Manufacturing IT & AI Consulting

Led manufacturing IT turnarounds and ERP rescue and rollout; led the application carve-out and ERP separation for a European chemical manufacturer, rebuilt a distressed IT function for an HVAC-R manufacturer growing from $250M to roughly $850M, and held regional CIO and global BPM roles across a $3B automotive manufacturer's thirty-plus plants.

Created a service-oriented culture and transformed a company's manufacturing, logistics, IT, R&D, and procurement capabilities, advising C-level leaders across healthcare, life sciences, and supply-chain and manufacturing sectors.

Led project portfolio across IT in preparation for the sale & integration of the company to a large competitor.

Leads a boutique consultancy specializing in logistics, manufacturing, and supply-chain operations; earlier ran a major software vendor's Latin America manufacturing applications practice and built manufacturing, distribution, and service teams across global markets.

Developed an Industrial IoT offering for food and pharmaceutical consumer-goods customers to automate production lines, delivering results across post-deal manufacturing, CPG, and pharma integrations.

As an interim CIO serving manufacturing among other sectors, conducted a needs assessment and vendor-evaluation RFP for a manufacturer's CRM system and delivered integrated BI, supply-chain, and ERP solutions.

As a manufacturing-sector IT executive, held oversight spanning three manufacturing facilities alongside engineering, customer service, pricing, and product management.

Launched and completed technology programs for a large-scale biological manufacturing facility, transforming shop-floor and laboratory operations through MES, process-control, LIMS, and process-analytics platforms; later deployed machine-vision AI for in-line defect identification and quality control.

Managed business-analyst, development, and QA teams for a fitting-system and manufacturing-suite software platform, and led cross-functional groups spanning systems engineering, hardware and mechanical, and manufacturing through product deployment.

Serves as interim CTO and ecommerce leader for manufacturers and retailers, turning platform and ERP decisions into execution-ready operating models, order routing, and governance built to scale.

Designed and established manufacturing and supply chain for radio cellular-network products and built an industrialization unit for chip-set manufacturing supplying cell-phone makers, implementing Six Sigma and operational-excellence initiatives across roughly ninety parallel projects.

Turned around IT for a $5.4B building-materials manufacturing and distribution division within a $21B multinational; later, as CIO of a private-equity-held electronics manufacturer, led a multinational team to digitalize the supply chain and improve manufacturing efficiency.

As interim CIO, completed a stalled SAP S/4HANA implementation then stayed on permanently to transform business processes; led teams implementing SAP S/4HANA in a specialty-vehicle manufacturing environment and in a parts-distribution warehousing operation.

Directed transformation of the systems portfolio at a global steel-fabrication manufacturer, replacing a legacy AS400 platform with an $8M ERP; separately led a $5M customized ERP rollout across a multi-location manufacturing and construction organization and cut $150K in annual costs through cloud workforce and manufacturing-activity tracking across eleven sites.

As CIO and chief procurement officer for a multibillion-dollar rig-technologies segment operating across thirty-two countries, led global sourcing and outsource manufacturing for manufacturing sites worldwide and built a centralized global sourcing strategy and execution team.

Led a full turnaround of a nutritional manufacturer's IT department in partnership with the CFO; for an industrial manufacturing firm, built a global IT organization from disconnected regional units across continents.

Helps mid-sized manufacturers in regulated industries win and keep larger contracts; deployed CMMC and DFARS compliance protecting $4M in defense contracts plus a defense-grade ERP at a fabrication manufacturer, and stood up the full lead-to-order system for a window and door manufacturer with 100% payback in 180 days.

Optimized manufacturing control systems, MRP and ERP, and process-manufacturing implementations; through his consultancy completed over 250 global IT implementation projects spanning real-time production monitoring, production scheduling, and product-lifecycle management.

Delivered enterprise transformation across manufacturing, aerospace, and defense; lifted on-time delivery from 15% to 85% while cutting program costs 10% to 29% and raising business-unit value delivery by up to 150% through Agile and ITIL integration and Lean Six Sigma redesign.

As a fractional CIO, implemented hybrid-cloud ERP spanning financials, manufacturing, advanced planning, supply chain, and CRM for a global manufacturing and distribution business, and drove value creation across manufacturing, consumer-goods, and life-sciences deals.

