Information Technology executive offering over 25 years of experience in a Fortune 300 chemicals company. A collaborative leader and relentless change agent with international experience adept at partnering with executive business leaders to create significant business value with comprehensive IT solutions. Experience providing vision, leadership, and planning for the development, acquisition, and implementation of new IT architectures such as Cloud, Mobile, Collaboration, and consumer led technologies.
Specialties:
• Technology Strategy & Execution
• Enterprise Architecture
• Linking technology strategy with business goals and growth drivers
• Business Transformation
• Leadership and Talent Development
• Driving Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), Mobility, and greater use of cloud
• Cost-effectively managing large-scale IT applications
• Portfolio Management
• Continuous Improvement using Lean/Six Sigma
• Leveraging outsourcing partners
Memberships:
• Gartner Research Board (CTO)
• SIM Advanced Practices Council
• Graduate of SIM Regional Learning Forum (2001)
Director, Information Technology and Data & Analytics, Materials Technology Division @ I am providing the Materials Technology division of Air Products with Information Technology, and Data & Analytics leadership. This covers both setting the strategic technology direction, and getting the day to day work implemented to allow the division to be successful. From November 2014 to Present (1 year 2 months) Allentown, Pennsylvania AreaDirector, IT Solutions @ I currently lead a 150+ person team consisting of Business Relationship Managers, IT Architects, and applications developers. My team also is accountable for prioritizing, and leading our IT Innovation activities delivering over 5X of benefit/cost solutions to the IT organization.
Additionally, I have created a very small team that is externally focused looking for new business capabilities enabled by IT. We then share with our businesses any capabilities that could drive value for them. Examples of capabilities include the use of robotics in our cylinder handling facilities, the use of drones in our manufacturing facilities, and the use of social listening tools. From October 2012 to Present (3 years 3 months) Allentown, Pennsylvania AreaDirector, IT Architecture and Innovation @ Lead the creation of our Enterprise Architecture group. Worked with business executives to better understand their business strategies, and how new IT technologies would benefit them. The Innovation efforts became more formalized during this time and we started measuring return on investment of our Innovations projects. From April 2008 to October 2012 (4 years 7 months) Director, Asia IT @ Relocated to Singapore, I lead the transition from country based teams to inclusion in our global organization at the time SAP ERP was being deployed in the Asian countries. Significant accomplishments during this time included gaining approval to create an IT operations team in Kuala Lumpur shares duties with a US team in 12 hour shifts, and the approval to create an application development team based in Shanghai, which is close to our businesses. From March 2005 to August 2008 (3 years 6 months) SingaporeManager, Applications and Infrastructure, Non-One Company Countries @ I was accountable for the implementation and deployment of an internally developed mini-ERP platform into Brazil. The implementation included all major business processes across 8 locations. Additionally I was accountable for driving infrastructure standardization across many of our smaller Rest of World locations. From October 2003 to March 2005 (1 year 6 months) Manager, Business to Business Integration, eBusiness @ Creation of a business strategy for moving electronic documents into and out of the company. From January 2000 to October 2003 (3 years 10 months)
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science @ Millersville University of Pennsylvania David Beltz is skilled in: Business Strategy, Integration, ERP, IT Management, Business Intelligence, IT Strategy, Change Management, Product Management, Project Management, Information Technology, ITIL, SharePoint, Cross-functional Team Leadership, B2B, Product Development, Team Leadership, Team Building, value creation