Candidate 1

Name:  Larry Dean

Company/Organization:  NCI Group, Inc.

Title: General Manager Corporate Transportation

Board Position Interest: Not Specified

I have 30 plus years of experience working in the metal building industry, weighted heavily towards manufacturing and transportation. I began my career with NCI Building Systems back in 1978 and during my career have held many roles, most recently as General Manager of Corporate Transportation which began in 2004.

This role has transportation and logistics oversight responsibility for all divisions of the corporation, encompassing 44 manufacturing facilities throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico. We operate a blended fleet, utilizing contract haulers to augment our private truck fleet.

We recently completed our first year of implementing OTM in our NCI Buildings division factories and also throughout our Coil Coating division. Additionally, we will incorporate OTM into 18 Components facilities in the first half of 2012.

With a strong background in manufacturing and operations paired with a detailed knowledge of OTM functionality, I feel that I can offer a creative but practical viewpoint to the OTM Sig community.

I am a current board member of the National Private Truck Council and also an active member in both the National Advisory and Legislative committees.

Candidate 2

Name:  James Blance

Company/Organization:  Ricoh Americas Corporation

Title: PMP

Board Position Interest: Not Specified 

• 27 years of Supply Chain sector experience
• 15 years of Informtion Technology experience
• Project Management Professional Designation (PMP)
• Certified Six Sigma Yellow Belt
• 3 years of OTM experience including implementation and customizations including:
• Unique "End of Mile" implementations
• Customizations
• EDI implementation and carrier compliance
• Invoices and Vouchers
• Reporting
• 10 years of experience with Oracle Supply Chain ERP applications

Candidate 3

Name:  Mark Kissell

Company/Organization:  Kraft Foods

Title: Manager Transportation Optimization

Board Position Interest: Not Specified

Mark has five years of OTM experience and over ten years of logistics experience ranging from consultant to 3PL to Shipper.  Mark's OTM background started at G Log as an Application Consultant and now he works at Kraft Foods using OTM on a daily basis.  Mark's has held many leadership roles setting future direction and executing on current plans.  Mark recently shared Kraft Foods' OTM v6.2 upgrade story at last year's SIG conference.  Mark interests as a SIG Board Member are to play a greater role with the annual SIG Conference, build out his OTM network, and continue to provide feedback to Oracle about OTM.

Candidate 4

Name:  Brandon Braswell

Company/Organization:  Family Dollar

Title: Transportation Planning Manager

Board Position Interest: Not Specified

As the Transportation Planning Manager for Family Dollar, I am responsible for all things OTM, on the Business side.  For the past 7 years, I have used OTM/G-Log for Inbound Planning, Outbound Planning, Sourcing, and Imports visibility.  I've gone through several version upgrades, cumulative updates, and patches.  I've watched as OTM has grown and expanded through the years, and I'm excited about the direction the product is taking, and I would take a more active part in helping shape new features & improvements for the future.

Candidate 5

Name:  Christine Cognetti

Company/Organization:  Oracle Consulting

Title: Consulting Manager

Board Position Interest: Not Specified

I am running for a position on the OTM SIG board to continue to help grow and shape the OTM SIG going forward.  I have worked for G-Log/Oracle for the past 10 years implementing projects initially and now managing the Oracle field consultant team.  I'm dedicated to this field and making sure that the OTM SIG continues to provide high quality value to the community as it has done in the past. 

• I have been a board member for the last two years and was heavily involved in the planning and execution of the largest OTM SIG user group to date.
• While on the current board I held the position of secretary and worked diligently to expand the communication channels between Oracle and the SIG community. 
• I bring to the board strong connections to OTM Development and Sales as well as strong industry connections that the SIG group can leverage.
• Over the past 10 years with G-Log/Oracle I have been deeply involved with the OTM/GTM customer base and always try to represent this group in decision! s that are made at the board level so that everyone can benefit from this unique organization.

I am looking forward to representing OTM/GTM end users, bringing new ideas and a fresh perspective to the board and always welcome anyone in the community to reach out to me with their thoughts on improving the overall experience for all.

Candidate 6

Name:  Pam Vivio

Company/Organization:  Capgemini

Title: Not Listed

Board Position Interest: Not Specified 

• One of the original G-Log employees.
• OTM Consultant with over 10 years experience, implementing OTM at 10+ clients.
• Extensive Project Management experience and leadership skills managing several successful OTM projects.
• Would like to contribute to the organization by increasing the membership and involvement by OTM users. 
• Would like to ensure that regularly scheduled live training sessions are planned to share knowledge across the OTM User Group. I feel that this is critical, especially as the Oracle continues to enhance the functionality of OTM.
• I would like to be involved in the planning process for the OTM SIG.  I would like to help increase the attendance since I believe this is an excellent opportunity for OTM Consultants, Clients, and Users to come together to network and learn more about OTM.

Candidate 7

Name:  David Johns

Company/Organization:  Eminent Group, Inc.

Title: Sr Solution Architect

Board Position Interest: Not Specified

David is a well recognized leader in Supply Chain Management with a particular focus in transportation / logistics management. Since his graduation from Duquesne University, David has held key positions at Fisher Scientific, Global Logistics, Oracle and Eminent Group, where he now holds the position of Director of Solutions. He has vast experience working with freight forwarders, logistics services providers, shippers, and distributors. His unique expertise in both functional and technical configuration, as well as his extensive exposure to all areas of OTM has provided him with the background to author many industry best practices workflows. He has co-authored rapidOTM, OTM's first certified Accelerator. He would like to leverage his strong expertise and project experience to help make the SIG valuable for every type of member and help ensure the continued success of OTM. He has a strong desire to help the community create and establish robust support networks. David has presented on multiple occasions in the past, at both the SIG and OAUG.

