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Paul Ruccio has been engaged on a wide range of retail and commerce projects. He immediately rolls up his sleeves and plays key roles on strategy, selection, and implementation projects. In addition, he has fulfilled critical resource and leadership needs through staff augmentation. Due to his exceptional performance, he continues to be in high demand for both new and ongoing projects.
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2024 - in progress
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2023
KLARNA IMPLEMENTATION
🏢 $15B+ Consumer Product Manufacturer
👨🏼💻 Project Manager
📈 The purpose of this project was to reduce friction within the checkout journey by implementing Klarna as a net new deferred payment method option.
☑️ Managed the overall project and downstream system dependancies for implementing Klarna on thirteen DTC sites across eight brands.
REVENUE OPTIMIZATION SOLUTION MIGRATION
🏢 $15B+ Consumer Product Manufacturer
👨🏼💻 Project Manager
📈 The purpose of this project was to reduce consumer services costs, increase revenue, and balance the risk of fraudulent DTC orders.
☑️ Managed the overall project to transition order screening management from the client to the vendor and then implement full auto acceptance and rejection process for all DTC orders, removing the requirements for order screening management.
GOOGLE PAY IMPLEMENTATION
🏢 $15B+ Consumer Product Manufacturer
👨🏼💻 Project Manager
📈 The purpose of this project was to reduce friction within the checkout journey by implementing Google Pay as a net new payment method option.
☑️ Managed the overall project and downstream system dependancies for implementing Google Pay on thirteen DTC sites across eight brands.
DTC TO CATALOG SITE MIGRATION
🏢 $175k Consumer Product Retailer
👨🏼💻 Project Manager
📈 The purpose of this project was to transition an e-commerce site from distributor ownership to brand ownership, then migrate the site from DTC (selling) to Catalog (non-selling).
☑️ Managed the transition of ownership along with the migration of functionality from DTC (selling) to Catalog (non-selling). Provided project management and subject matter expert consulting.
SOCIAL COMMERCE LAUNCH
🏢 $1B+ Consumer Product Retailer
👨🏼💻 Project Manager
📈 The purpose of this project was to implement and enable a native Instagram Shop to provide a new commerce channel for customers to place orders.
☑️ Managed the social commerce implementation project. Supported the end-to-end validation and testing. Provided project management and subject matter expert consulting.
2022
COMMERCE BRAND LAUNCH
🏢 $10B+ Consumer Product Manufacturer
👨🏼💻 Technical Lead
📈 The purpose of this project was to launch a new brand within the client's portfolio targeting Generation Z customers leveraging an e-commerce platform.
☑️ Supported launch of new brand on a new e-commerce platform within the company's portfolio. Reduced architecture and technical gaps. Eliminated testing and go-live blockers. Provided project management and subject matter expert consulting.
GO-TO-MARKET STRATEGY
🏢 $417.3B+ Retail Technology Vendor
👨🏼💻 Subject Matter Expert
📈 The purpose of this project was to communicate industry insights, gather market research, and provide a recommended go-to-market strategy in North America for a specific retail technology solution.
☑️ Managed go-to-market strategy for retail technology solution. Provided industry and market insights. Compiled existing industry and market research. Delivered go-to-market recommendations for target geographical location.
2021
OMNI-CHANNEL ENABLEMENT
🏢 $1B+ Consumer Product Retailer
👨🏼💻 Subject Matter Expert
📈 The purpose of this project was to enable Buy Online, Pickup in Store and Buy Online, Ship from Store functionality while integrating the client's two order management systems together; one supporting stores and one supporting e-commerce.
☑️ Managed omni-channel enablement integration project. Provided recommendations associated to Buy Online, Pickup in Store (BOPIS) along with Buy Online, Ship from Store (BOSFS) use cases. Provided project management, business analysis, and subject matter expert consulting.
STORE OF THE FUTURE STRATEGY
🏢 $15B+ Retailer
👨🏼💻 Subject Matter Expert
📈 The purpose of this project was to communicate industry insights, gather market research, and provide a recommended five (5) year Store of the Futurestrategy with trending retail technology and processes.
☑️ Provided project support on Store of the Future strategy project. Facilitated workshops on trending technologies and processes in the retail industry. Developed and executed an omni-channel focused market scan of competitive retailers.
2020
OMNI-CHANNEL ENABLEMENT
🏢 $4.5B+ Apparel Retailer
👨🏼💻 Project Manager
📈 The purpose of this project was to enable Buy Online, Pickup in Store and Buy Online, Ship from Store functionality in North American stores.
☑️ Managed omni-channel enablement project. Provided recommendations associated to Buy Online, Pickup in Store (BOPIS) along with Buy Online, Ship from Store (BOSFS) use cases. Provided project management and subject matter expert consulting.
COMPLETE SUITE IMPLEMENTATION
🏢 $4.5B+ Apparel Retailer
👨🏼💻 Project Manager
📈 The purpose of this project was to implement a complete suite of solutions (Point of Sale, Merchandising, Sales Audit, and CRM) for EMEA stores.
☑️ Managed implementation project for wide range of solutions. Provided project management and subject matter expert consulting.
LOYALTY INTEGRATION
🏢 $1B+ Consumer Product Retailer
👨🏼💻 Project Manager
📈 The purpose of this project was to integrate a third-party Loyalty solution with the client's Point of Sale and downstream solutions.
☑️ Managed the third-party Loyalty integration project along with a concurrent CRM database cleanup project. Provided project management and subject matter expert consulting.
MOBILE POS IMPLEMENTATION
🏢 $337M+ Footwear Retailer
👨🏼💻 Project Manager
📈 The purpose of this project was to implement a mobile Point of Sale solution for use by store associates.
☑️ Managed the mobile Point of Sale implementation project along with numerous highly visible concurrent projects. Provided project management and subject matter expert consulting.
ORDER MANAGEMENT IMPLEMENTATION
🏢 $82M+ Grooming Retailer
👨🏼💻 Project Manager
📈 The purpose of this project was to implement Merchandising and Order Management solutions.
☑️ Managed the Merchandising and Order Management implementation project. Provided project management and subject matter expert consulting.
2019
IN-STORE PDT ASSESSMENT
🏢 $15B+ Retailer
👨🏼💻 Senior Consultant
📈 The purpose of this project was to assess the current state of PDT and network equipment in stores and determine if replacements were required.
☑️ Provided project support with the the PDT and network equipment assessment. Captured heat maps of in-store Wi-Fi and access point locations within 50+ stores in various California metro areas.
POINT OF SALE PRODUCTION SUPPORT
🏢 $15B+ Retailer
👨🏼💻 Subject Matter Expert
📈 The purpose of this project was to provide and improve production support of the client's point of sale implementation.
☑️ Led and executed Level II point of sale production support. Guided and coached team to reduce and maintain 160+ open production tickets to under 20 tickets. Developed functional test scripts based on open and resolved issues, bugs, and configurations.