Summary


JOE YANNERELLA
Senior IT professional with special emphasis on inventory logistics, customer management and systems development. Extensive experience in delivering mission critical systems ; managing vendors, projects and budgets. Proven ability to build strong relationships with staff and clients through commitment and hard work and the creation of solid teams that deliver results.


Employment

May, 2001 -  January, 2009

Built and managed software development and quality assurance teams to provide inventory management, data integrity and interoperability between large manufacturing and retailing entities. This was done in concert with customer liaisons working toward a global standard for items, shipping containment and locations to reduce overhead and shorten delivery times. Focused on corporate merger to reduce infrastructure costs and consolidate product development teams. Functioned as a project management lead in all areas.

April, 2007 -  January, 2009
Senior Director

Led initiative to combine major multi-vendor land communication infrastructure over 3 state offices and numerous home offices. Consolidated long distance and local services, reducing telecom costs and blending support to minimize overhead.
Oversaw all vendor contracts for technical services.
Consolidated national and international cellular services for improved control and cost savings.
Reduced audio and web conferencing costs by 30%.
Oversaw help-desk support in local and remote locations.

Responsible for Asset Management of telecom and personal computer hardware.

August, 2006 -  April, 2007
Senior Director

Collaborated with product and technical development teams to create a manageable product roadmap driving technology to meet the business goals.
Instrumental in implementing the integrated on-line project management system where functional analysts were imbedded in each key department and partnered with the business entity owner.
Responsible for synchronizing with local and off-shore development staffs.
Customer Resource Management systems CRM, documented current and available systems. Worked with marketing department to select replacement CRM system.

May, 2001 -  August, 2006
Senior Director

Led the development team to produce an integrated e-Commerce solution that promotes data synchronization between supply and demand side trading partners. This drew in major manufactures and retailers like P and G and Wal-Mart scaled down to medium and small enterprises.
Implemented a US based datapool to align with the Global Data Synchronization Network GDSN a universal foundation for global electronic commerce. Delivered a collaborative commerce service, compliance verification, synchronization of product information and user locations, registry and lifecycle management for product categories and items.
Utilize internal and contract staffs to implement business solutions in compliance with channel managers and executive sponsors for Customer Relationship Management and Corporate Financial systems.
Utilized both classic SDLC waterfall and Agile methodologies where appropriate, to manage the systems development lifecycle and ensure that deliverables are compliant with requirements and timelines.

January, 1988 -  May, 2001

November, 1995 -  May, 2001
Senior Manager

Focused on inventory logistics, order to cash and just-in-time replenishment. Led 80 person team responsible for all planning and budgetary aspects of development, support and operations. Budgetary responsibility of $15 million. Provided IT management for 1.4 - billion dollar Retail Company with 139 stores in 24 states, central warehousing facilities, specialized in prescription drugs, health and beauty care products, general merchandise, grocery and seasonal items. Provided a web presence for consumer purchasing and a mature electronic data interchange system.

Implemented auto-replenishment systems for the stores and the central warehouse.
Replaced central computer processor and related peripherals with a more cost efficient processor and direct storage devices that resulted in operating savings of $1.5 million per year.
Installed $5.3 million in updated in-store processors and pharmacy systems to meet new business requirements.
Instrumental in restructuring the department and reducing the annual operating expenses by 23 percent for a savings of $2.8 million.
Implemented Intranet E-Business solutions to augment electronic data interchange EDI.
Merged 32 operational stores into the corporation while maintaining normal daily business.

January, 1988 -  November, 1995
Director

Installed $10.5 million multi-warehouse system.
Managed Electronic Data Interchange EDI for purchasing, advanced shipping notifications, receiving and movement information.
Implemented inventory control, retail pricing and point of sale POS systems allowing for multiple combinations of price zones, warehouses and stores.
Project lead responsible for installation of new merchandising systems.
Maintained systems products utilizing IBM s System Modification Program or Extended SMP/E
Led business software conversion from Unisys to new IBM environment.
Analyzed business procedures and developed requirements for software and hardware selection.

Education

Miscellaneous

Military Service : United States Air Force - Captain
Weapons Systems Officer Tactical Air Command
Awarded Air Force Commendation Medal for Meritorious Service, Combat Readiness Medal and National Defense Service Medal.
Top Secret Security Clearance.
Honorable Discharge
Technical Environments : MICROSOFT EXCEL, WORD, PROJECT, VISIO, MVS, JCL, COBOL, UNIX, SQL
Project Management : SDLC, Agile Member of Project Management Institute
Hardware : IBM OS/390 SUN SOLARIS, IBM RS6000
Extension Courses Human Resource Management, Budgeting, Research Methodology
Pepperdine University, Anaheim, CA