Biography

Mr. Rino Nori holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from The Polytechnic Institute of New York, a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from the City College Graduate School of Engineering, and an MBA from Fordham University.
         
Mr. Nori is a registered CDP (Certified Data Processor) and has over twenty five years of experience in the industry. His experience includes military electronic engineering, strategic and tactical systems planning engagements, IT direction studies and plans, quality assurance reviews of IT projects and client computer installations, corporate IT management, and numerous IT requirements definition, software evaluation and selection, development and implementation projects. He has extensive experience with distribution, manufacturing and financial systems across various industries, and his technical skills span the network, client server, mainframe and mini hardware platforms under Netware, NT, Unix, AS/400 and OS/390 environments.
 
Functionally, his experience spans various types of projects for each of the HR, Distribution, Accounting, and Manufacturing  types of modules (i.e.: AP,AR,GL,FA,OE, Inv, BOM, Shop Floor, Shipment, Forecasting, Promotions, Pricing, Replenishment, etc.). His package experience includes products such as SAP, FDS, CA, MAPICS, MACPAC, FINPAC, JD Edwards, DCS, Solomon, and others. His technical skills include knowledge of operating systems, architectures and languages including Abap/4, FrontPage, C, Universe, RPG, Cobol, Html, and others. In addition to hands on systems implementation experience, his background includes the development of systems development methodology practices and IT related courses, and the management of large projects. His experience spans projects from small assignments to multi-location implementation projects of seventy people.  
 
Mr. Nori is a principal of Nori & Associates, his own consulting firm, and is charged with client development as well as client engagement management and execution. His prior affiliations include field engineering with Airborne Instruments Laboratory and computer driven hardware design R&D engineering with Hazeltine, financial systems responsibilities with Pfizer, and senior management consulting positions with Arthur Andersen & Co., Price Waterhouse, and Electronic Data Systems.
 
Mr. Nori's corporate operational experience also includes, on a consulting basis, the Directorship of International Technology for a major tobacco/foods company. While with Arthur Andersen & Co., Mr. Nori was responsible for the Stamford office Owner Managed business practice and was the Stamford office Method1 coordinator, the firm's planning and development methodology. Additionally, while in that capacity, he contributed to the development of the firm's Method1 systems planning methodology. While with Price Waterhouse, Mr. Nori conducted large scale systems planning and systems implementation engagements.
 
Mr. Nori is actively involved in professional and civic organizations. In prior years he was: president of the Stamford Chapter of the AITP (DPMA); chairman of the New England Computer Conference, adjunctprofessor at the Polytechnic's Graduate Center, where he developed the curriculum and lectured two graduate systems core courses: Systems Planning, and Executive Management of Systems. Currently Mr. Nori is an adjunct professor at Fairfield University, where he developed the curriculum for "SAP's Material Management Processes" and for "SAP's Abap/4 and the Development Workbench", the latter of which he is teaching in the Masters Software Engineering program.