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Management Service

Location:
United States
Posted:
March 23, 2015

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GEORGE WANG Global strategic blending innovation and management expertise to drive the sustainable growth and profitable

Cell: 704-***-**** E-Mail. : ******.*****.****@*****.***

SENIOR EXECUTIVE leveraging IT, business, and operations background to maximize global growth

potential and strengthen multinational reach via emerging technologies and business process/system

optimization. Excels in turnaround, mature, and startup situations, orchestrating strategies to deliver

bottom-line gains and build world-class, cost-efficient, and lean organizations.

EXPERTISE THAT DRIVES COMPETITIVE ADVANTGE

Global strategic visioning / M&A / planning / execution Enterprise architecture /Network / SAAS / mobile / VOIP / helpdesk

Business process analysis / reengineering / governance E business: intranet / extranet / portal /security / Office365 / One Drive

IT value management: metrics / balanced scorecard ERP implementation (SAP, Dynamics, etc.) / application integration

Financial analysis / budgeting / cost management Supply chain management / retail POS / Medical HIPPA

Acquisitions / divestitures / restructurings / SOX / IPO Infrastructure mgmt: Multi Sites / Consolidation / Centralized

Team building / motivation / mentoring Profit & Loss management: in house /outsource/ offshore

SELECT ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Turned $50M loss into $150M profit. North Pole was in the red. Consolidated EU, Asia and US data centers in China. Established

MPLS network, reducing data costs 80%. Implemented Six Sigma and ISO 9001 projects. Led business process reengineering steps,

increasing productivity140% and reducing outsourcing costs 70%.

Spearheaded $150M growth for global tech startup. Recruited to lead IT and manufacturing for Cybiko. Collaborated with Russians

to develop game device interface design. Established cost effective manufacturing facility in China. Created full functional Web

infrastructure. Set up Internet marketing and US distribution channels.

Standardized global SAP system setting stage for IPO. Colfax needed to satisfy worldwide accounting and security issues for

pending IPO. Consolidated subsidiary SAP licenses. Implemented corporate SAP platforms. Facilitated timely completion of GAAP

filing requirements. Passed SOX 404. Enabled successful IPO.

Enabled 100% revenue growth to $25M in 12 months. Fiber Craft growth was impeded by legacy technology. Selected to lead

corporate growth team. Upgraded hardware and infrastructure. Integrated POS systems with J.D. Edwards in Wal Mart, Kmart,

Target and other major retailers. Generated significant increase in product sales.

Developed and implemented cost saving global private network. Colfax couldn’t effectively communicate with 34 facilities in four

business units in 12 countries. Established global MPLS network. Consolidated data centers. Increased shared information. Reduced

internal price/project competition. Realized immediate $2.28M savings.

Built website to support two million hits/second. Cybiko needed to host online games. Architected website and infrastructure.

Moved server hosting to new facility. Reduced costs 62%. Boosted capacity from 250 hits/second.

IT Business Value added. With 17+ years in a CIO/ Director position directing a global organization with successful experience leading

the technology group to support manufacturing and distribution, business turn around (the supplier of the mass retail stores) and

experiences to lead it group in a private company from 500M to 1B+ and went public through organic growth, transformation and

acquisition activity, and through working with customers, building strong relationships with senior management and key stakeholders

to drive innovation and differentiated IT strategy and improving the business value of IT.

PIONEELING IT/BUSINESS EXPERTISE THAT DRIVES GROWTH

Department of Juvenile Justice, State of Georgia Atlanta GA 2013-Present

(A state agency governing the school distract, heath care and treatments, detention for judicial and executive branch)

Statewide Chief Information Officer

Responsible for Juvenile Information Technology System designing, development, execution and operation includes: education

(Infinite Campus), medical treatment, dental, e heath records network, e proscription, youth residents and food service as well as

state reporting and periodical state statistical announcement, Data Warehouse, SPSS, etc …

Successful managed outsource vendor included IBM, DELL, ATT with their oversea components and reduced the cost (Dynamics,

0ffice365 and one drive initiative)

Managed Infrastructures and resources including the telecommunication (Voice over IP) and mobile/satellite services. .

