DANIEL

LOZANO

**** ******

Trail,

Carrollton,

TX

75007

***- ***- **** acrfjb@r.postjobfree.com

INFORMATION

TECHNOLOGY

/

BUSINESS

ANALYST

/

PROJECT

LEADER Accomplished technical consultant and contributing member of the senior business leadership team bridging the gap between Information Technology and Business Operations through relationship building

and

an

applied

understanding

of

business

acumen.

Highlights

include: Ø System

architect

-

designing,

documenting

and

addressing

stakeholder

groups

and

C- Level

members. Ø IT

project

leader

-

organize

main

stakeholders,

create

requirements

and

develop

project

approach Ø IT

sponsor

–

Representing

IT

methods,

practices

and

culture

to

the

business

community. Ø Certified

SAP

Business

Process

Consultant

-

5

years

Forecast

&

Replenishment;

10+

years

consulting. APPLIED

TECHNOLOGY

-

TECHNICAL

SKILLS Ø Business

Process

Re- engineering,

Technical

Design

&

System

integration

specialist. Ø Big

data

analytics

experience

related

to

forecast

and

replenishment

using

statistical

models. Ø Design

and

implemented

automated

data

workflows

increasing

production

efficiencies. Ø Data

integration

using

Extract,

Transform

and

Load

(ETL)

-

drawing

from

many

technical

disciplines. Ø Inventory

optimization

and

perpetual

inventory

design

experience

related

to

retail

systems. Ø Technical

and

Business

requirements

development

and

strong

technical

writing

experience. Ø UNIX,

Linux,

Sun

Solaris,

AIX,

HP- UP,

System

administration

and

n- tier

server

setup

experience. Ø RDBMS

Oracle,

DB2,

MS

SQL,

Informix

and

Microsoft

Office

product

suite. Ø Application

Servers:

BEA

Weblogic,

IBM

Websphere,

and

Oracle

OC4J,

and

IBM

MQM. Ø EDI

mapping

Sterling,

Gentran.

Retalix

HQ

Retail

Merchandising

system. Ø Infor;

Lawson,

AP,

AR,

GL

and

PO.

Tripwire

SOX

compliance

software. EXPERIENCE

UNFI,

www.unfi.com/NASDAQ:

UNFI,

Providence,

RI.

From

8/2013

to

07/2015

(Corporate

restructuring) United

Natural

Foods Inc. is the largest

publicly traded

wholesale

distributor to the

natural,

organic

and specialty industries

in

the

USA

and

Canada

-

carrying

more

than

65,000

SKUs,

the

company

supplies

to

over

27,000

customer locations and services a wide variety of retail formats. UNFI has begun a process of consolidation prompting management

restructuring

and

merging

positions. Senior

Manager

Information

Technology

–

Application

Development IT

Project Lead responsible for

applying

Application

Development standards to

CAPEX

projects

working closely

with

business

owners

as

a trusted

advisor.

Successfully implemented

an

enterprise system

and designed automated processes that aligned to aggressive business strategies. System responsibilities include Finance, HR, and Retail point of sale providing SOX compliance management, continuous processing improvement, and cost- control. One of 10 team members assigned to define IT SDLC framework.

Owner

of

RICEF

and

Traceability

matrix.

• IT

Project

Lead

guiding

team

of

15,

including

vendors

through

enterprise

system

replacement.

• Technology

liaison

guiding

business

owners

and

C- Level

members

through

the

project

lifecycle.

• IT Lead responsible for reviewing business and technical requirements performing gap analysis and

risks

assessment.

• Increased implementation efficiencies and reduced cost to implement using past consulting experience

and

best

practices.

• Daily

team

management

–

leading

team

of

10

maintaining

a

high

level

of

leadership

qualities. Dan

Lozano 972- 983- 4550 acrfjb@r.postjobfree.com

Page

2

of

2 SAP

AMERICAS,

Irving

TX

1/2012

to

8/2013 A

German

based,

multinational,

software- corporation

with

regional

offices

in

130

countries

that

develops

enterprise software

related

to

enterprise

resource

planning

and

manage

business

operations. Business

Process

Consultant

–

Business

Management

Solution,

Retail Forecast & Replenishment Consultant – implemented automated ordering and inventory optimization solutions and big data analytics review – understand item master data including movement, delivery schedule

and

promotions

providing

explanation

of

statistical

model

functions.

• Define

data

requirements,

design

technical

workflows

and

associated

architecture.

• Provide

data

analytics

training

and

configuration

suggestion

to

fit

business

culture.

• Liaison

between

existing

F&R

customers

promoting

collaboration

and

approach

to

best

practices.

•

Training

received

in

Switzerland,

Germany

and

Slovakia SAP

Certificates:

ü Associate

Certification

in

SAP

ASAP

methodology ü SAP

Forecast

and

Replenishment

Certification:

Functional

and

Technical

Details ü Business

Warehouse,

Business

Objects

(BOBJ)

and

High

Performance

Analytics

(HANA) ü Design

Thinking

workshops

to

expand

problems

solving

techniques SAF

USA,

Irving,

TX

5/2008

to

12/2012 Providers

of

demand

forecasting

and

automated

replenishment

solution

software

for

retailers

and

manufacturers Technical

Consultant

–

Business

Management

Solution,

Retail Forecast & Replenishment Consultant – implemented automated ordering and inventory optimization solutions and big data analytics review – understand item master data including movement, delivery schedule

and

promotions

providing

explanation

of

statistical

model

functions

• Integrated perpetual inventory processes to SAP F&R solution and designed technical architecture of proposed process workflows - developed organization change management processes

and

project

artifacts

• Provided

KPI

data

guidance

related

to

inventory

optimization

-

Supported

go- live

implementation and

on- going

optimization

efforts.

AMDOCS,

Plano,

Texas 12/2004- 5/2008

Support

Consultant

North

America

(worked

in

UK,

Mexico

and

India)

–

CRM

Enterprise

Software North

American

Implementation

Consultant

and

Support

Manager

–

Customer

facing

consultant

leading Network

OSS issue resolution

and

on- going

application support.

Support

Manager leading

a team

of

5 support

consultants

utilizing

follow

the

sun

model

providing

24/7

support.

• Managed global installation efforts at Tier- One telecommunication providers and managed technical

installation

requirements

from

O/S,

Application

servers

and

RDBMS

perspective.

• Installed

and

Configured

application

containers;

BEA

Weblogic,

Websphere,

and

OC4J

• Performed

sales

engineering

duties

proving

deployment

efficiency

and

n- tier

system

architecture Earlier

employment:

GTE/VERIZON,

Irving,

TX

-

Production

Support

Engineer EDUCATION

&

TRAINING

• Villanova

University

–

Green

Belt

Six

Sigma

IT

Vertical

–

2014

• B.S.

Business

Administration,

University

of

Phoenix,

2013

3.6

GPA

(in

progress)

• Associate

Studies

in

Computer

Science,

Tarrant

County

College,

1996

• Team

Building,

Leadership,

Communications

and

Performance

Measurement.

HR

/

Legal

Compliance including

Diversity,

Safety

and

Harassment

Awareness

&

Prevention.

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