A proven CIO for large-scale global manufacturing and supply-chain companies; helped manufacturing cut supply-chain cost 7% through distribution-system rationalization, raised ERP user adoption 50%, and implemented a global IT model and ERP for a global automotive supplier supporting rapid expansion and manufacturing rationalization.

Created and led the manufacturing-operations function, building production capability and quality processes at an outsourced manufacturing partner and auditing an offshore facility to prepare for manufacturing start-up.

Built data-integration tooling spanning schematic capture and PCB layout through to the manufacturing plant, modifying and integrity-checking electronics design data across the production pipeline.

Engaged a $16B semiconductor-equipment manufacturer to build digital platforms whose AI and ML recommendation engine enabled sales and marketing teams to realize more than $1B in additional equipment-upgrade revenue.

Developed an application to manage the furniture-manufacturing process and its costing, and led development of an AR and VR product targeting architecture and manufacturing markets.

Led a $500K cost-reduction effort at a major boat and engine manufacturer; served as product-cost lead implementing Oracle cost-management modules for a silicon-wafer manufacturer and built activity-based costing models across manufacturing plants.

As an interim CIO, implemented Good Manufacturing Practice operations and governance and built the cost-benefit case for a lab information-management system to improve quality control, system integration, and real-time reporting.

Led design and implementation for a manufacturing system for production-line control and migrated a manufacturing resource-planning system from an AS400 to a VAX platform.

Created an enterprise mobile-computing platform that lowered manufacturing costs and improved time-to-market; centralized software development from Taiwan manufacturing partners into a single software house and raised software and tooling reuse.

Delivered software providing operational insights to leading aircraft manufacturers and led integration of a newly acquired component-manufacturing shop, implementing best practices in manufacturing and software use.

Developed a materials-management system using an Oracle database and programmable RF bar-code scanners for use on the factory floor.

As CIO, led enterprise programs across ERP, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data, and governance; earlier led a surgical-device and pharmaceutical manufacturing systems implementation that generated over $1M in first-year revenue.

Architected a centralized manufacturing-data strategy for a global medical-device manufacturer, saving millions in development and operations; led a NetSuite-to-SAP migration for a global manufacturer expanding into new markets.

Served as head of software architecture for an audio-silicon device manufacturer supplying major handset and headset makers, developing embedded software, DSP algorithms, and tooling globally.

Led consolidation and upgrade of enterprise platforms including SAP, PLM, and MES with AI integration, applying digital-factory, digital-twin, and digital-thread approaches to transform manufacturing operations for consumer-goods clients.

As worldwide IT director for a major pharmaceutical company, owned systems for product development, R&D, and two manufacturing plants.

Delivered ecommerce and online-marketing capability for the world's largest jewelry manufacturer.

Performed a strategic assessment and built a three-year IT roadmap for a $500M-plus SAP-running manufacturer; earlier delivered global business-process improvement and application support across a chemical producer's manufacturing and maintenance functions.

Led application architecture for a global manufacturer, spanning a single-instance ERP, master-data management, demand planning, global sourcing, and supply-chain planning.

Eliminated five manufacturing-floor processing steps at a nuclear-energy manufacturer for $200K in annual savings and led implementation of a document-management tool for shop-floor control and a paperless factory.

As a fractional CIO with a manufacturing-focused consultancy, delivers digital transformation across manufacturing systems including ERP, MES, and TMS, plus automation and data analytics, for medical-device, pharmaceutical, aerospace, and apparel manufacturers.

Implemented an Oracle E-Business Suite supply-chain, MRP, and warehouse-management solution and added process orchestration to improve the client-delivery model, across a career spanning manufacturing among many industries.

Built enterprise software for a leading supplier of warehouse and material-transport automation; earlier developed real-time statistical parts-control and factory-floor workflow systems.

As a fractional CTO, leads technology for manufacturers and consumer-products firms; built a web application managing retail-space planning for a consumer-appliance manufacturer and developed EDI transaction processing for the supply chain from the ground up.

Provides strategic IT assessments and roadmaps for mid-sized organizations across print, manufacturing, and franchise operations, evaluating shop-floor automation to improve throughput and quality in digital and printed production.

