NEIL OCONNELL
INTERIM CXO/ BOARD MEMBER/ADVISOR/ ENTERPRISE TECHNOLOGY AND PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
29874 Southbrook Street, Farmingotn Hills, Mi, 48334, US
An experienced leader focused on creating and driving innovative technology strategies that increase shareholder value, driven to maximize customer satisfaction, leading to process, profit, and capital optimization. Demonstrated expertise in maximizing product value through Agile, Lean, and the Software Development Life Cycle. Voice of customer evangelist driving product, placement, pricing, and promotion specifically to demonstrated customer buying preferences. Experienced in industrial, logistics, pharma/medical device, manufacturing, retail, hi-tech, and transportation verticals. Focused on building and commercializing new, emerging technologies for the mass market. Specific experience building/using technology to establish, grow, and optimize development and product teams supporting corporate initiatives and sales efforts. Work with integrated business planning tools at Oracle, O9, and others. Worked with PE/VCs buying and merging companies, including extensive IT and order-to-cash process due diligence.
Work Experience
General Manager 2005 - Present
INTERACTIVE CONSULTING | Detroit, Mi.
Systems development and process integration consultancy supporting data, hi-tech, manufacturing, transportation, and distribution companies. Customer project highlights include the following:
• Contract President of a large data storage / massively online database presentation business providing custom Websites for marketing data for D&B, Nielsen, and others. Facilitated the cleanup, packaging, and sale of the business over two years.
• Worked with the principal of a 3PL on a large international acquisition/closing to create new product lines and enable sales to drive revenue to these products.
• Improvement of International supply chain operations for auto supplier Remington Tire, resulting in a reduction in annual transportation costs by 9%.
• Re-engineering of the global supply chain process for Phillips Medical Imaging, resulting in global process unification.
• Overhaul of Domestic and International transportation, and supply chain systems for building materials manufacturer Masonite.
• Resolution of International systems, ERP, and warehouse issues for oil tools supplier Wenaas.
National Leader, Supply Chain Practice
Oracle Consulting
• Established internal supply chain consulting practice, installed i2 supply chain applications (TMS, Factory Planner, ASCP), and trained and supervised 25 Oracle consultants.
• Designed, built, and managed the company’s first Manufacturing Execution System at General Electric aircraft engine plant. The result was the application became an Oracle price list product within 2 years.
• Drafted transportation optimization model for a large mid-western office manufacturing company, resulting in a reduction of transportation costs by more than 10% and a reduced average inventory in transit by 10 days.
Vice President
American President Logistics
• Launched the Contract Logistics division, secured high-value accounts, and recruited and trained associates for account management.
• Controlled annual revenue turnover over of $400 Million.
• Procured, installed, and resold as ASP i2’s first client-server transportation system. Operated system as standard for s managing all North America freight for the world’s largest chemical company.
• Championed logistics optimization initiative for DuPont, resulting in installation of unified transportation and routing system for North America, labor cost reduction of more than 15%, and significant reduction in freight cost.
Chief Product and Technology Officer 2010 - 2021
TOTALTRAX INC. | Newport, De.
• Managed the merger of three technology companies into a cohesive, product-driven industry leader.
• Organized customer personas and journey mapping to focus on the critical few products and features that optimize value.
• Drove a disruptive product strategy, converting from commodity hardware to a software platform strategy.
• Moved the entire legacy customer set from on-prem to private cloud and AWS over 3 years. This includes ~250,000 customer field devices and 180 customer sites/instances. Grew the total number of customer instances as this occurred by 30%.
• Completed a corporate, shared data lake that assimilated customer data in raw form and provided report extracts and APIs through AWS Lambda functions and cross-platform comparative, predictive, and customer-specific analytics.
• Completed automated CI/CD pipeline that delivers the results of monthly Sprints as OTA (over the air) updates to customer servers and thus to subscribing devices.
• Installed and optimized Epicor ERP system for manufacturing, order taking, finance and other key processes.
CTO & Vice President 2001 - 2005
STONEPATH GROUP 3PL | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Guided 6 Directors and 32 Developers and Technicians in start-up operations while acting as Chief Integration Officer for 8 company acquisitions. Project highlights include the following:
• Architect and builder of Techlogis global 3PL, NVOCC, and freight forwarding operating system. The system ran high-volume pick/pack/ship processes for Target, Best Buy, AT&T, and Home Depot including last-mile deliveries.
• Optimized fleet of electric material handling vehicles, improving the charge cycle, battery, and vehicle match profiles and driving cost improvement of 20% for the fleet of 200 vehicles.
• Establishment of national new-store mixing center for Home Depot in 45 days including WMS systems.
• Launch of a regional distribution center for Target within 60 days.
• Design and launch of BEA/WebLogic customer portal for Lutron Lighting.
• Envisioned and built a system to manage the throughput processes for the Best Buy distribution center.
Core Skills
Category name: Strategic Planning, Agile Software Development, Global Corporate Leadership, Contract Management, Network Optimization, Client Acquisition & Retention, Oracle, Data Lake, IT Management, Project Management, MDM ERP, Revenue Generation & Savings, Program Management, Customer Journey Mapping, AWS, CI/CD, Benchmarking
Product Visioning, PLM, ITIL, Workflow Optimization, Lean Methodology, Embedded Systems, CRM, Performance Management, Risk & Change Management, Professional Services, Public Speaking, Leadership Development, SaaS, Big Data, Agile, Road mapping, Security, Strategy, SDLC, Salesforce, Analytics, REST, Requirements Analysis, API, IIot, RTLS, Edge Computing, Cloud, Systems Architecture, MS Office, Industrial Automation, Telematics, Telemetry, Scrum, Project Management, Product Management, Start Up, Embedded, IT Strategy, Cloud Computing, Portfolio Management, Design Thinking, IT, Team Leadership
Education
Columbia Pacific University, San Rafael, California and the University of Southern California
B.A., Management
