Chuck Huels
Principal, Program and Project Management
Marietta, Georgia
Chuck has extensive, executive level experience in both business roles and Information Systems roles. His focus has been delivering solutions that transform the business he works with. He has led ERP Implementations, Application Rationalization, Data Management, Customer Application Development, and Vendor Selection in areas of supply chain/logistics, HR, Legal, and e-comm. Chuck specializes in learning and then reworking underperforming business processes and groups and then identifying and developing solutions that yield a significant ROI.
ABOUT CHUCK
Chuck has many times delivered revenue growth and cost reductions that exceeded business expectations. However, in doing so, one of the things he is most proud of is that regardless of the business or industry or the economic situation, he was always successful in getting the most out of the resources and building strong teams of overachievers.
Chuck has worked directly with and for CEO’s, CFO’s and CIO’s and is very experienced in dealing with all aspects of executive level management. One of his strongest traits is being able to explain the technical complexity of an IT/IS environment and the related issues that come along with them to business executives in the boardroom as well as the operations resources in the field. He has been involved with virtually every aspect of IT in his 20+ years of consulting and believe the 3 keys to a good IT solution is 1) understanding the business processes, 2) facing up to the brutal facts of your technical environment challenges and 3) ensuring there is an ROI for what is being done. His favorite part of what he does is identifying the right people to be successful then mentoring and promoting them to get the best out of each and every resource.
Chuck is a problem solver and knows how to build great teams that build great IT solutions that support the business in helping them meet their objectives.
PROFESSIONAL AND INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
- Blackstone + Cullen, Inc.: Principal Consultant - Leveraging best practices and IT programmatic solutions to define, develop and deliver efficiencies for the ordering and delivery processes at Sunbelt Rentals.
- Aaron’s: IT Director, Customer Software Team (payments, collections, bankruptcy, website/ecomm) - managed a team of ~25 resources doing customer development/QA as needed to support existing business and new projects. Eventually moved to leading all IT activities with the Customer Retention group focusing on collections, bankruptcy, and credit reporting.
- Dell: Client Executive, IT Services- When Dell purchased Perot Systems, Chuck was leading all IT development and support efforts as the Client Executive on the manufacturing systems for the 787 aircraft in Charleston, SC. Eventually transitioned to leading all development and support activities at Graphic Packaging in Marietta, GA as the Client Executive.
- Dell: Director, Consulting Applications - Led several new business development and proposal efforts. Led SAP development and support efforts at Vought Aircraft in support of Boeing's 787 manufacturing processes. Boeing purchased Vought and eventually became the Client Executive leading all IT efforts at Boeing Charleston facility.
- Bearing Point: Director, SAP solutions in FS - Led all SAP projects within the financial solutions business practice. Banking, insurance, and pension management companies were the focus. Very active in new business development and proposal development and led several full life cycle projects worth tens of millions of dollars of revenue to the company.
- Ciba Vision: SAP Global Project Manager - Directed a team of 140+ in a global implementation of SAP R3 (version 4.7) and introducing full BW replacing multiple legacy systems. Included defining project scope, setting budgets, and gaining management approval, staffing the appropriate team, communicating status and meeting timelines and commitments. Also defined a custom methodology similar to SAPs ASAP.
- Imerys: Director and Sales and Supply Chain - Directed a team of 70+ including all NA Sales, customer service, transportation and logistics resources for a $250M division of a $3B business.
- Imerys: Global ERP Manager - Directed a team of 60+ in the implementation of a new information system for the entire business worldwide. Included scope definition, setting budget and gaining management approval, communication and staffing.
- Bear Square Industries: CEO/GM - Directed all activities for this venture capital financed start up. The company designed and manufactured construction tools specifically for carpenters and DIY consumers. Dealt with big box retailers and sold products on-line via the company web site.
- GE Plastics: Sr. Application Development Engineer - Southeast region representative for technical and marketing support for customers that purchased GE plastic materials. Would assist customer engineering, marketing, sales and purchasing groups as needed in the development of new products to optimize the benefits of the GE Plastic materials.
- GE Aircraft Engines: Sr. Engineer/Technical and Customer Support - Held multiple positions during my 10 years from design engineer through business program manager. Managed engineers as well as matrix managed multiple teams of people as required by my role. Went through the GE EDP (engineer development program) taking the standard GE leadership training program/courses. Promoted several times and rec'd numerous awards.
EDUCATION, LICENSES, CERTIFICATIONS, & MEMBERSHIPS
University of Kansas
Master’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering
University of Kansas
Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Functional/Operational
- Corporate Support Functions
- Executive Leadership
- Project Management
- Program Management
- ERP Solutions
- Application Management
- Custom Application Development
- HR Solutions
- Legal Solutions
- Credit Management and Reporting
- Bankruptcy Management
- Custom Development Solutions
- SDLC
- Process Improvement
- Agile Processes
- Waterfall Processes
- P&L Management
- Budgeting
- Forecasting
- Six Sigma Black Belt
- Collections Management
Industry
- Aerospace
- Financial Services
- Retail
- Manufacturing
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