Tom House

Experience

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  Noble

  Chief Technology Officer

  Jun 2021 - Apr 2024

  NOBLE drives mission success with world-class products, logistics, services, and training through accelerated procurement. Our footprint includes operation centers, distribution centers, and consolidation points positioned to expedite delivery and enhance global product availability. In addition to distributing 13,000 manufacturer brands, NOBLE offers specialized technical and training services for customers with Aerospace, C5ISR, CBRNe, EOD, Expeditionary, MRO, and Tactical requirements. NOBLE uses an established supply chain, existing vendor relationships, and vast catalog to lower costs and increase selection and availability. Our process saves time and money for government and gets products to end-users quickly to support their mission. NOBLE reduces the cost of readiness while maintaining the ability to rapidly respond to today’s challenges.

  • Led the Technology organization for Noble Supply & Logistics, driving 300% revenue growth over 2+ years, along with integrating the ERP, CRM, Infrastructure and eCommerce systems for two key acquisitions in less than nine months. Increased the capacity of the technology organization by 250% and increased productivity by introducing both agile and product management best practices. Drove the implementation of robotic warehouse automation technology to drive a massive increase in efficiencies and quality for our logistics team and resulted in the award of a massive long-term DLA contract.
  • Managed relationships with all senior level executives and introduced both seamless backlog prioritization processes and regular reporting and action plan for key technology KPIs. Also drove the adoption of a hyper-accelerated recruiting process and rigorous performance management process.
  • Built out software engineering practice that delivered multiple tools to both our government agency partners and internal sales, procurement and finance teams. Helped secure multiple contract awards by delivering various eCommerce enhancements that drove significant value and efficiencies for the GSA agency. Introduced advanced business intelligence capabilities and advanced demand planning solutions to drive down inventory costs and increase in-stock positions.
  • Drove advancements in the overall cybersecurity posture for the company, ensuring we met required NIST 800-171 / CMMC compliance regulations, introduced stronger threat-detection capabilities and automated our endpoint security defenses.
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  Rue Gilt Groupe

  SVP Software Engineering

  Jan 2019 - Jul 2021

  Rue Gilt Groupe is a leading off-price e-commerce portfolio company, connecting the next-generation shopper to world-class brands. We’ve defined the online treasure hunt through our daily sale events allowing a large, loyal member base to discover over 5,000 premium and luxury brands at prices up to 70% off full-price retail. Rue Gilt Groupe operates three complementary sites – Rue La La, Gilt, and Shop Premium Outlets. Our vision at RGG is to spark delight through daily discovery – we make shopping an occasion to celebrate. At the forefront of fashion and technology, we’re also in the business of sparking delight for our Associates. We inspire each other, our Members, and ourselves to push past the expected – every day. Our culture is rooted in our values and together we work to demonstrate being Kind, Passionate, Collaborative, Innovative, Tenacious and Empowered.

  • Led the software engineering function that powers the mobile apps, storefront experiences, order management, financial and supply chain systems for Rue Gilt Groupe. Helped enable the vision to be the most engaging style destinations, connecting world class brands to the next generation shopper. We enabled this through an engaging member experience on both the Rue La La and Gilt mobile app and website experiences.
  • Our world-class, multi-geographic Software Engineering team partnered strongly with our Product Management and business functions to understand both the member needs and industry trends to constantly innovate and bring the best experience to the customers.
  • The teams operated with an Agile mindset, partnering with our other Technology partners including Infrastructure, Data Science and Business Intelligence to constantly evolve the product lines.
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  Emerson Ecologics

  Chief Technology Officer

  Nov 2017 - Jan 2019

  Emerson Ecologics® is now part of Fullscript. For over 40 years, Emerson has supported the practice of healthy living as the leading distributor of vitamins, supplements, and natural health products. Now as one, Emerson and Fullscript are working together to enable the future of integrative care delivery. Learn more here: https://akris-auth.emersonecologics.com/why-fullscript Emerson customers include naturopathic, chiropractic, and medical doctors, licensed acupuncturists, nutritionists, and integrative practitioners, as well as their patients. Headquartered in Manchester, NH with distribution centers in Virginia and California, Emerson Ecologics is GMP registered by NSF International and licensed to distribute pharmaceutical products. Our mission is to empower patients’ complete health and wellness through our intense commitment to: * People - a diverse culture of wellness, respect, communication, teamwork, and personal growth * Community - providing voice, direction, and support to the integrative healthcare community through leadership, philanthropy, advocacy, and partnership * Partners - a broad network based on a shared sense of purpose, working together to make innovative solutions accessible * Products & Services - the single source of high quality and effective solutions, seamlessly provided through a fulfilling customer experience For more information, visit emersonecologics.com. Legal Disclaimer: *These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

