Kenneth Shelton

1647 Edgewater Court, Grafton, WI 53024

Operations Management / Information Technology / R&D / Marketing / Sales / Finance – Areas of Interest

VP Operations / Analyst [Management, Business, Applications, Database] / Project Manager / PeopleSoft Consultant / Development Manager / Quality Assurance Manager – Positions of Interest

Website Design, SEO, Intranet & Internet Marketing / Business Software & Services / IT Services & Consulting / Strategic Sourcing, Warehousing & Logistics – Industries of Interest

Goals

To obtain a full time permanent position as business analyst / manager with research, analysis and evaluation responsibilities allowing me to utilize my years of experience and knowledge. Specifically interested in depth of knowledge exploration, creative thinking about technology uses, focused on engineering design improvements as well as clearly understanding business processes; that drive robust and sustainable economic engine, best in class maturity and passionately marketing customer profit per wants. Expectation is to deliver experienced insight & intuition concerning productivity per employee, geographic region, risk level, consumer brand, and local population, unit of finished goods, global brand category, and customer visit or customer performance indicators. Recommendation is to determine and apply appropriate methods necessary to guide strategic feasibility studies, improvement initiatives and product development, systems implementation, deployment and support. Long term goal is to bridge gaps or breakthrough technology limitations to think differently about technology opportunities in order to manage organization and project performance from good-to-great results.

Skills

Rigorous analysis of business models, possibilities, requirements and feasibility. Core concepts: function follows form; complementary team structure; learning organization; purpose driven economics indicators or profitable performance measures. Business plan development: including environmental evaluation of strengths weaknesses as well as opportunities and threats. Open minded strategic evaluations, recommendations and mitigation techniques. Technical writing style supported by culture of discipline. Certifications include: project management, website design series; MBTI programmer; APICS CPIM operations management and Microsoft certified professional. Extensive experience in all phases of warehouse operations, supply chain and logistics; as well as production control, materials control and inventory control operations. Operational experience also includes purchasing & strategic sourcing from source to settlement.

Team supervision and leadership experience. Industry exposure includes aerospace and defense contractor, warehousing, supply chain, logistics, fabrication, both light and heavy machine shop, job shop assembly as well as process-oriented industries and business application development.

Experience

Johnson Controls, Inc. (Computer Aid, Inc.) Milwaukee, WI

Managed Maintenance Team Lead 6/2008 to 12/2008

• Managed Maintenance Level 2 Technical Support Analyst Team Lead for Service Alliance and all Integration Applications at Johnson Controls, Inc.

• Key performance involved crew orchestration/directing team activities performance as a unit.

Experience (continued)

Northwestern Mutual (RAVEEN Recruiting Solutions) Milwaukee, WI

PeopleSoft Consultant / Management Analyst 9/2004 to 10/2005

• Analyzed as staff augmentation, through RAVEEN Recruiting Solutions of Ohio, in order to troubleshoot their stressed PeopleSoft implementation (implementation training issue).

• Key performance involved writing PeopleSoft Enterprise Purchasing Evaluation including executive summary & detail report; PeopleSoft Financials strategic sourcing initiative; source to settlement processing.

Catalyst International Inc. Milwaukee, WI

Analyst [Business / Applications / QA] / QC / Project Manager 3/1988 to 7/2002

Manager of Technical Customer Support / Maintenance Programmer

• Key performance involved project management as well as functional and technical support of customer focused customization and upgrade projects.

• Projects involved both functional and technical application development, implementation and support of internal enterprise wide systems (Vantive, PeopleSoft, and Oracle & IBM): for eight (8) years; including data conversions, multiple integrations and multiple core technology upgrades. Scope included support of: high-level and detail design analysis, fit-gap analysis, standard and enhanced application development, integration development, quality control, testing, implementation, deployment and support.

• Supported all functional aspects of warehouse and distribution center (DC) operations across multiple-industry systems (automotive, retail, pharmaceutical, and specialty); for sixteen (16) years.

• Supported all technical aspects of warehouse and distribution center (DC) operations across multiple-vendor hardware, OS, database & network architecture environments; (both onsite and remote); RF equipment, printer, barcode scanners, carousels and ASRS.

• Supported all technical aspects of warehouse and distribution center (DC) operations (both onsite and remote); Catalyst WMS software installation, configuration, enhancement & customization for customer go-live projects.

Todd’s Creative Design LLC Grafton, WI

Microsoft Small Business Partner 10/2006 to present

• Consulting contract agreement to perform website design / maintenance and SEO IS/IT services for Microbial Discovery Group LLC (Biotechnology Industry Startup Company).

• Key performance involves all technical aspects of website development environments using Apache2Triad, Dreamweaver, Flash, HTML, XHTML, XML, JavaScript, PHP, and CSS and used various website builders including Zen-Cart, Bright Builders and Microsoft Office Live Small Business based on SharePoint technology.

Education

Milwaukee School of Engineering Milwaukee, WI

Bachelor of Science in Business Management 9/2003 to 5/2006

References

References are available upon request.