William Freiberg
IT Professional
Bolingbrook,IL
Summary
Expert in leading business-critical, complex, high-profile initiatives, programs, and multi-functional projects. Exemplary record of achievement in project management, with ability to set objectives, define deliverables, prepare schedules & budgets, manage teams, and consistently deliver projects on schedule & budget despite limited resources and aggressive timelines. Outstanding team-builder combining talents in cross-technology development and staff leadership to design, deliver and maintain advanced systems and applications.
Overview
38
38
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Manager, Application Development
Uber Freight
Chicago, IL
03.2020 - Current
- Company Overview: TMS SaaS, Brokerage and Intermodal provider with $18B freight under management
- Led all technical areas for Intermodal Applications
- Provided strong leadership to enhance team productivity and morale.
- Led cross-functional teams to achieve project milestones and deliver high-quality results.
- Established strong relationships with clients and stakeholders, ensuring long-term partnerships and repeat business.
- Improved team performance by providing comprehensive training and fostering a collaborative work environment.
- Collaborated closely with peers from other departments to drive organizational success jointly as one cohesive unit.
- Balanced competing priorities efficiently while maintaining focus on critical tasks requiring immediate attention.
- Leveraged data and analytics to make informed decisions and drive business improvements.
- Maintained positive customer relations by addressing problems head-on and implementing successful corrective actions.
- Planned, created, tested and deployed system life cycle methodology to produce high quality systems to meet and exceed customer expectations.
Application Development Manager
Integrated Merchandising Systems (IMS)
Morton Grove, IL
01.2014 - 03.2020
- Company Overview: IMS provides Fortune 200 companies with the end-to-end merchandising solutions, maximizing their supply chains with industry leading technology
- Collaborated with Business Leaders to establish technology direction of IMS’ enterprise data warehouse
- Architected and delivered a data warehouse utilizing the Kimball Dimensional Data Model
- Developed databases and ETL to populate tables
- Data sources include DB2, SQLServer and external web services
- Leading a team to implement and architect a micro services methodology utilizing MuleSoft
- Current integration between client facing web sites and legacy IBM iSeries ERP (JD Edwards World) is done via HTTP requests, CGI and Apache
- Future state is a full micro service architecture managed by MuleSoft’s API Manager
- Goal is to monetize services and provide a suite of APIs that clients can embed in their applications
- Member of a team established in 2018 to expand IM S’s offerings from printed and physical merchandising materials to include digital content and data collection from IoT devices imbedded in physical materials
- IoT data collected and transformed in data warehouse and exposed to clients via Tableau
- Directed IBM iSeries developers in design, development, testing and deployment for IMS’s sales order processing, fulfillment, warehousing and transportation management software
- Turned around development staff that had suffered high turnover and poor morale utilizing mentoring, team building, and staff replacement (as required)
- Member of IMS’ Culture and Entertainment Committee
- IMS provides Fortune 200 companies with end-to-end merchandising solutions, maximizing their supply chains with industry leading technology
- Designed best practice documentation for development.
- Guided team in layout modifications to improve functionality.
Director, Business Intelligence Reporting
Hub Group, Inc.
Oakbrook, IL
01.2007 - 01.2014
- Company Overview: Leading freight transportation Management Company providing intermodal, truck brokerage and logistics services through offices and independent agents throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico
- 1,856 employees, 90 IBOs and 140 “sales only”
- $3.5B revenue
- Collaborated with Business Leaders to establish technology direction of BI Reporting systems based on internal reporting needs.
- Directed development of databases and ETL to populate reporting structures
- Managed and supported daily execution of ETL processes and underlying systems and infrastructure
- Directed data warehousing staff in delivering reporting capabilities to all enterprise Divisions
- Utilized SQLServer, Business Objects XI, and MQ from multiple platforms
- Managed iSeries Audits and Controls to support SOX compliance
- SharePoint Administrator
- Network performance monitoring
- Leading freight transportation Management Company providing intermodal, truck brokerage and logistics services through offices and independent agents throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico
- 1,856 employees, 90 IBOs and 140 “sales only”
- $3.5B revenue
Director, Enterprise Architecture
Hub Group, Inc.
Oakbrook, IL
01.2005 - 01.2014
- Company Overview: Leading freight transportation Management Company providing intermodal, truck brokerage and logistics services through offices and independent agents throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico
- 1,856 employees, 90 IBOs and 140 “sales only”
- $3.5B revenue
- Fully responsible for creating and driving enterprise technology roadmap including setting and enforcing standards, collaborating with C-Level Executives on strategy and vision, partnering with Project Managers and Developers to ensure successful system implementations and coordinating across all IT to support current and future needs
- CapEx of over $5M
- Drives and delivers technology and business initiatives and results
- Voted “40 Most Influential People” for Hub Group’s 40th Anniversary
- Recognized during earnings call for leading development of critical technology
- Sole member of IT selected to regularly present at Annual Line of Business Operations Meetings
- Chosen by Highway EVP to produce and deliver all internal and external training and demonstrations on Highway systems
- Collaborated on founding the Chicago Oracle Fusion Developers User Group
- Member of Midwest Oracle Fusion Developers User Group and Oracle Portal CAB
- Established migration road map from iSeries to fully browser-delivered user front end utilizing Java Server Faces and AJAX for a rich user experience
- Leading freight transportation Management Company providing intermodal, truck brokerage and logistics services through offices and independent agents throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico
- 1,856 employees, 90 IBOs and 140 “sales only”
- $3.5B revenue
Director, Applications Development & Quality Assurance
Hub Group, Inc.
