Noel, Missouri, United States
Visionary VP of IT with 25+ years driving digital transformation and operational excellence across billion-dollar enterprises. Proven ability to elevate IT from cost center to business enabler—delivering $10M+ in quantifiable value through technology modernization. Builder of high-performing teams and strategic partnerships. Expert in enterprise applications (SAP S/4 HANA, cloud ERP), application development, data platforms, infrastructure modernization, and organizational change management. Skilled at partnering with C-suite leaders to align technology investments with business objectives while managing multi-million dollar budgets and vendor relationships.Skills• Digital Transformation: Leading enterprise-wide modernization programs and strategic roadmap development.• Enterprise Program Management: Overseeing multiple transformation projects simultaneously.• Agile Methodologies: Leveraging Agile software principles to drive incremental business value.• Application Development: Architecting and developing key software solutions that enable critical business functions.• Financial Management: Overseeing multi-million-dollar capital budgets ($2M–$5M annually) and supporting enterprise accounting needs.• Change Management: Building strong organizational cultures and managing executive-level communications.• ERP Ecosystem: Expert-level implementation of S/4 HANA, SAC, EPPM, and SuccessFactors, including integrations with external operational and purchasing solutions.• Data & AI: Architecting governed data environments, building advanced analytics, and enabling AI interfaces to data and systems.• Cloud Strategy: Designing public and private cloud roadmaps, including VMware, Azure, and Office 365 migrations.• Enterprise Architecture: Leading IT business alignment and strategy, developing IT investment plans, and establishing key IT governance capabilities.• Security & Compliance: Managing ransomware recovery, malware protection, and HIPAA/PCI compliance.
• Improved overall enterprise effectiveness by leading major digital transformations of custom Rail Transportation Systems, SAP Cloud ERP, and Data and Analytics platform. • Achieved 5x ROI through multi-year digital transformation to next-generation rail transportation management solution on Microsoft Azure providing greater that 99.9% availability for critical infrastructure work. • Recovered 400 hours of daily productivity by architecting a mobile logistics solution that streamlined rail inventory and train movements; significantly reduced operational lag and manual data entry errors for field, customer service, and dispatch teams. • Saved $1.5 million of operating expense annually through delivery of internal lead-to-cash solution addressing all the complexity of rail pricing, settlement, and invoicing. • Enabled improved user capabilities through introduction of AI digital assistant to rail management solution. • Improved overall financial planning and reporting multi-year SAP cloud implementation leveraging S/4 HANA, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), and Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management (EPPM). • Reduced annual planning process by over 30 days through implementation of SAC Planning. • Enabled better corporate decision making for annual planning, fuel management, and logistics P&L by delivering a multi-year data platform upgrade, consolidating legacy information systems into a cohesive, governed Databricks environment that leverages AI analysis capabilities. • Launched several AI initiatives to improve enterprise performance, including the use of Github Copilot for developers, Copilot Studio agent development for customer service ticket processing, Joule AI for SAP and SuccessFactors, and custom AI digital assistant for rail management solution to improve user capabilities using Azure OpenAI. • Spearheaded the recovery of 400 critical corporate servers following a major ransomware attack saving the organization over $1 million in extortion costs.
• Established multi-year end-user computing and collaboration strategy focused on improving the enterprise application delivery platform and enhancing collaboration between various groups. • Reduced corporate expenses by $10 million while also saving associates money through the launch of BYOD mobile phone project by orchestrating a cross-functional team of IT, HR, Communications, and telecom carriers. • Enabled 20% savings on client device lifecycle management through Device as a Service (DaaS) initiative with key partner relative to existing delivery mechanism. • Improved store productivity by enabling BYOD capabilities so that store managers could access inventory management applications as well as email from their personal devices. • Achieved over $10 million savings through deployment of automated printer toner management delivery solution. • Ensured HIPAA and PCI compliance for point-of-sale (POS) devices under regulation. • Verified architecture of vendor self-service POS solutions.
• Managed enterprise architecture team, responsible for developing and evangelizing IT strategies. • Streamlined operations, increased agility, and reduced costs through cloud computing strategy, including public and private cloud solutions. • Reduced costs, improved security and reliability through transition from on-premises Exchange and SharePoint environment to Office 365 cloud solution. • Reduced costs, simplified disaster recovery, and consolidated servers through implementation of VMware virtualization technology and Linux operating system. • Migrated proprietary UNIX systems to standard Red Hat Linux, providing better support for commercial solutions and greater flexibility in software management. • Facilitated better annual IT project portfolio planning through reengineered IT planning process that allowed greater alignment with business strategy. • Developed strategic direction for SAP technologies, including HANA (in-memory computing) to increase performance and provide enhanced reporting.
• Improved customer float on payments by developing distributed check capture solution for B2B lockbox solution that avoided costly delayed in check mailing.
• Developed highly redundant management website levering Java, Linux, and other open-source technology which exceeded 99.9% availability. • Implemented extensive cybersecurity measures, including malware protection, intrusion detection, and defense-in-depth network solutions.