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| Desired Industry: Management |
SpiderID: 15645 |
| Desired Job Location: Rome, Georgia |
Date Posted: 9/17/2007 |
| Type of Position: Full-Time Permanent |
Availability Date: |
| Desired Wage: 200000 |
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U.S. Work Authorization: Yes |
| Job Level: Executive (President, VP, CEO) |
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| Highest Degree Attained: Bachelors |
Willing to Relocate: No |
Objective:
CAREER SUMMARY
I am a highly motivated professional, employed as Director of Information Technology for The Home Depot, Inc., with more than 24 years of solid and progressive experience and a bachelor of arts degree in economics from Princeton University, 1983. I have had full charge of planning and managing multi-million dollar budgets, leading my own successful business, have developed overall business strategies and operational plans, and provided Sr. Leadership in industry and consulting environments. Additionally, I have developed initiatives to help companies improve themselves, and published professional position papers.
PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE
My professional objective is to be part of organization in a Sr. Level Leadership position. I am a strategic leader, and have broad, solid, and progressive experience. By focusing on strategic leadership and operations and business development, I will be able to satisfy my long-term goals.
Experience:
2006 to Present The Home Depot, Inc. ¡V Atlanta, GA
Current Position: Director, Information Technology
IT Leadership
„h Direct up to 150 resources (Directors to individual contributors) for a Fortune 15 Company
„h Have extensive professional network of SAP professionals, consultants, vendors, et. al.
„h Provides leadership and guidance for a $100 Million retail business transformation program, with direct responsibility for finance, integration testing, performance testing, conversions, and environment builds
„h Provide SAP program guidance, mentoring and developing managers, Sr. Managers and Directors
„h Manages offshore resources, multiple consultants to SLA goals, and capital projects execution
„h Provide leadership for expanding the SAP footprint for support of current and additional capital projects
„h Create SOW¡¦s, RFP¡¦s and inquiries for outside vendor engagement, working with our legal department to craft language protecting the company and adequately binding work for the efforts
„h Coordinate the use of other matrixed resources from other support organizations within THD
„h Participates in Strategic Planning of IT Strategy leading work activities and presentations
„h Provides operational organization and focuses capability, turned around expense spending and reducing the actual spend by over 45% while improving the internal business relationship
„h Re-organized support organization to operate more effectively, and uses matrixed resources
„h Trained new managers and provide guidance in on-going training of support staff
„h Instituted structured disciplines, providing methodology where needed, creating a project environment and trained personnel to estimate work levels for building a resource plan for yearly schedule
„h Executes a release schedule strategy for enhancement resolution replacing an as hoc strategy
„h Provides formal updates and works to integrate systems work into projects
„h Regularly lead presentations for large crowds in formal presentations and town hall meetings for Team communication, training and business discussions, and expert panel discussions at trade conventions
„h Published papers on Enterprise Integration and Best Practices
„h Responsible for $ multi-million payroll and operating budgets
1998 to 2006 Computer Sciences Corporation ¡V Falls Church, VA
Current Corporate Position: Director, Enterprise Business Development and Solutions, Federal Consulting Practice
Previous Positions Held: Partner/Principle /Program Manager/Consultant Manager
Projects include:
Clients: U.S. Army, Office Of Inspector General ¡V United States Postal Service, Dupont, Meadowcraft, Inc., Shurtape Technologies, Nortel Networks, United States Postal Service, United States Air Force, Farm Service Agency ¡V USDA, Federal Aviation Administration, NASA, and others.
