BRET MCINNIS
720-***-**** Superior, Colorado 80027 ***********@*****.***
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
E-Business/Ecommerce Technology, Software Engineering, and Program
Management Executive with over fifteen years in multiple industries and
high growth environments delivering business value and an exceptional
customer experience. Result oriented with a demonstrated track record of
delivering business critical, high transaction volume B2B ecommerce and
enterprise software applications. Possess an exceptional ability to
communicate complex concepts to subordinates, executive management, and
customers. Areas of expertise include:
Enterprise Architecture Supply Chain/ Distribution Financial Management/
Strategy and Logistics Expertise Budgeting
E-Business Strategy Program/Project Management Contract Negotiation
Buy vs. Build Decisions PCI and SOX Compliance Outsourcing and In sourcing
CRM, ERP, and Financials Open Source Technologies and High Transaction
Implementations Frameworks Environments
Iterative Development, Agile Business Case Development Excellent Communication
Methodologies, SCRUM Skills
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
MEDIA BREAKAWAY LLC, Westminster, Colorado 2008-2009
Director of Enterprise Development (Senior Technology Executive)
. Senior technology executive for an internet marketing organization of
more than 20 staff and contractors with a $5 million+ annual budget.
Responsible for all aspects of technology within the organization
including network (LAN/WAN), telecommunications, infrastructure, data
center operations, and application development. Primary objectives
included recruiting a professional software development staff, defining
architecture, processes, methodology, and toolset, and replacing several
third party solutions with custom developed software applications. Also
planned and implemented a Salesforce.com CRM and SFA implementation.
CORPORATE EXPRESS, Broomfield, Colorado 1994-2007
Vice President E-Business Technologies and Software Engineering (2001-2007)
. Led seven cross functional development teams of 75 employees. Worked
with annual budgets of over $20 million. Negotiated $50,000 to $5
million software contracts. Outsourced projects and processes with
domestic and international partners and built quality in-house
operations, minimizing cost.
. Managed a $10 million project with a development team of 30 permanent and
contract employees to re-architect the current B2B site (www.eway.com).
Supported close to $8 million revenue per day.
. Interviewed for an article written in Computerworld, Summer, 2003
as IT project owner.
. Responsible for critical buy versus build decisions. Selected
appropriate technology to purchase and/or customize in-house
systems.
. Negotiated vendor contracts, selected development tools and
processes, developed significant new features and executed roll out
strategy for 100,000 customer accounts.
. Launched strategic plan to penetrate Small Business with an Internet only
platform, resulting in $12 million new revenue with profitability within
nine months for discountofficesupplies.com.
. Implemented the first release to production in 90 days utilizing
Agile methodologies to develop this Internet exclusive platform.
. Negotiated contracts with amazon.com to sell office products on
their site.
. Served as ASP technology platform for fedexkinkos.com online
presence for office supplies.
. Processed all delivery by Fedex Ground from existing CEXP
distribution centers.
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. Enhanced eway.com, staying ahead of online competition from Staples and
Office Depot.
. Achieved five Industry Awards for eway.com, with an annual run rate
in excess of $1.8 billion.
. Exceeded top line organic revenue growth targets for the first time
in six years.
. Expanded Internet revenue channel to over 70% of total corporate
sales.
. Improved time-to-market for all software enhancement requests.
. Increased annual volume 20% to 30%, supporting over five million
page views per day, with strict performance and scalability
requirements.
. In sourced Peoplesoft applications support and development from ASP in
120 days, reducing annual operating expense over $800,000.
. Collaborated with Finance department to develop the ROI and benefit
case.
. Recruited and hired 10 Peoplesoft professionals and leveraged in
house hardware and software expertise to complete project on time
and within budget.
. Improved service levels 25% and time-to-market for enhancement
requests 33%.
. Developed a platform to centralize ordering for multiple business units
and product lines acquired through acquisitions, providing customers with
a single online order experience.
. Results were a One Shop Express platform delivering over $50
million in 2006 and in excess of $120 million in 2007.
. Provided significant product line, cross-selling ability to over
300 existing strategic accounts.
. Presented a strategic competitive advantage over the competition,
pursuing new accounts.
Director E-Commerce Technology (1999-2001)
. Led over 10 B2B integration projects with third party portals and e-
procurement systems.
. Integrated Ariba, Commerce One and MySAP.com utilizing Webmethods
B2B platform.
. Scaled site with significant database performance tuning and
architecting load balancing, redundancy and high availability into
the architecture.
. Implemented Documentum and custom web applications, reducing DSO over 10
days and Credit and Collection Department annual resources over $350,000.
. Increased satisfaction over 50% for 200 internal users and over
10,000 external customers.
. Cataloged over 51 million documents in the new system.
. Improved accounts payable processing for over 5,000 monthly trade
and non-trade invoices, estimating savings of $250,000 per year.
. Integrated wireless device software. Provided two million online
POD documents per year.
Director Application Development (1997-1999)
. Managed all aspects of enterprise application development including
custom ERP solution, Warehouse Management systems, Supply Chain
Management systems, Customer Relationship Management systems, Peoplesoft
Financials and Production Support.
. Implemented software configuration management processes and tools.
. Improved quality of delivered software by applying metrics to the
development process.
. Deployed enterprise systems in 28 distribution centers nationwide.
. Managed 70 staff members including directors and IT managers with
an annual budget of approximately $13 million.
Systems Architect (1994-1997)
. Served as lead application architect to develop a custom, 3-tier
client/server ERP system for order entry, supply chain management,
customer management, inventory forecasting and replenishment, pricing,
billing and reporting.
. Developed architecture components to deliver application interfaces
to credit card, tax, supplier and warehouse management systems.
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SPRINT CORPORATION, Dallas, Texas 1992-1994
Application Developer/Team Lead
. Directed a team of five Developers to create and implement an artificial
intelligence-based data management system, utilized to maintain large
amounts of data in a complex data model.
. Earned an Annual Performance Award for reducing time-to-market of
new billing products on the IPS platform by 98%.
ANDERSEN CONSULTING, Chicago, Illinois 1989-1992
Senior Consultant
EDUCATION
B.A., Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
AFFILIATIONS
Technology Advisory Board Member/Teacher, Jr. Achievement, Denver, Colorado
Youth Football Program Leader, City of Superior, Superior, Colorado