Roseburg Forest Customer Service
Resume:
James Evans
Information Technology Consulting
Eatonville, WA 98328
***************@*****.***
20+ years of senior leadership in Information technology consulting and management. Strong ability to work with, and bring together, people of various backgrounds, opinions, and personalities to succeed in implementing large scale business technology transformations. Career focus on manufacturing companies including food products, forest products, computer products, telecommunication products, and credit card processing services.
Willingness to relocate: Dependent on the position being considered
Work Experience
SAP Manufacturing Consultant
Lamb Weston - Kennewick, WA
August 2019 to May 2022
Company Overview: Primary business model: Food products manufacturing - World supplier of potato & vegetable products; Employees: 7,700; Sites: US, Canada, Mexico, China, Europe, Latin America.
Program Manager - Manufacturing Information Technology:
●Responsible for 17 US, 1 Canada, and 1 China manufacturing plants.
●Work with information technology, plant technology, and business leadership to ensure manufacturing, warehouse, and quality functions document, design, build, test, and successfully deploy a forward-looking solution that streamlines their operational capacity using information technology tools.
●Included in this role was the planning, budgeting, and coordination of a separate $60M+ plant IT infrastructure renovation project that upgraded/replaced the entire plant technology stack.
●Provided Lamb Weston and their implementation partners (Accenture and Ernst & Young) the necessary technical specification to properly size, plan, budget and install the plant technology stack required for an AWS instance of SAP S4 Hana as well as the installation of MII locally in the plants.
●Established and lead plant teams in business and physical process mapping exercises ensuring that technology requirements were properly identified and would be effectively utilized.
●Responsible for status updates, budget updates, and leadership awareness communications.
Director of IT/SAP Consultant
TMX Aerospace/Thyssenkrupp Materials North America - Kent, WA
August 2010 to September 2018
Company Overview: Primary business model: Aerospace supply chain optimization, material management, manufacturing, logistics; Employees: 700; Sites: 9 (US & Canada)
Program Manager – SAP S4
Provide overall program leadership in blueprinting business processes, working with Accenture consultants and business leaders to design, build, test, and train business team members, solely responsible for all IT hardware systems renovations required.
● During my tenure at TMX I was the executive leader supporting two separate SAP projects each spanning 3 years:
1) An internal SAP implementation for TMX Aerospace supporting its supply chain management business model transformation from a home-grown legacy ERP system to an SAP centric ERP system
2) Lead consultant for a joint TMX and Boeing SAP implementation for Boeing's Raw Material Aggregation/Supply Chain program supporting Boeing's raw material supply chain
●For both projects I was responsible for interviewing, hiring, and leading the personnel who would be responsible for representing their respective departments.
For TMX's SAP program I created a business process model that represented our market position.
Created, and gain approval from each business area, a project charter that was instrumental in ensuring project alignment for scope, oversight, participation, responsibilities, and conflict resolution.
Lead the business process mapping exercises ensuring alignment to the business model
Lead the design process collaborating with consultants and business leaders
Worked with the consultants during the build process answering detailed questions about business process operations
Assisted with the testing process putting ownership on the business, with a defined testing framework model, to ensure the proper transformation of business processes into the new system
Worked with the business to define a roll-out strategy that aided in a digestible adoption of the new system
Selected and managed Logicalis for an independent $710K holistic infrastructure assessment required to identify the exact current state capabilities/capacity of TMX Aerospace's Internet, WAN, LAN, Wi-Fi, and Servers
Personally oversaw, managed, setup, and trained warehouse team members in the manufacturing mobility and automation portions of Boeing's Raw Material SAP implementation, which included: * Hardened tablets, Bluetooth scan guns, and mobile hip printers to receive, transfer, and ship material for 400+ manufacturing team members
Group Manager - ERP Systems Development
Flow International - Kent, WA August 2007 to August 2010
Company Overview: Primary business model: Manufacturer of high-pressure WaterJet cutting equipment; Employees: 500; Sites: 9 (US, Germany, France, UK, India, Spain)
●Managed 12 application development staff members for a multinational migration from JD Edwards ERP to Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP. Lead the Change Control Board for IT change implementations
●Responsible for application development and support of ERP systems and customer sales portals
●Ensured ERP blueprinting activities were sufficiently detailed for application development staff to build business processes into Dynamics AX
●Lead the change control council to manage the release of new software development updates
●Supported testing activities working with the business and consultants to ensure business processes were accurately depicted and error free
●Supported the roll-out of the new system first in the Germany office then following with Flow's HQ in Seattle WA
Director of IT
TSys Acquiring - Sacramento, CA
February 2005 to May 2007
Company Overview: Primary business model: Credit card processing solutions; Employees: 400; Sites: 1 (US-Sacramento)
●Responsible for all IT functions. 12 direct reports
●Worked with the company's parent headquarters in Tempe Az to ensure IT relationships were solid and effective in order to support the highest level of customer service (internal & external customers)
●Lead migration to JD Edwards ERP from a home-grown ERP system completing the project in 6 months with a limited budget while there were 4 changes in CEO leadership
●Managed vendor selection, relations, pricing negotiations, vendor contract creation, purchases, and payments
CIO/Director of IT
Roseburg Forest Products - Roseburg, OR
October 1999 to October 2004
Company Overview: Primary business model: Wood products manufacturing; Employees: 3500; Sites: 5 (US)
●Managed IT staff of 50+ personnel as well as ERP consulting staff/firms across the US
●Managed all aspects for the migration from a home-grown mainframe ERP system to JD Edwards ERP
●Managed and lead complete overhaul of RFP's server and networking to support the migration from a mainframe system to a modern MSSQL/MS Server based system (JDE)
●Managed vendor selection, relations, pricing negotiations, vendor contract creation, purchases, and payments
Director of IT
Harris Corporation - Dracon Division - Camarillo, CA
1994 to 1999
Company Overview: Primary business model: Telecommunications; Employees: 1000; Sites: 3 (US)
●Managed IT staff of 40+ personnel across 3 US locations (Camarillo Ca, Novato Ca, Melbourne Fl)
●Envisioned, gained support and funding approval for a complete Harris Dracon IT systems renovation ($1 Million) focused on stabilizing a failing network infrastructure
●Lead the technology transformation during several acquisitions and a large merger of 3 business units
●Worked with the company's parent headquarters in Melbourne Fl to ensure IT relationships were solid and effective in order to support the highest level of customer service (internal & external customers)
●Managed vendor selection, relations, pricing negotiations, vendor contract creation, purchases, and payments
Education
BS in Electronic Engineering Technology
Colorado Technical University
AS in Instructional Systems Development USAF Community College (CCAF)
AS in Electronic Theory
Military Service
Branch: USAF
Rank: E6
September 1981 to August 1989
Discharge: Honorable
Job Duty: Master Instructor
Commendations: Good conduct with one device, Outstanding unit, Longevity service, NCO professional military graduate ribbon, AF training ribbon
Certifications and Licenses
Novel CNE
July 1994 to August 1999
Top Secret Clearance (USAF)
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