Don Cahoon

About Don Cahoon

Outcome focused Executive not only experienced in IT Strategy and Leadership, but also has hands-on Experience in Finance, FP & A, Accounting, Supply Chain Management, and Operations business functional areas. With extensive diversity in skills, this leadership extends beyond Technology, and includes extensive experiences, perspectives, and leadership in Budgeting & Forecasting, Corporate FP & A, Supply Chain Management, and IT Solutions aligned with outcomes not outputs, building high-performance teams, and developing high-performing business partnerships with internal partners and vendors. Skill Points •Business Intelligence & Acumen – strategic planning that includes “Blue-sky”, “Partially Distressed” “Fully Distressed” operations with disruptions, redirections, new business, hand-on technology experience with Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, Sales, Marketing, Production, Distribution. •Data Governance and Information Security Operations leader. Experience with Ransomware Mitigation, Organizational and IT hardening, Backup Security Processes, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Policy and Program management. •Cybersecurity & Enterprise Security Management. •Compliance Audit Leader for IT & Financial Audits - SOC1, SOC2, PCI, SOX, SAS, Government Audits. •Multiple implementations of Food Safety Modernization Standards. Hands-on HACCP & GMP. •Hands-on HIPAA, HITRUST, HIT, Bid Data experience and practice for Payer, Clinic, Lab environments. •Food Manufacturing IT experiences with Operational Technology for Industrial Control Systems (ICSs), Distributed Control Systems (DCSs), SCADA data acq / Spvr controls, PLCs, & HMI technology. •Multiple Domain Experience including Healthcare, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Services, Operations, Distribution, Retail, with Hands-on Financial Reporting / Budget Management, Financial Planning & Analysis, Corporate Finance with hands-on experience in performing and leading departments and teams. •Specialized in Large scale / global IT Project and Portfolio Management, end-to-end software development including transforming distressed projects. •Digital Integrations & Transformation, Go-To-Market deployments, Program Management, VOC Feedback Loops – Digital focus on B2B & B2C Customer & Dealer Channel and Collaboration & Growth. •Leading Cloud Platform integrations– Google Cloud Platform, Azure, AWS, reducing Fixed Assets and reducing on-prem services that also reduced specialized headcount needs. •Lead Enterprise-wide and SMB Full ERP / CRM, WMS, TMS, Inventory implementations.

Experience

1. Global Director of IT

   Fp Mailing Solutions Usa

   Jul 2015 — Present · Chicago, IL, US

   Global IT Leader achieving the transformation of the enterprise IT roadmap with Strategic Planning, Budget Management, Business Relationship Manager, and managing resources in DevOps, Applications Development, Network Operations, and Product Development. •Planning and prioritizing the Global IT roadmap with an annual budget of $44MM. •Achieved over $1MM contract reductions with vendors for 2021 budget. Reduced IT costs $7MM in 5 years. •Lead 75 IT FTE’s and 25 contractors across 23 entities in Europe and North America with an average portfolio of 225+ projects for compliance, digital, revenue generation, cost avoidance, and growth. •Spearheaded training workshops to help users adjust to tech demands of WFH caused by COVID situation. •Drove the successful Global rollout of $12MM ERP / CRM systems to replace existing systems. •Facilitate and maintain the Global initiative with Business Executives, Architecture, Delivery and Product teams to define, plan & execute on FP’s strategic need to establish a Global AWS Cloud Platform.

Education

• North Central College

  BA, Business Management and Information Systems

  2000 — 2004

• North Central College

  MBA, Finance and Economics

  2004 — 2006