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John Pennington is a seasoned IT professional with extensive experience in leadership, technology operations, and consulting. He has held various roles, including Chief Information Officer, Chief Solutions Officer, and Principal Consultant, with expertise in Oracle applications, custom application development, and IT management. With a background in computer science and mathematics, Pennington has worked with top companies, including Boral Industries Inc., Oracle, and Platinum Technology, and has managed teams, budgets, and projects across multiple industries. He is also a skilled programmer and analyst, with experience in programming languages, database management, and software development.

Experience

    • United States
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Chief Solutions Officer
      • Oct 2020 - Jan 2021

    • Chief Executive Officer
      • Feb 2015 - Oct 2020

  • Boral Industries Inc.
    • Augusta, Georgia Area
    • Chief Information Officer
      • Jun 2005 - Jun 2014
      • Augusta, Georgia Area

      Responsible for all US information technology operations. Parent company, Boral Limited, is a global leader in the building and construction materials industry headquartered in Sydney, Australia. Responsibilities included the support of all information systems (Oracle EBS - Financials and Operations, Email, etc) and network/telephony operations for more than 100 locations. Also responsible for the negotiation and management of all software support contracts. Managed an IT staff of 27 with annual operating and capital budgets of 6.5m and 2m respectively.Served in dual role of Director Technical Services managing network, telephony, server and IT procurement support personnel. Responsibilities also included the management of all vendor contracts related to network, telecom and hardware infrastructure. Provisioned disaster recovery center and developed policies relating to the ongoing support and testing of business continuity capabilities.• Managed 30% budget reduction through economic downturn while taking on additional missions

  • Absolutions, Inc.
    • Augusta, Georgia Area
    • Principal
      • Mar 1998 - May 2005
      • Augusta, Georgia Area

      Founder of Absolutions Inc. which provided Oracle applications consulting as well as custom application development. Projects included Oracle applications customizations (Versions 10.7SC - 11.5.9) as well as in house development of custom applications for Boral Bricks, Inc. Served as the Project Leader for a team of 5 developers on the customization and implementation of Oracle’s Process Manufacturing system (OPM Version 11i) in 2002. Responsible for the design and development of application extensions for Oracle Financials and Process Manufacturing using Forms, Reports, Custom pll and UNIX scripting.

    • Senior Consultant
      • 1997 - 1998

      Served as the senior resource for an Oracle consulting practice and was also responsible for business development for the practice. Customers included Boral Industries Inc., Westinghouse Savannah River Company among others in the Southeast US.

    • Principal Consultant
      • 1994 - 1997

      Served as a Principal Consultant in a government consulting practice providing custom application development services. Customers included Computer Sciences Corporation, National Defense University, National Finance Center and Westinghouse Savannah River Company.

    • Programmer/Analyst/Senior Analyst
      • 1986 - 1994

      Began career as a programmer/analyst at Nuclear Data Inc. Subsequently recruited to DuPont and progressed to positions of increasing responsibility while working at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site. Obtained Department of Defense experience at Fort Gordon as a co-op programmer in the Directorate of Combat Development (DCD) while in college.

Education

  • 1983 - 1987
    Augusta University (formerly Augusta State University)
    Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

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