Craig Schlonsky

Built a cloud engineering and DevOps organization responsible for supporting digital applications that delivered on a 6% increase in online vs offline orders, set the foundation to move from an on-premise ERP to cloud focusing on business process improvement. Led a team of 200+, 6 direct reports managing a budget of $90M. • Delivered continuous improvement through programs like ITSM enabling AI capabilities and chat that enabled employees to self-support. Improved the on-boarding experience through a Devices as a Service program that delivered the device, applications and access based on the employee’s role. In partnership with the HR team, automated the on-boarding, off-boarding, and cross-boarding process ensuring the employee was productive day 1. • Successfully orchestrated an enterprise identity initiative to secure, standardize and govern all accounts across the enterprise by defining a strategy, delivering an identity governance and administration platform and implementing a common identity provider that reduced organizational risk, simplified access provisioning and reduced the time to provision access by 2x.

Played a key leadership role in driving technology architecture, processes and testing strategy for a $35M+, multi-year investment program to enhance organizational resilience and cyberattack / ransomware defense capabilities in line with the NIST framework. • Improved warehouse operations at over 30+ locations by replacing outdated equipment with a scalable architecture, resulting in highly available warehouse control systems, fewer nightly outages, and enhanced product delivery and customer satisfaction. • Developed an enterprise resilience and recovery program, including people, process and technology that ensured the organization could recover key business processes from a cyber threat or a non-human event without major loss to revenue or reputation.

Led a team of 9 senior managers and a staff of 50+ technology professionals focused on delivering enterprise-level technology, ensuring the availability of enterprise platforms and developing the architecture for those platforms. • Created and implemented a hosting strategy that delivered an overall decrease in IT spend, mitigated multiple risks and delivered a more scalable architecture. Developed guidelines for where an application would be hosted either in the data center vs the cloud.

Led, guided and developed a high-performing global team responsible for daily operations, innovation and strategy, vendor management, architecture, and project delivery worldwide. • Spearheaded the delivery and integration of 2 major brand acquisitions while overseeing the budget and cross-functional teams and devising IT transition activities, resulting in the on-time, on-budget delivery of all initiatives.

Provided strategic leadership and direction to oversee infrastructure management efforts for 20+ sites in North America (US, Canada, and Mexico) and Australia while supporting 1.6K+ users. • Administered a $2M annual IT budget and vendor management efforts on large accounts, including data center services, Microsoft, and HP.