Project Manager Sales

Richard G. Novotny, Jr.

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Summary

. Accomplished, outcome driven technology professional with diverse

business systems experience in the retail, publishing, pharmaceutical

and manufacturing sectors.

. Motivated leader with a proven record of delivering business value

through collaborative management techniques, comprehensive business

needs interpretation, extensive planning, and a proactive approach to

IT solutions.

. Expertise in guiding cross-functional teams through feasibility

analysis, conceptual design and implementation of leading edge

technology solutions.

. Effective manager in dynamic business environments, both national and

global, skilled in business analysis, change management, process

tuning and team building.

. Solid technical skills in system architectures, database design,

process performance, and user interface design.

Skills

Full Project Life Cycle Capital Planning & Budget

Management Administration

Business Process Hardware / Software Needs

Reengineering Assessment

Systems Presentation & Team Building, Mentoring &

Report Design Leadership

Strategic Planning and Proactive, Collaborative

Execution Management

IT Standards Design and Client Communications

Enforcement

Technologies & Tools

Oracle PowerBuilder UNIX

MS SQL Server Visual Basic Linux

Sybase Business Objects AS/400

Microsoft .NET Integration Services OS/2

Hyperion Micro Strategies DEC/VAX/AXP

C++ SAS MS NT Server

Java Paradox MS Project

Informix Forest & Trees ERwin

Remoting Services KnowledgeNet Visio

Web Services DB2 ABC Flowcharter

Experience

Barnes & Noble,Inc.

Director Product Information Management, 2005 - 2009

Central Product Database

Supply Chain Management Systems

. Replatform, integrate and unify major business unit databases for

single source processing of supply chain operations supported by a

single suite of user applications.

. Introduce best practices through partnerships with business managers

to gain an understanding of their priorities, achieve a balanced set

of goals and ensure delivery of objectives.

. Implement methods for automated and monitored data gathering from a

multitude of provider data formats.

. Reduce cost of data management through elimination of redundant teams,

tools, and processes, while ensuring business process improvements.

. Deliver and support data warehouse for user ad hoc reporting and

decision making.

. Establish standards for software development, version control and

change management.

. Design and implement XML standard for full cycle data management.

. Planning and management of multi-million dollar capital and expense

budget.

Project Manager Merchandising Systems, 1997 - 2005

Merchandising and Inventory Management Systems

Central Product Database

. Evaluate and architect approach for integrating multiple product

databases to streamline data management and simplify access to data by

downstream applications.

. Replatform Inventory Management and Merchandising system for

portability to international applications.

. Automate Inventory management systems for maintenance of cost

effective inventory levels through returns and purchase order

management.

. Automate inventory management processes for cost control and optimal

product mix.

Merck - Medco Managed Care

Manager International Applications, 1995 - 1997

Prescription and Medical Therapies Analysis Systems

Point-of-Care Disease Analysis and Monitoring Systems

. Lead cross-functional international team in development of clinical

systems.

. Evaluate and implement hardware / software platform for development of

distributed systems...

. Replatform mainframe systems for portable data processing.

. Coordinate efforts with external business entities for data delivery

and processing.

. Design and implement multi-lingual interfaces for multi-national

distribution.

Nabisco Foods Group, Inc.

Project Manager - Plant Operations Systems, 1994 - 1995

Strategic Manufacturing Analysis and Reporting Systems

IT Standards Development and Implementation

. Lead national team to reengineer an enterprise-wide, shop-floor

production efficiency system using graphic and tabular presentations

to provide analytics on production, labor, materials, and quality

assurance.

. Design and implement a data collection and reporting system for

evaluating production efficiencies over time and at varying levels of

consolidation.

. Implement project and change management standards for the corporate IT

organization.

. Design and implement data exchange methodologies across multiple

technology platforms.

Paramount Publishing / Simon & Schuster

Manager School Group Financial Systems, 1987 - 1994

Sales Force Information Management Systems

Financial Reporting Systems

Capital & Inventory Budgeting

Cost Accounting Systems

. Design and implement sales and marketing data warehouse for user

access to ad hoc reporting on perpetual inventories, historical sales,

customer demographics and sales forecast data.

. Design and implement a financial management reporting system providing

financial and business groups with access to financial reporting and

input of budget and forecast data. Reports include; project and

business unit P&Ls, cash flow, inventory, plant cost, reserves,

departmental expenses and margin analysis.

. Design and implement an inventory forecasting system which uses

regression analysis of historical sales and user forecasts for

purchase planning, plan variance analysis, open-to-buy, on-order

reporting and purchase order generation.

. Design and implement a project proposal analysis system to evaluate

profitability of potential investments. System evaluates user

forecasts to generate pro-forma financial statements including; P&L,

cash flow, sales forecasts, margin analysis, IRR, NPV, break-even and

payback.

. Design and implement a sales force account information system for

managing sales and sampling activities across the educational sales

market. The system provides for cost proposal generation, revenue

forecasting, inventory demand forecasting and client base tracking.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Economics

Bachelor of Science - Finance

University of Dayton

Dayton, OH

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