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Helping clients build strategies to integrate acquired businesses and develop efficient and sustainable IT capabilities at scale

Lead IT Strategy and execution for company's largest division, with $20B in revenue globally. Head IT organization with 550+ employees and contractors globally supporting Americas, Europe, and Asia. Selected accomplishments:• Steered migration of $7B America’s business to a global Oracle ERP platform, the largest, most successful ERP implementation in the industry’s history.• Delivered industry first supply chain solutions with suppliers and customers that drove tight integration, full automation and dramatic top line growth.• Enabled 100% growth over 2 years in fee-based services via new highly integrated and automated supply chain solutions targeted at non-traditional markets.• Directed transition from a large ERP delivery organization and process to Agile methods, shortening release cycle times from 3 months to 3 weeks while cutting spend 40%+ and reducing defects.• Drove ERP platform consolidation, moving 7 businesses to a standard global Oracle ERP platform, saving $8M+ in operating expense.• Established ERP support organization and processes with continuous improvement plans and measures, reducing spend 50% while increasing scope 40% and extending service center coverage to 24 X 7.

Led system and process improvement efforts for $750M+ division providing end-of-life services for electronics assets. Selected accomplishments:• Directed effort to rearchitect core processes that addressed critical system issues.• Restructured IT organization, aligning staff and skills to business needs and creating clear lines of accountability.• Introduced IT processes and disciplines for project and portfolio management, help desk, service management, and provisioning.• Reduced IT spend over 50% through shared service leverage and system consolidation.

Oversaw 4 acquired businesses with specialized business models and $1.2B annual revenue operating on independent IT platforms.Selected accomplishments:• Led 2 acquisitions and system integrations in US and Europe.• Developed an eCommerce platform and CRM system for $250M Military / aerospace distribution company.• Headed global systems conversion that integrated $600M electronics distribution company across North America, Europe, and Asia.• Consolidated IT teams and established IT shared service models across acquired businesses.

Managed IT relationship and portfolio for $9B distribution businesses in North America and Asia.Selected accomplishments:• Increased online sales 500% through eCommerce development and revamp.• Led strategic artificial intelligence /machine learning based pricing initiative that yielded $10M+ per year in annual margin uplift.• Sponsored and led implementation of Salesforce.com CRM for 1.5K person sales team in North America.

Led development and support team of BI and analytics systems for North American distribution businesses.Selected accomplishments:• Designed and developed global data warehouse, the first IT platform to integrate across all worldwide businesses and systems..• Created first ever global analytics for purchasing and pricing, enabling global supplier negotiation and buy anywhere / sell anywhere leverage.