Joel Fowler **** Cold Springs Rd. Baldwinsville, NY 13027 315-***-**** acqwz9@r.postjobfree.com

Objective

Advanced leadership position of a project solutions team.

Professional Highlights

Director of Business Development & Application Development (8 years)

Lead application team of 17 technology professionals including software managers, programmers/developers, quality assurance/ testers, database administrators and user interface designers.

Oversee new development and maintenance of over 100 business applications, Oracle and SQL databases/data warehouses and reports.

Provide leadership, tools, support and training necessary to ensure team success.

Immersed daily in requirements planning and use-case development for business initiatives and projects.

Key influencer and decision maker for high-level business and I/T decisions.

Conducted numerous build vs. buy technology evaluations.

Exposure to Waterfall and Agile development methods.

Certified Scrum Master.

Technology exposure: .NET, JAVA, Classic ASP, PL/SQL, Oracle and SQL databases and various web development technologies.

Ecommerce Leader (7 years)

Primary member of the team that created RaymourFlanigan.com.

Successfully built and managed sales and customer call center teams for selling furniture online.

Strongly focused on creating website policies, ecommerce best practices and business goals directly with the owners and executives.

Team Builder (20+ years of management and leadership.

Pursue working with people with diverse backgrounds and points of view.

Consistently maintained a very low turnover rate and high morale.

Experienced Business Contributor (29 years)

Trusted research and development associate selected to lead the company into new business areas including a separate online furniture liquidation business on EBay directly with CEO/Owner.

Created new vendor chargeback revenue stream totaling over $100,000.

Planned and executed numerous application upgrades and server migrations.

Successfully partnered with all company departments including Marketing, Sales, Merchandising, Real Estate, Property Management and Delivery Operations creating flexible, scalable technology solutions.

Accomplished business rule strategist and requirements planner.

Consistently sought out by other leaders to assist in interviewing, hiring, training, coaching and mentoring.

Skills

Coaching & Mentoring

Hiring Right

Partnering With Peers, Leaders and Staff to Set and Achieve Goals

Excellent Written and Oral Communication including IM tools etc.

Fiscal Management & Negotiation

Office Tools: Visio, PowerPoint, Excel, Word etc.

Work Experience

1990 – Present: Raymour & Flanigan Furniture Liverpool, NY

Director of Application Development (Direct report to CIO)

Ecommerce Operations Manager (Direct report to VP of Ecommerce)

Ecommerce Customer Relationship Manager (Direct report to VP of Business Development)

Customer Delivery Manager (Direct report to Director of Operations)

Operations Manager (Direct report to Director of Operations)

Inventory Control Analyst (Direct report to Director of Operations)

1987 – 1989 Onondaga County Service

Welfare Income Maintenance Worker

1986 - 1987 United Cerebral Palsy of CNY

Accountant I

Owner of a residential paving and contracting business for 5 years

Education & Training

Bryant & Stratton: Associate’s Degree in Accounting – Graduated 1986

Leadership Development Program: 6 level R&F Curriculum based on The Leadership Challenge

Agile Certified Scrum Master (CSM) - Scrum Alliance

Attended various educational conferences including NRF and Internet Retailer.

Currently pursuing and studying for the Agile Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) exam - Scrum Alliance. October 2015.

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