  • Led the 40+ person multi-geographic technology team included the software engineers, quality engineers, product managers, infrastructure specialists and agile coaches that powered the industry leading eCommerce and distribution systems. Utilized agile methodologies and a variety of technology solutions to enhance the product lines and established a culture of experimentation and new ideas. Rapidly grew the technology organization over a 6 month period and delivered sustained improvements in team's productivity and output.
  • Drove the rapid expansion and modernization of Wellevate, the online dispensary that enables health and wellness practitioners to let their patients purchase specific supplement recommendations—anytime, anywhere, from any device. Introduced the industry's first mobile app and also implemented many customer-facing features in addition to overhauling the overall user experience. Utilized customer studies and usability testing to shape a vastly improved experience for both practitioners and patients. In addition, drove significant improvements to the overall performance of the Wellevate applications, introducing RUM techniques and building the performance analysis skill set within the organization.
  • Delivered multiple customer-facing enhancements and core platform modernization for the core eCommerce platform – emersonecologics.com the premier resource for professional-grade nutritional supplements to the integrative healthcare community where we offer thousands of products from over 275 of the world’s top brands. Set vision for the migration of legacy monolithic application to a micro-services based architecture, improving overall site reliability and scalability.
  • Led the modernization of the technology infrastructure by migrating to cloud-based AWS solution, improving the business continuity posture in addition to enabling more rapid release of software builds.
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  Vista

  Head of Technology - Cimpress Open and Vistaprint Corporate Solutions

  Sep 2015 - Jun 2017

  Vista is the design and marketing partner to millions of small businesses around the world. As a global, remote-first company, Vista has a growing footprint with team members working in more than 17 countries. For over 20 years we’ve been inspired by small businesses and we work incessantly to deliver solutions to their evolving needs. Together, VistaCreate, 99designs by Vista and VistaPrint represent a full-service design, digital and print solution, elevating small businesses’ presence in physical and digital spaces and powering them to achieve success.

  • Led the 50+ person technology organization responsible for driving the B2B eCommerce platform and product strategy for Cimpress' newest high-growth business unit tasked with exploring new markets. Focused on building platforms to both serve commercial customer needs and provide on-demand web services to provide wholesale customers with easy access to Cimpress' industry-leading mass customization platform. Led a group of highly-skilled and diverse engineering squads who partner with our product management and business development teams to understand our customer needs and drive the implementation of our product road maps.
  • Launched Cimpress' first set of publicly available APIs with Cimpress Open https://open.cimpress.com. Our APIs allow you to tap into Cimpress' mass customization platform that in 2016 customized 46 million items. Also launched Cimpress' first Shopify plug-in that easily allows storefront owners to tap into our API solution.
  • Our technology team also launched our first B2B Custom Print Portal solution that allows mid-sized companies to have their own business account, enabling their employees to easily order a wide selection of customized products while ensuring brand control Vistaprint Corporate.
  • As an entrepreneurial business unit, we have an open policy towards exploring cutting-edge technology stacks to assist us in meeting our objective of high-growth, embrace a continually-evolving agile mind set and offer an incredible opportunity for creative individuals looking to make a large impact in a challenging culture.
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  Vista

  Head of Technology - Vistaprint Strategic Partnerships

  Apr 2014 - Sep 2015

  Vista is the design and marketing partner to millions of small businesses around the world. As a global, remote-first company, Vista has a growing footprint with team members working in more than 17 countries. For over 20 years we’ve been inspired by small businesses and we work incessantly to deliver solutions to their evolving needs. Together, VistaCreate, 99designs by Vista and VistaPrint represent a full-service design, digital and print solution, elevating small businesses’ presence in physical and digital spaces and powering them to achieve success.

