CIO consulting services, interim or fractional, on-site or virtual.• Interim and Fractional CIO • Acquisitions and Divestitures - Currently lead IT Advisor for Lone Star Funds on $3b acquisition• IT Health Assessments and Roadmaps• Transformative Program and Project Management• Customer Portals and Business Development Platforms• Cybersecurity and security architecture• Manufacturing Processes and Systems

Directed IT transformation during divestitures, acquisitions, and consolidations, aligning with private equity ownership. Oversaw all facets of IT, including planning, budgeting, system and infrastructure roadmaps, project management, partnerships, vendor relations, and security.• Successfully divested IT systems and infrastructure from Sparton, saving half of the divestiture budget while enhancing services within the ambitious timeline.• Collaborated with private equity board members on divestitures, consolidations, acquisitions, and integrations.• Streamlined IT in 2023 to reduce corporate overhead in preparation for private equity sale.• On-boarded 2 acquired businesses’ IT systems, infrastructure, and personnel.• IT team development and mentoring to build a productive, dependable, and effective team engaged with business across 10 locations.• Championed the enterprise-wide vision for the business systems, securing executive and board consensus on objectives and options. Evaluated risks, opportunities, and return on investment across 8 legacy ERP systems. Led business transformations across CRM, ERP, PLM, and MES systems.• Established Business Intelligence analytics for daily business decisions across legacy ERP systems.• Implemented a PMO (Program Management Office) with PPM (Project Portfolio Management) and CMO (change management) to manage, prioritize, and execute 60 annual projects across 12 programs. • Contract negotiations with over 100 IT vendors and service providers. Excellent negotiation skills for win-win outcomes.• Consolidated the Cybersecurity Team and infrastructure from three companies, upgrading security, and ensuring compliance with DoD (NIST, DFARS, ITAR, CMMC) and ISO 27001 security standards. • Overhauled legacy IT infrastructure over two years, encompassing networks, backups, business continuity, security, cloud services, and server hardware.

Promoted to director of IT for a business unit of Emerson. Led all aspects of IT for the Americas in collaboration with both UK headquarters and corporate IT shared services. Facilitated divestiture from Emerson to Nidec.• Strategized with executive peers on execution of business goals and objectives.• Oversaw onboarding of two acquired companies, ensuring IT compliance with SOX, infrastructure integration, and consolidation of 6 ERP business systems and 3 datacenters.• As Program Manager, aligned for over 30 active projects and led evaluations, re-engineering, development, and migrations for improved business performance. • Directed Global CRM initiatives in collaboration with sales and marketing, innovating processes for lead generation, growth programs, forecasting, and performance metrics.• Developed an E-commerce website, boosting customer satisfaction and reducing customer service workload by 25%.• Managed multi-facility IT resources and budgets, collaborating with UK and US Corporate IT resources.• Trained sales and customer service personnel and rolled out CRM across eight European country headquarters.

Promoted from Rosemount to the Emerson Corp to establish a new enterprise-wide business systems platform. Responsibilities included enterprise architecture, systems integration, and project leadership. • Created Emerson’s Integration Center of Excellence and B2B (business to business) hub. My global yet efficient team built and supported over 200 interfaces in the first 2 years.• Managed acquisition and oversight of 3rd party IT solutions for configuration, release management and application integration. Negotiated 70% discounts on 5 corporate software deals saving over $2,000,000.• Led the DR and BCM team for Enterprise Oracle ERP systems.

Managed the Oracle ERP development team, support team and projects.• Spearheaded business system projects and governance processes, generating yearly paybacks averaging $700,000.• Led the re-implementation of Oracle eBusiness with a team of business analysts, developers, and database administrators.