Profit
Satisfaction
Risk
People... plus
Process... plus
Technology... plus
Actionable Data... equals
Profit! More...
PERSONAL
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Married
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Five amazing kids!
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Host Dad to multiple foreign exchange students (from Norway, Spain, & Japan)!
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Love Scuba Diving & Paintball
With 20+ years of experience as an executive leader in business operations & IT service management, I have been integral to technology roadmap execution and driving multi-million-dollar profit increases.
✅ Strategic leadership of extensive IT portfolio, IT staff, ERP systems, and continuous improvement projects for a $450M company in an FDA-regulated environment with over 700 employees across 12 production, distribution, and retail sites.
✅ Eradicated massive waste, developed KPI analytics, and facilitated business intelligence reporting to leadership for actionable insight, in addition to process reengineering and custom ERP system advancements, resulting in $85K of recurring monthly savings
✅ Built proprietary application, workflow, and reporting solution for streamlining Purchase Order Adjustment processing, decreasing monthly expenditures by $50K
✅ Constructed an E-Commerce enterprise system, allowing smooth transactions of B2B web & EDI wholesale, and customer preferred B2C retail ordering, simplifying ordering with leading grocery chains while eliminating manual errors, processing $100M+ revenue
✅ Engineered an all-inclusive Returns & Credit Memo solution, utilizing root cause analysis and business analytics to identify customer credits, resulting in credit reductions of 15% in Operations, 10% in Sales, and 3% in Accounting while saving $10K+ a month
✅ Developed an effective full-scale framework for IT risk, controls, and essential testing, achieving 20+ successful audits within Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI, & HIPAA environments
✅ Founded, built, and sold an organization providing world-class IT service for mid-sized companies, integrating infrastructure, security, and ITIL-compliant IT service for 30 diverse business clients across 45 locations, supporting 2K+ end-users and 250 servers
Expertise:
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ERP Systems
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Business Intelligence & Data Analytics
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Certified in Logistics, Transportation & Dist. (CLTD)
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Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (CLSSBB)
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Certified Info. Sys. Security Professional (CISSP)
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Certified Info. Sys. Auditor (CISA)
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Lost Revenue Recapture
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Cost Containment
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Strategic Planning
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Budget Development
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Infrastructure Design
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IT Best Practices
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Cloud Strategy
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Network & Data Security
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Disaster Recovery
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Business Continuity Planning
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Project Management
TESTIMONIAL
“Kent is strongly focused on results - bringing projects to a conclusion and improving processes, having better analytical tools and reducing costs in the process. ”
Roger O'brien, CEO & President, Santa Monica Seafood More...
CURRENT & PREVIOUS CERTIFICATIONS
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CLTD (Cert. in Logistics, Transportation, & Distribution)
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CISSP (Cert. Information Systems Security Professional)
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CISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor)
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CLSSBB (Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt)
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CPIM (Certified in Production & Inventory Management)
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PMP (Project Management Professional)