George Niece

Digital Marketing Transformation and Omni-Channel Strategy at Emerson Electric for Data Supply Chain, Digital Commerce, Prescriptive Analytics, and Business Intelligence.

The initial strategy was created involving Mobile First design, customer journey mapping, eKanban, shared micro-service architecture, colocated DevOps & Business teams, Agile implementation, and a complete rethinking of the digital marketing customer experience, through innovation and creation of an end-to-end digital… Show more

Digital Marketing Transformation and Omni-Channel Strategy at Emerson Electric for Data Supply Chain, Digital Commerce, Prescriptive Analytics, and Business Intelligence.

The initial strategy was created involving Mobile First design, customer journey mapping, eKanban, shared micro-service architecture, colocated DevOps & Business teams, Agile implementation, and a complete rethinking of the digital marketing customer experience, through innovation and creation of an end-to-end digital customer experience platform.

This complex, global, multi-vendor project was vetted over an 18 month delivery cycle for three lines of business, and was delivered successfully for this federated multi-tower business. Show less

Interim Director of Ecommerce for Northern Tool & Equipment. Management and delivery of WebSphere Commerce Enterprise Version 7 Extended Sites NorthernTool.com/Kotulas.com site migration from V6 Professional. Migration from iSeries to Linux VMWare infrastructure. Initiate and manage vendor relationships in support of the IT team for eCommerce, Network, and Systems. Phone automation and call center integration. Lead and mentor mixed onshore/offshore team of 55+ person development team… Show more

Interim Director of Ecommerce for Northern Tool & Equipment. Management and delivery of WebSphere Commerce Enterprise Version 7 Extended Sites NorthernTool.com/Kotulas.com site migration from V6 Professional. Migration from iSeries to Linux VMWare infrastructure. Initiate and manage vendor relationships in support of the IT team for eCommerce, Network, and Systems. Phone automation and call center integration. Lead and mentor mixed onshore/offshore team of 55+ person development team composed of vendor, employee, and consultants. Integration of existing build with WCBD using WebSphere Commerce. Integration to JDE, Bazaar Voice, Adobe Test & Target, CoreMetrics, Live Person, WebMetrics, Endeca. Integration to 7 other systems using Web Services, ETL, WebSphere MQ. Implementation of Holiday readiness with Akamai tuning, Endeca tuning, WebSphere Commerce tuning, Open Load performance test tool. Show less

Migration of the flagship site to WebSphere Commerce V7 from V6 including major hardware revision, implemention of WebSphere eXtreme Scale, moving to V7 of AIX, migration of Endeca and implementation of PageBuilder. Overall Digital Commerce SME and mentor, Purchase track lead, Infrastructure mentor, WXS implementation lead,

Working on Everest, the biggest Digital Commerce big-bang retail implementation ever done, as a Digital Transformation Architect and Technical Delivery Lead on the project. This migration from Amazon was a 400M project with up to 400 people involved at any given time. A bit of deja vu, since I was the lead architect on the first Target.com implementation of net.Commerce while I was at IBM.

Technical Delivery Lead and IBM WebSphere Commerce Subject Matter Expert on Cadence Design Systems WebSphere Commerce Enterprise Version 6 Extended Sites Cadence.com site migration from ATG. Lead and mentoring of mixed onshore/offshore team of 120 development team. Development of Software Delivery System using WebSphere Commerce. Integration to SAP, Siebel CRM, Cornerstone, and 10 other systems. Significant use of Roles and Entitlement to support complex B2B requirements. Contract, price… Show more

Technical Delivery Lead and IBM WebSphere Commerce Subject Matter Expert on Cadence Design Systems WebSphere Commerce Enterprise Version 6 Extended Sites Cadence.com site migration from ATG. Lead and mentoring of mixed onshore/offshore team of 120 development team. Development of Software Delivery System using WebSphere Commerce. Integration to SAP, Siebel CRM, Cornerstone, and 10 other systems. Significant use of Roles and Entitlement to support complex B2B requirements. Contract, price, product list aggregation to support complex Geo, WAN, multi-dimensional pricing models within OOTB contract framework. Data migration and integration using BODL,WebSphere MQ, WebSphere MB, and Web Services. Show less

Three times over the last 10 years myself and the Eglobal team were called in as WCS smokejumpers when performance, implementation or migration projects were not meeting management expectations. In each instance we delivered above and beyond to get West Marine back on track including most recently to push their migration to IBM Digital Commerce V7 over the finish line.

Deliver a digital marketing platform for micro-sites still in use more than 10 years late. This non-traditional use of WebSphere Commerce featured a configurable dashboard that business users could create single product or product collection micro-sites with measurable multi-variate and A-B testing that was personalized to individuals. This site development along with the book store site and still building on the same codebase delivered by our group.

Digital Strategy and Delivery Leadership for program focused on creating a single channel for customer-centric interaction and business processes, and helping the iconic toymaker to connect in new ways with millions of consumers, guiding them on journeys across its brands globally and from any device.

Significant business transformation focused on providing the tools needed to create exceptional brand experiences and service consumers as they move between channels, products and brands… Show more

Digital Strategy and Delivery Leadership for program focused on creating a single channel for customer-centric interaction and business processes, and helping the iconic toymaker to connect in new ways with millions of consumers, guiding them on journeys across its brands globally and from any device.

Significant business transformation focused on providing the tools needed to create exceptional brand experiences and service consumers as they move between channels, products and brands.

These strategic and tactical changes included SalesForce.com Marketing Cloud, Organizational Change Management, DevOps, Continuous Integration, Business Transformation, Marketing Automation, In-memory Grid, Ground up Custom and Packaged Application delivery for POS, Agile and Waterfall Digital Commerce, CRM, Product MDM, Mobile, Customer Experience, Social, SEO, Enterprise Integration Layer, and Analytics.


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