Experience

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  ABC Supply Co. Inc.

  • United States
  • Wholesale Building Materials
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Digital Product Development Manager

    • May 2022 - Present

    Leading a team of product owners and UX/UI designers in the advancement of the ABC eCommerce platform.

  • Product Owner

    • May 2018 - May 2022

    Worked with the business to define customer and associate needs for the ABC eCommerce platform and translated those requirements into stories for teams of Agile, full stack developers. Analyzed multiple systems in order to provide complete solutions for customers.

  • Scrum Master

    • Nov 2016 - Apr 2018

    Worked with multiple teams of Agile, full-stack developers in applying Agile / Scrum principles to the development of ABC's eCommerce platform.

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  L&W Supply

  • Greater Chicago Area

  • Senior Project Manager

    • Apr 2015 - Oct 2016
    • Greater Chicago Area

    Led a program of projects for L&W to separate their IT systems from USG after the divisions sale to ABC Supply, Inc.Led a project to develop processes and implement a suite of tools to support IT solution development. The tool suite included JIRA, Confluence, BitBucket, and qTest. The effort included custom development of a Change Request system built on top of JIRA.

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  USG

  • Greater Chicago Area

  • Senior Project Manager

    • Oct 2014 - Sep 2016
    • Greater Chicago Area

    Led a project to develop and deploy the Cheetah Dispatch and Delivery system - a mobile and web based solution for planning and tracking delivery of wallboard orders. The system was deployed to ~ 136 branches and used on ~ 800 trucks.Led a project to develop and deploy the PROS pricing and quoting system.

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  Drawbridge Enterprises, Inc.

  • Lemont, IL

  • Senior Consultant

    • Oct 2014 - Apr 2015
    • Lemont, IL

    Provides technical program and project management consulting and services in software development and IT infrastructure. Successfully led many complex projects from concept through delivery in a variety of industries including consulting, telecommunications, finance, manufacturing, and research.

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  Productive Edge

  • Chicago, IL

  • Senior Project Manager

    • Jun 2013 - Oct 2014
    • Chicago, IL

    Led teams of software architects, business analysts, creative designers, software developers, and QA analysts in the development of web and mobile applications for a wide variety of clients. Products were delivered on desktop, tablet, and smartphone platforms. Responsibilities included working with clients to define and deliver products as well as identifying new business opportunities.

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  CNA Insurance

  • Chicago, IL

  • IT Infrastructure Consultant

    • 2011 - 2013
    • Chicago, IL

    As a senior consultant at CNA insurance provided technical leadership in a variety of infrastructure projects including upgrading and re-architecting the company’s enterprise faxing system, implementing IP video conference rooms, migrating the voice network from traditional PRIs to SIP trunks, and upgrading the corporate anti-spam and anti-virus systems.

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  Electro Motive Diesels

  • Senior Project Management Consultant

    • 2007 - 2011

    As a senior consultant at Electro-Motive Diesels led the design and implementation of multiple network infrastructure projects including IP Telephony, WAAS, wireless LAN, MPLS, and network security. Led the effort to establish IT infrastructure at several new facilities in the U.S., Mexico, India, and South Africa. Led the effort to migrate email, voice, and ERP applications to an IBM iSeries platform. Establish Engineering tools and IT infrastructure required for onshore / offshore joint development. Led programs to upgrade and roll-out suites of Engineering tools such as IBM Synergy, Change, DOORS, Rhapsody and Siemens Teamcenter and NX.

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  Ajilon Consulting

  • Chicago, IL

  • Senior Project Management Consultant

    • 2005 - 2007
    • Chicago, IL

    Provided project management consulting and services on IT infrastructure projects in the financial industry.

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  Chase

  • Chicago, IL

  • Senior Project Management Consultant

    • 2005 - 2007
    • Chicago, IL

    As a senior consultant successfully led the design and implementation of an Oracle Server Farm for the consolidation of Oracle based applications. Also led multiple projects for Chase to assist them in defining, planning, and implementing projects to relocate computer systems from multiple national locations into strategic data centers. Led the efforts of several international teams from various IT and business disciplines in relocating 90+ servers and the applications on them.

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  Tellabs

  • United States
  • Information Technology & Services
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Director of Global IT Infrastructure & Operations

    • 1998 - 2004

    Responsible for the development and support of Tellabs IT infrastructure and engineering tools. Primary accountabilities included help desk, desktop and server support, communications (voice and data), network security, infrastructure tools (email, calendar, corporate directory, etc.), engineering design and development tools. Responsible for a budget in excess of $45M. Managed a staff of 135 employees in 8 countries.

  • Manager - Engineering Software Tools

    • 1991 - 1998

    Led a team of software engineers on a wide variety of projects to develop software tools in support of engineering. Tool categories included simulation, time tracking, documentation metrics collection / reporting, system builds, customer survey databases, project metrics, interfaces to customer computer systems, and document management. Tools were typically developed in C, C++ and scripting languages on UNIX platforms. Many interfaced with Oracle and Informix databases.

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  Rockwell International

  • Downers Grove, IL

  • Manager - Engineering Software Tools

    • 1985 - 1991
    • Downers Grove, IL

    Led team of software engineers in developing tools to support engineering through improved build systems, design/development tools, and administrative tools (e.g. time tracking). Responsible for projects from concept through delivery.Also led a team of system administrators in improving computer system and network performance through upgrades and expansions (e.g. introduced VAX clustering, links between VAX/UNIX/Mac systems, links between buildings).

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  Western Electric

  • Senior Member of Technical Staff

    • 1980 - 1985

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  Lucent

  • Naperville, IL

  • Technical Staff Member

    • 1980 - 1985
    • Naperville, IL

    Responsible for leading efforts in developing tools for simulating and patching code on a local telecom switching system.Also developed network management interface features on a long distance switching system).

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  Association of American Railroads

  • Chicago, IL

  • Programmer / Analyst

    • 1977 - 1980
    • Chicago, IL

    Responsible for developing programs to extract and report on data gathered by railroad test equipment.