Dan Tannenbaum

Current

• Director of Marketing Solutions Technology at Williams Lea
• director at Williams Lea

Past

• Director of IT at RAB Food Group
• Director of IT at iZone Group
• Director of IT at IVC Industries, Inc..

• Sr. System Analyst at Cambrex Corp

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Education

• Alfred University

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Dan Tannenbaum’s Summary

Result-driven, meticulous IT Executive with a proven ability to lead all aspects of IT, transform IT into a strategic business partner, and built world-class IT operations and infrastructure. Focused on delivering systems that provide ROI with the right information at the right time to the right people. Hands-on management style centered on quality and leading through project assignment, not task assignment. Capable of bridging communications between technical and non-technical teams. Promoted regularly throughout career.

Most recently, I worked as the Director of Information Technology for R.A.B. Food Group LLC, where I drastically improved and built the company’s IT operations. By implementing new technology solutions, data center, and reporting, I saved the company more than $1 million. Throughout my career, I have consistently been hired to establish new IT operations from the ground up. In each case, I successfully built world-class departments, teams and technologies. I am focused on ensuring IT is a strategic business partner to senior management by delivering systems that provide the right information, to the right people, at the right time.

Some of my career accomplishments include:

• Spearheaded new IT operations by establishing a state-of-the-art data center, developing new IT plans and strategies, and hiring and building a knowledgeable IT staff
• Saved company $1 million by leading re-engineering of key business systems
• Generated more than $750,000 savings by developing and deploying infrastructure
• Established Internet entry in the eBusiness / eCommerce environment

Dan Tannenbaum’s Specialties:

tech stuff:
Languages: PL/SQL, SQL, MS Visual Basic, VBScript, JavaScript, HTML, XML, Progress 4GL, Basic, Pascal, C, FORTRAN, UNIX Shell, DCL, any other language with a manual
Operating Systems: Windows NT/2000/XP, AS400, UNIX, DOS, Novell, HP MPE, DEC VMS
DBMS: Oracle, SQL, DB2, MS Access, Progress, Paradox, Watcom, dBase, Pilot
Development Tools: MS Visual, Basic, FrontPage, Visual Interdev, Erwin
Applications: MS Excel, MS Word, MS Access, Lotus 1-2-3, Novell GroupWise, Various PIMS

Dan Tannenbaum’s Experience

• Director of Marketing Solutions Technology

  Williams Lea

  (Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Outsourcing/Offshoring industry)

  October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

  New Job... New position within the company. We are creating the job description as we go along.

• director

  Williams Lea

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  2008 — Present (1 year )

• Director of IT

  RAB Food Group

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Consumer Goods industry)

  September 2004 — March 2008 (3 years 7 months)

  * Spearheaded new IT operations by establishing a state-of-the-art data center, developing new IT plans and strategies, and hiring and building a knowledgeable IT staff.
  * Saved company $1 million by leading team to re-engineer key business systems in manufacturing.
  * Generated more than $750,000 savings by developing and deploying technology infrastructure and ERP applications focused on order to cash, manufacturing, and finance.
  * Implemented new data reporting that saved company costs from outside consultants.
  * Enabled company to grow rapidly and extend products and services to customers by developing network infrastructure and establishing Internet entry in the eBusiness / eCommerce environment.

• Director of IT

  iZone Group

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Retail industry)

  March 2002 — September 2004 (2 years 7 months)

  * Built IT department from the ground up and improved operations through IT solutions.
  * Produced savings of more than $100,000 annually through business process re-engineering.
  * Reduced inventory by $500,000 annually by implementing ERP procedures and streamlining the supply chain.
  * Launched company's first Point of Sale System in major store locations.
  * Reduced monthly close cycle from 2 weeks to 3 days by improving financial reporting through IT.

• Director of IT

  IVC Industries, Inc..

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Pharmaceuticals industry)

  January 1997 — March 2002 (5 years 3 months)

• Sr. System Analyst

  Cambrex Corp

  (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1989 — 1997 (8 years )

Dan Tannenbaum’s Education

• Alfred University

  Computer Science 1982 — 1986

  Activities and Societies:

  Kappa Psi Upsilon

Additional Information

Dan Tannenbaum’s Groups:

•    CIOs.com: Chief Information Officer Network
•    PMINJ
•    PM Community

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