Mark Tibbetts

1 Kaye Drive                                                                                                                     845.238.6088

Florida, NY  10921                                                                                        mtibbettsone@gmail.com

 

 

SUMMARY

 

Highly motivated Information Services Professional with proven experience in product development and support leading to company growth and meeting business objectives.  Proven ability to conduct accurate needs analysis, streamline work flow processes, conduct strategic planning, build and motivate teams, and manage projects.

·         Process Management

·         Problem Solving

·         System Analysis

·         Team Building

·         Employee Development

·         Cost Reduction

·         Risk Analysis

·         Change Management

 

 

 

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

 

·         Directed Logistics team in planning and managing route optimization and restructure projects that generated $4.3M in savings in 2009.

·         Responsible for successful logistics planning associated with 17 new client launches and territory expansions in 2009 that led to an additional 288K copies being delivered daily.

·         Reduced travel related expenses by 80 % by developing processes to remotely manage desktop software support and version updates in distribution centers across 23 states.

·         Managed custom development of routing software used to successfully deliver 11M copies weekly.

·         Established quality assurance and change control procedures to assure timely daily routing updates.

·         Developed process and documentation used to support nightly processing of data and reports used for daily product delivery at 120 + distribution centers.

·         Designed and blueprinted business efficient office space for recent relocation. Used available resources in design strategy to reduce relocation costs.

·         Designed a custom user interface to manage day to day routing and sequence changes.

·         Coordinated successful migration of data from 120 + remote desktop PC’s to Cloud (central server) environment to support data flow processing changes during SAP implementation project.

·         Lead design team in development, testing and implementation of company route delivery application that lead to a 30 % decrease in delivery service errors.

·         Championed the Boston Globe 7am to 6am delivery guaranteed delivery project.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

PUBLISHERS CIRCULATION FULFILLMENT, Towson, MD                                        2002 – 2010

Director of Logistics                                                                             2008 – 2010

·         Directed team of 18, managing route structure changes and geographic delivery territory in 17 states, streamlined workflow processes, oversaw planning and prioritization of 80+ projects over a one year period, and responded to operational support requests.

·         Oversaw route planning and data management of 25+ new client launches and product expansions.

·         Advised on Change Control Board in planning production changes effecting data structure related to route structure and reporting.

 

Manager of Logistics                                                                            2006 – 2008

·         Responsible for training and development of Logistics team to support use of software used in creating solutions for cost analysis during new client product integration.


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PUBLISHERS CIRCULATION FULFILLMENT (Continued)

·         Managed migration of data between circulation systems.  Assured consistency of routing data structure.

·         Created data management strategy to allow quality assurance testing prior to production run.

·         Coordinated workspace migration to central processing environment.  Instituted backup processing plan.

Technical Software Consultant                                                           2002 2006

·         Revitalized strategy and restructured team to support and implement use of RouteSmart routing software.

·         Conceived and implemented process to manage version  change control and workspace updates on 120 + remote desktop PC’s.

·         Defined spec changes for desktop application used to initiate batch routing and update route sequencing.

·         Channeled custom application update requests to RouteSmart support team.

·         Implemented RouteSmart / ArcView user certification training and testing program.

 

COMMUNITY NEWSDEALERS INC.,  Waltham, MA                                                     2001 – 2002

Technical Software Consultant

·         Operational advisor during implementation of PBS circulation system. Worked with project management group in designing screen display modules.  Established operational reports specs and format.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

 

·         Missile Systems Tech Training Certification – USAF (CCAF)

·         RouteSmart / ArcGIS 9.1 Training Certification