PeopleSoft for all financial, procurement and HR system with integrated Kronos time management System statewide compliance

with all federal and state financial and banking regulations and implementing COLUMNS for Investigation

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FFC Group, Inc (formerly GormanOne, Inc) Atlanta GA 2010 – 2013

(A Start-up company for Fast Food Commons – 96 fast food restaurant group, 24 DineChoice groups)

Chief Technology Officer and Board Member

Responsible for all IT start up operations in the group including web development, group infrastructure, cell phone, PDA application,

call center, satellite GPS vehicles tracking system and telecommunication include CISCO IP Telephone Systems;

Built up the 130+ personnel IT share service for all group companies with PROFIT/LOSS responsibilities.

Planned and designed SAP as group ERP platform to support Regulatory and EPA requirements for all group companies;

Initialized the integration interface with all restaurants and franchisees systems includes their retail POS systems.

Colfax Corporation CHARLOTTE NC 2005-2010

(A $1.2B International Pump Manufacturer and Distribution Company (Navy Contractor) from $500M)

Chief Information Officer/Chief Security Officer

Directs global infrastructure, business systems, strategic planning, budgeting, and IT projects for 34 facilities of $1.2B international

pump manufacturer spanning North America, Asia Pacific, and Eastern Europe; manages 70 person team.

Restructured global ERP/SAP platform to comply with GAAP and regulatory standards and ensure on time corporate financial

reporting; simplified corporate closing processes via inventory, warehouse, and production system automation.

Introduced Six Sigma, Lean, JIT SMED, Kaizen, Poka Yoke, Jidoka, and Kanban methodologies for manufacturing optimization.

Led due diligence on buy side acquisitions ranging from $500M to $1.5B.

NorthPole Ltd.- WP’s Portfolio Company, Washington MO USA and Xiamen China 2003-2005

(A $650M total solution provider for outdoor sport equipments –#1 in mass market)

Executive VP / Chief Information Officer

Engaged by board of directors to revitalize IT operation of international consumer package manufacturer.

Coordinated and completed SAP deployment and facilitated integration with US and China Customs along with big box retail clients

including Wal Mart and Home Depot; linked POS platform to warehouse control and logistics modules.

Re engineered processes, lowering month end closing process from 25 days to 5 hours corporate wide.

Recovered strained relationship with Chinese production facility and introduced data pull system to control inventory levels.

Cybiko, Inc., Bloomingdale IL 1999-2003

(A $150M wireless handheld computer company, a startup dot.com company)

Chief Technology Officer

Oversaw 125 person leadership team and operated $15M budget for $150M startup game/device design/distribution company.

Delivered 3x speed and capacity improvement at 62% cost savings by instituting end to end web infrastructures.

Spearheaded Internet based game device interface design, achieving 99.99% system availability and enabling 2 million user hits per

second on global B2C website created for on line tournaments and game tips.

Recommended strategic plans to board of directors based on technology trends, rolling out ERP solutions for large accounts.

FIBER CRAFT MATERIALS CORPORATION, Niles IL 1995-1999

(A $50M consumer product manufacturing and distribution co.)

Chief information offcicer/MIS Director

Cultivated 97%+ growth in 12 months; expanded multimillion dollar key account 800% as well as upgraded hardware/IT

infrastructure and linked POS with JD Edwards for major retail customers such as Wal Mart, Kmart, Target, and Hobby Lobby.

Initially joined SOUTHERN IMPERIAL as a Senior Analyst, progressing through roles as Software Director and later International Business

Director (1993 1995); led global 15 person MIS staff and launched $100M JV in China, setting up production facilities

“The SAP China project led by George became a benchmark and global platform for future global system standards. Phenomenal achievements

were made despite strong culture to maintain the status quo” --- John Young, CEO and President, Colfax Corp.

MS in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science; MS in Physics, Marquette University [US]

BS in Applied Physics, Jiao Tong University [China]; E-Business Owner Certificate

Native Chinese and English

TECHNOLOGY EXPERTISE THAT DRIVES PROFITIBILITY

MS Office365 including Lync/Skype, MS SharePoint. Microsoft Unified Communication, One Drive, ITIL, MS Virtualization, Lotus Notes,

AS/400 iSeries, VAX/VMS, UNIX, RISC 6000, Sun Solaris, Linux, TELXON, MS SQL, Infinite Campus, Columns, Dynamics AX, JBA, JDE, SAP,

PeopleSoft, Oracle, Great Plain, SPSS, Lawson, Daly & Wolcott, Cognos, Apache Web Server, Citrix, VPN, VLine, MS IIS Server, WebLogics,

Data Junction, MAS90/500, ERPLN, BANNER, Smart Board, VOIP, AutoCad, AirWatch, Computrace/Absolute, encrypted e mail system.



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