Jos*** MS

Strategy, Strategic Vision, Project Management, Business Analysis

Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Power-Flo Technologies

• Location: New Hyde Park, New York, United States
• Duration: 2025-03 to Present
• Description:

Chief Technology Officer at Beyond Air®

• Location: Garden City, New York, United States
• Duration: 2023 to Present
• Description: Oversee IT, Marketing, and Investor Relations, spurring successful change in the company. Formulate and execute the organization's technology vision and strategy aligned with overall business objectives. Identify emerging technologies and trends; evaluate potential impact on the business; and lead innovation initiatives to maintain a competitive edge. Elevate cybersecurity standards through rigorous measures, such as phishing testing, training, penetration testing, and vulnerability assessments, ensuring robust protection of company assets and data. ▪ Evaluated vendor relationships and worked with them to reduce overall IT expenditures by 30%. ▪ Enabled automated tax returns and reduced processing time by 70% by establishing Avalara Tax and integrating with NetSuite. ▪ Spearheaded seamless migration of all server infrastructure to Microsoft Azure Cloud within initial 3 months, thereby optimizing scalability and efficiency. ▪ Successfully transformed year-long project from severe delays into catalyst for change in 6 months, enhancing trust in technology capabilities across EMEA region. ▪ Provided leadership for implementation of contract lifecycle management solution – Ironclad, integrated with Salesforce, ensuring timely and budget-compliant delivery.

Chief Information Officer at Power-Flo Technologies

• Location: New Hyde Park, New York, United States
• Duration: 2020 to 2023
• Description: Directed IT, Marketing, and Pricing departments to drive transformation. Formulated and implemented strategic technology plans aligned with organizational goals, ensuring technology initiatives support business objectives and drive growth. Managed relationships with technology vendors and partners, ensuring effective collaboration, delivery of services, and value for the organization. Assessed and mitigated technology-related risks; ensured compliance with relevant regulations and standards; and implemented robust cybersecurity measures to protect company assets and data. ▪ Reduced backlog, improved margin by 1 point, and increased operational efficiency by deploying vendor pricing upload strategy. ▪ Drove reduction of 3.4M products within 6 months while streamlining and optimizing data management processes, including spearheading product management cleanup. ▪ Accomplished standardization and generated annual cost savings of $150K by heading company-wide technology rollouts, such as transitioning to cloud-hosted VOIP phone system across 14 branches. ▪ Organized and coordinated company events, such as tradeshows, resulting in increased attendance and positive outcomes, as evidenced by 50% better turnout compared to previous events.

Chief Information Officer | Acting Chief Operating Officer at Sw Anderson Sales Corp

• Location: Teterboro, NJ
• Duration: 2014 to 2020
• Description: Managed IT, Marketing, and Accounts Receivable departments and steered the company in terms of leadership and vision to impact change. Provided innovative leadership in technology adoption, innovation, and digital transformation, leading to the organization remaining competitive and adaptive in a rapidly evolving landscape. Identified opportunities to streamline and optimize operational processes, leveraging technology solutions where appropriate to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance productivity. ▪ Successfully reached $2.5M+ in sales within 18 months by leading and delivering e-commerce project. ▪ Enhanced gross margins by 1 ½ points through implementing updated pricing methodology, alerts, and system restrictions. ▪ Attained cost savings through a $1M reduction in inventory through successfully deploying RF barcoding, receiving, picking, and cycle counting across multiple branches within 18 months. ▪ Slashed Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) from 89 to 65 days and decreased overall accounts receivable/sales ratio from 23% to 17% by steering credit and collections project, resulting in improved efficiencies. ▪ Generated 60% improvement in response times and achieved average user satisfaction rating for IT services within 4 months by integrating help desk ticketing and survey systems. ▪ Established product data warehouse, facilitating improved product management with 16 of top 20 vendors onboarded.

Director of IT at Distribution International

• Location: East Rutherford, NJ
• Duration: 2012 to 2014
• Description: • Member of international technology executive organization (Technology Information Leadership Team) responsible for setting international and domestic IT technology direction for the business. • Coordinate the implementation of a nationwide rollout and standardization to one wireless carrier within one quarter resulting in a 30% savings annually. • Design and project-led the opening of two new locations within one quarter on schedule including all operational, branding, marketing and IT needs. • Deploy a dashboard and business intelligence analytics tool (Tableaux) to show visibility company wide and real time data that enable managers to improve efficiencies and the bottom line. • Responsible for the coordination of an Office 365 system wide implementation, purchase negotiation and project management. • Direct responsibility for domestic and off-shore resources and network development teams in the East Coast Region. • Created and deployed Company-wide technology training programs to improve sales effectiveness and enhance productivity.