  • Accountable for driving 35+ person Vistaprint's Global Strategic Partnerships and Product Merchandising technology organizations. The Global Strategic Partnerships organization is responsible for providing the technology solutions to drive the sales of Vistaprint products to end consumers across the world through intermediary re-sellers and in partnership with other firms. The Global Strategic Partnerships is a fast growing and critical piece to the overall Vistaprint strategy and delivered $40+M revenue in 2015.
  • Vistaprint's Product Merchandising technology organization is a key part of Vistaprint's growth strategy as we look to rapidly expand our customized printing categories and attract both a wider market share and engage with higher expectation customers. This team is leading the strategy to rapidly improve our merchandising experience and provide world-class flexibility in our ability to dynamically introduce new and exciting categories in the mass customization market.
  • Provide leadership to a highly skilled team of architects, software engineers, quality engineers and scrum masters who actively partner with internal Marketing, Merchandising and Business Development leaders and external companies to continually innovate and drive solutions to help Vistaprint customer's make an impression.
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  Staples

  Senior Director eCommerce, Mobile, Architecture & Technical Operations

  Jan 2012 - Mar 2014

  At Staples, Business is Human, which means our people ‘think beyond the algorithm’ to deliver for customers. A leader in workspace products and solutions for over 35 years, Staples has thousands of experts dedicated to applying their intuition, expertise, and experience to bring out the best that technology such as AI has to offer. These experts make work easier, smarter, and more efficient for businesses of all sizes. The company operates in North America through eCommerce and direct sales and is headquartered near Boston, Massachusetts. More information about Staples is available at www.staplesadvantage.com. This page supports Staples’ eCommerce and direct sales business and careers. For news or positions related to Staples® stores, visit the Staples Stores page.

  • Accountable for establishing the innovation practice for Staples’ newly formed Global eCommerce Expert Center. Proactively identify innovative changes to our people, process and technology practices as we look to consume $35M in eCommerce investment, accomplish a 400% increase in our delivery throughput and deliver $70+M incremental top line revenue in 2012.
  • Lead a 15+ person team of senior technology experts responsible for shaping the strategic eCommerce architecture vision for Staples. This team seeks out new technologies, advises our senior leaders on innovative solutions and conducts technology proof of concepts.
  • Lead our ever expanding mobile efforts as we aggressively build partnerships to rapidly deliver mobile solutions for our customers and internal sales teams.
  • Partner with industry leading consultants to optimize our existing operational and project delivery processes, choosing key investments in order to create a new operating model for our eCommerce business and technology teams. Take ownership for delivering all investment areas under our acceleration plan across our multiple eCommerce platforms and geographies.
  • Lead the build out of our eCommerce Innovation Center in Cambridge, MA by establishing an innovative collaborative work space, agile co-located work teams and hiring 50+ associates.
  • Create a vendor alliance program with our key partners to drive cost and productivity inefficiencies and negotiate enterprise level agreements, in addition to establishing a more global approach to our eCommerce platforms.
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  Staples

  Senior Director Staples.com Software Engineering

  Jan 2011 - Dec 2011

  At Staples, Business is Human, which means our people ‘think beyond the algorithm’ to deliver for customers. A leader in workspace products and solutions for over 35 years, Staples has thousands of experts dedicated to applying their intuition, expertise, and experience to bring out the best that technology such as AI has to offer. These experts make work easier, smarter, and more efficient for businesses of all sizes. The company operates in North America through eCommerce and direct sales and is headquartered near Boston, Massachusetts. More information about Staples is available at www.staplesadvantage.com. This page supports Staples’ eCommerce and direct sales business and careers. For news or positions related to Staples® stores, visit the Staples Stores page.

  • Delivered the strategic technology plan for our Staples.com eCommerce operations, driving $70M in incremental revenue in 2011 on a base of $2.5B. This included the systems design, development, unit testing, implementation, and ongoing technical operations of our North American brand websites, Staples.com and Staples.ca and Mobile applications.
  • Led a combined team of 80+ engineers and hired services, including off-shore partner teams, who are responsible for the core development and daily support of Staples.com, Staples.ca and Staplespreferred.ca. Managed annual project spend budget of $14M.
  • Responsible for building and maintaining a strong executive relationship with the Staples.com business leadership team and their direct reports. Led daily interaction with senior business and IT leaders and occasional interaction with the Staples Leadership Team, as well as actively participated in both business and IT steering committees. Served as the escalation point for issues which could not be resolved by the line management team.
  • Responsible for championing and driving organizational and technological change with the goal of continuously improving both Staples.com’s and Enterprise IT’s delivery capability. Partnered with business leaders to understand the business drivers and processes associated with the channel.
  • Responsible for owning all key vendor partner relationships and ensuring that all partners are able to meet Staples.com’s technology and business needs from an availability, performance and scalability perspective.
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  Staples

  Senior Director PMO

  Jul 2004 - Jan 2011

  At Staples, Business is Human, which means our people ‘think beyond the algorithm’ to deliver for customers. A leader in workspace products and solutions for over 35 years, Staples has thousands of experts dedicated to applying their intuition, expertise, and experience to bring out the best that technology such as AI has to offer. These experts make work easier, smarter, and more efficient for businesses of all sizes. The company operates in North America through eCommerce and direct sales and is headquartered near Boston, Massachusetts. More information about Staples is available at www.staplesadvantage.com. This page supports Staples’ eCommerce and direct sales business and careers. For news or positions related to Staples® stores, visit the Staples Stores page.

