Expert Profile
30 years experience in Business Analysis, Change Management and IT Systems Delivery gained working for small and "Fortune 500"s companies in the US and Internationally.
Highly skilled communicator, strong track record delivering process improvement, customer satisfaction and ROI.
Started as a developer working for Coopers & Lybrand in New York, transferring to the London office Systems Delivery group bringing SQL, Ingres, Oracle and Progress skills for projects in several industries: banking, brokering, telecoms and electricity; namely for: BT and AT&T billing systems, Chase Manhattan's Bond management systems, Kidder Peabody client reporting, National Grid Ancillary Services, Primerica Risk and Loans.
Joined Pepsi in 1992 to lead a project building settlement systems that eventually grew into a complete back office system managing equipment, field sales and data cube OLAP reporting. This system was rolled out to over 100 depots in 13 countries.
Over the last several years, have managed various international projects with off-shore development; developed into the subject matter expert in various FMCG areas: Settlement, Field Sales, Logistics and Territory Plannig, Field/Handheld Systems, Systems Integration, Marketing Equipment.
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PepsiAmericas, Central Europe Group, Process Manager
General Bottlers, Central Europe, IT Development Manager
PepsiCo, European Business Unit, IT Director
Pepsico Vending, Worldwide IT Director
Coopers & Lybrand, UK, Senior Associate
Coopers & Lybrand, US, Consultant
Algorithmics, IT Developer
SUNY-Purchase, BA (Hons), 1982
NYU-Courant Institute of Mathematics, Graduate Program, 1984
LinkedIn - CEE Business Group - Moderator
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Produced internet based sales-to-settlements, software-as-a-service that is running in 6 countries, support several customers.
Greenfield set up of Pepsi operations in 3 countries.
Business re-engineering for several FMCG operations, seeing improvement in sales, in one instance, of 250%; gain of market share (Pepsi) from 9% to 18%.
Construction of interfaces, running over the internet (webservices) for Traverse, SAP, Sybase, Quickbooks, Horry and Europos.
Coaching of IT departments remotely in Georgia, Azerbaijan, Serbia, Czech and Poland.