Scott Minter

Experience

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  United States Army (Reserve and National Guard)

  Dec 1985 - Dec 2004

  Director of Information Management

  One of the youngest graduates of the state officer candidate school at age 19. Commanded and directed companies and departments including a company of combat engineers. Led as many as 135 professionals and was honorably discharged with Captain as last rank held; first rank was enlisted Private E-1.

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  MCD, Inc.

  Nov 1992 - Mar 1995

  Manager, Information Systems

  MCD is a manufacturer of Magic Chef microwave ovens. Responsible for the day-to-day operations of all information systems for the company, a 700+ employee facility that operated a just-in-time manufacturing environment 24 x 7. Worked with department budgets and purchased all computer equipment & supplies for the company. Installed the ERP software (Glovia from Fujitsu) in 1 1/2 months during the buy out from Maytag to include all financial, engineering, and manufacturing modules. Managed the ERP software from every level (planning, troubleshooting, and custom programming). Administered the HP9000, LAN, and three offsite warehouses. Wrote and maintained all of MCD's bar coding software including fixed raster scanners, hand held data collection scanners programmed in IRL, and other bar code reading devices. Maintained programs written in Pro-IV & Superlayer, C, IRL, Unix shell scripts, and DOS batch programs. Supported X windows stations and software. Supported Ceridian and ADP payroll software (customized). Installed and maintained EDI with trading partners (including Wal-Mart, AAFES, etc.) Communicated very well with both vendors and customers and got the job done in a team atmosphere. Led interdepartmental projects and cut costs in major areas, including assembly. Gained experience in discrete manufacturing for the retail industry. Show less

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  Bostrom Seating

  Mar 1995 - Nov 1995

  Project Manager/Senior Programmer

  Bostrom Seating, an automotive supplier, is a manufacturer of automotive seats for 18-wheeled vehicles. Project manager for the installation of ERP software package MAC-PAC Open. Managed a diverse team including sales, engineering, materials, information systems, and accounting. When hired, the consultants (Anderson Consulting) had declared the project dead. Upon leaving, the project was on track, on budget and Bostrom had a successful implementation. Gained experience and knowledge of working as an automotive supplier, automotive requirements, and automotive EDI. Show less

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  Florida Pneumatic Mfg. Corp

  Nov 1995 - Jun 2005

  Manager, Information Systems

  Air tool manufacturer and importer of air tools such as Craftsman for Sears and Husky for Home Depot.Managed the Information Systems for two separate public companies.Responsible for all Information Systems including strategic planning, budgets, infrastructure, business process improvement, hiring, firing, promoting of human resources, application development and deployment, software integration, telecommunications, ERP systems, bar code and data collection systems, EDI, LAN, WAN, corporate e-mail, corporate anti-virus, corporate security, corporate backup, database administration, the receptionist, and all Information Systems related projects. Show less

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  Lobo Technologies, Inc

  Jun 2005 - Mar 2006

  Vice President Business Development

  Solution provider to large manufacturing companies such as Panasonic, Carrier Corporation, Avery Dennison and others.Duties include budgeting, strategic planning, corporate policy development, management, consulting, sales, and new business development.Landed a fortune 100 company as a new customer.Upgraded the Glovia ERP software at multiple divisions in multiple countries for Panasonic. Designed the architecture for the integration of a warehouse planning system with the ERP system that included EDI. Led training, documentation effort, and customization porting. Show less

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  Mitsubishi Power Systems Americas, Inc

  Mar 2006 - Jan 2012

  Director/Chief Information Officer

  Directed all IT systems and resources for the Western Hemisphere at over 30 sites in 5 countries to support the Mitsubishi business processes. Led IT strategy, planning, and implementation processes for all entities. Created and presented IT technology roadmaps for Executive leaders. Evolved all IT systems through a rigorous process of discipline, improvement and leadership training to subordinates allowing IT at all divisions to improve at a rapid rate among diverse businesses. Led a team of 32 plus 10 consultants.➢ Implemented strategy to “Shrink the World” using innovative collaboration and communication systems which earned the ranking #166 on the InformationWeek 500 2011. This unified communications strategy allowed us to get closer to our customers, suppliers, and our own team members.➢ Reduced costs of developed customer facing big data and monitoring systems while improving uptime.➢ Innovated, created, and implemented a Corporate Enterprise Decision Reporting System (Insight) to summarize data for business decisions, tying together multiple best of breed solutions such as the ERP system, Payroll system, and Production Monitoring systems for one “Truth”.➢ Recognized by Microsoft’s Infrastructure Optimization Audit as substantially above peers in my third year of leadership. Took a non-professional, ad-hoc IT team and rebuilt an enterprise.➢ Contributed to the executive leadership by leading and joining Steering Committees for important projects such as our full Human Resource systems replacement and upgrade company wide.➢ Contributed to Executive staff meeting discussions ranging outside of IT matters such as HR, welfare, morale, and overall company operations and culture. Managed office space and the company cafeteria. Show less

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  Cross Match Technologies

  Jan 2012 - Feb 2015

  Chief Information Officer

  Energetically led all aspects of global IT systems and resources including outsourced professional services and global budgets to support the global business processes at major sites including FL, VA, CA, Taiwan, and Germany. Actively listened to Executive team’s strategy and coordinated supporting plans for IT that maximized investments. Successfully negotiated many agreements with key suppliers lowering recurring costs by over 30% while upgrading the technology and partners in the process. Reduced IT staff by 12.5%.➢ Directed and upgraded Oracle Enterprise Business Suite to R12 utilizing Financials, Order Management, Configurator, Customer Service, Inventory, Multi-Organization, Discoverer, ADI, Service and Repair, Integrated SOA Gateway, Human Resources, and others. Led the development of integration connectors for Salesforce.com and CallidusCloud Configure Price Quote software (CPQ).➢ Engaged in hands on development of integration tools using Oracle SOA suite, xml, wsdl, and PL/SQL.➢ Created an M&A playbook which was utilized in the most recent acquisition; consolidated ERP systems➢ Implemented multi-org, multi-currency, and multi-ledgers in Oracle EBS➢ Directed SANs, Networks, Firewalls, Email, and WANs for Global sites. Replaced all firewalls in an upgrade project that refreshed all hardware and saved over $30K in capital.➢ Managed and upgraded major systems: Team Foundation Server, SharePoint Server, GIT, Jira, VMware, Hyper-V, private clouds and distributed computing➢ Performed PCI compliance audits➢ Implemented IT General Controls, metrics, and project visibility in a vacuous environment while instilling a culture of excellence, cost cutting, and constant improvement Show less

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  Walter Energy

  Feb 2015 - Jul 2015

  Vice President Information Technology

  Provided leadership and was responsible for all aspects of IT management including: personnel, budgets, strategy, compliance, projects, development, business systems, and communications. ➢ Negotiated important agreements with key vendors, consultants, and other third parties to provide correct support for company needs while lowering the costs.➢ Implemented visibility to IT projects, instituted standards and IT general controls, reduced backlog of help desk tickets by over 70% in the first 100 days while decreasing IT headcount by 20%.➢ Provided fast leadership and decision-making resulting in a reduction of recurring costs by 10% in year 1.➢ Executed budget management and immediately began reducing recurring spending that will result in a 30% budget reduction but still improves IT by utilizing modern technologies such as cloud and virtualization.➢ Established hands on SharePoint improvements and developed workflow approval forms. Show less