Manager Project
Resume:
Matt Ringer
CAREER SUMMARY
Proven CIO specializing in developing teams to embrace building relationships to bridge the gap between IT and the Business by leading them in process improvement, project management, budgeting, planning, reporting, and analysis. IT / Business partner to sales, operations, merchandising, finance, and other administrative teams.
EXPERIENCE
Universal Alloy Corporation, Canton, Ga 2015-Present
Global Director Information Technology CIO (2015 – Present)
Global oversight of all IT operations across 7 plants in Georgia, California, Romania, and Vietnam
Initiated and executed UAC’s first rolling global 5-year technical strategic plan
Strategically built a unified team of 80+ technical employees with one centralized vision and culture
Initiated, designed, and implemented the Digital Modernization Roadmap to provide increased quality and decreasing safety issues, without increasing annual operating costs.
Strategically moving traditional Manufacturing Factories to utilize Industry 4.0 solutions (Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, BLE, RFID and IOT Sensors).
Drove the development of a fully immersive Virtual Reality Training video game to provide employees better onboarding and decrease injuries on the production floor.
Replaced / Redeveloped Legacy ERP solutions and migrated all necessary legacy applications to global multi-company / multi-site ERP.
Carter’s Inc., Atlanta, Ga 2007-2015
Sr Mgr. Finance and HR Systems
Manager of Finance, Hyperion, and HR IT budgets, strategy, teams, and day to day operations
Implemented Systems Governance Standards by enforcing change control, ticketing, and project intake systems.
Successfully manage the close of 3 year Hyperion project by implementing internal team to maintain systems going forward, saving the company 30k a week in professional services.
Developed 3 year strategic systems implementation roadmap for each systems team
Manager, Wintel Systems
Managed Systems Engineering team
Successfully refreshed and increased our Blade Servers Environments without increasing overall monthly lease payment.
Provided new store back office solution utilizing new HDI technology
Implemented new cloud end user backup solution for all corporate employees.
Finalized Virtual DR solution utilizing Veeam.
International IT Program Manager
Coordinated all International IT Projects across all IT functional Areas
Developed International Playbook for new company acquisitions and mergers (Including due diligence, systems mergers, system standardizations)
Managed new company standup in Japan
Managed Canadian corporate systems implementations
IT Project Manager
Coordinated, managed, and implemented Hyperion Enterprise Planning
Oversaw and facilitated the consolidation of 15 Product Hierarchies in to one enterprise Corporate Hierarchy.
Provided leadership over Tool Selection, Software negotiations, Vendor Management, Strategic Solution Visioning, and Project Management
Senior Analyst
Maintained wholesale financial planning system support across 3 major Business Units
Managed 5 major Cognos enhancements / projects through the SDLC
Implemented 3 major Cognos software upgrades
Developed and maintained reporting
Business Intelligence Application Administrator
Direct support and administration of 4 systems, Oracle Discoverer, Informatica, Cognos Planning, Cognos BI Reporting, and WebEx
Developed and maintained reporting
Provided nightly Informatica on-call support
Budget Rent a Car of Atlanta 2006-2007
Systems Administrator
Saved the company significant operating costs by renegotiating old contracts and canceling legacy technology
Managed the IT support for 31 rental locations.
Project Manager of major city airport rental relocation.
Single provider of Help Desk Management over 7 states.
AWARDS
2017 – Georgia CIO of the Year Finalist
2019 – Georgia Southern Alumni 40 under 40
LEADERSHIP / STEWARDSHIP
Active Member of Leadership in F3 Cherokee Region (F3Nation.com)
Worship Leader at Church of the Messiah in Hickory Flat
TechBridge Ambassador
EDUCATION
Georgia Southern University – 2006
College of Information Technology
Bachelor of Science – Information Technology
Specializations: Networking, Technical Writing
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