CIO
Greater New York City Area
- Current
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- VP IT at Medicis
- Advisory Board at GridApp
- Past
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- Advisory Board at Agile Software
- CIO at Symbol Technologies
- Director IT at Cisco Systems
- Advisory Board at Network Appliance
- VP Systems at D. E. Shaw & Company
- Manager Research Computing and Networking Services at Lucent Technologies
- MTS at AT&T Bell Laboratories
- MTS at AT&T/Bell Labs
- Education
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- Northwestern University
- St. Joseph's College
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Ralph Loura’s Summary
A seasoned IT Executive with over 20 years of experience in the field, currently as CIO at a $500M Specialty Pharma company.
A results-driven IT executive with strong business as well as technical acumen. An experienced “change agent,” adept at implementing forward thinking ideas, concepts, and programs that motivate highly successful teams, generate strong and sustainable profitability, and ensure customer loyalty.
My strengths lie in my ability to create solid and cost-effective foundations and apply innovative thinking. My IT operations background coupled with my large scale ERP, Business Process, and Business Transformation experience provides me with a unique perspective.
Ralph Loura’s Specialties:
CIO, CTO
Ralph Loura’s Experience
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VP IT
Medicis
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; MRX; Pharmaceuticals industry)
July 2006 — Present (2 years 3 months)
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Advisory Board
GridApp
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2006 — Present (2 years 5 months)
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Advisory Board
Agile Software
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; agil; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2003 — June 2006 (3 years 1 month)
Memeber of the Customer Advisory Board
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CIO
Symbol Technologies
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; SBL; Computer Hardware industry)
March 2003 — October 2005 (2 years 8 months)
• Led successful $100M Business Transformation
- Operations: Supply chain overhaul from build to stock to assemble to order
- Decision Support: Consolidation of reporting and several custom data warehouse.
- Portal: Collapsed dozens of independently managed intranet environments w/hundreds of pages and thousands of objects into two centrally managed portal environments build upon SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0
- HR: Deployed manager self-service and employee self-service human resources solution .
- Sales: Deployed CRM Portal establishing connection between pipeline management and supply-chain execution.
- Product Management: Led strategy and execution for overhaul of Product Lifecycle Management process.
- Core IT services: Drove execution of client service organization outsourcing to IBM Global Services (help desk, desk side, printers, and a conversion from Novell Netware/GroupWise to Microsoft AD/Exchange. In excess of 5,000 seats were impacted world wide. -
Director IT
Cisco Systems
(Public Company; Computer Hardware industry)
1999 — 2003 (4 years)
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Advisory Board
Network Appliance
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; NTAP; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1997 — March 2003 (6 years 3 months)
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VP Systems
D. E. Shaw & Company
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Investment Banking industry)
July 1998 — January 1999 (7 months)
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Manager Research Computing and Networking Services
Lucent Technologies
(Public Company; Computer Hardware industry)
1995 — 1998 (3 years)
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MTS
AT&T Bell Laboratories
(Public Company; Computer Hardware industry)
1986 — 1995 (9 years)
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MTS
AT&T/Bell Labs
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
1986 — 1995 (9 years)
Ralph Loura’s Education
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Northwestern University
M.S., Computer Science, August 1986 — May 1989
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St. Joseph's College
BS, Mathematics and Comp Sci, 1982 — 1986
Additional Information
Ralph Loura’s Groups:
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Cisco Alumni Association
Ralph Loura’s Contact Settings
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