Oakbrook, IL
01.2000 - 01.2005
- Company Overview: Leading freight transportation Management Company providing intermodal, truck brokerage and logistics services through offices and independent agents throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico
- 1,856 employees, 90 IBOs and 140 “sales only”
- $3.5B revenue
- Directed RPG developers and QA staff in design, development, testing and deployment of Hub’s intermodal, over the road and logistics applications on an IBM iSeries platform
- Leading freight transportation Management Company providing intermodal, truck brokerage and logistics services through offices and independent agents throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico
- 1,856 employees, 90 IBOs and 140 “sales only”
- $3.5B revenue
- Developed high-performing teams by providing mentorship, guidance, and opportunities for professional growth.
Senior Software Engineer, Architect, Implementer and Design Tracker Products
MKS / Silvon
Lombard, IL
01.1994 - 01.2000
- Company Overview: Software Company, wrote and sold software and content change management software for Open Systems (Source Integrity) and IBM’s Midrange system (Implementer)
- Created MKS Toolkit enabling users the ability run UNIX commands on Windows systems
- Acquired Silvon (Implementer & Design Tracker in 1999
- Fully responsible for all IBM AS/400- iSeries operating system changes ensuring products supported all features for release
- Continuously collaborated with key customers to provide custom features
- Delivered 3rd Tier support for MKS AS/400 product line
- Trained support staff and new Developers
- Business-critical Technology initiatives and results included: Completely designed and wrote the RPG/ILE support for Implementer
- Received Presidents Club recognition 3 years
- The only IT member 1 year
- Selected by IBM as AS/400 SME
- Mentored a Perl Developer porting Perl to the AS/400
- Regular Presenter at Annual Silvon Customer Group Meetings
- Lead Architect for the Implementer iSeries Source Control application
- Project Leader, provided DLO / IFS support for Implementer product
- Project Leader delivered Release Management Support for Implementer product
- Software Company, wrote and sold software and content change management software for Open Systems (Source Integrity) and IBM’s Midrange system (Implementer)
- Created MKS Toolkit enabling users the ability run UNIX commands on Windows systems
- Acquired Silvon (Implementer & Design Tracker in 1999
Senior Technical Consultant
JBA International
Rolling Meadows, IL
01.1991 - 01.1994
- Company Overview: British Software Company moving into the North American Market, sold and customized software for manufacturing, distribution, and financials
- Managed multiple, concurrent implementation projects utilizing appropriate number of support staff
- Served as acting technical manager when the technical manager was out of the office
- Involved in all phases of developing a Configurator module for custom ring ordering and manufacture
- Designed and programmed modifications for clients in Manufacturing, Distribution, and Financial modules
- Involved in hiring and training new technical staff
- Collaborated on designing and programming a complete EDI solution
- British Software Company moving into the North American Market, sold and customized software for manufacturing, distribution, and financials
Senior Technical Consultant
Silver Edge Business Systems, LTD.
Westchester, IL
01.1989 - 01.1991
Senior Programmer / Analyst
Dry Storage Corporation
DesPlaines, IL
01.1988 - 01.1989
Lead Operator
USA Today
Bensenville, IL
01.1987 - 01.1988
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Information Systems
DeVry Institute of Technology
Lombard, ILSkills
- Executive Presentations
- Logistics
- Architecture
- Requirement Identification
- Project Management
- Business Analysis
- System Analysis
- IT Strategy
- System Integration
- Strategic Planning
- Technology Evaluation
- Team Leadership/Motivation
- Process Improvement
- Enterprise Collaboration
Affiliations
- Oracle Open World, 2006 through 2013
- Co-Founder, Chicago Fusion Developers User Group
- Midwest Oracle Fusion Developers User Group
- Oracle Portal Customer Advisory Board
Professional Development
- Mulesoft Fundamentals
- Mulesoft Architecture
- IBM Workshop / Lab, Mobile Development Platform, Worklight
- IBM Workshop / Lab, Change Data Capture Product
- Oracle Workshop / Lab, Golden Gate Product
Timeline
Senior Manager, Application Development
Uber Freight
03.2020 - Current
Application Development Manager
Integrated Merchandising Systems (IMS)
01.2014 - 03.2020
Director, Business Intelligence Reporting
Hub Group, Inc.
01.2007 - 01.2014
Director, Enterprise Architecture
Hub Group, Inc.
01.2005 - 01.2014
Director, Applications Development & Quality Assurance
Hub Group, Inc.
01.2000 - 01.2005
Senior Software Engineer, Architect, Implementer and Design Tracker Products
MKS / Silvon
01.1994 - 01.2000
Senior Technical Consultant
JBA International
01.1991 - 01.1994
Senior Technical Consultant
Silver Edge Business Systems, LTD.
01.1989 - 01.1991
Senior Programmer / Analyst
Dry Storage Corporation
01.1988 - 01.1989
Lead Operator
USA Today
01.1987 - 01.1988
Bachelor of Science - Computer Information Systems
DeVry Institute of Technology