VP R&D and Technology Transformation

At The Kroger Co. Technology Division, we get to solve real world problems for millions of Americans in their everyday lives. Our solutions help family and friends spend more quality time with each other both at home and in their communities. We do this with industry leading new tools like ClickList (online grocery shopping), mobile app innovations like shopping lists and store maps to assist finding products, and money-saving digital coupons powered by our personalization technology and fueled by your personal household data (in partnership with 84.51) for the things you buy and are relevant to you. 

We are a learning culture, constantly striving to find better ways to deliver to our customers, finding new ways of utilizing and building on open source toolsets, and hosting regular meetups on new technologies and ways of working. By leveraging Agile and being deliberate about our Digital culture, we create an environment that allows every team member to meet their full potential and we encourage creative solutions in the pursuit of game-changing advances for our customers. 

Kroger Technology is focused on changing the rules on how technology solutions are developed. Today, Kroger Technology’s approach to solving business opportunities includes its teams developing advanced regression models to predict the success of a solution to the actual creation of new embedded devices that measure, report, analyze and/or improve the customer experience.

Kroger Technology

At IBM, work is more than a job - it's a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you've never thought possible. To lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world's most challenging problems.
 
IBM is a leading cloud platform and cognitive solutions company. Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are the largest technology and consulting employer in the world, with more than 350,000 employees serving clients in 170 countries. With Watson, the AI platform for business, powered by data, we are building industry-based solutions to real-world problems. For more than seven decades, IBM Research has defined the future of information technology with more than 3,000 researchers in 12 labs located across six continents. For more information, visit www.ibm.com.
 
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♣	Shell Services International – Managed the consolidation of IT capabilities (application development, global 24x7 operations, disaster recovery, business continuity, etc.) for 10 international corporations.    ♣South Texas Nuclear Electric Generation Company – Responsible for a large-scale reengineering and transformation effort to instantiate all required IT technologies within a highly-compressed time frame. Managed the nuclear reactors refueling and crafted a new business model for the company. ♣	Prudential Services Company – Planned and led transition from an at-cost data center to a for-profit services company and lead the consolidation of 384 call centers into 3 national centers.  ♣	American General Corporation – Managed the creation of new technologies and responsible for the technology investment portfolio. Reviewed and approved IT projects globally for American General.
    
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Sysco is the global leader in selling, marketing and distributing food products to restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, lodging establishments and other customers who prepare meals away from home. Its family of products also includes equipment and supplies for the foodservice and hospitality industries. With more than 69,000 associates, the company operates approximately 323 distribution facilities worldwide and serves more than 650,000 customer locations. For fiscal 2019 that ended June 29, 2019, the company generated sales of more than $60 billion.

Sysco

♣	Managed the re-engineering of the IT technology and implementation of disaster recovery and business continuity plans for the Bank and Mortgage Company.


♣	Created a datacenter from scratch and directed the reengineering and transformation of all IT technologies at the Refinery, Chemical and Polymers facilities.


The University of Texas at Austin is one of the largest public universities in the United States. Founded in 1883, the university has grown from a single building, eight teachers, two departments and 221 students to a 350-acre main campus with 21,000 faculty and staff, 16 colleges and schools and more than 50,000 students.

The University of Texas at Austin

University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC) is the largest public university in the United States. As one of the 12 degree-granting institutions of the University System of Maryland, this global university specializes in high-quality academic programs tailored to working adults.
 
UMGC has earned a worldwide reputation for excellence as a comprehensive virtual university and, through a combination of classroom and distance-learning formats, provides educational opportunities to 90,000 students. The university is proud to offer highly acclaimed faculty and world-class student services to educate students online, throughout Maryland, across the United States, and in 27 countries and territories around the world. UMGC serves its students through undergraduate and graduate degree and certificate programs, noncredit leadership development, and customized programs. For more information regarding UMGC and its programs, visit http://www.umgc.edu.

University of Maryland Global Campus

Western Carolina University was founded in 1889 to bring higher education and career opportunities to the people of the western region of North Carolina. The 700-acre campus is located in Cullowhee, North Carolina, near the Great Smoky and Blue Ridge mountains, 52 miles west of Asheville. A member of the University of North Carolina system, WCU employs nearly 500 full-time faculty members, approximately 75 percent of whom hold doctoral or terminal degrees. 

The university’s mission is focused on quality education and preparation for responsible citizenship in a changing world. Since its founding, WCU has grown in size to become a major cultural, scientific and educational force in the region and the state—and the university continues to grow. Total enrollment at WCU now stands at 10,805 students, smashing the old record of 10,382 students set in the fall of 2014. WCU’s freshman class this year totals 1,913 students, surpassing the old mark of 1,859 students set in 1972 during an enrollment boom near the end of the Vietnam era.

Western Carolina University is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award bachelor’s, master’s, education specialist and doctoral degrees. Contact the Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097 or call 404-679-4500 for questions about the status of Western Carolina University. 

Western Carolina offers more than 75 undergraduate degree programs, as well as a variety of concentrations and minors, in addition to more than 40 master’s-level programs and certificates and three doctoral programs. Classes are held on the main WCU campus in Cullowhee, and also in Cherokee, at Biltmore Park Town Square in Asheville and online.

Western Carolina University

Founded in 1927, the University of Houston is the leading public research university in the vibrant international city of Houston. Each year, we educate more than 42,000 students in more than 300 undergraduate and graduate academic programs, on campus and online. UH awards more than 7,000 degrees annually, with more than 250,000 alumni.

University of Houston

Missouri Southern State University is a state-supported, comprehensive university offering programs leading to undergraduate and graduate degrees. 

Central to our mission is a strong commitment to international education, liberal arts, professional and pre-professional programs, and the complementary relationship that must exist among them to prepare individuals for success in careers and lifelong learning.

VP R&D and Technology Transformation at Kroger Technology

Kroger Technology

VP R&D and Technology Transformation

Kroger Technology

Chief Operating Officer

Kroger Technology

VP Technology Transformation

IBM

Chief Technologist - AI & Cloud and Cognitive; CTO Sensemaking, Director Network Science Research

Rhodes Independant Consulting

Executive Consultant and Project Manager, Independent

Sysco

Director of Technology, Sysco Foods Corporation

Commonwealth Bank & Mortgage

Senior Director Of Technology

Lyondellbasell

Director Of Technology

The University of Texas at Austin

Technology Commercialization

MS

University of Maryland Global Campus

Technology Management

MS

Western Carolina University

Project Mangement

MS

University of Houston

Business

MBA

Missouri Southern State University

Business Administration

BS

Missouri Southern State University

Management

BS

Missouri Southern State University

Computer Science

AS