Manager Supply Chain

Michael J. Clarady

**** **** ****** ***** 281-***-****

Humble, Texas 77346 *********@***.***

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

A highly effective Senior IT Professional, who meets challenges head on and

creates positive change. An accomplished leader with in-depth experience

and a proven track record of success building high-performing teams and

leading them to create practical, reliable and stable, state-of-the-art

business solutions in fast-paced, high-volume, mission-critical

environments.

BACKGROUND SUMMARY

A broad background in IT Leadership and Solutions Architecture includes:

Business Continuity Global Architecture Committee System Optimization

Plans

Capacity Planning Organizational Restructuring Data Security

Vendor Management System Security Staff Development

Infrastructure Design Trading Center Design Budgets / Forecasts

IT Outsourcing Data Integrity Vendor Relations

Technology Evaluation Capital Planning IT Acquisition Team

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Men's Wearhouse, Houston, Texas 2003 - 2008

Director, IT Infrastructure

Full strategic planning, leadership, and decision-making authority for the

organization's entire IT infrastructure strategic requirements. Built the

IT infrastructure, from concept into a state-of-the-art, centralized model

with distributed services in North America. Focused efforts on operational

needs evaluation, risk analysis and long-term technological value.

Proactively recruited, trained and developed a team of 5 direct reports and

28 indirect reports, including remote IT technicians, a centralized network

and operational team. Controlled over $8.7 million capital and $17.2

million operations budgets.

. Designed, architected, budgeted, and delivered a new IT global

infrastructure that provided superior performance for a new and legacy

applications suite. Redesigned Windows and UNIX server farm environment,

implemented global virus remediation architecture, and consolidated the

Outlook email architecture from multiple disparate domains to 1 domain of

9 servers and 34 data stores. Net impact is ~$450,000/yr. of savings in

support, recovery and computing costs.

. Designed, selected, purchased, architected and delivered the company's

first disaster recovery datacenter in Allen, Texas. As a result, this

datacenter would save the company approximately ~$20 - $30 million in

business recovery capability.

. Architected and implemented the conversion of the data network from a VPN

network to the latest in MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) technology

in response to a corporate acquisition. As a result, this design

facilitated a true convergence of all traffic onto one WAN cloud and is

the prototype for the WAN of the future.

Dynegy Corporation, Houston, Texas 2000 - 2003

Technical Director - Global Communications

Recruited by the CIO to seamlessly transition three independent companies

into one cohesive business unit as part of a restructuring/change

initiative. Delivered the tactical plans to create the technology

infrastructure to support the consolidation of IT operations for the Global

Communications division. Achieved all operating, technology and financial

objectives to include tripling of new revenues over the course of the first

full year of operation. Responsible for a $4.8 million capital and $7.2

million expense budget and a staff of 11indirect reports.

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Dynegy Corporation, Houston, Texas - continued

Technical Director - Global Communications

. Led the integration of NNG into the Dynegy enterprise and transition of

the entire company to MidAmerican Energy, once the pipeline was sold.

The transition netted ~$400,000 of revenue to the company.

. Architected and managed the delivery of a completely new IT

infrastructure enterprise in Europe. Mitigated issues around cost,

timing, and architectural non-compliance. Project was delivered on time,

under budget and architecturally compliant. This deliverable allowed the

company to "follow the sun" with regard to trading and customer support.

Was on track to save $80,000 in consulting fees and $40,000 in support

fees within the first year when the company started to dismantle.

Campbell Soup Company, Camden, New 1996 - 2000

Jersey

Corporate Director - Technical Architecture

Recruited by the CIO to completely rebuild the IT infrastructure in order

to meet global computing performance requirements for each of the 7

corporate divisions. Simultaneously, held global responsibility to

remediate any issues concerning any associated computing anomalies. $11

Million Capital, and $17 Million Expense budget and leadership

responsibilities for a staff of 6 direct reports, 28 indirect reports and

52 outsourced team members.

. Directed a technical staff comprised of internal and outsourced resources

to embrace accountability for aggressive service levels. Re-negotiated

the outsourcing contract to required service levels, simultaneously

achieving much lower contract costs.

. Delivered a comprehensive and systematic renovation of the global

technical infrastructure across all computing platforms. This integration

was calibrated to new initiatives in Supply Chain for improved

efficiencies, resulting in an estimated 20% yield efficiency on soup

manufacturing and an estimated $1.1 Million in annual revenues.

. Developed a global technical architecture to replace and/or rebuild an

outdated technical infrastructure and remediate Y2K for the entire

company. This new architecture delivered a complementary convergence of

voice, data and video for collaborative capability to provide enhanced

business value and competitive advantage and saved $150,000/yr. by

converging support contracts.

Technical IT Design Specialist, Tenneco Energy, Houston, 1993-1996

Texas 1987-1993

Systems Manager, Process Control, Crown Cork & Seal Can Co.,

Houston, Texas

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science, Engineering Technology

University of Houston, Houston, Texas

United States Air Force, Staff Sergeant (E-5), Honorable Discharge,

Communications Systems

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