Sean Brown

Responsible for IT Infrastructure, Cyber Security and physical security and monitoring systems for our Greensboro and Lake City Florida locations. After the acquisition of HAECO by AAR in November 2025 I have been leading the local integration efforts including the full replacement of all legacy infrastructure.

Responsible for the implementation of a new ERP system for HAECO Americas working closely with our business leadership and peers in Hong Kong and Xiamen China.

Provided data and analytics strategy and development services to ZRG's customers.

Global leader for RGP’s Data and Analytics practice responsible for the go to market planning, solution offerings, delivery approach and delivery quality. Lead multiple engagements to develop and implement strategic roadmaps and innovative solutions to enhance the use of data and establish analytics augmented decision making cultures. Examples of engagements include: Developed machine learning and predictive models for a leading global beverage company to reduce the margin of error for their revenue, COGS and unit sales forecasts by 25%. Developed the Next Generation Customer Experience strategy for a global logistics company looking to expand their brick-and-mortar presence in Mexico. This included establishing an advanced analytics team and innovation center of excellence. Developed a Digital Transformation Toolkit for a UK based Private Equity to assess the digital maturity for their next billion-dollar energy portfolio.

Established a national advisory practice with offerings in Data Governance, Data Management and Data Analytics. Built a team of advisory consultants and execution professionals to support the offerings and develop standard approaches and best practices to bring to our clients. A sampling of engagements include: Developed and implemented a data strategy and analytics platform for a global multi-billion-dollar aluminum manufacturer. One of the first wins came from providing insights into their end-to-end supply chain helping them address a $50 million per quarter inventory write off challenge. Lead the initiative to build a Data as a Service, Data Analytics and Data Governance organization for a US based provider of health and life insurance. This included the platform selection and the build out of the AWS self-service analytics technology platform. Developed and delivered the data science capabilities strategy and roadmap for a $500M retailer of consumer products. The first machine learner project identified a multi-million dollar opportunity to optimize the pricing of their top thousand product SKUs out of a catalog of 100’s of thousands of SKUs.

Lead the strategy, delivery and support of EMC’s Big Data Platforms, Enterprise Analytics, Data Lake, Business Intelligence, Data Quality, Master Data Management and associated technology platforms. This was accomplished with a Global team of nearly 200 employees, contractors and managed service providers across the United States, Ireland and India. Evolved EMC’s Enterprise Reporting organization from multiple loosely associated teams driving individual business unit specific solutions to a cross functional global organization driving an Enterprise analytics roadmap. Established EMC’s Business Analytics as a Service (BAaaS) organization and platform two years before it was an industry trend. Business Analytics as a Service (BAaaS) is a Shared analytics platform empowering the business to rapidly deliver new analytics solutions. Formed the Analytics Innovation team and service offering to accelerate the adoption of advanced analytical techniques across the enterprise and speed us along our journey to an analytics-based decision-making enterprise. Established the Business Intelligence Program Management Office (BI PMO). Additionally, our platform was used for analytics and visualizations in support of the Human Face of Big Data and Willis Resilience Polar Expedition projects.

Built the Enterprise Global Data Warehouse & BI organization which was one of the delivery tracks in Alcoa’s $900M Oracle ERP implementation. During the six years at Alcoa, I evolved the team from a four-person organization focused on delivering reporting and Business Intelligence solutions for the Oracle ERP implementation to a global organization of over sixty individuals supporting all Global Business Analytics initiatives. • Developed the Business Case for four major BI initiatives representing a $60M investment that served as the foundation for the expansion of the BI practice. • Established and enforced global standards for BI, Data Warehousing, reporting and data management. • Global financial consolidation and analysis solution used to close Alcoa’s books and analyze financial results each month. Key enabler to Alcoa’s one day quarterly close process. • Master Data Management solutions for the Global Chart of Accounts, Vendor, Product and Customer. • Accounts Receivable Credit Collections and Risk Management intelligence reducing average days outstanding for collections. • Procurement Business Intelligence Solution (PBIS) which provides detailed global spend and vendor performance analytics to procurement professionals for Alcoa’s Global Procurement Shared Services. • Strategic Marketing Analysis and Reporting Tool (SMART) provides profitability by product, market and customer at the sales order line level. • First group to pilot and adopt an offshore development model inside Alcoa’s Global IS organization. • Implemented application security, traceability and segregation of duties controls that earned three successive SOX audit passes without a major comment.

Responsible for the delivery of the customer facing SaaS applications. The offering included; telephony, email, chat, self-help, knowledge base, CRM, and self-service Business Intelligence to allow the customer to run and evaluate their call centers. My role was to prepare the software side of their company to evolve from a technology incubator with an R&D mindset into an organization capable of supporting their customer’s mission critical call centers.

Cornice Consulting was founded to provide enterprise architecture, application design and application development consulting services. In 1999 Cornice was one of the top 150 IT firms in Denver Colorado. • Architecture for US West SMB Sales Consulting and Order Management applications • Architecture and design consulting for Lockheed Martin’s VECTOR Project, now known as EZ Pass. • Development of a Call Center SaaS offering for Ineto, Inc.

Provided consulting and support to Forte's top enterprise clients.