Resume

Summary

Information Technology Executive skilled at leveraging technology to provide businesses with strategic advantage. Experienced in aligning IT departments with corporate goals. Versed in international business requirements creating single systems for multi-national environments.

Manager of global enterprise systems projects delivered on time and on budget
Able to communicate the value of IT projects to executive management in business terms
Strong leader, able to manage diverse multinational teams of direct and indirect reports
Author of publications on current and emerging information technology trends

Professional Experience

Director Information Technology,

L-3 Communications S&DS (2006-Present)

Managed all aspects of IT services for this international company including the design and implementation of a new IT infrastructure including: network and server architectures. Provided a framework for global collaboration and mobile applications. Refocusing the IT organization on service, delivering high quality customer service verified through internal metrics.

Information Technology Director, Consultant (2002-Present)

Global Health Council, White River junction, VT

Providing IT strategy, analysis and design services for this global membership organization. Developed an IT strategy to better service the organizations mission.

VisualCalc Inc., El Dorado Hills, CA

Provided IT strategy and infrastructure design services for this business-intelligence software company. Enabled multi-site collaborative software development through the creation of a virtual private network, and the establishment of system security and source code control.

Information Technology Director

Powercell Inc., Norwood, MA (1999-2002)

Managed all aspects of IT services for this international company including the design and implementation of a new IT infrastructure and ERP system. Implementation costs were minimized and rapid deployment was made possible through the selection and implementation of a web-based multi-site system architecture.

Achieved a 25% increase in inventory accuracy with a new inventory system
Reduced the accounting close period by half by re-engineering the close processes
Saved a potential capital outlay of $330,000 and reduced the time to implementation by five months through outsourcing

Director of Information Technology, Europe

Thomas & Betts Europe CV, Rhode-St-Genese, Belgium (1996-99)

Responsible for managing all IT services for the European division of this international company. Architected and led the merger of the information systems of Thomas & Betts, Augat and Reznor to provide one consolidated systems architecture.

Order processing costs were reduced by half through the consolidation of multiple warehousing and order fulfillment systems
Customer service costs were reduced by 65% by the consolidation of multiple call centers into one multi-lingual, multi-product call center
The accounting close cycle was reduced from three weeks to three days through the adoption of managerial and statutory accounts as well as multi-currency support
The cost of order processing was reduced by two thirds through B2B transactions
Enabled the rapid assimilation of corporate acquisitions through the design and implementation of a set of standard system interfaces
Consolidated the activities of multiple IT departments from multiple companies, in several countries. This was accomplished by creating a virtual IT organization. Business Operations

Systems Manager, Augat Inc

Mansfield, MA (1992-1996)

Managed the design, coding, testing and implementation of all corporate wide systems for this international company.

Finished goods inventory accuracy went from 90% to 98% and production reporting accuracy from 87% to 96% through the implementation of a bar-code system
Production reporting accuracy, plant production planning and management control in eight plants in four countries was consolidated and improved through the implementation of a global ERP system
Sales managers were assisted in reaching their goals through the implementation of a business intelligence system which provided customized sales reports on demand
Application system problems were reduced from two per week to one per month through the implementation of a complete life-cycle methodology, peer review process, and an application testing methodology

Manufacturing Systems Manager

Augat Inc, Mansfield, MA (1989-1992)

IT spending was reduced by 50% without reducing staff, by migrating from a mainframe environment to a midrange environment. Additional savings came from the standardization of systems across the corporation, and centralizing system support.

Senior Consultant, Price Waterhouse, Washington, DC (1985-1989)

Provided systems implementation, development management, and strategic advice to a variety of private companies and public institutions. Advised the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, AMF Bowling, and Litton Laser Systems on ERP system selection and implementation.

Systems Analyst, Data General, Westboro, MA (1983-1985)

Designed, developed and implemented manufacturing information systems. Developed a custom bill of materials database, worked on inventory applications, provided users with day-to-day support.

Education

Boston University, Boston

MA MBA: Concentration in Management Information Systems
BA: Liberal Arts

Certification

American Production and Inventory Control Society, Washington, DC

Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM)

Publications

"Improving Quality without Six Sigma" Enterprise Systems Journal

"Pros and Cons: Software as a Service" Enterprise Systems Journal

"Five Ways to Promote Your IT Department and Gain User Support" Enterprise Systems Journal

"A strategy for Implementing Systems" Production & Inventory Management Review

"Training Techniques for Implementing Shop Floor Systems" Quarterly Journal of the American Production and Inventory Control Society

Technical Summary

Hardware: experienced on Mainframe, Midrange and PC platforms in centralized and distributed environments.

Communication equipment including: Cisco Products, and 3Com Products.

Telephone equipment including: AT&T, Siemens and Nortel equipment.

Operating Systems: OS400, MVS, UNIX, LINUX and all Windows operating systems

LAN/WAN/Connectivity: Novell and Microsoft AD, VPN-1, Firewall-1

Work Group Collaboration Tools: Share Point, Lotus Notes, Group Wise and Outlook / Exchange

Database Systems: ORACLE, MS SQL, DB400, IDMS/R and DBASE

Programming Languages: ASP.NET, VB, C#, AJAX, Java-script, HTML, FORTRAN, COBOL, RPGIII, FORTH

Application Software:

ERP applications including: Oracle, BPCS
Financial applications including: GL, AR, AP.
Supply chain applications including: forecasting, MRP, DRP, purchasing, vendor management.
Manufacturing applications including: inventory control, shop floor control, product costing.
Order fulfillment including: customer order entry, shipping, warehouse management, contact management.
EDI
Workflow systems.