Business Development
„h Led Business Development and solution development for Federal Consulting Practice
„h Responsible for Account Strategy Sessions targeting specific Federal Agencies
„h Ensured all leads for business opportunities are qualified and appropriately managed
„h Coordinate and drive the RFP, RFI, and proposal efforts to properly propose and sell services to a targeted market, prospect, or existing strategic accounts
„h Coordinated presentations to customers focused on selling software and consulting services
„h Directed resources to tailor company message, focused on prospects and existing customers
„h Drove procurement process, calendar, negotiations and content contracts for implementations
„h Develop and support the Center of Expertise to better define company initiatives
„h Defined opportunities and other third parties for services, hardware, software, and outsourcing
„h Maintain sales forecast and pipeline for frequent review of business direction
„h Followed up with customer engagements, regarding post implementation opportunities like remote monitoring services, outsourcing, additional functionality, training, reporting, and other initiatives
„h Built and maintained relationships with customers and partners in the defined market focus
„h Built and maintained relationships with vendors, Project Engineers, and third party partners to ensure company's leverage in the market and to optimize the company's Industry status
„h Work with the COE to define targeted programs for products and services in the defined markets
„h Conducted Operational Site Analyses for demonstrations, proposal development, project scope determination, resource alignment, timeframe identification, and relationship initiation and building
„h Direct a staff to deliver services proposals that reflects all information gathered, matching available resources, and timeframe, in preparation for contract negotiations
Program Management
Lead the project teams through Design, Construction, Testing, Integration, Conversion, Cutover and Support. Project teams varied from approximately 10-100 consultants with 10-100 client team members for each initiative, growing to more than 100.
„h Kept the project on time, in scope and on budget, adjusting activities to the work-plan
„h Mentored and directed the use of methodology and tools
„h Primary client contact: SOW, Project Plans, resource and budget plans, billing, contracts, etc.
„h Managed expenses, client billings, team member performance evaluations and project documentation
„h Served as integration Architect
„h Designed and manages the execution of the cut-over and conversion plan
„h Provided support for purchasing, inventory, planning and sales order and delivery processing
„h Recruited new employees consistent with company, and current needs, targeted hiring objectives
„h Aggressively built staff in a Corporate Center of Expertise
„h Drove programs and discussions that minimize employee turnover and maximize retention
„h Initiated and chaired employee driven Focus Groups address policies that may affect company
1997 to Coopers & Lybrand Consulting, LLP, Valley Forge, PA
1998 Positions Held: Sr. Associate (May 1997 to March 1998)
Projects: Lucent Technologies, Warren, NJ
„h Part of the Lucent Technology project leading Business Integration
„h Managed Master Data, Testing, Data Conversion, and the Master Data Reference
„h Managed teams with varying number of resources to achieve common project goals
„h Directed at intermediate levels, developed tracking database to manage project activities
„h Operationalized a Program Management Office for project
1996 to Georgia Pacific Corporation, Atlanta, GA
1997 Positions Held: Sr. Systems Analyst
„h Process engineering that focused on business case analysis, design, configuration, training and
„h Identified business processes, operational improvement opportunities, security and training
„h Assisted the Plant Maintenance Group in identifying organizational, security, and training issues
„h Developed manufacturing systems comparison between G-P Gypsum and Domtar
„h Evaluated capabilities, identified key issues, and developed conversion and implementation plans.
Education:
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts in Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1983
Certified by Zenger/Miller in Facilitation Management, 1994
Various SAP education tracks 1996-2001
Affiliations:
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Member of Board of Directors, 1987-1988 HOA, Townhome Association, Dalton, GA
Member of Princeton University Football Association 1984-present
Member Board of Trustees, Oakton United Methodist Church, Oakton Virginia, 2005-2006
Member Administrative Council, Cedartown United First Methodist church, Cedartown, GA, 2006-present
Speaker/Workshop facilitator, ASMC, PDI conference, Cleveland, OH, 2004
Expert Panel Member, American Hardware Manufacturing Association, 2007
PUBLICATIONS
An Introduction to Basic Enterprise Resource Planning Concepts
by Thomas R. Gulledge, Rainer A. Sommer, Jimmy P. Vincent Jr
International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development (IJMED), Vol. 2, No. 2, 2005
Public Sector Enterprise System Implementation: Critical Success Factors
by Thomas R. Gulledge, Doug Frye, Rainer A. Sommer, Jimmy P. Vincent Jr, Mary Leary
Electronic Government: An International Journal (ISSN: Print 1740-7494, Online 1740-7508)
Skills:
SAP, Manufacturing, Retail, COnsulting, Finance, Planning
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