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Development : Rick Yates at Coca-Cola Company

Background

Summary

Rick is a principles-based global Information Technology leader with 30+ years of experience defining strategic direction, establishing partnerships, building organizational capability, implementing significant change, and delivering tangible value through the use of information technology at Fortune 100 global companies.

Leadership strengths include Executive Communication, IT Thought Leadership, Organization Transformation, Establishing Shared Vision, Creating Positive Culture, Conflict Resolution, and Problem Solving.

Technology strengths include:
- cloud SaaS solutions, including saleforce.com, SuccessFactors, etc.
- business intelligence solutions, including Hortonworks Hadoop Platform, Teradata, Tableau, etc.
- innovative and emerging technologies, including mobility, beacons, continuous integration, etc.
- enterprise application solutions, including SAP, Ortec, CAS TPM, Oracle Trans. Mgt., etc.
- enterprise integration platforms, including webMethods, Mulesoft iPaaS, Informatica, etc.
- cloud-based digital and consumer marketing platforms

Experience

Vice President, Chief Software Development Officer

Anthem, Inc.
 – Present (10 months)Greater Atlanta Area
Leading Anthem, Inc.’s enterprise application strategy and related development, support, and sourcing strategies. Scope includes direct responsibility for a team of more than 2,500 associates and 3,500 contractors. Also accountable for critical transformation initiatives across the enterprise. Anthem is one of the nation's largest health benefits companies with $73 billion total operating revenue.

Chief Development Officer, Bottling Investments Group

The Coca-Cola Company
 –  (1 year 4 months)Greater Atlanta Area
Responsible for transforming the Bottling Investments Group North America Solutions organization to improve agility, expand capabilities, and deliver cost and services transformation for multiple finished goods businesses in North America, including Coca-Cola Refreshments, Coca-Cola North America Minute-Maid and Fountain, and North America Customer Business Solutions.

Within the first year in this role, initiated and delivered organization transformation which included significant organization restructuring, selection and transition to strategic managed services partners, material reduction in cost of services, and formalizing of newly establish operating practices. This resulted in 37%+ reduction of labor cost.

Also created an innovation pipeline process and continuous integration platform that enabled increased innovation pace. This capability led to the delivery of a highly innovative mobile solution and cloud marketing platform leveraging beacon technology to provide our customers with a precision marketing platform plus many more benefits.

In addition, launched a program to create a unified customer platform, leveraging Salesforce.com, to provide game-changing cloud and mobile capabilities that advance our sales, commercial leadership, customer care, delivery, and merchandising functions. Business case benefits on track to deliver $25MM+ in growth and efficiency.

Vice President & Chief Development Officer, Enterprise Business Solutions

Coca-Cola Refreshments
 –  (3 years 6 months)
Responsible for all aspects of application strategy, architecture, development, and delivery for Coca-Cola Refreshments. Accountability includes business process management, application architecture, solution engineering and design, solution development and unit testing, integration testing, release and quality management, and production turn-over for all CCR business transactional solutions.

In this role, we are delivering more than $300MM in new business capabilities, integrated processes, and stream-lined solutions resulting in major business transformation and financial synergies.
(Open)1 recommendation
  • Brian Van Oss
    Brian Van Oss
    Staff VP, Planning and Performance Management at Anthem, Inc.
    Great collaborator is the phrase that comes to mind when I think about Rick. I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Rick for the seven years I worked with him at Coca-Cola. His major accomplishments during that time stand by themselves – creation of an...View

Global Director, Bottler Global Solutions

The Coca-Cola Company
 –  (3 years 10 months)
Responsible for leading a multi-national team in the delivery of world-class business applications as part of a strategic bottler initiative designed to create competitive advantage, transformational business capabilities, and operational efficiencies for franchise and Company-owned Bottlers.

Created an end-to-end SAP-based template solution based on best-in-class bottler business processes and within a 4-year period successfully deployed the solution to major bottlers in China, Philippines, Australia, South Africa, and Germany.
(Open)1 recommendation
  • Rob Cain
    Rob Cain
    PricewaterhouseCoopers
    Nearly ten years ago, The Coca-Cola Company launched the most ambitious technology project in it's history. Coke set out to design and construct a leading-practice based SAP platform intended to encapsulate the totality of the global business...View

Global Director, Shared Application Services

The Coca-Cola Company
 –  (2 years 11 months)
Created The Coca-Cola Company’s global IT shared application services capability, taking it from concept through to established organization capability with managed service levels commitments, world-class globally optimized labor sourcing execution, and continuous process improvement focus.

Portfolio Director, Global SAP Solutions

The Coca-Cola Company
 –  (2 years)
Developed the organization capability to deliver global SAP development and support services.

Program Manager, Corporate & North America SAP Rollouts

The Coca-Cola Company
 –  (3 years 11 months)
Created the North America focused development and deployment organization and successfully delivered multiple SAP-based solutions and process capabilities to the Corporate and North America operating group.

Manager, Accounting Systems

The Coca-Cola Company
 –  (1 year 8 months)

Senior Technology Specialist

The Coca-Cola Company
 –  (3 years 9 months)

Senior Programmer / Business Analyst

Bellsouth Telecommunications
 –  (11 years)Birmingham, Alabama Area
Advanced through a series of technology delivery roles including mini-computer operations, applications support, enhancements, systems analysis, system design, package integration, CASE tools, etc.

Education

Samford University

MBA

Additional Info

  • Personal Details

    BirthdayJune 17

    • Volunteer Experience & Causes

    Team Leader / Worker

    Loaves & Fishes for Ecuador
     – Present (13 years)Children
    I have made seven trips to Ecuador since 2003 and continue to work with this organization. These trips provide extremely rewarding opportunities to work with local communities to build facilities, improve living conditions, and provide meals and education for children.