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Jay Hawkinson

Information Technology | Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing

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Jay Hawkinson's Experience:

• Director of Business Solutions and Integrations at AFL Global

  July 2018 - Present | Duncan, SC

  Oversee all business solutions including ERP (Oracle EBS, SAP, and GP), custom, cloud, and on-prem applications with global team of 34 associates and 4 managers, and annual budget of $13M Expense and $2.5M Capital. • Increased speed of innovation and creation of business value while maintaining seamless operations. • Led team to replace two burning platforms (Migration to Oracle EBS), eliminating nearly $30M in revenue at risk. • Enhanced value from SFDC spend, reducing Actual Cost per User by 9% and providing more features through negotiation with SFDC. DIRECTOR OF ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE & INTEGRATION (2018–2019) Managed enterprise architecture with team of 5 Architects and functionally led all strategic decisions for IT applications. • Created current state landscape of 450+ major applications, business capability mapping, and top-level business process analysis to uncover obstacles to achieving business goals. • Defined and gained C-Suite level buy-in on 3-year strategic roadmap including foundational elements needed for company to unlock additional potential ($3.5M first year spend). • Sourced, hired, and onboarded Architecture Team to guide business through IT and business transformation.

• Director of Technology at Virtual Business Office Associates

  October 2017 - July 2018 | Columbia, SC

  Supervised team of 17 employees and played key role in delivering strategic changes for operations. Oversaw all data processing, programming, and technical decisions within VBOA. • Increased ability to flex by reducing training time from 6 to under 1 month through creation of formal training program for new Data Associates. • Delivered improvements of over 25% reducing rework and client issues through enhanced communication between Technology and Operations. • Lead technology improvements investigation and created and gained approval for multi-year strategic plan with Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Enterprise Data Services (EDS), and Visualization/Analytical tools.

• Global Senior IT Manager at Belden

  January 2003 - October 2017 | Indianapolis, IN

  Belden ($2,308M revenue in 2014) globally produces and sells a comprehensive portfolio of connectivity and networking products into a variety of markets, including industrial, enterprise, and broadcast. Initially hired as a Network Security Analyst in 2003, but promoted quickly within the Global IT organization. As a member of the IT Leadership team (CIO + 5 leaders), with team responsibilities over Global IT Strategy Deployment and IT Service Delivery. Current areas of responsibilities include: Global Sales and Marketing Tools IT Delivery (including SFDC, Hubspot, SAVO); Sales Operations for Americas (Sales Incentive, Compensation and Analytics); IT Service Delivery for one of Belden’s four business platforms (Industrial IT); Overseeing Front Office applications (Sales, Marketing, Service) in our GrassValley organization; and Global Project Management Office for IT (including Strategy planning and deployment, standards and best practices, Lean IT, IT Quality and Metrics, Architecture, and IT Partnership with the business). ▪ Managing the integration, and day to day operations, of all front office process and applications (Finance, HR, CRM, Sales Engineering, Marketing, Service, and PLM) of a new acquisition into Belden. Managing seven multi-functional teams. (2014+) ▪ Successfully managed 6 migrations/conversions to Salesforce.Com (SFDC) for over 1200 associates, from multiple regions, business units and functions. Continue to manage four SFDC instances for Sales, Marketing and Service. (2012+) ▪ Spearheaded the project management, delivery and support of a centralized Global BI System (SQL & Hyperion), and increased number of Global BI users 400% by developing value proposition and gaining buy-in from business VPs (2008+) ▪ Led special SOX compliance project, instituting policies and procedures for Americas IT. Selected as IT member of corporate compliance committee and instituted policies and procedures for SOX compliance across 17 global business units. (2005+)

• Technical Coordinator at Poughkeepsie Day School

  1999 - 2002 | Poughkeepsie, NY

  Started as Parent Volunteer in 1994 leading a committee charged with developing a computer technology program for Poughkeepsie Day School—a co-educational independent school serving students in pre-kindergarten through 12th. Hired in 1999 to develop, and support the technology programs. Authored, directed, and executed a 5 year strategic plan to go from 4 Amiga computers, to a first-class technology program. (2000-2002)

• Advisory Software Engineer at International Business Machinery

  1997 - 2002 | Poughkeepsie, NY

  Assisted and supported strategic technological development initiatives for 100+ Software Lab programming professionals; areas of expertise encompass specialized knowledge of niche markets and pervasive computing. IBM SP Supercomputer Lab, developer and administrator. Team leadership and project management roles. Saved $10M account by educating and identifying solutions for CritSit customer.

• President/Owner at MHVNet, Inc.

  1992 - 1997 | Poughkeepsie, NY

  Owned, and operated consulting development Computer Solutions By Hawkinson (CSBH), Internet Service Provider (MHVNet, Inc.) and a retail cyber café (Cyber~ia). Complete P&L, advertising, marketing, and technology. Managed IT project solutions, including large scale distributed network infrastructure (150+ servers, multiple companies). Installed and administered data warehousing systems for financial clients. Supported over 10,000 consumer, and over 200 business accounts. Organization had 26 employees (including support, sales, collections, and technical administration). Grew Internet Service business (MHVNet, Inc.) to 10,000 customers ($2M/revenue) within three years.

• Senior Programmer at Macbeth (Division of Kollmorgen)

  1984 - 1992 | New Windsor, NY

  Led and supervised software engineers in creation of QC, formulation, and paper products. Managed overseas development. Worked with client, application engineers, and sales force on specifications for new product and customized development. Administered the distributed networked environment supporting international offices. Assisted with increasing market share over 15% in Color Matching products.

Jay Hawkinson's Education:

• Western Governors University

  2016 – 2016
  MSc Management and Leadership

• WGU

  2013 – 2015
  MBA
  Concentration: Information Technology Management

• Marist College

  BSc
  Concentration: Computer Science

• Hauppauge High School

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