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Ralph Todd

@ralphtodd

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Transformational senior IT executive driving revenue, growth, and digital transformation.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior leadership roles where I can drive digital transformation, scale engineering teams, and deliver measurable revenue and operational impact within collaborative, growth-focused organizations.

I am a transformational senior information technology executive with a strong track record of engineering and scaling revenue-propelling products and enterprise systems for Fortune 500 and multi-billion dollar businesses. I have led global engineering organizations, oversaw multi-cloud and data strategies, and delivered measurable results including triggering $1B annual sales growth, achieving multi-hundred-million-dollar ROIs, and ensuring high-availability platforms that support billions of monthly transactions.

I excel at aligning technology strategy with business priorities, building high-performing teams, and deploying AI/ML, RPA, and event-driven architectures to modernize infrastructure and operations. I have repeatedly driven operational cost savings, compliance, and resiliency while championing culture transformation, vendor partnerships, and rapid, scalable product delivery across retail and supply-chain environments.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Director of Software Engineering

The Kroger Company

Jan 2021 - Jan 2025 (4 years)

Led engineering platform teams (400+ engineers across 40 teams) to drive a full-scale store digital transformation, enabling systems that supported $200M daily throughput and triggered $1B in annual sales growth while delivering a $600M ROI over three years.

Azure Google Cloud Platform Java Kafka Event Driven Architecture Data Engineering DevOps Scalability Cloud Infrastructure

Senior IT Consultant

StrategyWorks LLC

Jan 2021 - Dec 2021 (11 months)

Engaged by AutoZone to design IT architecture and integration plans for a $10M shuttle automation project, selecting WMS/YMS and centralizing distribution workflows for 110K+ SKUs.

WMS YMS Warehouse Automation Project Planning

Senior Director of Software Engineering

Sam's Club Technology

Jan 2018 - Jan 2021 (3 years)

Oversaw a 100-person global engineering organization and $25M budget to build greenfield member-pricing and Fresh Sales platforms, delivering $200M and $80M ROI initiatives and enabling $2.68B profit growth impact across the chain.

AI ML ERP Microservices Roadmapping Agile Program Management Data Science

Director of Software Engineering

Sam's Club Technology

Jan 2017 - Jan 2018 (1 year)

Built and led worldwide engineering teams and programs, managing a $10M budget to deliver Fresh transformation projects that generated multi-hundred-million dollar ROI and scaled member-facing and associate tools enterprise-wide.

DevOps Azure PMO & Security Scalability

Senior Technical Program Manager

Walmart Technology

Jan 2016 - Jan 2017 (1 year)

Directed global, multiyear enterprise initiatives across inventory, supply chain, and retail systems, delivering programs that produced $300M ROI and expanded fuel network technology to 950 sites.

Program Management Supply Chain Inventory Management Cloud Stakeholder Management PMO Agile Vendor Management

Technical Program Manager

Walmart Technology

Jan 2013 - Jan 2016 (3 years)

Managed complex engineering and infrastructure projects for merchandise and supply chain systems, accelerating delivery of automation and modernization projects and optimizing multimillion-dollar resource allocations.

Project Management Automation Agile ERP Jira