Led IT business solutions for a major paper manufacturer, supporting up to 3,000 employees across five pulp-and-paper mills and a recycling facility.

As head of IT for a premium automotive manufacturer for a decade, then head of group information systems, directed strategy and governance across business-process management, ERP, product-lifecycle management, CAD, and supply-chain systems.

Serves as global digital and operations officer for a leading precision-metal manufacturer and has led IT and supply-chain transformation across medical-device, consumer-products, and industrial-manufacturing companies, optimizing a supply-chain network to cut time-to-serve by three days.

As engineering director, led integrated software, firmware, hardware, and mechanical design through the transition to manufacturing, coordinating product-development, manufacturing, and quality-assurance teams.

Led a leading 3D-printer manufacturer toward a stock-market IPO.

Led design and development of a custom data-integration tool enabling an automotive-parts manufacturer to track products across the supply chain from production through transportation and delivery.

As an independent IT and M&A advisor to private-equity firms, executes ERP rescues, M&A integrations and carve-outs, and full-scale IT transformations for manufacturing clients.

As CTO, led design and implementation of a comprehensive ERP system tailored to optimize manufacturing processes and operational workflows.

Managed development and implementation of a Manufacturing Requirements Planning system for a leading semiconductor maker's fabrication plants.

As CTO, designed, prototyped, manufactured, and launched a smart-locker hardware product end to end, including the mechanical and electrical engineering and the integrated cloud rental software.

CIO of a global cryogenic-storage manufacturer composed of three complementary manufacturing and service businesses, and has led IT for manufacturing and other clients ranging from $70M to $300M in revenue.

Co-invented a point-of-sale 3D-scanning technology that cut custom-earpiece manufacturing costs by an order of magnitude and reduced turnaround from a week to next-day delivery.

As CIO and equity partner of a PVF industrial distribution and manufacturing group, led an enterprise-wide digital transformation spanning supply-chain integration, warehouse automation, business intelligence, and ERP standardization across the manufacturing businesses.

Served twice as interim CIO and adviser to a brewing manufacturer, leading digital transformation of the core ERP, a major upgrade and cloud transition, and the introduction of Industry 4.0 and smart-manufacturing capabilities; now leads a major consultancy's manufacturing practice in the Nordics.

Served as interim global CIO for the seeds division of an $80B chemical manufacturer, managing global operations and integrating a $9B acquisition from vanilla SAP to a customized platform; held interim CIO and IT business-partner roles across multibillion-dollar chemical and agribusiness manufacturers.

As CTO, delivered cloud platform services and product-management consulting for industrial and agricultural equipment manufacturers, with deep specialization in industrial machine data and IoT.

For an aluminum manufacturer and fabrication company, resolved operations performance and helped rebuild the partnership with union staff; for a large consumer-packaged-goods producer, reset strategy and processes to become a low-cost producer.

Built a Manufacturing Execution System for a semiconductor and LED manufacturer, among completed systems spanning healthcare, life sciences, and industrial clients.

Defined and implemented a global Industry 4.0 transformation using IoT and Azure digital twins for plant optimization, with robotic process automation, intelligent automation, a big-data platform, and AI and ML solutions delivering an estimated $10M in annual savings.

Designed and led a 50-site SAP rollout for a major pet-food products manufacturer.

As CIO for over a decade, led two rounds of modernization of the company's infrastructure, a cloud migration, and enterprise system selection.

Stabilized a failed multi-year, multimillion-dollar Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP implementation for a packaging manufacturer.

As CIO for a global manufacturer spanning a security framework and advanced analytics across IT and OT networks; built a manufacturing and resource-planning platform covering the sales cycle, inventory, procurement, and production automation from design to shipping, delivering roughly $300M in operational benefits and $1B in incremental revenue.

Served as CIO of a fast-growing medical-device manufacturer through its acquisition by a larger industry player.

Managed design, implementation, and maintenance of automation and factory-computing systems, including PLCs, robotics, and networks, for state-of-the-art textile manufacturing, owning a $50M factory's new automation systems from design through startup.

Designed, developed, and deployed a solution to automate order management for a furniture manufacturer, driving a 30% increase in revenue.