Management Project

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

A result driven professional executive and entrepreneur with 20 years of domestic and international multi-faceted business processes and operational experience. An accomplished visionary with experience in: strategic business positioning, business integration, IT Infrastructure, mergers and acquisitions, international project management, new market identification and P&L management in startup, growth and mature organizations. A tendency to thrive in dynamic and fluid environments while remaining pragmatic and focused on obtaining results. Core competencies and professional strengths include:

• Visionary Leadership • Strategic Business Planning • Change Management • Operations Management • Team Building • Complex Project Management • Global Strategic Alliances • Developing Execution Plans• Critical Business Analyses • Supplier/Vendor Collaboration • Logistics • Risk Analyses • Global Supply Chain • Global IT Sourcing • ASEAN/Europe/NIS Development • Identifying Key Business Drivers •

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Flowserve Inc.

2010 – Present, Cookeville, TN.

Director, Information Technology

Direct, review and deliver upon the strategic direction of the Flow Control Divisions Enterprise Business Systems (Oracle and SAP). Conduct assessments of risks, ROI, NPV and costs. Take the Flowserve strategic direction and move it from the drawing board to completion. As a seasoned and certified project and program professional meet and exceed performance indicators to deliver a system that meets the needs of the business.

• Ensure SAP & Oracle ERP systems are installed worldwide in the minimum time and within budget. Reduce the time for businesses to maximize profits after installation. Reduce cost of ongoing maintenance of systems.

• Provide professional guidance, supervision and directing on critical SAP implementations – including offshore vendors.

• Lead and develop two teams of ERP subject matter experts ensuring technological solutions for the business in areas of SCM, back office, engineering, quality and MRP.

• Align teams to work together to create and support innovation and continuous improvement. Define budgetary requirements for operations with a broad technological and application landscape.

• Undertake an Advisory role to the VP and CIO in risk assessments, Sox and change management

• Support, maintenance, testing and development of applications in SAP, Oracle, Avante and other ERP and legacy systems.

• Manage and provide governance to 3rd party Application, Infrastructure and BPO and production support vendors.

Cummins Generator Technologies

2007 – 2010 Stamford, United Kingdom. (Residence: Cookeville, TN)

Sr. Business Manager- Global Business Systems

Manage multiple interdependent ERP programs leading to business improvement. By business process re-engineering and technology redistribution and upgrades improve profits from reducing overheads and exploiting economies of scale. Research, analysis and direction in Business Intelligence (BI), business infrastructure programs, extended supply chain capabilities and manufacturing. Extensive international contacts and travel involving coordination, project management and cultural sensitivities.

• Define and execute business communication plan within all business information systems.

• Responsible for developing and leading a strategically oriented portfolio and program management office for with the objective of prioritizing and optimizing the resulting value from the portfolio of active projects within the resource capability of the organization.

• As an internationally certified Project Manager: Establish and maintain project management team cohesiveness, communications, define and mitigate risks, reporting and cross functional management in a “virtual” and physical environment that ranges over several countries.

• Design, develop and execute policies and procedures appropriate to the operation of the information system platforms and business use of the systems

• Develops quality, risks and operational metrics/KPI’s for the evaluation of internal and external services and vendors

• With senior level scope, review and complexity, responsibility and oversight for program development with multi-year cycles, business planning, policy setting, decision-making, budget planning and expense control, and performance management of all staff under their direction.

• Facilitate prioritization, balancing and management of candidate projects to maximize the value of dollars, budget, and resources.

• Oversee and manage the project request intake process; provide "What If" Analysis and Risk Assessment; provide capacity forecast based on workload and resource allocation.

• Ensure confidentiality and compliance with federal and state and European strict privacy rules – individual and corporate.

• Develop, recruit and maintain a highly enthused and motivated work force.

• Responsible to define and develop budgetary AOP (Annual Operating Plan)

• Implement change management protocol and program management offices.

Cummins Filtration, Inc.

2001 – 2007 Cookeville, TN.

Mgr - Strategic Business Development

This international OEM and Aftermarket company boasts Caterpillar, Navistar, Chrysler/Daimler, Honeywell, FRAM and John Deere as just a few of their notable customers. Lead the overall design, development, implementation, and execution of project IT activities within the business unit to ensure the effective and lean operations of the business and business systems and technology.

