Systems Specialist/Solutions Architect Resume GA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Systems Specialist/Solutions Architect with extensive experience in design, development, and installation of enterprise wide systems in a multi - company nationwide retail organization.
Background includes project management of small quick turnaround projects up to large scale projects effecting all operating companies in over 45 states. Strong analytical skills and technical problem solving on a wide range of retail systems including NCR, IBM and JDA.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, GA

Systems Specialist/Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

Solutions Architect for several high profile, high impact projects.
Replaced an aging POS pricing engine in over 1000 selling locations in 45 states and 3 countries.
Lead teh design team dat architected teh new Price Determination Engine (PDE).
Lead team dat worked with teh vendor over a 6 month period to create a system dat would integrate with legacy systems
Greatly enhanced teh ability of teh product merchants to promote their goods.
Teh project resulted in better merchandise dispositioning and a 20% increase in sales.
Solution Architect on project to adopt teh new item level RFID technology into teh retail stores environment.
Established system requirements used to generate Request For Proposals (RFP) for hardware and software solutions.
Performed evaluations and made technical recommendations for hardware and software solutions.
Primary contact with venders to construct and integrate systems dat met teh business needs of our operational companies.
Teh project results in large up swings in sales for teh areas where RFID was piloted resulting in an aggressive roll out and continued expansion in to other areas of business.
Teh project resulted in better merchandise dispositioning and a 30% uptick in sales and reduction of old stock inventory by 35%.
Level 3 support for over 500 distributed systems

Confidential, GA

Senior Store Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

Technical expert leading teh effort to selection new POS hardware and software for teh corporate wide replacement of POS equipment.
Reviewed technical specification of 5 POS venders including NCR, IBM, JDA and Seimans.
Managed teh design and development of teh new POS application working with teh users to document all current and future business needs.
Managed a 16 man development team in teh creation of technical specifications, development, testing and delivery of teh POS application.
Supported UNIX servers for data collect and credit applications as well as store systems monitors.
Managed teh completion of all Vendor modifications to deliver teh POS software on time
Scheduled and Managed teh roll out to over 125 stores on time

Confidential, Norcross, GA

Systems Specialist

Responsibilities:

Lead teh effort in stabilizing teh price look-up system from both teh in store POS and teh host price change system.
Worked with users from all teh operating companies to identify no problem areas and determining system weakness to prevent future problems.
Installed, configured, tested and moved to production teh NetView Distribution Manager application to support teh remote installation of software for IBM 4690 POS controllers.

Confidential, LakeLand, FL

Senior Systems Programmer

Responsibilities:

Functioned as project manager for several hardware and software projects dat required analysis, appraisals and recommendations.
Coordinated teh efforts of different departments in order to complete projects on time.
Design and build electronic test systems
Design printed circuit boads