Larry Ku
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Lonny Nathanson
I was Larry's principal business partner at Charles Schwab for a period of five years. He and his team were exemplary in delivering concurrent projects that included multiple enhancements, version upgrades and rearchitecting of Schwab's enterprise CRM. We later worked together at Kaiser Permanente helping to facilitate the implementation of a new Project Management Office, deploying a new third-party systems development methodology, selecting a sales automation and sales commissioning compensation packages, and led a very successful implementation of Salesforce.com for the National sales force under tight budget constraints and challenging management issues.
Karen Kaplansky
Larry is a highly experienced business consultant and the IT Group at Kaiser Permanente was extremely fortunate to have him as their business relationshiop manager. Larry worked on extremely complex projects involving everything from product implementation to systems integration to analyzing and providing solutions for the business to consume. He is able to articulate ideas in a manner that is easily understood. Most importantly, he understand the importance of relationships in business and his ability to forge relationships, especially in diverse environments, is key to his success.
Lonny Nathanson
I was Larry's principal business partner at Charles Schwab for a period of five years. He and his team were exemplary in delivering concurrent projects that included multiple enhancements, version upgrades and rearchitecting of Schwab's enterprise CRM. We later worked together at Kaiser Permanente helping to facilitate the implementation of a new Project Management Office, deploying a new third-party systems development methodology, selecting a sales automation and sales commissioning compensation packages, and led a very successful implementation of Salesforce.com for the National sales force under tight budget constraints and challenging management issues.
Karen Kaplansky
Larry is a highly experienced business consultant and the IT Group at Kaiser Permanente was extremely fortunate to have him as their business relationshiop manager. Larry worked on extremely complex projects involving everything from product implementation to systems integration to analyzing and providing solutions for the business to consume. He is able to articulate ideas in a manner that is easily understood. Most importantly, he understand the importance of relationships in business and his ability to forge relationships, especially in diverse environments, is key to his success.
Lonny Nathanson
I was Larry's principal business partner at Charles Schwab for a period of five years. He and his team were exemplary in delivering concurrent projects that included multiple enhancements, version upgrades and rearchitecting of Schwab's enterprise CRM. We later worked together at Kaiser Permanente helping to facilitate the implementation of a new Project Management Office, deploying a new third-party systems development methodology, selecting a sales automation and sales commissioning compensation packages, and led a very successful implementation of Salesforce.com for the National sales force under tight budget constraints and challenging management issues.
Karen Kaplansky
Larry is a highly experienced business consultant and the IT Group at Kaiser Permanente was extremely fortunate to have him as their business relationshiop manager. Larry worked on extremely complex projects involving everything from product implementation to systems integration to analyzing and providing solutions for the business to consume. He is able to articulate ideas in a manner that is easily understood. Most importantly, he understand the importance of relationships in business and his ability to forge relationships, especially in diverse environments, is key to his success.
Lonny Nathanson
I was Larry's principal business partner at Charles Schwab for a period of five years. He and his team were exemplary in delivering concurrent projects that included multiple enhancements, version upgrades and rearchitecting of Schwab's enterprise CRM. We later worked together at Kaiser Permanente helping to facilitate the implementation of a new Project Management Office, deploying a new third-party systems development methodology, selecting a sales automation and sales commissioning compensation packages, and led a very successful implementation of Salesforce.com for the National sales force under tight budget constraints and challenging management issues.
Karen Kaplansky
Larry is a highly experienced business consultant and the IT Group at Kaiser Permanente was extremely fortunate to have him as their business relationshiop manager. Larry worked on extremely complex projects involving everything from product implementation to systems integration to analyzing and providing solutions for the business to consume. He is able to articulate ideas in a manner that is easily understood. Most importantly, he understand the importance of relationships in business and his ability to forge relationships, especially in diverse environments, is key to his success.
Experience
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Sellars absorbent wipers
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Paper and Forest Product Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Project Manager
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Sep 2009 - Present
$1.5B single-serve food container company with 11 distribution centers and 9 manufacturing plants. Implementing a tier 2 ERP and Warehouse Management System for a plastic food container manufacturer in Central Georgia. • Leading the effort to in-source the division's finished goods distribution operation that is currently handled by a 3PL • Setting up warehouse management, distribution and traffic procedures • Vendor, relationship and project management for 3 vendors: ERP, Manifest Shipping and Freight Optimization • Business case savings: expected to achieve $3M in annual cost savings Show less
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Williams-Sonoma, Inc.
