candidate pool - summer 2015

Committed, resourceful, and impactful IT expert has over 20 years of experienceleading innovative solutions exclusively for top luxury retail companies. Retail systemstechnologist offers a unique perspective of operations gained by running over 15freestanding stores across the Northeast region. Strongly skilled in managing andstreamlining critical processes in highly complex, multifaceted, continuously evolvingenterprise environments. This candidate honed high project management, peoplemanagement, and user liaison skills through successful implementations of majorbusiness-critical applications including point-of-sale, merchandising, planning andallocation. Effective senior professional is a skilled negotiator, driven and solutions-oriented; who adheres to a very direct but diplomatic approach in collaboration. Thishighly recommended professional is an ace in the retail IT sector. #10506

Bright, effective, proactive security professional focused on Risk Assessment andVulnerability Management. Polished advisor with a fantastic personality is looking toleverage keen expertise to mitigate risk and creatively apply existing or emergingtechnologies in this vital, underrepresented space. Passionate about security;influential, and personally committed; cited contributor on multiple publishedarticles. Proven professional track record of delivering expertise beyond expectationsthroughout 15 year profession; confidently communicates security priorities to rouseinfo-sec unanimity at all levels of senior management, end user customers, andexternal clients. Established and led Cyber Security Incident Response Team/SOCManagement. Build security strategy, policies, and work flows from the ground up.Very hands on; ready to offer support to your team! #120905

Senior level .Net Architect with over 15 years of highly endorsed, vast technicalbackground. This candidate identifies and delivers on immediate and long term ITstrategies to exceed business needs. Adept at defining and setting roadmaps,leveraging technology in the best capacity to translate priorities and meet projectedorganizational goals. Collaboratively bridges the gap between cross-functional projectteams to identify risks, design integration points, and proactively confront all technicalchallenges at inception. Highly insightful in a way that is rare to find in this function.In addition, this diversely talented colleague is not only proficient at analysis, but alsoat writing design documents, researching new tools/technologies, and mentoringjunior developers. A phenomenally skilled technician and fun personality; acommitted asset to any team. #65925

Award winning executive force behind notable, significant growth for multiple Top500 Online Businesses. This seasoned, accredited expert builds, launches, and leadsnew or revamped brand initiatives in ecommerce, mobile, digital, and socialmarketing. Retail focus in profession spans across many specialty verticals (beauty,fashion, home, luxury, CPG). P&L, team building, Demandware expertise andmarketing program implementations resulted in significant revenue generation,business optimization, and market penetration. Poised to continue on this upwardprofessional trajectory; this valued candidate is eager to launch custom initiatives toimprove UX, increase brand exposure, and increase sales. Talent of this caliber won'tbe available for long! #99080

IT Executive charged with delivering enterprise information management andbusiness intelligence solutions. 25 year background developing full data governanceprograms; exceeding goals to minimize cost maximize quality. Respected/ polishedleader, effectively influences global enterprise and aligns analytics delivery teams.Offers guidance to compel performance in data governance, integration, warehousing,life-cycle management, dash-boarding, reporting, and analytics. Bright, outspokenadvocate for best practice methodologies and continuous improvement; understandskey processes impacting data strategy. Presiding Chair for Enterprise BI Committeefor multiple years, MBA Finance and Info. Systems, owns consulting practice drivingoperational support to an Enterprise Data Management Group within a major MediaCorporation. Open to explore new opportunity. #10489

Dynamic professional excelled in multi-disciplinary IT functions within high-endretailers for over 15 years. Senior Vice President delivered successful, sustainablesolutions for information system operations to accomplish both organic andacquisitive growth. Established and built diverse, global, cross-functional, company-centric PMO and enterprise application teams. Historically drove re-engineeringstrategy from planning, budgeting, support and operational analysis across all core,business-critical enterprise applications for international operations. Implementationinvolvement in Supply Chain ERP, Retail, Finance, Warehousing, PLM and BusinessIntelligence for multi-million dollar luxury retail companies in the US and overseas.Act fast- retail-specialized IT talent of this caliber is in high-demand. #4079

An MCSE Certified Expert, MS Certified Systems Engineer and MS Certified ITProfessional, VMware Certified Data Center Virtualization Professional- thistechnician offers 20 years of experience in addition to impressive accolades.Background with hands-on contribution includes MS Active Directory design, grouppolicy maintenance, network development/implementations, issue resolution;applying corporate/industry guidelines and security compliance. Proactive LAN/WANbandwidth planning and control honed during impressively long-term stints withformer employers. Holds strong crisis eradication and vendor management skills: ableoversee and document periodic disaster recovery procedures. Tactically investigatesnew technology to enhance product knowledge-base; motivated to deliver tasksquickly and accurately through ease of system administration. Credited in cutting ITspend by over $1.5 million in VMware and HyperV implementation. #114702

