Project Manager Supply Chain

JOHN A. RECHENBERG, PMP

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROJECT MANAGER

SKILLS

. Project Management . Deadline Oriented . Programming

. Operations Management . Data Management . Supply Chain

Management

. Team Building . Technical Support . Consensus Oriented

. Financial Systems . Order Fulfillment . Customer Focused

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

TRANSITION GROUPS, Metropolitan New York Area 2008-2010

Logistics Operations Group

Westchester Networking Organization

Bergen Community Networking Council

Northern Bergen Work Team

IT Roundtable

Northern New Jersey American Society for Training and Development

PMI Satellite Meetings, Paramus, New Jersey

Founder and Facilitator

. Founded new groups in the Northern New Jersey Area, providing hundreds of

members with job leads, expanded communications and provided advice on

conducting the job search.

. Facilitated meetings, team leading and counseling members.

. Maintained Yahoo Group systems, Excel and Access databases, providing

valuable training and research tools for the teams, such as memberships,

job search information, job leads, etc.

. Interfaced with recruiters, counselors, career coaches providing advice

on resumes, marketing plans and business cards, improved organizational

effectiveness.

. Developed projects for scheduling meetings, improving communications,

creating workshops.

CHAINE DES ROTISSEURS, Weehawken, NJ 2009

Consultant

. Maintained and upgraded equipment, established network contacts.

. Provided backup procedures, preserving valuable membership data.

STERLING PUBLISHING, Edison, NJ 1990 - 2007

$100 Million Publishing Arm of Barnes & Noble

Manager of IT

. Managed all business issues on a project basis for the implementation of

the Vista software package, including Order Fulfillment, Returns, Supply

Chain, and Financials, such as A/R, A/P, G/L, Royalties and Production

Costing resulting in improved productivity, streamlined operations, and

faster access to critical information, leading to a tenfold growth

increase.

. Managed teams both inside and outside the company, developing company

presentations and schedules.

. Involved and responsible in all aspects of supply chain management,

warehouse installation, physical and cycle count inventory, data

management, reducing freight and packaging costs of $1.7 million.

. Designed, documented and programmed internal E-Commerce system using EDI

providing ability to receive orders and process in Vista system.

. Directly interfaced with customers as well as internal departments,

benefiting E-Commerce setups, Sales, Publicity mailings and warehouse

deliveries involving deals of up to $1 million each.

WOODBURY COMPUTER ASSOCIATES, Old Bridge, NJ 1988 - 1989

Subsidiary of JWP, with consulting branch that introduced Vista to United

States

Programmer/Analyst

. Resolved help desk requests for six publishing firm clients.

. Debugged and revised customer alert system, facilitating collections

system.

. Analyzed hardware configurations, recommended and installed new

equipment.

AVON BOOKS, New York, NY 1980 - 1988

$360 Million publishing arm of the Hearst Corporation

Manager of Computer Services

. Planned and developed new business system on Digital mini-computer.

. Pioneered order fulfillment life-cycle project.

. Designed and wrote P&L system, later converting on to a PC.

EDUCATION

Columbia University, Columbia College, New York, NY, Bachelor of Arts in

Biology

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION AND DEVELOPMENT

PMP Certification, 2008 - no. 515897

Business Skills Training in Mercator, Microsoft VB Net, Office, and XP

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Projects Leader, Vista Users Group

PMI member, 2008

TECHNOLOGIES

. Vista 4GL . Microsoft Project . Visual Studio/SQL Server

. MS Office 97/200x . Windows X/NT/XP/Vista . TCP/IP

. Lotus Notes . Photoshop/CorelDraw . Alpha VMS 7.3.2

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