Enthusiastic, results driven, IT Manager with success in driving and encouraging team members to achieve and surpass objectives in service and performance. Skilled in retail team leadership and boosting customer satisfaction.
Establish and performance driven IT Manager with 18 years of experience.
Drive and execute the technology roadmaps, strategies and initiatives in partnership with internal and external stakeholders.
Skilled in adding input to solving complex issues and making proactive operational changes.
Technical, strategic and empathetic listener with excellent negotiation skills.
Hands on customer care relationships in retail and corporate settings.
Active Directory management of domains, OUs, GPs, users, computers and printers.
Create KPIs to maintain service standards.
Manage interviewing, hiring, onboarding and training of new associates
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Infrastructure Network Manager
RBS Ahold/Delhaize
01.2018 - 01.2021
Company Overview: Ahold Delhaize Group operates a total number 7,137 stores around the world. The Ahold Delhaize Group is a multinational food retailer, that operates supermarkets and convenience stores on three continents.
Lead a team of 16 US based IT network technical engineers.
Maintain and review Retail Business and IT project requests, maintenance and critical escalations with our internal team.
Develop and foster a long term strategy for continued process growth for Customer Service and IT.
Manage Active Directory related to IT Network Infrastructure to ensure updated policies and security. Identified changes and worked with IAM team to perform updates.
Spearhead cross functional training between internal network engineers as well as other IT professionals.
Travel to retail sites to review ongoing projects and meet with store leaders to receive project updates and to address any customer service related problems or questions.
Create knowledge base documentation for Retail Support Operations to provide project overview, blueprints of design, troubleshooting steps and escalation path if issues arise and training.
QA Infrastructure Portfolio Manager
RBS Ahold/Delhaize
01.2016 - 01.2018
Participate in QA effort estimation. Prepare test execution plans, schedules and determine resource requirements. Identifying project dependencies, risks assessment and opportunities for process improvement.
Manage IT Infrastructure testers both on-site and remote.
Hire, onboard and coordinate training.
Manage Active Directory related to IT QA Infrastructure to ensure updated policies and security. Identified changes and worked with IAM team to perform updates.
Review and ensure proper hand off and documentation to Deployment Management and Production Support teams: - QA assists in developing and ensuring compliance of departmental specifications, policies, and standards to guide the deployment and support of systems by these teams.
QA Infrastructure Portfolio Lead Tester
RBS Ahold/Delhaize
01.2010 - 01.2016
Define standards for development of manual test sets/test cases and automated test scripts.
Ensure hardware and test users are present in the test domain under the appropriate OU’s and Groups.
Participated in formal reviews of business requirements and application designs.
Determined overall technical test strategy by proposing solutions and evaluating tools.
Liaison between banner business partners and leaders to ensure test steps created are reviewed to ensure proper testing coverage of processes, applications and hardware.
Software used to create test scripts ALM and Jira.
Assist QA Test Analysts with complex test scenarios.
Retail Production Support – Kronos and Pharmacy
Delhaize America
01.2009 - 01.2010
Support Kronos Time and Attendance application which includes monitoring mainframe, MPP and PeopleSoft feeds to the application. Work directly with Retail to support urgent issues.
Deliver complete Incident Management from initial incident documentation, monitoring issue, root cause analysis and issue resolution.
Monitor end user ticketing system and troubleshoot issues reported by Retail.
IT Support Desk
Hannaford Brothers, a Delhaize America company
01.2008 - 01.2009
Troubleshoot a wide variety of customer issues as a help desk operator for a large retail corporation.
Provide assistance to both Corporate and Retail, as well as consistently perform at a high call take rate with a 95% resolution.
Work with ServiceNow as our ticketing system.
Prioritize ticket tasks by severity, identify, isolate and redistribute tickets accordingly.
Maintain a high standard of professionalism and dedication for the customers.
Perform AD password changes as well as ensure end user has the appropriate access.
Provide remote support through our remote control tool for associates off-site.
Business Process Manager, Forecasting & Replenishment at Ahold Delhaize USA Procurement / Peapod Digital Labs / PeapodBusiness Process Manager, Forecasting & Replenishment at Ahold Delhaize USA Procurement / Peapod Digital Labs / Peapod