SUMMARY:

• 25+ years of experience. 7 years at the Confidential level
• 100% goal and results focused
• Former Bell Labs developer
• Confidential client level consulting experience
• Current competency and in leading edge technologies (OOD/OOP, Agile/Scrum, Frameworks, etc.)
• RFP/RFI and Vendor relations experience
• Relaxed, personable, open - door management style
• Extremely strong planning, modeling, budgeting, business management and risk management skills
• Particular expertise in the “care and feeding” of organizations that rely on ego-centric leading edge technologists and technology focused managers
• Board level communication and presentation skills with a knack for effectively explaining and justifying complex technology to non-technical executives. Strong executive “mentoring” skills
• Ability to effectively link the technology organization to the financial goals of the enterprise and to manage against published goals
• Reference-able track record for building and operating efficient, goal focused organizations and for maintaining a positive, friendly working environment with excellent retention and job satisfaction
• Extensive industry contact list. Excellent, high-level, recent references

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

General Skills: technology management, product development, proposal development, contract negotiation, technology/business vision, operations modeling, vendor relations, disaster recovery, datacenter design, operations management, business management, structure, governance and accountability, business re-engineering, process engineering, budgeting, staffing, team building, mentoring, productivity enhancement, training, team retention, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), PCI compliance, MS Office power user, MS Excel expert, MS Project, MS Visio

Systems: Great Plains, SAP, Oracle, Millennium, STS point-of-sale (POS), E3, Audit Works, FASCOR, Lawson, Manhattan Associates, Oracle/Retek, Demandware, ATG, Oracle Cloud Commerce, many more

Technologies: software architecture; Object oriented design, object oriented programming (OOP); detailed systems design; system functional specifications; product selection (RFP/RFI); data modeling; database design; network design; ERP; mobile computing; industrial computing; SDLC; AGILE/SCRUM; LAMP; software development; system platforms (Microsoft, Linux, AS/400 I Series, Mainframe 3090, RS-6000, Windows, System 88 / Stratus, .net (dot net), IIS, Site Server, Exchange); programming languages (JAVA EJB, C C++ C#, Visual Basic, PHP, Perl, HTML XHTML CSS, JavaScript, PowerBuilder, Pascal, RPG II/III, PL/1c, Assembler, COBOL); database (ORACLE, SQL Server, MySQL, UDB, ERWin); middleware (MQ Series, Microdecisionware)

ECommerce/Internet: technology planning, technology management, budgeting, staffing, business management, forecasting, business organization, business planning, operations planning

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

President

• Lenox: Rescue of failed Direct-to-consumer platform implementation. Full re-platform
• Rainbow Shops: Full Direct-to-Consumer systems platform replacement (SaaS/On-Premises Hybrid)
• Ashley Stewart: Full web system replacement, contingency plan and fulfillment center move.
• Burlington Coat Factory: Full web system replacement and e-commerce business realignment. Integration of a new web platform with Oracle/Retek.
• Gifts that Give.com: Acting CIO. Business plan and operations plan. Negotiated fulfillment contract, operations software contract, development contract. Due diligence on taxation issues (charity aligned web site). Cutting edge Facebook integration (one of the first fully integrated web stores embedded into Facebook). Launched summer 2011.
• A.C. Moore: E-Commerce business analysis and recommendation. “Fast track” business improvement plan (successful). “Next Generation” E-Commerce direction.
• Demandware: E-Commerce sales and marketing training for Sr. Sales Representatives. “How to Sell to a CIO” Training.
• Various: Due diligence support for private equity firms seeking investment in SaaS firms or retail segment

Confidential

Vice President, E-Commerce & Chief Technology Officer

Responsibilities:

• Seven years as e-commerce technology and e-business operations lead for a multi-brand $3 billion/year, 1750 store retail and direct-to-consumer enterprise. Started and led the New York City based division that designed, developed and operated the e-commerce web platform and all related systems.
• In addition, I wrote the operating plan for CSi’s entrance into the direct-to-consumer retail channel.
• This included the planning execution and operation of all four retail branded web sites, and all of the underlying technology, business operations, process and procedure.
• The underlying technology included the core ERP system, order management system, warehouse management system, product information system, content management system, customer service system, CRM system and interfaces to corporate legacy systems. My division’s responsibility included systems design, systems development, technical operations, business operations, web design, quality assurance, strategic partnerships, customer service operations and fulfillment.
• I had secondary roles in overall corporate technology oversight, M&A due diligence and corporate “vision”.
• During my tenure as CTO the business progressed from $0 in 2001 to $200MM in, exhibiting a 38% CAGR at peak growth, against an internet industry average of 19%, with 14% to the bottom line.
• Confidential was listed in the top 10 garment e-commerce sites by Internet Retailer magazine. The business was profitable 24 months after start-up. I had 38 FTE reporting to me in NY, including 2 vice presidents and 3 directors, with an additional 13 “dotted-line” reports in the bricks-and-mortar divisions. I left when Charming merged the NYC division.

Confidential

Chief Technology Officer

• I was brought in by the Alight’s CEO to accomplish a turn-around by restructuring a failing technology strategy.
• I accomplished this goal and went on to lead the sale of the restructured company to Charming Shoppes(above) to form the core of Charming’s direct-to-consumer e-commerce business.

Confidential

Consulting Practice Manager

• I was the technology consulting practice lead for the execution of numerous multi-year business operations and technology projects.

Confidential

President and Practice Manager

• I was responsible for the solicitation and execution on multi-year business operations and technology projects for the following companies: Telcordia(Bellcore), New York Stock Exchange

Confidential

New York regional engineering manager

• I managed all technical design and technical support activities in the New York metropolitan area for this technology start-up. Bridge Communication pioneered the introduction of enterprise wide local area network technology.