SUMMARY:

• Accomplished executive, with a unique and extensive blend of Supply Chain, E Commerce, Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing, Finance, ERP, and HR technology solutions experience, from a consulting, sales, people development, process, and business perspective.
• Proven ability to assess business needs, mentor team members, implement strategic solutions, and create a competitive advantage.
• Successful leader, with a strong commitment to meeting client goals, and ensuring company success, by examining applications, infrastructure, processes, and team structures, in order to provide quality service to both clients and team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Oracle Financial Suite
• Oracle H/R Payroll
• Retek
• Triversity
• Epicor
• JDA
• EXE
• JD Edwards
• Lawson
• STS
• Profit Logic
• Manhattan Associates PKMS
• Microstrategy
• Informatica
• Business Objects
• Web PDM
• Teradata
• Red Prairie
• PeopleSoft
• Cisco VOIP
• IBM Mainframe
• AS400
• Sun
• Oracle
• UNIX
• SQL Server 2000
• MS Office Suite
• Structured Design Methodologies
• Project and Vendor Management
• MS Project
• MS Excel
• MS Word
• .Net

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Morristown, NJ

Associate Vice President/Retail CPG IT Head

Responsibilities:

• Managed and mentored a development team of 30 business development and technical IT professionals utilizing Waterfall and Agile methodologies
• Initiated and created the processes for this newly formed professional services group within Sasken
• Lead an Epicor financial application upgrade at a fashion retailer in NYC
• Responsible for all service offerings including: CRM, Supply Chain, ERP, POS, Merchandising, E Commerce, DW/BI, WMS, TMS, SCM, Finance, Procurement and PLM
• Developed the Go - To-Market strategy, presenting to Retail and CPG industry executives
• Lead IT organization evaluations, and portfolio rationalization initiatives at a major RFID solution vendor
• Represented Sasken at industry events, and presented our offerings to attendees
• Lead product evaluations of Data Visualization tools such as Tableau, and Qlik View
• Grew the Retail/CPG practice to a $1M business unit within Sasken
• P + L responsibility including return on investment validation(EVM)

Senior Program Director/Supply Chain/Distribution

Responsibilities:

• Initiated the resolution of issues, by mentoring both onshore and offshore resources, related to development and support for a $2M Teradata Data Warehousing Business Intelligence initiative, at Best Buy. Including integration to Hyperion, SAP, and other systems. Effectively delivering this initiative, allowed the client to generate additional business during their peak holiday season
• Led the rollout of a $3M Oracle POS(RPAS) and SAP/BI international implementation, supporting a retail customers expansion into the UK, China, Turkey, and Mexico markets
• Evaluated existing DW/BI, Merchandising, Finance, Corporate Systems, and E Commerce implementation methodology, and business process adherence, governance, and portfolio issues at Best Buy.
• Led the implementation of a $2M Supply Chain/Red Prairie Transportation Management System, which included the streamlining of inbound and outbound supply chain processes, decreasing cost, and increasing timeliness of deliveries to 1200+ Best Buy stores and E Commerce fulfillment
• Sold and led a $.5M JDA, and Epicor Merchandising and Supply Chain upgrade from v7.4.2 to v7.7 initiative at Coach, Inc. in NYC. The team size for this solution was 10 resources.
• Sold and led a $6M Teradata DW/BI conversion initiative at Target stores

Vice President of IT

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded a strategic five-year Supply Chain/Distribution/PLM IT plan, to align business goals with IT initiatives. Lead the evaluation of JD Edwards, Epicor, SAP and Lawson Finance solutions
• Directed and mentored a team of 15 IT professionals, supporting Distribution, Business Intelligence, Supply Chain and all Distribution Center Technology Applications, POS, Infrastructure, EDI/Electronic Commerce, ERP, Finance, and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), supporting a $400M business
• Negotiated and led the implementation of an applications and infrastructure disaster recovery contract with IBM, to ensure business continuity of all NY and NJ facilities
• Lead the selection and implementation of the Gerber Web PDM application, and Lawson for Finance

Senior Manager Retail IT Practice/Supply Chain

Responsibilities:

• Oversaw Supply Chain effectiveness studies at apparel and electronics retail clients
• Quality and sales executive for a 220 person Teradata Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence Initiative, at an $8B retail client
• Evaluated various solutions and streamlined business and IT processes, to reduce costs and prepare the client for an Initial Public Offering (IPO). Led a team of 6 professionals to complete this assignment.

Director IT Practice/Supply Chain

Responsibilities:

• Acted as interim CIO to define the Systems Infrastructure and IT team, for a $300M apparel Retailer, which included E Commerce, PLM, DW/BI, Supply Chain Systems, EMC SAN, SQL Server 2000 and Windows based servers
• Redesigned business operational processes, evaluated “build vs. buy” options, and successfully integrated the PKMS Warehouse Management System, STS Merchandising/ERP application, Lawson financials, Oracle Data Warehouse, and Triversity, as the store systems(POS) solution