Experience

WittKieffer

• United States
• Staffing and Recruiting
• 300 - 400 Employee

• IT Director, Infrastructure

  • Aug 2022 - Present

  Oak Brook, Illinois, United States



The RoomPlace

• United States
• Furniture and Home Furnishings Manufacturing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Vice President, Web Development and IT

  • Apr 2021 - Apr 2022

  Lombard, Illinois, United States • Newsweek America's Best Trending Online Shops 2021 -Home Living category: TheRoomPlace.com and Apt2B.com recognized • Management of the IT and Web/Digital organization including service desk, enterprise applications and support, user experience, project management and solutioning, web application and custom development, and digital operations • Scaling of e-commerce platforms and brands in support of continued retail diversification, new peak traffic trends, and online revenue… Show more • Newsweek America's Best Trending Online Shops 2021 -Home Living category: TheRoomPlace.com and Apt2B.com recognized • Management of the IT and Web/Digital organization including service desk, enterprise applications and support, user experience, project management and solutioning, web application and custom development, and digital operations • Scaling of e-commerce platforms and brands in support of continued retail diversification, new peak traffic trends, and online revenue growth • Managed creation of multisite e-commerce framework and approach for new brand e-commerce execution, including multiple shell sites for upcoming brand launches • Managed creation of customer-facing order rescheduling application to streamline backorder management • Managed projects enabling next-generation integrations leveraging AWS for rapid prototyping, development, version and source control, scalability, and management • Migration to Microsoft 365 and Teams • Lead RFP and selection process for Sales and Customer Service Desk CRM product

• Senior Director, Web and IT

  • Dec 2020 - Apr 2021

  United States • Creation of user experience team • Foundational work for shared services model

• Director, Ecommerce and System Architecture

  • Nov 2014 - Dec 2020

  Lombard, Illinois • Delivered YoY e-commerce sales growth in alignment with business targets and marketing expansion • Online launch of dropship / direct ship program • Owner of web, eCommerce and custom development • Multiple e-commerce platform upgrades, integrations, and migrations (Marketlive, Kibo) • Owner of Web and Digital technology platform integrations (ESP, Testing Tools, Continuous Deployment, etc.) • Integration strategy & execution for point-of-sale migration



Edelman

• United States
• Public Relations and Communications Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Vice President, Enterprise Architecture

  • Jun 2013 - Nov 2014

  Greater Chicago Area This new role within Edelman IT focuses on developing roadmaps for Edelman's future portfolio of applications and services. David works closely with Edelman's global practices and business units and IT application, infrastructure and security teams regarding what options are available to bring Edelman's business unit’s ideas to execution from an IT perspective.

• Vice President, Development Lead - Internet Services

  • Aug 2009 - Jun 2013

  Greater Chicago Area Managed development and staffing within the Internet Services group of Corporate MIS, including the integration of an onshore/offshore development team model. Projects included migration of intranet, extranets, and public facing sites to Microsoft SharePoint 2007, 2010 and 2013 platforms, .NET web applications, providing level 2 internet services support and maintaining legacy systems. Presentations/Panels: - Rackspace SharePoint Leadership Conference – August 2012 - SharePoint… Show more Managed development and staffing within the Internet Services group of Corporate MIS, including the integration of an onshore/offshore development team model. Projects included migration of intranet, extranets, and public facing sites to Microsoft SharePoint 2007, 2010 and 2013 platforms, .NET web applications, providing level 2 internet services support and maintaining legacy systems. Presentations/Panels: - Rackspace SharePoint Leadership Conference – August 2012 - SharePoint Saturday Austin – Jan 2012 - Gilbane Conference San Francisco - May 2010 - Microsoft Enterprise Social Networking New York - May 2010 - Microsoft Hosting Summit Seattle - April 2010 - CIO.com - March 2010 - Enterprise 2.0 Conference San Francisco - November 2009 - World Organization of Webmasters, Illinois Central College chapter – March 2009 - Edelman & Microsoft Webinar – March 2009 - Chicago Microsoft SharePoint Business Strategies Group - January 2009

• Lead SharePoint Developer

  • Apr 2008 - Aug 2009

  Projects include Migration of Intranet, and Extranet to Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 Platform, Integration of SharePoint 2007 into Public Facing areas, and Providing Level 2 Internet Services support.

• Helpdesk Support Specialist

  • Nov 2005 - Apr 2008



Loyola University Chicago

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Resnet Consultant

  • Aug 2003 - Dec 2006