Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bachelor’s Degree, Aeronautical/Astronautical Engineering 1983-01-01 - 1987-01-01Work Experience
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.
Current
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.
UniFirst Corporation
2020-11-01 - 2022-02-01
UniFirst Corporation
Shooter Detection Systems
2020-04-01 - 2020-10-01
Shooter Detection Systems
Workbridge Associates at Schneider Electric
2019-04-01 - 2020-04-01
Workbridge Associates at Schneider Electric
iData Technologies, Inc.
2018-11-01 - 2019-02-01
iData Technologies, Inc.
Hancock Software, Inc.
2017-04-01 - 2018-11-01
Hancock Software, Inc.
Dun & Bradstreet
2016-05-01 - 2017-03-01
Dun & Bradstreet
Solutions Atlantic, Inc.
2014-01-01 - 2016-05-01
Solutions Atlantic, Inc.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2010-01-01 - 2015-01-01
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Brightstar Corp.
2009-01-01 - 2010-01-01
Brightstar Corp.
Skills
Summary
Strategic Planning − Change Management | Business Enablement− Consulting Services sholz@alum.mit.edu A customer-focused, revenue-driven Senior IT Executive, I develop the critical business partnerships and top-talent, top-tier teams that drive alignment, improve business performance and ensure competitive advantage in the marketplace. An emotionally intelligent leader, I merge the ability to quickly assimilate new industries, business processes and emerging technologies with broad-based experience as IT executive and consultant across numerous sectors. Passionate about growing the business, I lead, guide and mentor teams of professionals with expertise in Big Data, Database Management, Web Development, ERP Systems, Embedded Software and Project Management Methodology to meet and exceed company objectives. EXCEPTIONAL IT LEADERSHIP ACROSS A WIDE RANGE OF INDUSTRIES → Accumulated more than 15 years of proven success improving the functionality of businesses in electronic media, financial services, physical security, retail, health insurance and government sectors. DIGITAL SOLUTIONS AND PRODUCTS THAT TRANSFORM BUSINESSES INTO INDUSTRY LEADERS → Designed and built the ETL process that enabled the BI research group to merge 3,000+ customer databases into a data mart for systems spanning 22 products and 5,000,000 K-12 US students (Scholastic Education). Drove development of a system that provided real-time monitoring, Photo ID badging with photo capture, visitor management, elevator control, temperature monitoring, an API, and video integration on a 32MB ROM (S2 Security Corp). EARLY WEB-BASED PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT → Drove development of a registration system designed to use a load-balanced farm of WebLogic web servers with near real-time fulfillment to the vendor, integration with an ecommerce site, and XML batch fulfillment system (Navient Technical Solutions).