SUMMARY:

More than 20 years of extensive experience in the following areas: management, strategy, pre - sales, ERP (Microsoft Dynamics AX, Dynamics 365 and Baan ERP), Big Data, project management, business intelligence, architecture, development, business analysis, systems and data integration, and pre-sales. He’s a seasoned manager who has logged many years working for different international consulting firms in the USA and Europe and managed onshore and offshore development teams as well. He has experience in the following industries: manufacturing (Baan ERP, Dynamic AX), multi-channel retail (Dynamics AX and BI), oil and gas (in the role as Hydrographic Surveyor).

BUSINESS AND CONSULTING SKILLS:

• Entrepreneurial thinking and executing
• Strategic Management and Project Management
• Analytical
• Managed offshore and onshore developers
• Presentations and organizational skills
• Strong leadership skills, team player
• Pre-sales, client engagement and RFP writing
• Full life time ERP implementations (Baan ERP and AX)
• Vendor selection
• Team player
• Integrations (from a business and technology perspective)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all development including resourcing, planning, design\architecture, customizations, data conversions and integrations (Dynamics AX, ORACLE, SQL DB, 3rd party solutions) using AIF \ Custom \ DIXF - Dynamics AX 2012 R3 implementation
• Manage / Mentor / Guide Offshore AX Development team
• Involved with business requirements analysis

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Manage / Mentor / Guide Offshore AX Development team implementing AX 2012 R2
• Technical Project Management (Budgeting hours, resources, delivery)
• Overseeing all customizations and integration projects
• Responsible for the architecture and technical designs
• Involved with business requirements analysis

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Development Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage / Mentor / Guide Customer, Onshore and Offshore AX Development team implementing AX 2012 R2 (Multichannel Retail)
• Technical Project Management (Budgeting hours, resources, delivery)
• Data migration
• Estimate / Design Integrations using AIF and other AX solutions (i.e. X++)
• Estimate / Design Customizations in AX 2012
• Upgrade AX 2012 FP to AX 2012 R2
• Build manager / version control using VS 2010 and AX

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Co-founder and CTO

Responsibilities:

• As CTO I was involved with vendor selections, technology and architecture (including BigData / NoSQL such as Hadoop, Cassandra, Cloudera stack, API development for puling social media data such as Facebook and Twitter, MySQL, dashboard design / development)
• Pre-sales activities, Presentations, RFP, Management and Strategic Direction

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Industry Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Pre-sales (preparing demos, research and presentations)
• Architecture / Design of various X++ customizations (integration from/to 3rd parties and AX 2012)
• Write Data Migration X++ scripts (AX 2012) for Customers, Vendors, Products, Inventory
• Installation / configuration AX 2012
• Conducting AX 2009 X++

Confidential, Newton, MA

Managing Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Functioning as the Technical Architect at an AX 2012 Global Implementation project (“Revlon”), part of the first phase: data migration design documents, integration design documents (using web services), architecture, configuration, and installation of AX 2012.
• Dynamics AX 2009 Implementation for a retailer (apparel industry). Developed a new module (forms, reports, and classes) in X++/MorphX to meet their specific requirements. Reports written in X++ (Excel output).
• Data and Code Upgrade project Axapta 2.5 to Dynamics AX 4.0 SP2
• Dynamics AX 4.0 Dynamics AX 2009 Technical support (including Web integration and AIF)

Confidential, Deerfield, IL

Manager / Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project: Dynamics AX 2009 Implementation for a financial services company (Prommis in Atlanta). Responsible for the QA and design of the required X++ development / customizations in Dynamics AX 2009, focused on the financials / order management (including WorkFlow). Managing off-shore team to accomplish the required development efforts. Issue resolving related to Enterprise Portal / SharePoint install / configuration.

Confidential, Rolling Meadows, IL

Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managing a team of Dynamics AX developers in delivering the development (Rich client and Enterprise Portal customizations, including QA of the technical designs).
• Project Management Role / Scheduling development tasks / Issue Triage and Resolution where necessary
• Dynamics AX Build Release Management
• Involved with Code Merge of Dynamics AX and different vendor software packages (eBECS, RedMaple) - this involves heavy X++ code merging.
• Responsible for the Data migration in conjunction with the client
• Conducted Dynamics AX X++
• Conducted Business Intelligence (SQL 2005 SSAS / SSRS)

Confidential, Lincolnshire, IL

Consulting Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership (including hands on work - X++ development) and strategic direction to a team involved with the architecture and development of a Business Insights Framework (Dashboards, reports and data analysis) for the Multi Channel Retail and Food and Beverage verticals utilizing the Microsoft SQL 2005 Platform and Dynamics AX 4.0. Prepared demos and presentations for pre-sales demos.
• Manage a team of developers / consultants developing a Business Insights Framework.
• Data warehouse implementation at Mrs. Fields Cookies: Data analysis, data and metadata mapping (Promotions, Orders, Customers and Products). The data comes from 5 disparate data sources (Email, AS400, Flat files, Internet and Dynamics AX).
• Responsible for the delivery of the data migration using the Retail Quad Ware (data warehouse / BI Solution). This involved data modeling (ERwin), data integration and data mapping between Dynamics AX and Ecometry.
• Project Charters for companies like Pfaltzgraff (PA), and Active Mailorder (CA). This involves discussions around their current business and how they could benefit from a data warehouse implementation (including RFM Cubes, Life time value, and List pull among other functionality).
• Managed a team of developers from an outsource company in India which developed reports and dashboard functionality.
• Have an in-depth understanding of Microsoft SQL 2005 Reporting (SSRS) and OLAP (SSA) tools including Cube and Dimension Modeling (Kimball).
• Conducted in MDX for a large Retail Client.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Senior Dynamics AX Technical Consultant / Architect

Responsibilities:

• Data Involvement with the Dynamics AX (formerly known as AXAPTA) implementations, including reporting using MS SQL 2005 SSRS and SSAS.
• Data migration (using X++ scripts) in the following areas: Fixed Assets, General Ledger, Customers and Vendors.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Architect (Dynamics AX)

Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic direction for the development (including heavy hands-on X++ development) of a Dashboard built within Dynamics AX using Cubes (Analysis Services) and MDX for a major Dynamics AX client CCA Global based in St. Louis.
• Realization of a database driven, highly user configurable management dashboard. This includes the following technologies: X++ (Dynamics AX), JavaScript, XML, HTML, ActiveX and MDX. The data comes from 2 different Cubes: Financials and Sales. The dashboard contains many sections including Trend Analysis.