERP projects, and indirectly supported four other ERP implementations. Spearheaded the analysis/QA and development efforts for all new software releases. Oversaw multiple WMS projects from concept to systems launch.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us