Peter Ross
Engineering Technology graduate from Northeastern University, with 15 years of IT experience. Currently working as Executive Vice President /CIO/Compliance Officer at Confidential.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Skills: | Business, Engineering, Leadership, Management |
| Groups: | Ignite Clean Energy (ICE) |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Schools: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern University |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Confidential, Woburn, MA |
| Position: | Executive Vice President /CIO/Compliance Officer |
| Time period: | December 2006 - Present |
| Description: | Privately held Insurance Industry Service Provider
• Manage internal staff of 35 coordinators, customer service representatives supporting internal and external users. • Full P&L responsibility, oversight of internal and external application development and operational staff. • HIPAA, PHI and 291 CMR 17 compliance management leadership. • Rebuilt back office information technology and support staff. • Realized 26% reduction in SG&A through operating expense efficiencies and vendor negotiations within 6 months. • Leadership of AP, AR, collections, real estate and facilities across 12 offices. • Designed and implemented several new business development solutions which increased revenue by 15%. • Authored and deployed Fraud Analytics models and establish Medical Management XML standards. |
| Employer: | Vedior North America, Wakefield, MA |
| Position: | Vice President of Information Technology (CIO) |
| Time period: | December 1999 - November 2007 |
| Description: | North American Holdings Company for a multinational group of specialty staffing firms
Vice President of Information Technology (CIO) • Lead internal staff of 21 developers, network engineers, facilities coordinators and end user support analysts supporting 1,300 users across 280 US and Canadian locations utilizing large scale workflow solutions. • Full P&L responsibility of a $6M budget and oversight of strategic technology initiatives across 12 North American divisions and compliance with international terms of reference. • Utilized systems development lifecycle to refocus and attain cost control of back office information technology solutions group providing all supply chain management and financial processing. • Conducted all research, negotiations and deployment of world-class Internet-based technology being utilized by nine divisions. • Responsible for innovative and internationally-recognized internet strategy which increased sales by 35% in a $25 million dollar division. • Deployed and tested complete catastrophic disaster recovery plan for all systems necessary for offsite recovery. • Major Systems: Oracle, Exchange 2003, VMware, Hyperion, iSCSI, Blackberry Enterprise, SUN, HP, Dell, EMC, E-Vault, MS SQL/Server, VoIP, MS Terminal Server, FileNet, Vertex, Bullhorn, Cisco, TKO, J2EE, Bullhorn, XML. Vice President of Information Technology (CIO) Sapphire Technologies - IT staffing division of Vedior North America. • Rebuilt out-of-date/poorly performing information systems and staff of 12 supporting 750 users across 32 offices. • Deployed an international award winning Website providing sales, recruiting and client relationship functionality. • Managed build out of a $1M facility housing corporate datacenter. • Consolidated 32 domestically dispersed databases and file servers. • Designed and tested with success disaster recovery plans. • Major Systems: Winsearch, Exchange 5.5/2000, Citrix, VERITAS, MS SQL, J2EE, .NET, SonicWall, Cisco, McAfee. |
| Employer: | Summit Technology, Inc., Waltham, MA |
| Position: | Director of Information Technology |
| Time period: | December 1997 - November 2000 |
| Description: | Manufacturer of FDA-regulated lasers and consumables for laser vision correction.
• Directed all internal IT staff of 8 with $2M budget responsibility. • Responsible for all technology related aspects of corporate, manufacturing, field service and field sales force systems in an ISO 9001 certified environment with manufacturing plants in the US and Ireland. • Responsible for the entire RFP negotiations and implementation process necessary to migrate from MAN/MAN to the Oracle’s ERP suite of products including AP/AR/GL/HR/PO/Manufacturing/Project. • Major Systems: Lotus Notes, Oracle, MAN/MAN, Customer Soft, Cisco Catalyst, MS IIS, CheckPoint. |
| Employer: | Lids Corporation, Westwood, MA |
| Position: | Director of Management Information Systems |
| Time period: | December 1994 - November 1998 |
| Description: | Specialty Baseball hat retailer generating $45M in revenue.
• Recruited by founders to join start-up specialty retailer to perform all tasks associated with research, acquisition, implementation and management of all technology aspects of corporate, distribution center, POS, e-commerce systems, technologies and support staff. • Managed all development, vendor relations, negotiations and design tasks associated with the deployment of $500,000 headwear e-commerce site and associated integration with store level and distribution systems. • Major Systems: Richter, Store*21, XBR, Novell, MS IIS, EDI, MAS*90, WDC, ACH, ADP, CheckPoint |
| Employer: | TJ Maxx, Framingham, MA |
| Position: | Technical Analyst |
| Time period: | December 1992 - November 1995 |
| Description: | Division of TJX with 1600 stores in the US, Canada and the United Kingdom.
• Performed all aspects of management and user support related to 8 Novell Netware file servers with 500 users. • Provided internal consulting for hardware and software acquisition, system re-engineering and vendor selection. • Successfully migrated 350 Merchandise PC users to a 100% Windows Based operating environment. • Performed all functions necessary to maintain 2 business critical Sybase SQL file servers. • Served as Project Manager, Developer and Integrator of Regional Office automation solution. • Designed and implemented server independent EIS, PC/FOCUS and Sybase, development and maintenance methodology utilized by an Advanced Software Development Team. • Researched and implemented a corporate and subsidiary wide virus protection solution. • Maintained all aspects Executive Information System. • Designed and implemented file transfer application for 8 regional offices. |
| Employer: | CVS [Consumer Value Stores], Woonsocket, RI |
| Position: | Micro-Systems Coordinator |
| Time period: | December 1990 - November 1993 |
| Description: | Personal Care Retailer.
• Initially provided personal computer and Banyan Vines network support to selected departments within the corporate headquarters and distribution centers. • Designed and implemented an automated FTP download process of mainframe based HRIS data to LAN based applications. • Developed an item file maintenance application utilizing Telxon scanners, DCA FT3270 and IRMA 3270 cards for use by the merchandising department in several distribution centers. • Designed and installed a token ring network and Novell in the Store Help Desk department. • Attended and completed Rapid Applications Development course in Hypermedia and Hypertext. • Deployment and modification of an expert system called Expert Advisor utilizing hypermedia and hypertext. • Completed ORACLE developer and DBA training. • Installed and tested ORACLE SQL*Server for Vines. |
EDUCATION
| University: | Northeastern University |
| Time period: | 1991 |
| Degree: | Engineering Technology, BSc |
| University: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Degree: | Executive Management Certificate Candidate |
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