Rick Hudson has over 20 years of experience in IT development and data management. He is currently the Director of Software Engineering at Premier Inc., where he manages multiple development teams and projects with a $20 million budget. Prior to this, he held other data management roles at Premier Inc., helping to standardize clinical and supply chain data. He has extensive experience implementing Master Data Management solutions and developing applications to support data standardization, classification, and matching.

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Rick Hudson
Summary IT Director with over 20 years of IT Development and Data Management
and Data Governance experience. Proven results in successful execution
of on-time implementations. Problem-solver with excellent people,
management, organization, operational and communication skills used to
drive detailed projects from conceptual designs to implementation while
providing a fun and innovative environment. Strengths include data
integration, transformation and standardization of large data volumes for
MDM, ERP and CRM systems. Project Management in both waterfall and
agile methodologies.
Professional
experience
June 2007 – Present Premier Inc. Charlotte, North Carolina
July 2013 – Present: Director of Software Engineering
- Managing multiple development teams, multiple supply chain projects
following agile methodology for $20 million IT budget. Responsibilities
include:
• Scrum Master
o Remove impediments
o Minimize WIP and maximize continuous delivery
o Lead backlog grooming, planning, demos, stand-ups
• Development Director
o Create innovative environment
o Recruit and develop people
o Council employees on their careers with weekly 1:1s, team meetings,
mid-year and annual performance appraisals.
o Provide strategic guidance to senior executive leadership
• Project Manager
o Coordinate across multiple products
o Manage multiple work streams for new product development
o Manage support of legacy products
o Manage product delivery schedule and create progress status reports
o Engage with product managers to manage customer deliverable
commitment
o Work with technical operations teams to create and maintain
environments for development, quality assurance, user acceptance,
training, performance and production
• Implementation/Deployment Manager
o Coordinate deployments
o Create appropriate change management documentation and obtain
deployment approvals
- 20 direct reports with 50/50 ratio of full-time associates and contractors (local,
domestically remote and off-shore) composed of Architects, Software
Engineers, QA Analysts and Business Analysts
- Consistently reached between target and stretch goals for quarterly release
commitments for projects which include:
• Incorporating supplier cross referencing into product cross referencing
• Categorizing product data for client analytics
• Creating automation to support item master cleansing service to support e-
commerce client offerings, quickly producing 5 dollar revenue annually
• Support integration of large data volumes of multiple sources from/to many
different client ERP systems
• Legacy support for large volumes of data movement, standardization and

2. integration
Oct 2011 – June 2013: Data Management Director
- Managed multiple teams following agile methodology to support clinical and
supply chain data standardization. Consistently reach between target and
stretch goals for project quarterly release commitments
- Teams composed of Architects, Software Engineers and Clinical Analysts
- Supported new tool, Symedical, to map clinical data to industry standards
(Multum, Snomed, Loinc). Developed logic and business rules within
ILOG/ODM to support alerting
- Supported MDM for supply chain business using Oracle Enterprise Data
Quality for Product Data development (formerly known as Silver Creek) to
standardize and classify product data
• Compliancy resulted in 14% increase of total purchased volume which
generated 2% Admin fees for Group Purchasing
March 2009 – September 2011: Data Management Sr. Manager Data
Transformation Solutions
- Managed a team of Architects, Clinical Analysts, and Business Analysts
- Worked with the Oracle Enterprise Data Quality for Product Data
development tool (formerly known as Silver Creek) to standardize and classify
supply chain data
- Supported MDM team by developing a standardization engine to:
• Guide efforts for product category specific data in creating a golden record
repository
• Assist Data Services team in matching and classifying purchase order and
contract data
- Team consistently reached between target and stretch goals
June 2007 – February 2009 – Solutions Analyst / Software Engineer
- Developed Data Service Applications in the Oracle Product Data Quality
development tool (formerly known as Silver Creek) to support Master Data
Management and Data Services in:
• Data Standardization
• Data Classification
• Product matching
- With these efforts, we were able to internalize the data research, saving $5
million per year in third party research, spending $500,000 for the software,
thereby recouping the investment in less than one year
June 1984 – May 2007 Springs Industries Fort Mill, South Carolina
December 2001 – May 2007: Systems Manager
- Managed 6 on-site and 5 off-shore software engineers
- Designed integration from ERP system to the planning and shop-floor
scheduling tools using creative solutions to conform to Springs’ manufacturing
intricacies. These tools
• Managed the entire bedding manufacturing business for Springs
• Were used to transform the process into a continuous flow inventory
system to significantly reduce inventory levels and costs.
- Worked with the planning, scheduling, and operation business associates to:
• Determine requirements and design
• Implement a successful product on time
- Developed status reports for senior leadership
August 1999 – December 2001: Project Leader of Creative Products
- Managed 5 on-site resources to design, program, and test code used in
developing warehouse management and shipping systems

3. November 1986 – August 1999: Project Leader of Apparel Division
- Designed, programmed and tested code to support marketing and order
management
- First project managed was an inventory availability system, assuming the lead
when the current project leader resigned. This project was implemented on
time
- Other projects included merging systems due to business purchases and
managing resources involved in the year 2000 conversion
June 1984 – November 1986 Programmer/Analyst
- Designed, programmed, and tested code to support marketing and order
management systems
Technical
Experience
Certification
Recognition
Oracle, Oracle EDQP (AKA Silver Creek), PL/SQL, , UNIX, Lennox, Ab Initio,
Autosys, IBM CDC, Data Stage, Hadoop, JBoss, WAS, SQL Server, .Net, Dojo, CSS,
Java, JavaScript, Hibernate, Spring, Struts, Gradle, Maven Jenkins, Git,
PowerBuilder, ILOG/ODM, DB2, P3/Primavea, Microsoft Project Microsoft Office
Products, PeopleSoft (FKA JD Edwards) ERP system, RS/6000, IBM Mainframe,
COBOL, IMS, AS400, and the following Manugistics tools: Demand Planning, Master
Planning, Production Sequencing, and Production Scheduling,
Certified Data Management Professional
2008 Premier Individual Value Awards Winner
2011 Premier PHD Program
2012 Premier Team Value Awards Winner