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William Freiberg

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
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)
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
01.1989 - 01.1991

Senior Programmer / Analyst

Dry Storage Corporation
01.1988 - 01.1989

Lead Operator

USA Today
01.1987 - 01.1988

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Information Systems

DeVry Institute of Technology
Lombard, IL

Skills

  • 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

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