MATTHEW LITKE

Denver, CO 303-***-**** adah13@r.postjobfree.com

EXECUTIVE PROFILE

Seeking a role in leading a rapidly growing organization through technology transformations by utilizing management, coordination, and facilitation skills to allocate resources and implement strategies for achieving of key business goals and objectives. Has served as trusted advisor to CIO and CTO across numerous companies and industries, providing future path to enable leading technologies to attain organic growth, increase profitability, and successfully meet integration goals. Typically engaged in strategic planning and analysis, teams, management and design and delivery of relevant services and initiatives while providing predefined deliverables, facilitating business technology related transformation via upgrades, implementations, and/or system consolidations.

CAREER SUMMARY

wAchieved progressive and accelerated advancement in Information Technology field, with comprehensive expertise in all phases of IT process including Planning, Architecture, Development, Implementation and Support.

wPossesses key skills in business analysis, project management, customer relationship management, contract negotiation and management and business process reengineering.

wMotivated, customer driven team-player with keen ability to assess the big picture, manage top-producing IT teams and effect high-quality results.

wSenior level experience in diverse environments leading all levels of management and personnel through extensive change.

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

öAssessed and delivered enterprise software upgrades with companies having $700M to $3B in revenues, managed implementation of Cloud manufacturing solutions, and consolidation of core technologies across a diverse set of businesses under larger parent organizations.

öDelivered consulting solutions implementation services for Consumer Products industry, including companies that produce and distribute food and beverage products, cosmetics, and various B2C products, spanning many different selling models ranging from traditional B2C to highly distributed Direct Sales models.

öSold, delivered, and managed services with revenues in excess of $10M annually over the past 8 consecutive years, managed team of personnel with 15 direct reports and over 30 total resources across the globe.

öConsistently provided strategic and tactical IT management, with deep experience in technology system selection, implementation, and support strategy consulting, providing solutions with collaborative sales and delivery teams.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

- Business & system requirements definition - Business process re-engineering -

- Infrastructure analysis & upgrades Package system selections, design, & implementations -

- Quality assurance over multitude of IT & business management projects -

Business/IT Liaison Solutions Execution Projects Oversight Strategic Consulting Deliverables Appraisal

P & L Management Quality Assurance Coordinate Teams Resource Allocations Stakeholder Relations

Enhance Efficiencies Process Re-Engineering Design & Testing IT Applications Process Improvements

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Vice President - Hitachi Consulting: Denver, CO

Managed entire business technology consulting engagements, coordinating software and infrastructure resources for a multitude of companies in food and beverage, consumer products, real estate, chemical manufacturing, manufacturing, and distribution industries. Led Program Management Offices (PMO’s), managing business process, organizational redesign, issue management techniques, change management strategies, succession management, and risk management.

RECENT EXPERIENCE

Forrest Products Company - JD Edwards and OTM Implementation

Directed team for multi-site roll-out of a business transformation with supporting technology solutions, primary responsibilities included design and review of deliverables related to change management, project management, technical design, functional design, company strategy, business case, and technology roll-out phasing.

Utilized functional, technical and process enhancements for finance, distribution, manufacturing, procurement, transportation management, and OBIEE.

Resulted in more than $10M in annual transportation cost reductions.

Radar Manufacturing Company - Cloud Manufacturing Implementation

Managed team for business transformation with supporting technology solution, tasks included design and review of deliverables related to change management, project management, technical design, functional design, company strategy, and technology roll-out phasing.

Resulted in more than $5M in annual manufacturing and inventory cost reductions.

Sugar Manufacturing Company - JD Edwards Implementation

Oversaw team for multi-site roll-out of a business transformation to a co-op-based grower organization with supporting technology solutions, with responsibilities including the design and review of deliverables related to change management, project management, technical design, functional design, company strategy, business case, and technology roll-out phasing.

Project includes functional, technical and process enhancements for finance, distribution, manufacturing, procurement, and asset maintenance.

Resulted in more than $15M in annual asset maintenance cost reductions.

Global Advertising Company - Enterprise Business Systems Assessment

Coordinated team for a multi-site analysis to determine global IT platform strategy to support future state business processes and acquisition path, duties included the design and review of deliverables related to project planning and management, technical design, functional design, company strategy, business case, and technology roll-out phasing.

ADDITIONAL PMO ROLES

Enterprise System Implementation Oracle R12 MRO Procurement Automation Global Oracle Upgrade Multi-Site & Global ERP Implementation ERP Upgrade/Migration International & National ERP Implementation Financial System Implementation

EDUCATION

University of California, Los Angeles - Executive Master of Business Administration, Marketing Program

University of Southern California - MBA in Entrepreneurial Studies and Information Systems Management

Princeton University – Bachelor of Science, Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITY

Other areas of technical and consulting expertise

Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, Implementation Reporting Tools, ETL

Business Process Re-Engineering- RUP/UML Bus Model (Bus Vis), Process Decomposition and Flow Modeling

Enterprise Resource Planning- Geac SmartStream, Oracle/JD Edwards World-EnterpriseOne application suites, Oracle EBS R12, Oracle Cloud

Oracle Specializations in Finance, Distribution, and Technology

Database Programming Languages - Oracle PL SQL, SQL,

Database Technologies - IBM DB2, IBM DB2 400, MS Access, MS SQL Server 7.0, Oracle, Sybase

Customer Resource Management – Siebel, PeopleSoft, Oracle

Productivity Tools- full Microsoft suite of applications including Project and Visio

Professional Training Received

Oracle General Accounting Accounts Payable/Receivable Report Writer PeopleSoft Geac’s SmartStream

Sales training including Franklin Covey’s Helping Clients Succeed and various Solution Selling classes.

Volunteer Involvement

Served on Committees to plan and coordinate entire local region network events for Hitachi

Consulting as well as Leadership Advisory Committees for local elementary schools.

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