Basam Abdallah Email Address

Information Technology Vice President

Kohlas, Inc is a retail company that offers clothing,jewellery etc which is headquartered in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin.

My energy and passion is focused towards building distributed, high volume, analytical, and transactional software for growing businesses. My philosophy is to work backwards from the customer's needs and scale to quickly close CX opportunities, while not sacrificing long-term potential in tech or business growth. As a leader, I serve my team of product managers, engineers, program leaders and stakeholders. I have over 21 years in software technology, mostly within retail systems supporting eCommerce and physical locations. I've lead teams ranging from 100-450 people, with budgets greater than $40MM annually over the last 10 years of my journey, balancing tech costs, business needs, and financials in order deliver value. I've lead teams in eCommerce, Order Management, Merchandising, Marketing, Inventory, Fulfillment and Supply Chain system at retailers, such as Amazon, Whole Foods Market, Best Buy, Staples, Lowe's, Kohl's, Debenhams, and Circuit City. I apply new technologies, skills and approaches to improve and optimize business processes, with a diverse and rich experience in various domains. I have a clear understanding of company business processes with strong analytical and conceptual skills in order to implement systems. I lean in on my technical and functional skills with direct experience as Principal Architect, Software Engineer, Product and Program Management. I've built teams from the ground up, forming a vision and change management to morph companies into an engineering culture. I've lead strategic and technical direction for Omni-Channel Fulfillment, Merchandising, eCommerce, and Marketing Systems. providing enterprise solutions. I've build Order Management, Inventory Visibility, Warehouse Management, Fulfillment and eCommerce software from greenfield, often replacing 3P software not meeting business needs or SLAs. I pivot technology direction to low-cost serverless deployments in AWS, GCP, and Azure, leveraging open source tech, such as Spring, Kafka, Cassandra, Mongo, Node.js, JAVA, Go, React, and Angular, while also building on as-a-service tech, such as Dynamo, DocumentDB, Lambda, RDS, EKS, API Gateway, and etc.