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Richmond, Virginia, United States

As Chief Operating Officer, assist in execution of CSC Leasing's strategic vision, optimizing operational efficiency, driving digital transformation, and fostering a culture of innovation for sustained growth and market leadership. With a proven track record of driving profitability and navigating change, I'm passionate about building high-performing teams, leveraging technology, and exceeding stakeholder expectations.Key Responsibilities:• Strategic Execution: Translate the company's vision and goals into actionable plans, ensuring seamless implementation across all departments.• Operational Excellence: Champion a culture of continuous improvement, streamlining processes, optimizing resource allocation, and maximizing productivity for enhanced profitability.• Digital Transformation: Lead the company's digital journey, identifying and integrating cutting-edge technologies to streamline operations, enhance customer experience, and unlock new revenue streams.• Innovation Engine: Cultivate a culture of innovation across all levels, fostering creativity, ideation, and agile experimentation to drive competitive advantage.• Team Leadership: Build and empower high-performing teams, fostering collaboration, transparency, and accountability to achieve organizational goals.• Technology Governance: Implement robust technology governance frameworks, ensuring data security, compliance, and alignment with business objectives.• Stakeholder Engagement: Communicate effectively executives, and employees, ensuring alignment and buy-in to strategic initiatives

Richmond, Virginia, United States

Member of the executive team driving company productivity, profitability, and digital innovation to support strategic goals. Improve corporate operations for sustained growth and profitability.Responsibilities:- Maximize productivity, profitability, and growth through Innovation.- Develop insights to expand focus in profitable areas.- Manage Operational Excellence across departments.- Develop governance policies for technology and corporate information.- Lead business transformation initiatives aligned with the company's vision.- Oversee all technology management and drive digital transformation.- Enhance cross-department collaboration and cultivate a digital-first culture.- Maintain business strategy alignment with innovation.- Educate staff, leadership, and the board on the value of digital technology.As Chief Innovation Officer, I serve as catalyst for driving innovation, agility and operational efficiency at CSC Leasing, leading to sustained growth and competitive advantage.

Richmond, Virginia Area

As a trusted C-suite advisor and consultant, I provide strategy and roadmaps for technology and cloud adoption, sales and market placement to meet the business challenges of startups and Fortune 500s alike. CLIENT ENGAGEMENT HIGHLIGHTS:☑ Engaged to build a multi-year enterprise-wide technology strategy for a F500. Cloud Strategy, Governance, Automation, and Mobility ☑ Retained by CEO to perform evaluation and develop a road map to ensure IT alignment with growth goals of a 300-employee financial services organization. Transformation, Cloud Services, Process automation, Governance☑ Develop IT Strategy and execution for mid-sized company to align with company growth BI, automation, data analytics, governance.

Richmond, Virginia Area

I developed the market vision and strategy shift across Sales and Engineering for Presidio's mid-atlantic Cloud practice providing sales, and pre-sales delivery.

Richmond, Virginia Area

I founded this elite consulting practice from the ground up to fill a market void – providing IT organizations with innovation strategies grounded in data, and plans that embraced current and new technologies to solve unique business challenges and drive success. As our Chief Evangelist and CEO of a 28-member sales, management and engineering team operating in a rapidly-evolving technology landscape, I grew our channel partner relationships to include comprehensive solutions from cloud to data storage, automation to identity management. We grew our revenues >20% year-over-year and built a client base that included Fortune 500s and organizations representing diverse industry verticals (i.e., Federal government, financial services, retail, healthcare). ACHIEVEMENT HIGHLIGHTS:☑ Pioneered groundbreaking CMMI-based Maturity Modeling tool to measure pre- and post-engagement IT agility. Tool results informed the development of short-, mid- and long-term IT transformation roadmaps.☑ Maintained Platinum Partner and Authorized Learning Center status YOY. ☑ Earned distinction for providing world-class training facilitated by engineers.

When healthcare HIPAA compliance became a mandate, I partnered with several colleagues to co-found Trusted Healthcare Information Solution Alliance (THISA) – an organization whose underlying goal was to enable nationwide sales, engineering, marketing and back office best practice and resource sharing. I led it’s rebrand a few years later from THISA to Avitas, to reflect our wide-ranging technology and service delivery capabilities applicable across many industries.

Hired to develop and direct market strategy, recruiting, sales and engineering development for VSI Technology Solutions, the IT consultancy practice was 1 of top Citrix Platinum providers purchased by FutureLink – based on our strong regional presence across MD, VA and NC. I attribute much of my success at Futerlink to my experience building a Citrix sales and engineering practice from the ground up at Triology – where we captured diverse industry clients – and my years at QS1 where I was regarded as a propriety software platform SME relied on for training and support.