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SUMMARY

  • A seasoned IT veteran with over 27 years of total experience, 20 years of IT Management, 32 successful ERP conversions, 23 HRIS launches, 3 data warehouse / business intelligence implementations, PMP certification, a full website rewrite into modern mobile technology and a disaster recovery enactment.
  • A team - focused, hands-on leader with a programming background, I have been successful at empowering users to increase their efficiency and meeting company initiatives by delivering value in a timely manner that executives and departments have been looking for in their organizations.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Senior IT Leader
  • ERP Implementations
  • Project Management
  • Process Improvement
  • Solution Focused

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Bad Axe, Michigan

Applications Systems Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for IT team supporting 10 automotive locations using AS400, MRC, QlikView.
  • Performing project management for Epicor ERP implementation in new Alabama facilities.

Confidential, Horn Lake, Mississippi

Director of Information Technology

Responsibilities:

  • Leader of a team of web and application developers meeting major company initiatives supporting executives, board members and staff in a large AS400 membership organization.
  • Defined and implemented a Business Intelligence / Data Warehouse solution using Infor Integrator tools creating charts, graphs, dashboards, tournament and player statistics, demographics and KPIs, empowering internal users and creating a new Member portal.
  • Led a complete website redesign with all new content in a mobile friendly environment.

Technologies: RPG, PHP, JSON, JQUERY, AJAX, XML, SQL, Cloud and RESTFUL APIs.

Confidential, Sidney, New York

Senior IT Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Established IT priorities, budgets and project timelines supporting electronics and military manufacturing facilities in US, Mexico and China running Infor ERP with over 1000 users.
  • Implemented Salesforce.com to help executives and our dispersed marketing team better monitor important sales leads, conversions, on-time delivery and statistical metrics.
  • Converted all locations to Ultipro HRIS and Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence.
  • Enacted our disaster recovery / business continuity plan during a major flood in 2011.

Technologies: iSeries, RPG, VB, PHP, .net, JAVA, JavaScript and HTML.

Confidential, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Director of Information Systems

Responsibilities:

  • IT Leader for this investment firm, high paced, quickly expanding automotive organization, responsible for managing a staff of 43 in multiple locations and supporting over 2000 users in 28 manufacturing facilities in the US, Canada and Mexico running work order, repetitive, lean and kanban manufacturing for over 100 automotive customers.
  • Duties included developing strategic initiatives, budgeting, systems integration, vendor negotiations, project management, deadline scheduling and team development, supporting business objectives and corporate direction, utilizing AS400 systems and HP servers.
  • Member of the Mergers and Acquisitions Team evaluating automotive companies from an IT perspective, providing feedback to management as we grew through acquisition.
  • After the automotive economy slowed in late 2001, I established a successful plan to convert all facilities over to a common toolset for all departmental functions.
  • In 2002, converted 22 facilities in 6 months to a shared services model using MAPICS XA financials, PERMS HRIS and MAPICS Payroll with full integration into online time clock scanning hardware. led ERP Conversions for 25 plants to a standard software toolset consisting of Infor MAPICS XA, Integrator, Supply Web e-business supplier portal, AC Manager EDI, QuikTrac Barcode Scanning and Shared Applications for plant level data collection and corporate reporting.
  • Developed a Data Warehouse and report generation tools for Finance, Human Resources and Materials Management to empower the users with access to data.
  • Wrote interfaces to feed customer schedules into PLC machines allowing accurate manufacturing, direct reporting of production and label generation.
  • Received the Infor Hall of Fame Award in 2005 for our implementation success with their software suite and partner products.
  • Managed a budget of $7M and maintained a budget to sales ratio of .5% over 5 years.
  • Worked in all phases of project management and became PMP Certified in 2005.

Confidential, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Programmer/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Programmed in RPG ILE, CL, DDS and SQL on IBM AS400 supporting all departments.
  • Technical and hardware specialist responsible for the installation of new AS400 system.
  • Project Leader for a successful ERP Implementation of Infor BPCS across seven plants.
  • Led all ERP training initiatives and worked with department users to maximize utilization.
  • Developed several add-on software modules interfaced to BPCS to meet our unique needs.

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