Information Security Engineer

CHRISTOPHER J. DEVOUS

Sun City, AZ – *****– 602-***-**** – adg2c4@r.postjobfree.com – https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherdevous Professional Summary

Accomplished and experienced technology leader with over 25 years of proven expertise in technology service management, project management, and building and leading high quality successful teams. Hands on developer leading effective development teams. Strong expertise in managing vendor relationships to reduce cost and utilizing business applications and IT infrastructure to reduce cost and increase operational efficiency. Creates and executes a comprehensive IT Strategy, highly skilled at budgeting and planning. Passionate advocate of leveraging technology to drive business success.

Core Competencies

Leadership• Service Management • Project Management • Crisis Management Revenue Growth • Team Development • Ecommerce • Vendor Management DevOps • Agile • ERP • CRM • Data Science • Information Security Hands On Full Stack Development

Professional Experience

The Antigua Group, Inc. • Peoria, AZ — Consumer products manufacturing and distribution. August 2012 – April 2020

Vice President of Information Technology

Responsible for technology planning and budgeting, and managing all aspects of technology; it’s selection, implementation, and use. Responsible for ERP implementation and development, EDI, application development, web development, information security, and network and telecommunications management.

● Led multi-company ERP implementation which resulted in reduced waste and increased efficiency to provide over 10% ROI.

● Led initiative to transform eCommerce fulfillment process yielding year over year revenue increases of as much as 80%.

● Managed technology teams ranging from 3 to 10 persons across full project life cycles with budgets as high as 8% of revenue

● Oversight of IT budget maintaining a KPI of 1 – 1.25% of revenue.

● Created and implemented IT governance framework covering policy, procedures, business continuity, information security and privacy.

January 2008 – July 2012

Director of Information Technology

Responsible for technology budgeting and planning, managing all aspects of technology; it’s selection, implementation, and use. Responsible for ERP implementation and development, EDI, application development, web development, information security, and network and telecommunications management. Managed a team of 10 - 12 direct reports and 3 teams of contract developers with a multi-million dollar budget. CHRISTOPHER DEVOUS – PAGE 2

● Conceptualized, architected, and managed the development, implementation and operation of a robust, scalable web portal enabling the sales team to drive consistent annual sales increases of 8 to 10%.

● Conceived and implemented warehouse management system resulting in a 50% cost savings in inventory management.

● Developed and implemented an innovative forecasting system resulting in an increase in the annual inventory turnover by 20%.

● Oversaw ERP implementation for sister company resulting in substantially improved throughput and 10 – 15% ROI. August 1999 – December 2007

Director of Systems Development

Responsible for oversight of all ERP, web, EDI, and business application development. Managed teams ranging from 3 to 8 developers.

● Created a software development team that is able to rapidly adjust to the growing business needs.

● Optimized software development life cycle processes, eliminating redundant efforts, and directed business integration along the entire life cycle.

January 1995 – July 1999

Senior Programmer Analyst

● Lead developer supporting the success of an ERP implementation returning 8% ROI year over year.

● Implemented manufacturing and warehouse control systems supporting year over year revenue growth exceeding 10%

Capital Lumber Company • Phoenix, AZ —Wholesale distribution of high end construction grade lumber products. January 1990 – December 1994

Network and Telecommunications Manager

Tandy Corporation/GRiD Systems • Phoenix, AZ — Manufacturer of military grade computer hardware October 1982 – December 1989

Senior Systems Engineer

Education and Training

Lamson College • Tempe, AZ

1979 – 1982

Associate of Applied Science, Computer Information Systems ERP/CRM: Microsoft Dynamics AX, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Oracle, SAP, Salesforce, Peoplesoft, Viewpoint Vista Team and Project Management: DevOps, APF, Agile, Scrum, Tollgate, Waterfall Database: Oracle, SQL Server, DB2

Development: C#, SQL, C++, X++, HTML/CSS, .NET Framework, .NET MVC, C#, Angular, Python, Java, Javascript, PHP Infrastructure Management: Information Technology Services Management (ITSM), LAN/WAN Architecture, SAN/NAS, Telecommunications Management.

Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud Management: Azure and AWS, (IaaS, Paas, SaaS, FaaS, UCaaS)

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