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West Orange, Nj, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Defined, acrhitected and directed collaboration strategies and technologies. Effectively managed vendors, large integration and implementation projects in the VC&C space.• $1M annual cost savings achieved for HBO, through seamless replacement of legacy VC&C services for 3,000+ global users• Achieved proven productivity advantage and simplified usage model for 3,000+ global users, through comprehensive discovery, analysis and re-design of essential technology in cloud conferencing and collaboration services • Drove 100% successful and timely project completions, through well-defined, engineered and tightly run collaboration technology projects • Demonstrably effective, extensive vendor, relationship and risk management of key cloud conferencing providers and integrators, yielded nearly 100% service uptime • Established corporate strategy and roadmap, improving user satisfaction rate by 500% • Strategically directed $5M+ budget and contracts • Enacted governance and fostered corporate policies, advancing productive use of collaborative spaces by 400% • Attained nearly 100% acceptance and complete utilization rates of new VC&C services, through championing, showcasing and evangelizing revamped collaboration and cloud-based conferencing technologies for senior management & executives

New York, New York, Us

Directed numerous teams and large scale, global projects designing and delivering collaboration tools, digital media, unified communications, and global management infrastructure for the enterprise. Collaboration systems strategy development. Operational budget responsibility ($8M).• Demonstrably increased operational efficiency and faster goal attainment, through enhanced governance, risk management and corporate compliance policies (GRC) in video collaboration space, cutting project completion time by 30%• Significantly enhanced vendor sourcing, risk assessments and evaluations via automation, cutting process duration by nearly 50%• Dramatically slashed operational costs (60%) and reduced risks through extensive re-engineering of content delivery network• Markedly improved productivity and ease of use through enrichment of strategic collaboration and UC features leveraging $70M global infrastructure upgrade project• Attained and ensured continual business-technology alignment, through new and enhanced customer & peer-group relationships, and heightened service delivery for corporate communications, training, business marketing and technology departments, as well as corporate portals• Generated exceptional team performance, through mentoring and growth advancement of both groups and individuals, reducing team turnover rate to zero• Accomplished enhanced service model and drastically cut incident rates by 80%, by establishing new and creative user training programs• Oversaw implementation of new infrastructure service globally (120 servers, over 200,000 users)• Executed integration of 4 large, disparate critical service level infrastructures resulting from extensive M&A activities (90,000 users)

Master Of Science (Ms), Information Systems

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science