1276
Tealwood Place
(952) 449-4860
Ms. Cashin is an outstanding
Information Technology leader with extensive business experience. She has served as programmer, analyst,
manager, director, vice-president, and president in retail, direct marketing,
e-commerce, financial services, and consulting companies. Deb has a proven track record of planning,
directing, and managing successful IT departments/projects in small, medium,
and large companies. She is known for
her ability to work effectively with all levels and types of business
management and IT professionals to produce truly exceptional results. She is a superior team builder. Her development expertise includes desktop,
client/server and mainframe development.
She has extensive retail, distribution, logistics, transportation,
direct marketing, EDI, and financial services business knowledge. She is experienced with selection and management
of third party software and offshore development and maintenance
resources. Deb is a lifelong learner
and is extremely comfortable working with diverse groups of people.
Target Corporation
Project manager in Stores Systems
responsible for rewrite of Marshall Fields point of sale system.
Brost Clinic
Manager responsible for reengineering
business processes, system migration, bar coding of forms, and adherence to
HIPAA requirements.
Best Buy
Project manager in Retail Order
Systems responsible for a click and mortar project to provide home delivery
and installation of consumer electronics from internet and retail
locations. Required extensive integration
with multiple third-party service providers.
Project
Manager with overall responsibility for implementation of in-store, interactive
music kiosks capable of music previewing, remote ordering, and burning of
CDs. Responsibilities include project
planning, budgeting, vendor management, and coordination with all affected
areas of Best Buy: networking, POS,
deployment, marketing, advertising, visual merchandising, retail operations,
loss prevention, accounting, training, Anderson Consulting, and IBM HelpDesk.
Strategic
Implementation Manager for Electronic Commerce. Overall responsibility for
planning and implementation of first B2B eCommerce project with Chase Manhattan
Bank. Responsible for all aspect of
managing technology and business resources, including technical
infrastructure. Reporting
responsibilities to Chase Manhattan Board and Deluxe Corporation.
Director
of technology and operations of start up e-commerce company. Responsible for:
Strategy,
Planning, Budgeting. Outsourcing
relationship with technology vendors. Design of new technology solutions.
Project management of new development and day to day operation and support of
system
Overall
management of operations:
Inventory
management, Sales reporting, Order status, Problem resolution, Customer
satisfaction, Strategy, Planning, Budgeting, Capacity Planning
Design
and implementation of new processes.
Outsourcing relationship with fulfillment house and shipping vendor
Director responsible for overall success of
multi-million dollar, multi-tiered client/server development project to bring
electronic workflow to AEFA.
Web-enabled, multi-site application.
System integration with legacy mainframe systems and other client/server
applications. Responsibilities included
recruitment and development of technical team, vendor evaluation, budgeting,
project management, and all system development activities.
DIRECTOR, SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT
FINGERHUT FULFILLMENT CO.
VICE PRESIDENT, SYSTEMS
Responsible for supervising, coordinating, and directing
the development, maintenance and enhancement of business systems for
Fingerhut's Merchandising, Distribution, EDI and Logistics functions. Also responsible for Data Base
Administration.
Specific accomplishments include:
Directed
staff of 100+ I.T. professionals and budget of $15 MM +
Accomplished
all development and support activities within budget
Successfully
developed and implemented merchandising, logistics, EDI, and
distribution
systems (including new, fully automated 1.2 million sq ft distribution center)
Managed
database administration for Fingerhut and Metris Co.
Planned
and implemented utilization of offshore IT resources for Fingerhut and Metris
Co.
VICE PRESIDENT, PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Responsible for:
Management of all
project managers, technical managers, programmer analysts, quality assurance analysts,
and documentation staff.
Customer
support and training.
Strategic
Planning.
Budgeting
and forecasting.
Recruitment
and development of I.T. staff.
Development
and implementation of company policies and procedures.
Specific accomplishments:
Increased profit per
employee by 400% by developing improved communications and teamwork and
implementing standardized methods
Improved customer
satisfaction and significantly reduced existing bad debt by developing and
implementing improved customer service policies
Directed
the successful implementation of systems for multiple clients throughout the US
and Canada.
DIRECTOR OF MERCHANDISING, EDI, & FINANCIAL SYSTEMS
Accomplishments include:
Total integration
of a newly acquired company into Lieberman information systems.
Development of new EDI
department - everything from feasibility study, strategic planning, staffing
requirements, project management, and public relations with customers and vendors. Went live with first customer 60 days from
conception.
Evaluation
and implementation of vendor software to migrate from Tandem to AS/400
Establishment
of several standards and procedures:
· Use of methodology
·
Standards committee
·
Prioritization process and monthly
status reporting
·
Skills assessment and training program
PROJECT MANAGER
Supervised I.T. staff in Stores POS area. Responsible for all aspects of project
management: feasibility studies,
project planning, user
communications, and status reporting for new development
projects. Responsibilities included
staffing, performance evaluation, and personnel
development.
Sr. Programmer/Analyst -- Team leader in Financial
Systems Development with responsibility for
general design and detail design of new systems.
Development Center Analyst -- Responsible for evaluation
of new software; coordination of software implementations; vendor
communications; development and presentation of classes to teach new and
existing software; problem-solving; and supervision of the DC analyst and
systems librarian.
Sr. Programmer/Analyst -- Team leader in Distribution
Systems responsible for the development, implementation, and support of
Financial, Distribution, and Stores systems.
Programmer -- Responsible for coding, testing,
implementation, and support of Financial and Stores systems.
Intern
Programmer Trainee
Strategic Planning Analyst
Administrative Assistant
Research Assistant and Bilingual Secretary (German and
English)
NORTHWESTERN HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY 2000
- 2001
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
Undergraduate (BA geography) 1973
- 1977 Extension
Classes in MIS 1981
- 1988
Numerous
leadership and management classes 1981
- present
Software:
|
Niku 6, MS
Project, Project Workbench, SEI, Method/1 and other methodologies, MS Word,
Excel, Powerpoint, LOTUS Notes, Outlook, Visio, Java, Java Script, Java
Server Pages (JSP), Active X, ASP, HTML, Erwin, Rational Rose, Filenet,
Siebel, Plexus, Taxware, Blue Martini, Visual Basic, MS Office, Websphere,
Net.data, C, C++, MQ Series, Tuxedo, COBOL, RPG/400, EasyTrieve, Focus, MF
COBOL, Crystal Reports, WinRunner,
LoadRunner, Xpediter, COM, DCOM, FTP, Novell, TCP/IP, Tivoli |
Databases:
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DB2, IMS, SQL
Server, Oracle, MS Access, Informix, Sybase, RDB, FoxPro |
Hardware/
Systems
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IBM MF,
Client/Server, AS/400, Tandem, DEC, Windows 95/98/NT/2000, UNIX, MVS, Guardian |