Bob Sacheli

Principal Consultant | Fractional CIO/CTO | IT Strategy & Digital Transformation Consultant

eBusiness Solutions · Rochester, NY

Jan 2024 – Present(2 yrs 4 mos)

• Led pre-merger analysis for a $500M M&A carveout, identifying intellectual capital and developing a comprehensive Transition Services Agreement, IT strategy, and post-integration roadmap to ensure business continuity and profitability. • Developed Enterprise Architecture Strategies and IT roadmaps that improved business alignment and reduced tech debt. • Led digital transformation project, delivering outcomes ahead of schedule and under budget, identifying strategy and program execution of data and AI initiatives, ensuring that all available data is transformed into actionable insights through advanced machine learning models and optimization algorithms.

Chief Information Officer

Laird Plastics · Boca Raton, Florida

Jan 2015 – Dec 2023(9 yrs)

Successful digital transformation initiatives through IT leadership within a private equity environment, supporting 3 companies and 200 locations throughout the Americas. • Strategic Leadership: Amplified PE annual revenue from $650M to $1.6B through executive leadership of business strategy, Strategic Planning, IT Strategy & roadmap, adoption of emerging technologies, and M&A support. • Budget Management: $10M IT OPEX budget, achieving an extremely cost-effective IT % of spend of 0.7%, significantly below the industry average of 2+%. • M&A Integration: Pre and post-mergers leadership of technology infrastructures, supporting seamless business execution, integration, and company expansion objectives. • Technology Adoption: Innovative adoption of cloud computing and SaaS solutions driving digital transformation. • Business Performance: Process improvements through innovation, Remote Process Automation (RPA) and microservices. • ERP: Implementation / Upgrade of 5 ERP systems; JD Edwards E1, Oracle E-Business R12, and Epicor. • E-Commerce: Implementation of omnichannel E-Commerce, enabling 5% incremental revenue growth. • CRM: Deployed Hubspot and Salesforce CRM capabilities. • Data Science: Enabled data-driven strategies through Business Intelligence and Analytics platforms, and Data Lakes/Enterprise Data Warehouses (EDW)/SQL/Big Data infrastructures. • Data Literacy: Enabled data literacy and Master Data Management initiatives, empowering a data-driven decision-making culture. • Team Leadership: Mentored IT professionals, as well as cross-functional teams, fostering a collaborative and innovative team environment. • Cybersecurity Protocols: Advanced network security preventing two ransomware attacks within four months. Leading key initiatives in cybersecurity employing machine learning and AI. • Infrastructure Reliability: Enabled IT infrastructure to ensure high availability, scalability, reliability, meeting evolving business demand and operational resilience

Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture

Constellation Brands · Victor, New York 14564

Oct 1999 – Dec 2014(15 yrs 3 mos)

Provided strategic IT leadership supporting key business initiatives and M&A growth from $2B to $8B. A innovative, results-oriented leader that excels at transforming organizations through hands-on leadership of technology deployments, processes improvement and high performance teams. • Strategic Leadership: Increased annual revenue from $2 to $8B through executive IT leadership of IT strategy and roadmap, adoption of emerging technologies, business process transformation, and M&A integration. • Enterprise Architecture: Leadership of Business, Application, Security, Information & Technology Architecture disciplines in support of IT strategy and business objectives. • M&A Integration: Played a key role in post-merger technology integration, enabling seamless business execution and data aggregation, and application rationalization objectives. • Spearheaded a $150 million business process re-engineering effort leading the Enterprise Architecture team: - Achieved a $25M+ cost savings through an Oracle Unlimited License Agreement (ULA). - Orchestrated technology transformation: hyper-converged /private cloud infrastructure, and Oracle Tech Stack (e.g. RDBMS, Fusion Middleware-SOA, Identity Management, and Engineered Systems); yielding a cost savings of $40M annual operating expense, and achieving high availability, load balancing, disaster recoverability, etc.. - Led Application Architecture, including a global ERP instance, Master Data Management (MDM), Demand Planning, Global Sourcing, and Supply Chain Planning applications. - Designed event driven Information Architecture, including Content Management, Enterprise Data Warehouse, BI/Analytics and Enterprise Application Integration via a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Additional Titles Held: Director Corporate Systems & Data Engineering, Constellation Brands, Inc. Sr Manager SW Engineering, Paychex, Inc., Rochester, NY SW Engineering Manager, Harris Corporation/R.F Communications Group, Inc., Rochester, NY

Senior Manager, Software Engineering, Architecture & Standards

Paychex · Rochester, NY

Jan 1994 – Oct 1999(5 yrs 10 mos)

As a Fintech & Digital Innovation champion, performed product development of Human Resource Services (HRS) B2B SaaS product offerings, leading all aspects of product attribute definition, software design and development, configuration management, and release processes.  Fostered explosive growth of Paychex Human Resources business segment by providing visionary leadership in the design and development of two pivotal commercial product initiatives within 13 months  Led product design, development, and product adoption leadership of Section 125 Plan Administration commercial product offering, playing a pivotal role in the first major business achievement within the organization  Accomplished innovative design and development of a highly configurable application integration framework, empowering the go-to-market strategy of multiple HRS product offerings such as Section 125 Plan Administration, 401(k) Plan Administration, and Workers Compensation  Executed a no-code approach by configuring the framework to facilitate data exchange between HRS applications and the payroll system environment  Empowered the use of Automated Testing Tools, in alignment with the CI/CD development approach to reduce time to market and enable a reduction in regression testing time by 50%  Pioneered the development of cutting-edge message-oriented middleware (MOM) framework design and development that was a precursor to XML data design, setting the foundation for future advancements through no-code deployment Skills: Software Development · Product Development · Project Management · SW Engineering Leadership