Experience

Douglas Dynamics, Inc.

• United States
• Machinery Manufacturing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Director Enterprise Architecture

  • Jan 2021 - Present

  - Shape the future of Enterprise Business Systems using emerging technologies to improve integrations, business process automation, business intelligence and analytics, and smart manufacturing; ensuring business leaders have the tools they need to execute their growth strategies and effectively measure their key performance indicators.- Evaluate the current state of business processes, enterprise systems, and data to execute improvement plans aligning business strategies and increasing operation efficiencies around inventory valuation, quote-to-cash, supply chain, and shop floor scheduling for engineer-to-order and make-to-stock businesses.- Collaborate with leadership groups to assist with developing divisional IT strategies which align with business goals.- Regularly communicate project status and success stories with Executive Leadership.- Establish an enterprise common data model for corporate finance teams to effectively measure business performance across all divisions through analytics and business intelligence.- Develop a digital transformation roadmap for modernizing line-of-business applications to better utilize cross-divisional resources in a cloud-first environment- Advise ERP implementation and upgrade project managers to ensure a successful go-live. Show less

• IT Systems Development Director

  • Mar 2018 - Jan 2021

  - Directed the alignment of three divisional development teams with their business leadership strategies and develop the roadmap for modernizing core line of business technology stack to ensure future support and scalability as businesses grow.- Stayed abreast of advances in technology and established feasible roadmaps to implement new opportunities throughout the enterprise.- Successful implementation of ERP across eight locations with no downtime.Three successful ERP upgrades at two divisions with no downtime. Show less

• IT Systems Development Manager

  • Jan 2010 - Mar 2018

  - Manage in-house development teams, aligning IT goals with business strategy deployments, enhancing team skills through mentorship and managing annual budgets.- Lead development projects as architect and developer to improve supply chain strategies and shop floor execution.- Architect SOX compliance risk control matrix and ensure adherence through software development lifecycle.



WESTERN Plows

• United States
• Machinery Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Network Administrator / Systems Developer

  • Jul 2000 - Jan 2010

  - Recommended changes to improve systems and network configurations and determine hardware and software requirements related to such changes. - Wrote well-designed, testable code across the full stack to enhance existing functionality in enterprise resource planning software. - Prepared reports and correspondence concerned project specifications, activities and status. - Analyzed user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints. Show less



Robert Half

• United States
• Staffing and Recruiting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Network Architect

  • Apr 1997 - Jun 2000

  - Developed and maintained a Y2K test lab to determine the effects of the year change on current systems and in-house applications and provided level 3 support for servers and workstations on a Windows NT 4.0 based network for Legion Insurance. Milwaukee, WI. - Established a standard configuration for mobile computing and maintained approximately 100 laptops for ABB Flexible Automation. New Berlin, WI - Supervised Windows NT 4.0 roll-out and Novell to Windows NT server migration and provided level 3 support for servers, workstations, and local area network for Rexnord Corporation (a division of BTR Invensys, PLC). Milwaukee, WI Show less