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MBCS Information Technology Director

GSF Car Parts Ltd is an automotive company that distributes replacement car parts and accessories.

Integrate, integrate, integrate. The whole value of integrated systems and data is greater than the sum of their parts. Broad IT and Comms experience both from a technical and managerial perspective with deep knowledge of distribution industries gained in the automotive aftermarket. Major projects undertaken: Power BI - Investigation, implementation and rollout. Salesforce implementation (Sales Cloud and Einstein Analytics, Ta) Introduction of Outsystems rapid application delivery platform to deliver workflow applications using data from multiple sources. Significant experience in managing and developing EDP Merchant ERP system on Univision PICK style MultiValue database (jBASE, D3, UniVerse, Unidata, OpenQM family). Webservices design and development to allow web based product selection for ERP platform. Ecommerce planning and integration – GSF Car Parts websites (Magento platform), Ebay, Amazon, I am also part of the team responsible for online strategy (channel selection, SEO/PPC) Supplier EDI integration (TEC-COM, Eparts) Migration to a single ERP system from two different systems. Upgrade of ERP system and move to hosted platform. Development of open-source in-house business intelligence/CRM platform on LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, php) stack. GSuite - Google Apps for Business email and collaboration platform rollout. Hosted VOIP system selection and rollout. Rollout of Linux based desktops to all branch sites. Multiple upgrades of company Wide Area Network. Rollouts of Active Directory and Window Server 2003/2008/2012. PCI-DSS compliance programme rollout. Specialisations: Business Analysis IT Project management Business Metrics and Intelligence