Tom Scott Email Address

Director of Information Systems

STIHL Incorporated is one of seven manufacturing facilities in the STIHL Group. The Virginia Beach complex is located on over 70 acres with 700,000 square feet of manufacturing and warehouse space. STIHL Incorporated employs approximately 1,200 people in a variety of positions from product assembly, manufacturing engineering, sales & marketing, and finance

• COO / CIO for 15 years – revenue from $100M to $9B • Functional responsibility – Information technology (IT), customer service, call centers, distribution, logistics, pharmacy, and HR • Industries – retail, manufacturing, consulting, apparel, consumer products, and high-tech • Retail – brick and mortar; ecommerce; catalog; omni-channel • Managed departments with up to 3,500 people; IT organizations from 20 to 650 people • Responsible for budgets from $6M to $60M • Led organizations through 5 ownership changes, 3 acquisitions, 3 start-ups, and 2 turnarounds • Established low cost/high productivity data centers, call centers and distribution centers • Developed high performance leaders and teams • Promoted at least once and up to three times at each company Specialties: Chief Operating Officer, Chief Information Officer, Systems, Information Technology, Operations, Distribution, Customer Service, Call Center, Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain, Human Resources, Consulting, P&L, Third Party Logistics, Systems Development, ERP, Project Management, IT Infrastructure, Applications Development, Retail, Ecommerce, Direct to Consumer, Brick and Mortar, Manufacturing, High Tech, CIO, COO Tom Scott thscott@cox.net