Program Manager orchestrated program management success for over 15 years byarchitecting steady, transformative IT solutions for both applications andinfrastructure. Former real world implementations, migrations, and integrationsencompassed data warehouses, big data, cloud computing, ETL consolidation projects,systems and data. Insightful analysis drove restructure of applications into new,innovative hardware solutions; enhancing performance and reducing cost. Systematicplanner and negotiator. Collaborative team builder and trainer. Outstanding facilitatorof group camaraderie; placating team concerns and securing an open environment tofoster accountability. Exacting communicator focuses on individual contribution for ashared understanding of impact on project execution. Recently completed consultingproject- outstanding references available to substantiate value. #73181

Respected, key decision-maker for a major retailer, this professional held increasinglyresponsible positions over the past 14 years. Accountable for driving best-in-classretail applications and large scale ERP initiatives- including a successful company-wide SAP implementation. Truly passionate about process improvement, proficient inapplying technology and systems to yield the best results. Tactical approach towardwork prioritization, operational efficiencies, and custom development. Specializedexpertise in ERP, COTS, and in-house applications; using web (Java, JSP) and database(Oracle, SQL server) technologies. Superb coaching acumen; propelled to inspire bothtechnical and professional guidance. Encourages growth in support and oversight ofnew responsibilities tailored to unique employee strengths and career potential. Thiscandidate is poised to offer immediate impact toward enterprise systems andcorporate growth. #77280

For over 20 years, this stellar PM performed all phases of SDLC and delivered 23implementations in multi org, multi currency, multi language client environments. Fullend to end solution, business / system analysis, and application delivery are addedaccomplishments for this well rounded senior professional. Down-to-earth, articulate,bright, and flexible. Facilitates client sessions, identifies user requirements, translatesproject specs, defines process, documents functional/technical design, sets upapplications, converts data, trains end users, tests system support, assessesperformance, and installs upgrades... Early career as a consultant with OracleCorporation solidified ability to quickly adapt/simulate into new client environments,focus on goals and objectives, and then deliver them! Expertise in multiple Oracleapplication modules, Oracle R12, Siebel, SAP, and MS Dynamics. #12448

Visionary IT leader cultivated solutions exclusively for vertical retail and wholesalecorporations for over 20 years. Accountable for project delivery on business-criticalfunctions with a direct impact on profit and sales. Managed international SAPimplementation, cross functional ERP integrations supporting EDI, sourcing, traffic,sales orders, allocations, WMS, and integrations. Facilitated large-scale deployments,consolidated systems for two tremendous companies in response to a corporatemerger across borders. Used data warehouse (Business Objects, Essbase, TargiT) foranalysis, supply chain factory and consolidator integrations, developed and rolled outretail/wholesale ecommerce applications for specialty customers. Fosterscollaboration, design/development, group compliance to security standards, andpersonal ambition for excellence. Look no further for a true retail veteran with anunmistakable commitment to the industry evident through an entire career. #9202

You cannot miss this senior technical resource: the change agent behind businesssolution delivery over the last sequential 15 years. A current VP of StrategicApplications, this talent fostered earlier successes in sound technical planning andsoftware architecture expertise using multiple web, Microsoft, and Java technologies.Naturally results oriented, this prospect is credited for driving significant revenue andbottom-line profitability through focused tactics and hands on leadership. Decisivecrisis manager offers the foresight to quickly identify and address challenges to ensureenterprise stability. This candidate has what it takes to add immediate value andconquer the inevitable obstacles of any corporate technical environment. #124543

True niche talent to lead any retail mobile initiative... This candidate served as seniorincumbent for global mobilization for the past 4 years. Noted success includes newmobile technology implementation and integration of initiatives into the existingenterprise. Tactics include new technology evaluation, rollout coordination, crossfunctional training, service delivery, and support management. PMI certified, MS in IT,BS in Finance, and expertise in Airwatch MDM - a well rounded perspective leads tosuccessful execution in this space. Fast paced and strategic in planning, consistent intransformation; committed to increase value and streamline processes. Historicallydelivered excellence- recently saving over $2.5 million through cost control andcreative negotiations; adhering to best practices. Passionate for continual learning andprofessional growth. #120327

Highly recommended, this IS talent proved invaluable to global partners over a 25 yearlong career in Retail, Wholesale, and Distribution. Cross-functional backgroundbalanced in Operations and Programming fuels the firm belief in the true businessvalue of IT. Full project management lifecycle exposure through multiple systemimplementations: merchandising, ERP, EDI, WMS and supply chain, sales audit, POS,buying, CRM. Hiring companies in the consumer goods arena seeking an executivewith sound knowledge of the intricacies in multi-channel processing, planning andproduction, customer relations, business development, operations, team building, andmultifaceted technical acumen - this is your candidate #113620

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