Manager Information Technology

Walter Meyer

Southlake, Texas *****

email: ************@*******.***

Cell: 214-***-****

Home: 817-***-****

Global Technology Executive

Business/IT Alignment Global Management Business Transformation

Operationally focused IT executive with experience leading the IT function in a Global multi-site manufacturing business.

A partner to the C-suite that is equally comfortable in strategic as well as “roll-up-your-sleeves” role. A leader that

leads by example that builds, supports and transforms business unit performance. An executive that is a quick study to changing circumstances and thrives in complexity and uncertainty with the ability to identify, prioritize and execute business solutions with speed.

Core Competencies

SAP/Oracle/JDE ERP implementation and management experience

Customer focused

Results and goal oriented

Multi-Cultural awareness and capabilities

In depth knowledge of IT, Applications and Infrastructure

Business process optimization

Analytical and detail oriented

Financial management experience

Mergers & Acquisitions, NA/SA/EMEA/APAC

Sponsor and owner of change

Driving business agility

Experience leading teams 55+

Results

•Inherited challenged low credibility organization and quickly cultivated highly motivated team and renewed creditably with business stake holders with a series of successful business solutions

•Created IT strategy and roadmap that was aligned with the business objectives. Developed communication and governance processes to drive transparency and prioritization.

•Delivered reliable business solution built on scalable and flexible infrastructure services.

•Implemented IT controls and policies to repeatedly comply with Sarbanes Oxley (SOX), PII, and global Safe Harbor regulations.

Enabled 20% business performance via new solutions and reducing related IT costs by 45%.

Lead due-diligence, integration and rationalization of applications (including large ERP systems), vendors and business processes resulting from a series or M&A activity.

COMPANIES / ROLES

COMMERCIAL METALS COMPANY (CMC) –Office of CIO – Director IT, International Division

July 2013 – Present – Corporate Office Irving, TX

IT Director for the International division partnering with the business and oversee the global technology portfolio across US, EMEA and APAC. Transforming International business from Oracle EBS to SAP ECC6.0 globally, Infrastructure, Development, Compliance, Governance, Cloud computing (MS Azure) and DevOps. Responsible for IT Governance, Information Strategy, Business Processes, Project and Contract Management, Relationship Management, Risk Management and Change Leadership.

COMMERCIAL METALS COMPANY (CMC) –Office of CIO – Director IT, Global Shared Services

April 2011 – June 2013 – Corporate Office Irving, TX

Responsible for Shared Service functions: Global Financial ERP Shared Services Applications (SAP)/(Oracle): Corporate Finance (Consolidations, AP, AR, GL), (SAP) Procurement (SRM), Treasury, Internal Audit, Legal, Tax, HR and Global Safety Management System.

COMMERCIAL METALS COMPANY (CMC) –Office of CIO – Director IT, Operations & Applications

Oct 2006 – March 2011 – Corporate Office Irving, TX

Responsible for corporate level IT Enterprise, Data Center Consolidation and Build out, Cost Out, Audit remediation, Application development, IT External/Internal Infrastructure and International IT services.

COMMERCIAL METALS COMPANY (CMC) – Australia – Group IT Manager

April 2002 – Sep 2006 – Sydney, Australia Corporate Office

Reported to the Company CEO in Australia. Lead corporate level consolidations of IT Enterprise, Operations, Infrastructure and International IT Application Services. Implemented Navision ERP for the APAC region.

BLACKWOODS a division of the WESFARMERS GROUP – Australia – Group IT Manager

Sep 2000 – March 2002 – Sydney, Australia

Australia’s leading suppliers of Industrial and power transmission products.

Reported to the GM (CEO) to build and improve P&L presence. Other responsibilities included optimization of manufacturing & application development and strategic process support and end-customer interaction improvements between various Business Units (APAC region) with competing priorities

HUNTER DOUGLAS LIMITED – Sydney, Australia – Group IT Manager

Oct 1995 – Aug 2000

World market leader of quality window coverings.

Reported to the Company CEO in Australia to implement the JDE ERP system for the Australia/NZ businesses.

Responsibilities included complete infrastructure rebuild and rollout for Y2K.

North West Transport – South Africa – General Manager IT

Jan 1990 – July 1995

South Africa’s commuter transport leader.

Reported to the Company CEO in South Africa, responsible for development and senior IT management of the IT group; technology infrastructure and applications - large IT organization 200+ staff.

Industry Experience

Engineering/Manufacturing/Commuter Transport/Supply Chain, Retail B2B, B2C, Financial, FFIEC, FERC, Data Warehousing, Container Shipping.

Technology Experience

ERP - SAP, Oracle, JDE, Microsoft product suite, CRM, WebSphere, BEA Weblogic, IBM DB2, IMS, UNIX, Webmethods, (SOA Middleware technologies), Client Server, LDAP, Citrix, MPLS, VPN, EMC storage and legacy mainframe systems experience (Cobol, Fortran). Remedy, HP Openview, Dell Products, Azure, DevOps.

Education

Master’s Degree in Information Technology Management – University Technology Sydney – 2002, (Australia)

BS in Information Technology – University of Johannesburg – 1982, (South Africa)

Other Relevant Skills / Methodologies / Activities

Six Sigma / Lean Six Sigma (GB certified)

Scrum/Agile application methodology

Conference presentations/IT Leaders forum – March, 2017 Houston “CIOs take on digital transformation programs in diverse areas”

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