Expert Details
Information Technology Management
ID: 725489
Kentucky, USA
Over his career Expert has held various supervisory and management positions in Information Technology in both domestic and international situations. He has worked in the small businesses arena and for major international corporations as an I. T. manager.
Expert was responsible for overseeing Year 2000 compliance for a worldwide major international food distribution company. For 2 years he provided on-site assessment and remote management of this most critical project. He implemented a Microsoft Access database to track vendor and internal compliance status. He coordinated his company's worldwide Year 2000 compliance project among 60 locations in 20 countries.
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year: 1982 | Degree: MBA | Subject: Business | Institution: WKU |
| Year: 1969 | Degree: BS | Subject: Computer Science | Institution: University of Kentucky |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|---|
| Years: 2002 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Director | Department: Information Technology |
Responsibilities:He directs activities of an Information Systems department. Responsibilities include departmental management and budgetary oversight. Environment includes an ERP business information system (MS Dynamics), client/server network with 120 users, and telecommunications infrastructure connecting eleven domestic and international offices.He has organizational responsibility for a staff of 5 associates and consultants/contractors as required. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2000 to 2002 | Employer: Mattel, Inc | Title: Director | Department: Information Technology |
Responsibilities:He managed an Information Systems Department, which included an AS/400 system, multiple LAN servers, and 150+ PC users. He had overall organizational responsibility for a staff of 10 plus 3 consultants and an operating budget of $1mm. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1999 to 2000 | Employer: Kentucky Apparel, LLP | Title: Director | Department: Information Technology |
Responsibilities:He directed the activities of an Information Systems Department that included an AS/400 system and a 75-node PC/LAN network. He had overall budgetary and organizational responsibility for staff, business applications, hardware and software packages. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1989 to 1999 | Employer: Chiquita Brands International | Title: Senior Manager, Information Systems | Department: Information Technology |
Responsibilities:He was responsible for providing worldwide mid-range AS/400 management consulting support. He directed the activities of an international consulting group, primarily in Latin America. He provided on-site information systems management consulting in Costa Rica, Colombia, Chile, Europe, and Japan. He established data center management practices, including change management and disaster recovery and he provided strategic leadership for information systems in Chilean operation |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1975 to 1989 | Employer: Fruit of the Loom | Title: Director, Applications Development | Department: Information Systems |
Responsibilities:He had overall responsibility for enterprise-wide business systems development and support for corporate and manufacturing systems. (Architecture included IBM micros, minis, and mainframe systems.) He managed a department of 25 analysts and programmers. He identified information systems needs and established work priorities. He formulated executive management recommendations and associated budgets. |
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International Experience
| Years | Country / Region | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Years: 1993 to 1994 | Country / Region: Costa Rica | Summary: He managed the implementation of Materials Inventory, Payroll and Financial Reporting systems |
| Years: 1994 to 1995 | Country / Region: Chile | Summary: He provided strategic leadership for information systems department |
| Years: 1995 to 1997 | Country / Region: Colombia | Summary: He provided on-site information systems management consulting support. He managed the implementation of a financial package. He established data center management practices, including change management and disaster recovery |
| Years: 1997 to 1997 | Country / Region: Belgium | Summary: He planned and oversaw movement of AS/400 data center |
| Years: 1998 to 1998 | Country / Region: Japan | Summary: He acted as Project Manager on concurrent projects to simplify in-transit produce tracking and warehouse inventory management, cost tracking and waste management. |
Fields of Expertise
information technology management, information management, management information system, year 2000 problem, mentoring, post project appraisal, business management, disaster recovery, information delivery, supply chain management, information network, Microsoft Project Manager, information storage and retrieval, application development system, database searching, application software, information technology, batch data processing, information storage, decision-making, software project management, software engineering, project management, planning, database, computer software