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United States
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Retail
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700 & Above Employee
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Project Manager
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Dec 2007 - May 2008
Project manager for the 9th ranked eCommerce site in the country. • Led the IT effort to replace the resident Kana Connect outbound email engine with a hosted, self-service direct marketing email services provider • Defined and documented detail email business requirements including Bounce rules, global and client Frequency control, email Prioritization according to campaign, A/B testing conditions, progressive profiling and dynamic content utilizing survey and polling • Defined for the host vendor detailed, Deliverability reporting requirements, including number of emails successfully delivered monthly compared to the same month in previous year for six brands across the Top 5 domains, including AOL, Yahoo!, Hotmail, Comcast and MSN. The number of emails delivered incl uded all promotional and transactional messages, store events, outlet, registry emails and business sales campaigns • Worked with IT Security, Network Engineering, Server Group and Desktop Technology to establish connectivity requirements for the system design for real-time operational email transactions to the host through a VPN tunnel. Show less
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Kaiser Permanente
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United States
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Hospitals and Health Care
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700 & Above Employee
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IT Program Manager
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Jan 1995 - May 2005
Employee and former PwC consultant for the country's largest HMO, with 12 million members spanning 5 regions. Program Office in Oakland, CA. • Managed the development and delivery of 22 national and regional multi-year technology projects budgeted at $40 million for the Sales and Account Management business groups across all lines of business including Large Group Sales, Small Business Unit, Individual Shared Service and Medicare and State Programs • Matrix-managed 9 program and project managers supervising 30-plus onshore and offshore (Taha) business analysts and developers on legacy COBOL, PowerBuilder 7.0, Oracle DB SQL, and MS SQL-Server • Managed vendor selection between Salesforce.com, Siebel-On-Demand, Onyx and PeopleSoft. Areas of review included functional fit and usability, vendor capability, total cost of ownership, and technical fit and integration • Worked with Enterprise Architecture to implement a National Systems Strategy defining a standard set of applications and 5 guiding principles across all KP regions: 1) Common systems, 2) Buy v. build, 3) Suites v. best of breed, 4) 80/20 rule, and 5) No IT projects Show less
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Consultant
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Jul 1991 - Jan 2003
Systems implementations, program and project management for Siebel Customer Relationship Management CRM multi-channel practice. • Managed mixed consultant and client teams Systems implementations, program and project management for Siebel Customer Relationship Management CRM multi-channel practice. • Managed mixed consultant and client teams
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Charles Schwab
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United States
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Principal Consultant
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Sep 1998 - Oct 2002
IBM/ PwC Principal Consultant for country's largest discount broker, $1T in assets, headquartered in San Francisco. • Established a Project Management Office PMO with oversight of key watch list projects in the Retail Enterprise of Charles Schwab • PwC Principal Consultant to a client team that deployed Siebel version 2000 on approx. 8,500 workstations across 386 branches, 5 call centers and San Francisco headquarters, one of the largest deployments of Siebel 2000 in the world • Project managed the development of a segmentation, offer management and billing system resulting in improved formulation of marketing strategies based on customer need, execution on those strategies, and the ability to charge both customers and prospects for bundled and unbundled services • Project managed 60-plus Sun and EMC2 system storage vendor and Schwab Operations personnel in four regional cells and two data centers to introduced advanced Sun technology into Schwab Show less
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Principal Consultant
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1991 - Oct 2002
Implementation practice of Coopers & Lybrand Consulting, Chicago and San Francisco. • Principal Consultant for several projects over four years for the New Products Development group to bring new products to health care members: 1) a point-of-service product with an indemnity insurance company, 2) email integration with California's largest state-funded worker's compensation insurance company, and 3) the connectivity and infrastructure components of a contracted provider network in Stanislaus County, the first outside KP's traditional staff model • AS/400 practice manager with P&L responsibility for clients at Baxter Healthcare Renal Therapy, Deerfield, IL • Project manager in the development of IT requirements for a Soviet joint venture company and the Chicago Research & Trading Group, Chicago, IL Show less
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PwC Principal Consultant
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Jun 2001 - Oct 2001
PwC Principal Consultant leading a cross-cient, vendor and consultant team to reinstall a client-server Siebel CRM system to web-based architecture in the midst of two production deployment tracks. • Worked with the systems and enterprise architects to plan the architecture and environment requirements for sandbox, development, testing, production, release and other environments. • Developed UAT test scripts using Rational ClearQuest in the IBM/Rational e-development toolset. • Developed iterative funding scenarios for changing business case assumptions. Show less
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Education
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1988 - 1990
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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1976 - 1981
Louisiana State University
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1968 - 1972
University of Arkansas at Monticello
BS, Double major: Mathematics and Chemistry
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