SUMMARY:

• Customer advocate and Industry visionary.
• Demonstrated ability to fast - track projects and enhancements to add value and return on investment.
• Proven expertise in recognition of “low hanging fruit” to add immediate value to enterprise.
• Experience transcends to organization long term planning and road mapping with emphasis on sequential priority to deliver value quickly and practically based on client requirements, current and future technology stacks and industry best practices.
• Skilled in leading C’ Level presentations, workshops, corporate communications and change management initiatives.
• Extensive experience in aligning Corporate Business Unit requirements with IT solutions.
• Experience includes planning and executing ERP solutions across multiple Banners, Countries and Currencies.
• Proven success in consolidation of user systems and business processes in the execution of mergers and acquisitions.
• Experience includes ERP and supply chain consulting to Confidential 300 companies as well as service to privately-held mid-sized companies.
• Career responsibilities include IT System selection and evaluation to support ERP business needs and integration to other systems.
• Drove simultaneous initiatives working with the business to create sun setting of legacy systems, adopting and implementing industry best practices and processes in supply chain including, product development, global transportation and import systems, ERP systems, inventory systems, merchandise planning systems, allocation systems, pricing systems (including price optimization both regular price and clearance), replenishment systems, purchase order to payment systems, and accounting and back office systems. Solid experience in integrating best of breed package systems to ERP system

EXPERTISE AREA:

• Business Alignment
• Process analysis
• ERP audits/recommendations
• Long Range IT Planning
• IT Organizational analysis
• ERP selection/evaluation
• Cross-industry knowledge
• Conference Room Pilots
• Change agent
• Supply chain solutions
• Cost analysis and reduction
• Strategic design
• Global Import Customs solutions
• Relationship Management
• Leadership skills
• Product Development portals (custom)
• Product Design systems
• Store Operations Management
• Advertising and Marketing management
• Project Risk Management and Contingency planning
• Team building skills
• Retail to Average Cost Accounting Conversion
• Process analysis
• Store Operations Management
• IT Organizational analysis
• Procurement to payment technology including PO process
• Cross-industry knowledge
• Employee Portals
• Change agent
• Vendor Portals
• Strategic design
• Organizational Transformation and Change Management
• Leadership skills
• ERP solutions
• Price Optimization Solutions
• Retail Space Planning Solutions
• Big Data
• Data Warehouses
• CPFR (Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment).
• Team building skills
• Assortment Planning Systems
• Project Scoping and Costing
• RFP/RFQ Process and documentation
• Custom System development
• Merchandise Planning systems
• Allocation systems
• Replenishment systems
• EDI/ASN systems
• Warehouse Management Systems
• E Commerce systems
• Direct Store Delivery
• Scan Based Trading

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Cloud ERP
• Hybrid ERP
• Big Data
• ERP Processes & Architecture
• Financial Reporting
• Consolidations
• Supply Chain/Procurement
• Customer Relationship Management
• Human Resources
• Self-Service
• Operating Systems Profit & Loss
• Capital Budgeting/Forecasting
• Shared Service Environments
• Managed Services
• Store Management and Operations
• Transportation Management systems
• Social Media/CRM
• Transportation Management systems
• Global Imports and Customs
• Product Development systems
• Product Information Management (PIM) systems
• Scan Based Trading
• Direct Store Delivery
• Business/IT Strategy and Roadmap Planning
• Financial Planning
• International PO Tracking
• Custom Point of Sale Systems
• Global Considerations
• Acquisitions/ Mergers/ System and Business Consolidations
• Franchise Systems
• Turnarounds
• Vendor Management and Portals
• Internet/Intranet/Extranet
• Team Building
• Security/Disaster Planning
• Training/Mentoring
• Organizational Design
• Inventory Management
• Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR)
• Retail Accounting system
• Ave. Cost Accounting systems
• Change Management and Communications

EMPLOYMENT SUMMARY:

Confidential

Retail Strategy and Subject Matter Expert

Responsibilities:

• Contract work developing strategy and organizational transformation for international Retailers
• IT audit and Quality Assurance of ERP projects
• Principle Consultant, Industry expert, ERP implementation/staffing Company
• Developing RFP/RFQ bids for ERP/Product support client
• Pre-sales and sales Oracle Retail Product Suite implementation/staffing Company
• Assist with recruiting and staffing Oracle staffing Company

Confidential

Oracle Principle Consultant/Retail Expert

Responsibilities:

• Led training and development Oracle Merchandise Operations Management
• Led Strategic planning of Oracle Retail Core competencies and developing products
• Functional Manager ERP Net Suite, cloud ERP, for International Specialty Retailer
• Functional Manager, POS Anywhere, cloud-based POS system for International Specialty Retailer
• Custom Application Requirements and Business Process, Currency Conversion, International Expansion of US Agra-Chemical Company

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Strategize and architect process and data re-engineering to common process and system from Legacy systems to Oracle V.13.0
• Also worked on RFP’s for potential new Retail Clients.