  • Led a combined team of 80+ associates and hired services across two geographic regions who were responsible for managing all aspects of the key Ecommerce and Supply Chain initiatives in support of our North American Delivery (NAD) businesses, including overall portfolio management, business process discovery and architecture, requirements gathering, testing, project management and software implementation.
  • Managed business operations for the overall 625+ person NAD & Supply Chain Information Technology organization; including executive operational business reporting, customer satisfaction metrics, overall budget planning, management and forecasting ($170M annual budget), associate merit & promotion planning, and organization capacity plans.
  • Actively managed overall business relationships, providing guidance to business partners on how to best leverage technology solutions and business process improvements in order to maximize business results.
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  Staples

  Senior Technical Project Manager eCommerce

  Jun 1999 - Jul 2004

  At Staples, Business is Human, which means our people ‘think beyond the algorithm’ to deliver for customers. A leader in workspace products and solutions for over 35 years, Staples has thousands of experts dedicated to applying their intuition, expertise, and experience to bring out the best that technology such as AI has to offer. These experts make work easier, smarter, and more efficient for businesses of all sizes. The company operates in North America through eCommerce and direct sales and is headquartered near Boston, Massachusetts. More information about Staples is available at www.staplesadvantage.com. This page supports Staples’ eCommerce and direct sales business and careers. For news or positions related to Staples® stores, visit the Staples Stores page.

  • Responsible for managing all aspects of major Staples.com and Staples.ca website releases.
  • Lead project teams consisting of software engineers, quality engineers, infrastructure specialists, customer service and marketing associates.
  • Responsible for schedule, finances, requirements management, resource management and stakeholder communications.
  • Led project teams ranging in 20-50 team members across multiple geographies.
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  Staples

  Lead Software & Infrastructure Engineer eCommerce

  Jun 1996 - Jun 1999

  At Staples, Business is Human, which means our people ‘think beyond the algorithm’ to deliver for customers. A leader in workspace products and solutions for over 35 years, Staples has thousands of experts dedicated to applying their intuition, expertise, and experience to bring out the best that technology such as AI has to offer. These experts make work easier, smarter, and more efficient for businesses of all sizes. The company operates in North America through eCommerce and direct sales and is headquartered near Boston, Massachusetts. More information about Staples is available at www.staplesadvantage.com. This page supports Staples’ eCommerce and direct sales business and careers. For news or positions related to Staples® stores, visit the Staples Stores page.

  • Software Engineer responsible for building out first internal web portal solution using Microsoft ASP and SQL Server technologies.
  • Designed and engineered web-based HR and Recruiting functionality for 3,000-person user base, including UX design and web application implementation.
  • Responsible for building out and maintaining web server and database infrastructure, including basic infrastructure monitoring and reporting.
  • Contributed to build out of beta version of Staples.com.
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  Staples

  Lead Software Engineer & Architect Retail Systems

  May 1993 - Jun 1996

  At Staples, Business is Human, which means our people ‘think beyond the algorithm’ to deliver for customers. A leader in workspace products and solutions for over 35 years, Staples has thousands of experts dedicated to applying their intuition, expertise, and experience to bring out the best that technology such as AI has to offer. These experts make work easier, smarter, and more efficient for businesses of all sizes. The company operates in North America through eCommerce and direct sales and is headquartered near Boston, Massachusetts. More information about Staples is available at www.staplesadvantage.com. This page supports Staples’ eCommerce and direct sales business and careers. For news or positions related to Staples® stores, visit the Staples Stores page.

  • Software Engineer responsible for enhancing and maintaining in-store technology systems including Point-of-Sale and Time & Labor Management.
  • Managed team of software engineers and configuration specialists.
  • Provided escalation support for in-store support team and partnered with Retail District leaders to prioritize enhancements for 500 store network.
  • Overall Solutions Architect for in-store systems.