Skomax Fashion

Skomax CEO and founder Alan Mariotti has consulted to, and worked in many facets of fashion which include the Modeling, Apparel, High-end Fashion, and the Garment industry.

While Skomax consulted to Tommy Hilfiger, an International retail clothing stores with revenues of $2 billion, led to the position of Vice President, Information Securit, Infrastructure and Customer Service.

While consulting and employed Skomax Introduced world class IT and security measures for the first time into this $2 billion organization, creating a secure global infrastructure in 6 months which realized immediate ROI. Having worked in the Fortune 500 space for over twenty years many of the experiences yielded expertise in creating world-class processes in all aspects of business and technology. With this experience each area of engineering an organization happens in months, not years. Skomax determined policy and implemented the IT and security strategy for supply chain, design, manufacturing, merchandising, and allocation. Speed and accuracy were a key success factor to roll out a managed network of 135 stores worldwide. One of the first successes occurred in the area of growing the employee knowledge base. Skomax used specialized techniques to upgrade the IT talent by moving the existing staff from a no industry certifications to over seventy five certified personnel in under 1 year. As Vice President Mr. Mariotti managed 40 direct reports in 4 locations, trained seventy IT employees on advanced technical, security and process integration to increase overall departmental productivity by 200%+ in 12 months to reduce the need for increasing staff through extending global remote access across the enterprise and resulting in 40% ROI. Completed tactical IT security and legacy systems strategies that reduced cyber risk insurance costs by 65%. Used industry best practices and commercially retooled product currently used for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and reduction in electronic hacking and theft. Implemented technology and security infrastructure to the enterprise architecture and the e-commerce site, Tommy.com, in record time of 3 months and generating new revenue in excess of $20 million during first season. • Increased customer satisfaction from 60% to 90% in 6 months using a “solution center” metrics/processes to identify individual performance and evaluate customer service satisfaction.
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