Bob Buchan

Business Director

Mount Laurel, New Jersey, United States

About

Accomplished IT Director with strong, hands-on experience successfully delivering high-impacting technology solutions that include Enterprise Data Warehouses, the use of cloud-based Data Hosting, and Business Process Optimization programs. Success in aligning business strategies with technology solutions in the Building & Construction, CPG, and Pharmaceutical industries. Areas of expertise include: - Implementing Data Warehouse programs - Business Intelligence Reporting - Business Process Optimization - Vendor management and contract negotiation

Experience

  • Cipriani Remodeling Solutions (Full-time · 9 yrs 8 mos)
    • Business Director
      Jan 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

      Leading the Marketing, Sales, Finance, and IT teams. Developing and executing business plan​s, responsible for P&L results​.

    • Marketing Technology Director
      Nov 2016 - Apr 2025 · 8 yrs 6 mos

      • IT and Marketing Director for this leading home remodeling company in the greater South Jersey marketplace. • Manage 1 direct report. • Designed, built, and led the development of a high-performance company CRM utilizing cloud technologies with analytics applications. • Ensure consistent Attribute and Metrics standards across Sales & Marketing platforms. • Deliver high-impacting technology solutions for: CRM | Business Intelligence | Marketing • Created cloud-based CRM and Business Reporting using an Agile Sprint development process, with My-SQL data hosted on AWS using MicroStrategy Reporting. • Work with Sales and Marketing for continual improvements to BI Reporting. • Responsible for budgeting and performance goals. • Designed a project management system using Trello for the Marketing Team. • Designed company website using Word Press with hosting on AWS and A2 Hosting. • Extensive Experience With - AWS Lightsail | Navicat | TOAD | MS Excel & Access | Trello | Adobe Creative Cloud Suite | MicroStrategy Workstation | MySQL

  • Director Of Information Technology at Granite Transformations
    Jan 2005 - Oct 2016 · 11 yrs 10 mos

    • Directed all IT functions of the company for this world-wide top-performing franchise location. • Managed approximately 25 direct reports. • Delivered high-impacting technology solutions that included systems for: Materials Ordering | Job Scheduling | CRM | Customer Service | Payroll • Used agile development process to quickly deliver client-server based CRM and Business Reporting systems. • Worked with Sales and Marketing departments for continual improvements to BI Reporting. • Recruited, hired, led teams, and set performance goals. • Managed third-party IT vendor relationships. • Responsible for managing contracts, reporting deliverables, and SLA's. • Extensive Experience Using: MS-SQL Server | MS SB Server | MS Access | Shadow Protect | Quickbooks | Exaktime | TOAD | Oracle VM VirtualBox | MS Excel & Access.

  • Senior Datawarehouse Architect at eBay
    Apr 2000 - Dec 2005 · 5 yrs 9 mos

    • Architected, implemented, and ran the data warehouse for their Half.com website. • Moved company from business reporting using spreadsheets to a scalable data warehouse solution using Business Objects and Oracle. • Designed, managed, developed, and ran the Data Warehouse. • Strong Project Management skills with experience in all phases of the complete development cycle: Requirements gathering | Detailed design | Development | Testing | Implementation | Ongoing support. • Experienced in Business Intelligence | Extraction, Transformation and Loading | Reporting | Scheduling | Data modeling | SQL • Tools Used: Business Objects | Oracle | Informatica | TOAD | MS Excel & Access

  • Project Manager, MIS at Campbell Soup Company
    Apr 1999 - Apr 2000 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Business Intelligence Lead Architect • Developed business-specific reporting using web and client-based delivery to over 100 users in sales, purchasing, transportation, and HR using MicroStrategy solutions. • Performed BI development through data modeling and by creating dimensions, attributes, metrics, and reports. • Developed project migration and software upgrade procedures for each environment. • Set up NT security and IIS configurations for each environment.

  • Project Manager, MIS at IMS Health
    Sep 1995 - Mar 1999 · 3 yrs 7 mos

    Data Warehousing Project Manager • Development, implementation, configuration, and support of data warehousing projects for pharmaceutical clients in many successful client designs and implementations. • Web development and HTML programming with over three years of experience designing, customizing, and maintaining customer web-based reporting. • Project management experience coordinating successful data warehouse rollouts at major pharma companies • Able to handle multiple simultaneous development, implementation, and support projects. Pharma client locations served: Schering Plough - Kenilworth, NJ Novartis - Florham Park, NJ Pfizer - Kalamazoo, MI GlaxoSmithKline - Collegeville, PA Eli Lily - Indianapolis, IN Tools Used: MicroStrategy | Informatica | TOAD | Microsoft IIS