Joe Wood

Established Business and Technology Professional

Joe is a highly motivated professional with a combination of business and information technology skills specializing in the retail industry. He has delivered reliable, highly functional and adoptable solutions. Joe’s experience includes numerous merchandise and assortment planning, allocation and supply chain optimization systems projects at some of North America’s most well-known retailers. He is a retail software implementation expert with over 20 years’ industry experience.

Experience

Hudson Retail Consulting

• Crocs Inc.
  • As the Solution Architect, lead technical requirements and design for o9 Solutions Merchandise Financial Planning, Open to Buy and Assortment Implementations
  • Lead agile solution build and implementation
  • Quality Assurance oversight, management and execution throughout implementation
• Walmart Canada
  • Project Manager for the implementation of o9 Solutions Supply Chain Optimization solution
  • Quality Assurance oversight, management and execution throughout implementation

Columbus Consulting

• Canada Goose
  • Lead Quality Assurance initiative focused on surfacing application and configuration issues during development phase along with managing, supporting and executing during UAT of 7^th Online’s Wholesale Assortment Planning solution

Maple Lake (since acquired by Aptos)

• Columbia Sportswear
  • Lead overall engagement with client for the re-implementation of Maple Lake’s (Aptos Inc) Allocation system
  • Supported Business Consultant during requirements sessions and lead all technical sessions and system design