Director or Vice President, Information Technology Resume

Desired Industry: Information Technology	SpiderID: 3013
Desired Job Location: Toronto, Ontario	Date Posted: 7/5/2005
Type of Position: Full-Time Permanent	Availability Date: 01/15/06
Desired Wage:
	U.S. Work Authorization: No
Job Level: Management (Manager, Director)	Willing to Travel: Yes, 25-50%
Highest Degree Attained: Other	Willing to Relocate: Yes

Experience:
QUALIFICATIONS:

ü Twenty-five years information management experience.
ü Fifteen+ years managing/directing Information Technology Departments.
ü International experience
ü A proactive individual, with a proven track record of developing solutions.
ü Long term visionary, creating winning strategies
ü Highly motivated individual who empowers those around him.
ü A result-oriented, hands-on implementation professional.
ü Ten+ years Project Management experience.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

HUMMINGBIRD COMMUNICATIONS LTD. 1995 - 2005
Senior Director, Worldwide Information Technology

Accomplishments:
· Ensure InformationTechnology is a strategical advantage and aligned with the business strategy.
· Built the Information Technology Department and infrastructure
· Project Director & Owner for the ERP/eCRM Project (SAP/Seibel) (RFP, Evaluation, Selection, Negotiation, Development, Implementation, and Deployment).
· Rolled out SAP to Hummingbird’s European companies, without aquiring any additional consulting fees. Savings of $500,000.
· Established data communications with remote offices(WAN), through MPLS, Land Extensions, Frame Relay and VPN. Resulting in a truly integrated network (WAN/LAN).
· Conducted a complete re-engineering of Hummingbirds’ business processes. Revamping and consolidating multiple stand alone departmental systems with no integration or communications with each other - islands of information. Reduction of fifty systems into two.

Responsiblities:
· Strategic direction of Hummingbird’s Information Technology, internationally.
· Day-to-day operations of Information Technology, internationally.
· Development and adherence of the Information Technology Budget, revising on a quarterly basis.
· Integrating the business processes and systems, business and networking, resulting from Hummingbirds’ acquisitions.
· Implementation of a Total Integrated Business Systems Solution, resulting in a cohesive corporate wide system.
· Information Technology Department, consisting of: Directors; Managers; Business System Analysts; Team Leaders; DataBase Administrators(BASIS); Analyst/Programmers(ABAP); Report Analysts, UNIX Administrators and System Administrators.

ALPHA-BETA INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 1993 - 1995
Consultant

· Developed Design Documents, to image enable existing and new applications, for two clients.
· Assisted numerious organizations on an approach(s) to resolve application bottlenecks.

HUMMINGBIRD COMMUNICATIONS, TORONTO 1995 - 1995
Senior Consultant (Contract)

· Conducted a Process Information Systems Review.
· Developed an Information Systems Review and RFP Document.
· Investigated possible packaged software and other solutions.
· Liason with third party vendors/integrators, concerning desired direction/solution.
· Reviewed proposed Integrated Solutions and conducted a comparison analysis on the different solutions and their costs.
· Documented proposed Integrated Solutions. Analyzed and proposed Systems Direction.

OCS SERVICES, OTTAWA 1993 - 1994
District Manager (Contract)

· Directed the diversification of OCSs' service offerings.
· Conducted technical analysis in the area of Document and Image Management Systems.
· Conducted a study into the current state and direction of technology,
· Researched the trends and direction of Information Technology in the public and private sectors.
· Developed the marketing and sales strategic direction for the Consulting Services Division.

COGNOS INCORPORATED, OTTAWA 1987 - 1993
Manager, Corporate Information Systems 1988 - 1993

· Managed the internal Information Systems department, consisting of: Team Leaders,
Project Leaders, and Analyst/Programmers.
· Developed and implemented a plan for strategic direction for all information systems.
· Established the Fiscal Year Project and Resource Plan, updating on a continual basis and publishing each quarter.
· Developed corporate business systems for worldwide distribution, enabling them to be
information driven and providing them with a competitive edge.
· Created a Staff Development Plan. Through staff training, focusing on their
individual needs, and paying attention to the departments' long and short term technological direction, we were able to reduce the system development backlog by 30%.
· Built and implemented a mechanism to track and analyze the amount of time being
expended on support and maintenance. This resulted in a combined reduction of 10%.
· As a member of the Cognos Product Enhancement Steering Committee established a program to solicit direct input from the customer base on the direction and features of Cognos' software products. Monitored expenditures against budget, ensuring compliance.
· Developed a set of standards and procedures to be used as a basis for all development. This resulted in a 15% reduction in maintenance and a definite improvement in quality.

Senior Business Analyst 1987 - 1988

· Project Leader of assigned projects, ranging from medium to large.
· Implemented, worldwide, third party lead/account management software.

CANADIAN TIRE ACCEPTANCE LIMITED, WELLAND 1986 - 1987
Senior Systems Analyst

· Instrumental in introducing interactive processing in a batch-oriented IBM environment.
· Designed and implemented a system allowing for the diversification of the Canadian Tire Acceptance Product Line. More than 15 external products marketed, without any major modifications.

Education:
EDUCATION

· McGill University - Management Information Systems

· Client/Server Based Computing - Lan
· Joint Application Development (JAD)

Candidate Contact Information:

Name: Abe Reiss
Street: -	Phone: 905-713-6595
City: Toronto	Fax: -
State: Ontario
Zip: -
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