• Substantially improved efficiency and reduced cost by 31%.

• Direct personnel in 14 U.S. and international countries as well as offshore personnel.

• Redesign, develop and initiate business efforts towards “world-class” principles, ensuring the “design to cash” process recovers a $1.2 million opportunity.

• Lead cost reduction and project development efforts through Six Sigma analyses resulting in over $670k savings in one year in infrastructure realignment.

• Set the standard, execute and enforce Project Management methodology, tools and processes to be used organization wide; establish and track issues and risk.

• Exercise authority to implement established Project management standards and processes and maintain adherence to same

• Work with leadership to translate project/program opportunities into successful projects/programs

Federal Mogul

1998 - 2000 Smithville, TN.

Business and Forecast Manager

This $7 billion dollar global automotive aftermarket corporation included Friction, Chassis, Engine and Lighting Divisions and several foreign subsidiaries across the globe. Keeping customer needs forefront, identified, designed and improved metrics and performance standards for business operations using research, business systems, suppliers and/or customer in order to secure cost savings, new technologies and innovations and operating efficiencies.

- Provided detailed analyses and reporting concerning business processes in regards to raw material costs, procurement, forecasting, intellectual property sales, finished goods inventory, logistics, repetitive and discreet manufacturing processes.

- Interfaced with Marketing, Sales and prominent customers to develop internal forecast models and intelligence about competitors.

- Reorganized the 17 “hub and spoke” distribution centers to 4 major distribution centers with saving over $24 million expected over 5 years.

Brookenfield International

1986 - 1998 Cookeville, TN.

Global IT Director

As Global IT Director, manage and direct on a daily basis geographically separated, non-union, privately held healthcare facilities in the United States, Mexico, and Europe. As the senior director my responsibilities included defining, managing and implementing a broad range of technical and non technical projects for Medical Management, Clinical, and Disease/Care Management enterprise-wide. Further responsibilities included ensuring that the clinical, regulatory, reimbursement, intellectual property, quality, and manufacturing tasks operate within guidelines and parameters. Work with experts from academia, medicine and industry to transform our concept into a working product. Operated within established corporate guidelines and budget. Accountable for profit and loss (P&L), budget development, product development and cost analyses.

• Project Director for the acquisition of facilities in the United Kingdom obtaining U.S. State Department confirmation in less than 50% of the normal approval time.

• Director for a green field start up of a facility in the Newly Independent States (NIS) in Europe.

• Pioneered our company’s efforts in “product partnering”, thereby reducing overall purchasing expenditures and interest savings of $850 thousand the first year and total savings of 1.2 mm in 3 years.

• Reduced personnel turnover by 13% while at the same time restructuring production wide positions in an effort to become more competitive.

• Ensure skilled program/project managers are assigned to approved projects/programs

• Define, align and manage company-wide IT infrastructure to ensure its success and performance to budget and plans

• Prepare status of assigned IT functions for review with leadership

• Facilitate appropriate functional participation (quality control, audit, security, finance, etc.) in IT/MIS projects/programs to assist with risk evaluation, security, reliability controls, and treatment of program expense

• Support the IT Governance function and processes for leadership, ensuring that selection, prioritization, and management processes are utilized effectively within IT

ACADEMIC EDUCATION

AA: Applied Sciences – January 1984 – University of Maryland

BA: Political Science - May 1988 – Methodist University

PhD: Strategic Management – IT concentration May – 2005 – Bernelli University

COMMISSIONS, DIRECTORSHIPS, COMMITTES, PUBLICATIONS

NetWorthe USA

1993 - 2005 .

Consultant

Global Health Travels

2005 – 2010

Consultant

Publication:

ERP: Critical Corporate Success Factors and Failures Worldwide

TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

PMP – Globally certified PMI Project Management Professional (PMP)

Six Sigma – Six Sigma Trained

Six Sigma - Sponsor Trained

APICS - Certificates in: Global Supply Chain Management, Master Planning of Resources, Execution and Control of Operations, MRP I and II.

Technical: Familiar with/experienced in: SAP and Oracle Applications ERP (Mobile Supply Chain, Inventory, Healthcare, BOM, Accounting, Finance, Distribution, Purchasing, Manufacturing) being both functional and technically oriented. Expert in various software programs.

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