Experience

Specialty Bolt & Screw

• United States
• Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Information Officer

  • Aug 2020 - Present



Disability Management Services, Inc.

• United States
• Insurance
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Information Technology

  • Aug 2018 - Aug 2020



Gilbane Building Company

• United States
• Construction
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director of Business Solutions

  • Apr 2012 - Jul 2018



The Yankee Candle Company, Inc.

• United States
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director of Application Development & Support

  • Dec 2010 - May 2012

  Provided leadership to Development Team including multiple external resources providing programming and support capabilities Responsible for corporate Help Desk and Operations teams supporting custom and ERP applications across multiple channels (Wholesale, Retail, Finance, HR) Key contributor to yearly budgeting and prioritization as well as the administration and execution for Application Development and Support area Developed career growth plans across IT areas of responsibility resulting in numerous promotions of direct reports throughout tenure at YCC Show less

• Director of Application Development

  • Mar 2006 - Nov 2010

  Provided leadership to Project Management, Web Development and EDI Development Teams in support of corporate initiatives Collaborated with Senior Leadership to determine yearly Corporate Initiatives across all Business Units Executed to planned schedules consistently providing guidance in changing priorities throughout tenure in role Created IT Dashboard suite relaying project health from schedule, budget, and resource perspective to Senior Leadership Responsible for creating business cases for IT Project Requests; provided guidance to Business Unit leaders in the same capacity including determining NPV/IRR of business cases Established, coordinated, and administrated SDLC practices, change management administration as well as serving as IT liaison to SOX Compliance audits performed by external auditing firms Managed multi-million dollar operating and capital budgets for IT sponsored projects Managed external relationship with Managed Services vendor as well as several staff augmentation resources Teamed with Department peers to construct Rolling Needs Assessments on a yearly basis which served to guide IT priority and budget Show less

• Project Manager

  • Jul 1999 - Feb 2006

  Listing of higher profile projects managed: Upgrade of ERP system to Lawson Financials including installation of PkMS Warehouse Management System SalesForce.com implementation including integration with back end systems Integration of NSB/Epicor Point of Sale systems from Retail stores to Back Office systems Successfully melded 3rd Party Logistics systems for fledgling Fundraising business Managed the integration of 2 acquired systems into YCC environment Worked with peers to install MS Project Server as corporate project management and time recording tool; evaluated and improved procedures which are still the fundamental piece to capitalized labor tracking Show less

• Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer

  • Feb 1996 - Jun 1999



Myers Information Systems, Inc.

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Programmer/Analyst

  • Sep 1994 - Jan 1996

  Lead Developer creating scheduling software for Public Television (PBS) as well as fledgling cable stations (Encore/TCI channels). Lead Developer creating scheduling software for Public Television (PBS) as well as fledgling cable stations (Encore/TCI channels).