Candidate 8

Name:  Evgeniy Pospelov

Company/Organization:  Kraft Foods Russia

Title: Business Process Development Specialist

Board Position Interest: Not Specified

• I was born in Moscow in 1986.
• Graduated from Moscow State University.
• Started my career at Kraft in 2008 as Information Systems specialist
• Together with Kraft Foods North America colleagues (e.g. Brenda Sorensen) worked through OTM implementation plans in Russia
• Was a part of the project team. OTM went live for Russia in June 2009
• Took participation in early SIG meeting (together with Dominic Regan and Electrolux colleagues)
• Was promoted to Customer Service and Logistic Business Process Development Specialist
• Became project manager for OTM wave 2 implementation in Russia
• Responsible for development of the system in CIS

Candidate 9

Name: Niranjan Umarane

Company/Organization: KPIT Cummins Infosystems Limited

Title: Practice Head

Board Position Interest: APAC Partner/Consultancy Position

Niranjan is a Practice Head with KPIT Cummins responsible for Logistics Consulting Services business including the OTM practice. Niranjan has 15 years of industry experience and has been performing advisory role for logistics operations in areas of IT Roadmap, process management and OTM implementation. Niranjan has successful track record of building OTM practice and business with a large focus on APAC market.

Key Highlights:

• Has successfully engaged and delivered OTM value to large businesses like Kuehne + Nagel EU, Tesco UK, Family Dollar US, Ingersoll Rand US, Mahindra Logistics, IFFCO, Allanasons, Asian Paints, and DIESL.
• OTM Paper presentations, marketing presentations at events like OTM SIG (2008,09,10), OOW (2008), Euro Disney (2008), ELSConclave Mumbai (2008, 2009), SCM Logistics World Singapore (2006, 2007). OTM SIG sponsor for 08/09/10/11.
• Preferred OTM partner for Oracle in APAC – all 5 India implementations, new OTM customer license sales in India/ME, first large multi-country implementation in Middle East, GTM in ASEAN.
• Continuous engagement with OTM Product Strategy, Development team on regional issues faced and product feature requirements.
• Considerable work done in APAC over last 4 years on OTM product awareness and knowledge building in this region – road shows, event presentations, product training, POCs, local OTM solution investments.

Interest in OTM BOD for APAC

• Enable collaboration within the OTM customers in the region that does not exist today for lack of any formal forum. This is crucial to ensure collective success and ensuring focused roadmap for some key regional requirements.
• Improve the ability to highlight regional issues around OTM to Oracle.
• Get a more formal forum to articulate product feature requirements / influence roadmap.
• Facilitate an opportunity for OTM customers in APAC to engage with the global community.

Candidate 10

Name:  Lourens Andriesse

Company/Organization:  Hewlett Packard

Title: EMEA Oracle Applications Growth Team

Board Position Interest: Not Specified

I am running for the OTM SIG Board of Directors because I believe I can bring the global user participation of the OTM SIG to a higher level, both quantitative and qualitative.

• Over 7 years of hands-on OTM experience on most continents with G-Log, Oracle, MavenWire and as contractor, managed 6 full OTM implementations and contributed to scores of other OTM projects.
• Led knowledge sharing initiatives for Oracle's OTM Consulting teams in the US, Europe and India, such as moderating the OTM Forum and setting up a Wiki.
• Founder and main contributor of OTMWIKI.com in 2009, a great source of information for the OTM community to share best practices with more than 200 registered members.
• OTMFAQ member since 2007 and in Top-5 Thanked list.
• 2011 OTM SIG Conference presenter.
• I believe that OTM implementation success isn't just about client ROI, but building strong, reliable, mutual and long-term relationships in the relatively small OTM community. As a result, I am still the OTM go-to guy for dozens of former colleagues, clients and competitors.
• Finally, I don't tell people what they want to hear but what they need to hear. The harsh truth may be that OTM isn't the right product to support a business process, or a client's organization isn't capable to manage the changes imposed by an OTM implementation: I'd rather be the messenger of bad news even if this means losing a job, than deliver not the best result for the client.

Candidate 11

Name:  Barry Hayes

Company/Organization:  Mavenwire (Europe) Ltd

Title: Not Provided

Board Position Interest: Not Specified

Barry brings more than 20 years of Supply Chain and IT Consulting experience from European operations. Barry heads up MavenWire in Europe and has been an active community member in the steadily growing European market. Prior to joining MavenWire, Barry held Director-level positions with Oracle Corporation and G-Log (since 2000), where he was instrumental in growing Oracle Transportation Management (OTM) consulting competence in Europe. Barry has an operational business background from Motorola and gained project management expertise while leading many successful IT implementation projects ranging from global Oracle and SAP ERP solutions, to best of breed i2 Planning solutions.

Barry has a proven OTM track record with a variety of the leading Customers throughout Europe.  Barry brings with him a pedigree in Project and Program Management and expertise which he has developed while implementing in some of the most demanding of global logistics environments.

I have been an active supporter of the OTM SIG for many years and have represented European views on monthly calls when requested. I have a particularly strong network of relationships in Europe with Clients, Oracle and Partners alike. I feel I can help the SIG make the next step in encouraging a wider participation from the global community.