Fred Northcutt

Solution Architect & Technical Design Lead

Fred is an execution focused leader who brings together extensive programming experience with an understanding of omnichannel business and processes for custom value-added solutions. Over his 43-year career he has served Tier 1 retailers and wholesalers in apparel and accessories, sporting goods and footwear with high response time solutions.

Experience

• Nike – Functional Designer and Solution Architect
  • Led the design and delivery of MFP, Line Architecture and Assortment Planning solutions
• Tuesday Morning – Solution Architect
  • Developed a custom real time planning system using Excel for the UI, .NET web service for middle ware, SQL Server for the database and MicroStrategy for the reporting system
• Big Lots – Project Lead and Solution Architect
  • Developed an automated store dashboard using Excel that parsed their information by district and emailed the stores and districts.  Developed a near real time process for loading trickle feed POS data into a Teradata warehouse using Perl and Teradata utilities. 
• FullBeauty Brands – Project Lead and Solution Architect
  • Led the design and delivery of Front End OTB, Assortment Planning and Demand Forecast with a SQL Backend
• Ralph Lauren – Solution Architect
  • Developed an automated buy tool and distro tool to maximize buyer and assortment planner productivity using VBA/Excel. Developed a rollup to aggregate all the buy tool workbooks into one projection workbook for management
• Ross Stores –  Solution Architect
  • Developed a high-performance Trend Sheets for the planners using VBA/Excel. The redesign cut the calculation times from 30 minutes to less than 1 minute and streamlined the process for the planners
• dds Stores – Solution Architect
  • Developed Region Trendsheets in VBA/Excel that taking days to create and format to be done in seconds using a single format worksheet. The worksheet was modifiable by the user and exploded to do all regions and store groups including totals. Developed Distortion Tool using VBA/Excel that could not handle the current volume. Using the same type technology done in the Region tool made the performance to handle quadruple the volume with fast response time