John Lenz

Consultant providing business development and delivery of networking, system selection and hardware/software support services to SMB companies. At larger companies (<$3B) conducted ERP and CRM strategy and selection, operational reviews focusing on technology operating costs, office solutions and supporting data/document retention and recovery.

IT Strategy & Change practice for mid-market companies

Partner delivering technology leadership services to PEG portfolio mid-market and larger industrial companies. National solution leader for Business Strategy and IT Alignment product.

Leader of a $40 million custom eBusiness consulting practice with seven Principals and 160+ professional staff located in seven states within the Central Region. Specifically recruited to provide leadership for the large growth in professionals; maintaining an overall staff utilization of 70+% within profit guidelines; and the strategic engagement deployment of the professional staff matching the scope of services and client demand patterns.

Senior member of global Account Team responsible for initial contact and subsequent sales planning and execution at a Fortune 10 company. Leadership role in initial sales team that won $80 million in engagements over 4-year period. Directly responsible for developing and winning $20 million in sales in plant operations arena. Leadership of 50 consultants with program management of over 2,000 client contractors and staff. Leveraged successful US based engagements into worldwide activity.

Senior member of leadership team responsible for integrating strategy practice with KPMG systems delivery capability. I developed $10 million in strategy-implementation engagements. Created highly skilled teams of 15 seasoned strategy consultants that worked both with the clients and their KPMG counterparts.

CIO: Implemented an iSeries MAPICS ERP system that achieved a $1 million reduction in raw materials and a $500,000 annual operating cost reduction while avoiding the requirement to build a new $10mm manufacturing facility. Implemented a pSeries ORACLE customer order processing client-server system that dramatically reduced return processing time. IBM featured this creative integration of their mid-range iSeries and Unix pSeries systems in a $2 million print ad campaign.

CIO: Implemented ORACLE ERP system for candy manufacturer. Collaborated with Oracle in the definition of their General Ledger, Accounts Receivable and Order Management products.

Computer Science