A division of Grand Metropolitan, I was responsible for all food companies’ IT across Western Europe. All companies were based on prior acquisitions thus all systems were different, highly customized with duplicated infrastructure. A hallmark of my time in France was the introduction and subsequent implementation of SAP ERP across Europe. At that time SAP R/3 had just been…
As the IT Director, I led the process to covert the company from a store-door delivery company to warehouse distribution. In this process, strategically moved the company from internally focused systems to distributed systems based on Progress Software’s 4GL. This enabled Dannon, with a 20-day ‘short shelf-life’ product to manage all phases of order management through distribution where managing…
I led the development team in the building of latest generation of technology at the time. Specifically, led the advanced technology group in the build and deployment of the companies’ first remote access capability for the sales organization of the Food Service Division. This allowed the sales teams to access customer information regarding products, volumes, profitability, and more. Based…
As VP, Worldwide Information Systems, ran all of Haagen-Dazs systems landscape. Owned by then Grand Metropolitan plc, I reported to the global CIO based in London as well as the N American CIO based in Minneapolis, MN. Of note at Haagen-Dazs was responsibility for the implementation of Order-to-Cash and manufacturing systems in a greenfield factory located in Arras, France.…
Coty is a cosmetics and fragrance company, now perhaps the largest in the world. As the SVP Global Information Management, I led the process to transform Coty’s independent country operations into a consolidated, global operating environment. Over several years, SAP ERP (R/3 – ECC 6) was implemented in 17 countries and 5 languages on a single instance. This covered…
