Jim Ferrara
IT Director, Technology Operations - Vendor Management
Town of Eastchester, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJim Ferrara is an experienced IT leader with 13+ years driving global technology operations, vendor management, and procurement for multi-billion dollar manufacturing organizations. As IT Director at Terex he oversees a $80M+ budget, shapes IT procurement strategy, and has delivered sustained savings (including $30M during COVID) through aggressive supplier management and process optimization. He combines deep hands-on systems knowledge—Oracle, SAP, Salesforce, WebSphere and big data reporting—with practical project management and business analysis skills that bridge IT and finance. Jim’s career began in hands-on development and web initiatives at Pitney Bowes, giving him rare fluency across technical, operational and commercial domains. Based in Eastchester, NY, he balances an interest in languages like Python and Go with a day job running complex vendor portfolios and enterprise transformations.
13 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Major - Computer Science Minor - Math, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Major - Computer Science Minor - Math at Iona University
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Github contributions (5)
jamesfe/socket_car
Jul 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:76 pushes, 31 branches in 1 year 7 months
jamesfe/capViz
Apr 2013 - Jul 2015
Contributions:12 commits, 3 pushes in 2 years 3 months
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