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Randall Warnock -BSBA Information Systems

Email: *******@**************.*** Pelham Alabama 35124 Telephone: 205-***-**** Director of Enterprise Systems

BSBA (Information Systems), information technology leader with more than 20 years of hands-on management experience in fulfilling critical corporate objectives, directing cross-functional teams and leading complex infrastructure technology projects from conception to deployment for organizations such as: Simply Fashion Stores, Just For Feet, Electronic Data Systems (EDS), Brunos Supermarkets, and Piggly Wiggly. Most recently, serving as CIO for Simply Fashion Stores in Birmingham, Alabama with responsibility for managing 15 direct reports in transforming a company, with 300+ locations located in 25 eastern U.S. states, with no computer operations to a business with modern, feature-rich IT tools supported by a business focused IT department. Areas of Expertise

Driving Continuous Process Improvements Aligning IT to Strategic Business Objectives

Generating Sustainable Revenue Improvements Building & Leading Highly Technical Teams

Maximizing Hardware & Software Functionality Ensuring High Levels of Operational Readiness

Translating Business Needs into IT Requirements Creating a Shared Technical Management Vision

Systems Automation & Integrations Multi-Tier System Implementations

Data Captured from Multiple Sources Conflict/Dispute & Root Cause Analysis

Recommending New Technology & Processes Supporting ERP System & Business Applications

Technical Planning According to Business Objectives Serving as a Liaison Between Hardware/Software Vendors Professional Experience & Accomplishments_Accomplishments Aegis Foundry Birmingham, Alabama 2222000011116666 to Present

(Restaurant POS sales/service, CoreIT IT for small to medium size businesses, SideKick web services) Senior Consultant – Working with Aegis Foundry to implement policies and procedures aimed at the better execution of products and services. Also to create an environment that helps the company to work together as a team.

Small to Medium size Business IT Consultation, Implementation, and Support

System Backup and Disaster Recovery

PCI Patch Management and Vulnerability Remediation

Server Virtual Environment management

Call Center system research and implementation.

Simply Fashions Birmingham, Alabama 2000 to 2015 (Left due to company bankruptcy)

(A company with 300 discount ladies apparel stores located in 25 states) CIO – Scope of duties consisted of transforming the company from a company with no computer operations to a business with modern, feature-rich IT tools and business-focused IT department, and system automation/integration of ERP systems. Director of Enterprise including ERP and POS applications.

Integrated an enterprise ERP system to HAL Warehouse Management System (WMS) that generated constant/continuous bi-directional flow of data, and data feeds to external 3rd parties (Regions Bank daily positive check file, including label data feeds to 3rd party labeling vendors such as Fineline and SATO).

Recognized internally as the 'go-to guy' for all things needing automation from systems integration between the Epicor ERP system to the HAL Warehouse Management System, including data feeds to 3rd parties and data feeds to/from in- house systems for 40+ automated custom reports that ran daily, weekly, monthly, etc.

Key technical role in transitioning Simply Fashions from a small IBM Netfinity file server, Sales Audit, and RS6000 Enterprise server in 2000 to a modern-day cutting edge IT environment that encompassed managing broadband across 300 retail stores, 75 virtual servers, and IT managed phone/voice mail system with all maintained in a secure industry standard IT datacenter.

Upgraded 97% of IT server environment to virtual (VMWare), which proved instrumental in saving electricity and cooling costs while proving near 100% system uptime, and virtually removing system outages due to hard drive or general system failure. Additionally, group to the VMWare virtual environment 60 user desktops that were pooled for individual/group needs and authorization levels.

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Conducted in-depth research to seamlessly move all broadband data connections for 300 stores to a cellular connection that accomplished the following 4 items: 1) Improved data connectivity repair time from usually 3 days with a necessary technical visit to the store to having the ability to ship replacement hardware overnight; 2) Improved voice connectivity repair time from usually 3 days to 2 weeks with a necessary technical visit to the store to have the ability to ship replacement hardware overnight; 3) Reduced cost from $80 for wired IT data connections to $22 a month for cellular; and 4) Reduced cost from $80 for wired IT voice connections to $22 a month for cellular. Just For Feet Birmingham, Alabama 1998 to 2000 (Left due to company bankruptcy)

(A retail sporting goods company with 140+ athletic shoe stores in 16 states) Team Lead/Manager – Primary duties focused on coordinating software development and implementation for retail Point- of-Sale (POS) integrations, charged with developing and implementing credit/debit host systems, time/attendance, and labor scheduling software systems.

Increased sales data feeds from 45 minutes per store to less than 15 minutes per store, utilizing the same hardware/data connects by rewriting the data capture script/automation. Electronic Data Systems ( EDS)EDS )/Brunos Birmingham, Alabama 1992 to 1998 (Recruited by Just For Feet)

(EDS - An IT company with 120,000+ global employee's \ Brunos - 300+ regional grocery stores in six states) POS Project Management Coordinator – Responsibilities included developing and implementing installation of Innovax POS system from best of breed hardware/software. Managed and coordinated Legacy ICL Datachecker POS conversions, and conducted extensive research to provide recommendations on appropriate hardware/software.

Served as a hands-on Project Manager for conversion of 100+ Piggly Wiggly stores to Brunos systems, processes, and procedures and subsequently proposed and approved one of the first register systems in the southeast with a customer/cashier CRT monitor consisting of two hard and one soft keyboard panels.

Created\Integrated Best of Breed Point of Sale system with best ROI peripherals. Piggly Wiggly Vidalia, Georgia 1989 to 199****-*** (Left due to company acquired by Brunos)

(82 retail grocery stores throughout Georgia)

Manager of Retail Systems (1991-1992) – Responsible for negotiating, purchasing and maintenance agreements on store equipment, overseeing hardware/software installation and operation, including scanning and non-scanning POS systems. Direct store delivery system, payroll system, and price verification system.

Implemented a complete system installation for Datachecker (and later with Innovax) that consisted of a full system install from cable pulling/pinning, scale balancing, server install, backup system install, and loading of software with full approval/signoff by the point of sale vendor and senior management. Application Programmer (1989-1991) – Duties included utilizing COBOL and RPG II languages to program item file scanning programs, item movement reports, and DSD to PC interface programs, including DSD price changes to PC, DSD invoice recap to mainframe and payroll data to and from PC.

Promoted from this position when the previous Store Systems Manager decided to move on. Played a key technical role in enhancing store payroll system, and Direct Store Delivery (DSD) systems that provided full function and feature-rich interface applications between host and store.

Education

BS – Business Administration (IT Emphasis) Brewton Parker College 1984 to 1989 What Others Say_Say

"If you are looking for a person to make your IT life easier, quicker and more efficient as well as coordinate large projects with a large group of people, you can’t find a better person than Randall Warnock. We accomplished so many things with his help, such as; replaced the entire back office computer system with no disruption to our business, replaced the entire POS system in 300 stores. I would not have been as effective in my job if it wouldn’t have been for the dedication and hard work of Randall."

...Austin Englebert, Vice President at Simply Fashion Stores

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