Paul Sims

Nuqleous partners with Retailers and Consumer Goods Companies to create smart solutions by developing innovative software and collaborative relationships that help teams overcome challenges they face every day in the fast changing retail industry. Through the application of our team’s collective expertise, we allow large companies to execute with the speed and agility of a startup and small companies to operate with the technical precision of a large company. In the process, we empower companies who want to work smarter, accomplish more, and make the most of every day.

Lead the development of high value analytics, workflow and automation solutions for the retail industry as well as ensure the success of our customers throughout the entire application lifecycle. Additionally, leads our talent and people processes and our strategic business planning processes.

Lead the Customer Insights, Data Integration, Support and Operations, and Training and Education Program teams to deliver high value services and enable customers to leverage the Orchestro portfolio of advanced insights and analytics to accomplish their business goals.

- Provide leadership and coordination across all Services teams, including defining workflow processes and tracking the efficiency of customer delivery - Establish processes for tracking quantitative business value across customer implementations - Lead and establish processes for tracking project profitability - Provide leadership and management for strategic customer accounts

- Lead the Analytics and Data Integration teams to provide high levels of customer service and alignment between technology solutions and customer business goals and objectives - Lead the implementation of a new customer management structure which greatly improved the customer experience by providing a dedicated support team for customers where there was shared ownership and accountability for the customer's success - Oversaw the on-boarding and integration of extended offshore development teams, including the development of a new sprint based workflow process for capturing customer work, and assigning that work across a matrix team structure

- Lead the implementation of one of the company's largest multi-retailer demand signal repository solutions for a Fortune 500 company, implementing a solution that housed over 60 different retailers and distributors point of sale, shipment and inventory data. This included the design and development of a complex master data strategy to align retailer and distributor items with SAP product hierarchies. - Develop new company methodologies for project management, improving the quality of implementations with a more customer focused approach

Lead the development of an inventory void tracking solution for a large consumer beverage company, resulting in the recapture of lost sales due to distribution voids across several retailers.

Set the overall direction and vision for leveraging technology across the organization and ensuring the capacity of the organization to maximize the value technology provides to meeting the district’s goals and objectives. - Lead the Technology Services Division of the school district, which included 28 employees working in 4 functional service areas: Information Support Services, Infrastructure Support Services, System Development Services and Technology Integration Support Services. - Responsible for a $2 million annual technology operating budget and $11 million capital outlay technology budget - Responsible for the implementation of a new district-wide ERP system, replacing a legacy AS400 custom built application. - Worked with district and school leaders to ensure that technology investment and initiatives aligned with organization goals.

Lead the Technology and Continuous Improvement Services Division of the school district, which included 25 employees working in 4 functional service areas that include: Continuous Improvement and Information Support Services, Infrastructure Support Services, System Development Services and Technology Integration Support Services. - Responsible for planning and leading the district’s continuous improvement process and SACS district-level accreditation process resulting in the development of a 3 year district strategic plan and the transition from school based accreditation to district level accreditation. - Ensure that technology initiatives are aligned to achieve district goals and objectives. - Responsible for a $1.5 million annual technology operating budget and $11 million capital outlay technology budget. - Responsible for the development and management of information systems to inform and support the district’s continuous improvement process.

Set vision and direction for instructional and administrative technology use across the school district consisting of 21 schools, 11,500 students and 1,800 employees. - Lead the Technology Services Division of the school district, which included 23 employees. - Responsible for a $1.1 million annual technology operating budget and $6.7 million capital outlay technology budget. - Ensure that a robust infrastructure is in place to support district technology initiatives; and develop a responsive, efficient and customer driven technical support operation. - Oversee federal E-Rate funding processes. - Ensure that there are effective staff development structures in place to increase the district’s capacity to leverage technology resources. - Responsible for district-wide telecommunications.

Responsible for the development of district-wide applications, including requirements gathering, technical specifications, architectural design and development activities. This resulted in some of the below technical solutions: - The first online employment application by any school district in the state of Arkansas - Client/Server based Human Resources application, replacing a legacy flat file database application - Redesigned district website with new features for engaging the community, including an alumni registry - Intranet applicant tracking application that allowed district and school administrators immediate access to employment candidates, reducing the amount of time between someone applying for the district and an administrator seeing their application from 2 days to 2 hours - Online unit planning application for teachers to build units aligned with district education standards

- Taught undergraduate level education technology courses - Worked with professors in the Poultry Science department to develop the university's first online course - Developed the first online test at the University of Arkansas, including leading a research study on the differences observed between students taking paper based and online tests.