Confidential

Managing Partner

Responsibilities:

• Leadership and direction of Supply Chain and Retail Consulting Practice. Custom development of Mobile apps and Mobile Commerce CRM/dispatch solutions.
• Developed content for leveraging social media in retail space. Specializing in Organizational Change and Transformation Management.

Confidential

Senior Managing Consultant/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed product development and item introduction tool that streamlined item development and introduction, reduced data errors by 95%, and new item set up time by 50% resulting in a tool recognized as “best in the industry” by vendors and suppliers.
• Led change management, training, and communication plan for both client and its vendor partners.
• Called by vendor partners “the best item introduction tool they have ever seen”. The client copyrighted the custom software. This was the first and only software copyright in its history.
• Led business team and IT partners in the “as is” and “to be” documentation of financial planning processes of the Oracle Retail Merchandising Merchandise Financial Planning tool. This successful implementation also included the install of Retail Demand Forecasting ( Confidential ) and Oracle Key Item Plan. Supervised the development of user test scripts and scenarios. Supervised all user testing. The successful implementation allowed client to
• Led change management plan that resulted in organizational transformation and corporate streamlining in attaining SG+A improvement for the organizations planning department. This project also served to standardized merchandise planning processes that were previously disparate among 5 corporate brand divisions.
• Led team of seven business analysts in the acquisition and documentation of enhancement / extensions, design, user acceptance testing and development of change management and training plans for the implementation of the Oracle Retail Merchandising Suite. Additionally led the successful execution of the conference room pilot (CRP)
• Led functional development of Oracle MFP, Confidential, and Key Item planning which allowed client to consolidate and streamline business units, improve planning and procurement efficiencies, reduce planning man-hours by 30%, customized extension to order by Confidential, which reduced ordering time by 25%. Led change management plan that resulted in organizational transformation and corporate streamlining in attaining SG+A improvement for the organizations planning department
• Led business analysis and design documentation for Confidential (G-Log) for a major ERP implementation of Oracle Retail.
• Identified organizational changes and new business processes needed to support new system. Reviewed and identified clients existing work process and dataflow, developed and implemented new process which transferred data entry workload from client to vendor saving salary expenses for client which contributed to the successful implementation of a global transport management system consistent with industry best practices

Confidential

Senior IT Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Led system evaluation and selection process documentation and re-engineering, change management, user acceptance and regression testing, training and communications for below projects:
• International purchase order tracking tool (Celarix / GES), which saved more than $2.5M in reduced import freight costs over five years
• Direct store delivery/grocery receiving system (Softechnics), which saved over $5M in shrinkage savings and missed promo allowances over five years
• Advanced Transportation Management tool (Manugistics) to assign freight cost to individual SKUs and buyers; tool decreasing incoming freight costs by $2.5M over 5 years and maintain Confidential margins by inclusion of freight in cost
• Led scope charter and discovery of return on investment on POS and Warehouse Management upgrade projects
• Implemented packaged Freight Payment System (Manugistics) that reduced payroll and alerted merchants to out-of-tolerance freight costs saving $3M in payroll over 5 years.
• Served as member of multiple cross-functional project teams, which internally developed strategy for a warehouse consolidation as a result of an acquisition. The team installed / implemented technology solutions which revamped and streamlined business processes for the acquisition company resulting in reduced overall costs (such as transportation and WMS) for the combined companies
• Developed a custom Advanced Ship Notice Receiving (ASN) in a subsidiary division, leveraging existing parent company’s technology to reduce implementation costs which reduced receiving time by 35% annually
• Led research and ultimate implementation Scan-Based trading project that reduced corporate inventories by $7M and significantly reduced shrinkage
• Led detailed analysis and scope / benefit of Data Synchronization project which saved $12M over five years
• Upgraded and enhanced packaged Collaborative Product Development tool, resulting in process efficiencies and increased speed to market for import private label products which resulted in a $4M increase in sales
• Led project to automate post-ship allocation process, which reduced inventories by over $1M and improved in-stocks at individual stores
• Worked on multi-division Project Team that converted the Corporation from Retail to Weighted Average Cost accounting method
• Developed requirements for packaged intelligent pricing software tool (KhiMetrics); worked with vendor partner on proof of concept and implementation that increased gross margin by 158 basis points
• Worked on Functional Core Team, which business clients in the implementation of new packaged Enterprise Retail Planning (ERP) system (RETEK) Very deep knowledge of RETEK software. 6 year $60M dollar install of RETEK Beta US install.
• Assisted Business Leadership with aggressive and pro-active Change management plan
• Led functional team in requirements for acquisition of retail chain of 320 stores and integrating the stores retail software, logistics, and warehouse management into consolidated processes and Confidential ’s, procurement and logistics