Lincolnshire, Illinois, United States
Technology and Program Management executive who specializes in leading technology and organizational change initiatives. Extensive experience in program management, technology implementations and vendor management. Specialties: PMO processes and governance, project leadership, data center outsourcing, portfolio management, portfolio roadmap creation, and application development.
Strong leader providing professional services in technology strategy development and execution of transformational initiatives. Strong experience in strategic planning and implementations for large scale ERP, business process redesign, and technology roadmap creation and execution, ensuring strong achievement of desired business outcomes.
Leader for the ERP Systems group, primarily focused on delivery and support for all SAP systems (S/4 Manufacturing, ECC, SCM/APO running on HANA) plus EDI and HR Systems. Responsible for global SAP implementations, ensuring system availability and performance, project delivery and order to cash and procure to pay business process support and enablement.
Leader of the Shared Services Organization, which includes the Project Management Office and Application Development. Responsible for project delivery across the IT organization, including, resource capacity management, delivery governance, project finance, and application development across project delivery and operational support.
Providing professional services in Program Management and leadership for large business transformational efforts. Currently leading a large global infrastructure rebuild project for a major global pharmaceutical manufacturer. This project will deliver significant year over year risk reduction to manufacturing operations and provide high availability and reliability to the IT Infrastructure. Other responsibilities have included leading strategic eCommerce initiatives at a top 10 eCommerce company, implementing a new data center and disaster recovery strategy for that same retailer, and leading a data center outsourcing and application virtualization program for a major US airline. Also lead a transformational implementation of a passenger management solution at the same airline. The implementation was featured in the Wall Street Journal as setting the standard for airline passenger management system implementations.
Program Manager for a set of major infrastructure rebuild projects for locations throughout the world. Overall delivery accountability for the program. The scope includes delivering a complete rebuild of the infrastructure at locations in the US and abroad, including new LAN, Wireless, VM Server farm, SAN, and facilities upgrades to support the standards based highly available infrastructure. Responsible for setting up and executing on a governance structure to manage scope, schedule and budget for the overall program in order to ensure successful delivery.
Responsible for Program Management and delivery of several transformational initiatives at OfficeMax. Program Manager - SAP CRM integrations implementation - Managed off shore/on shore development, integration and Quality Assurance testing to ensure successful delivery of the SAP CRM program. Program Manager - Disaster Recovery. Responsible for the successful migration to a new data center and disaster recovery site for all eCommerce, Enterprise Service Bus, and EDI capabilities at OfficeMax. Successfully implemented and tested architectures to meet Disaster Recovery SLAs and meet board commitments on Disaster Recovery for OfficeMax. The team met all budget, time and scope commitments. Program Manager - eCommerce Mulit-Channel. Currently responsible for implementation of multi-channel eCommerce strategies, including implementation of cross channel initiatives for both B2C and B2B initiatives.