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National Board of Medical Examiners ($160 Million Medical Skills Assessment) – Interim CIO/CTO and SVP of IT - Led the operations and transformation of the IT organization comprised of approximately 132 full-time staff supporting both core IT functions and product engineering. Zebra Technologies ($3.6 Billion Hi-Tech Mobile Device and Printer Manufacturing) – Program Executive – Led business process transformation and IT merger integration. Led internal, external and field service and repair program globally.Prospect Capital ($1 Billion Financial / Auto Finance Firm) - Interim CIO – Led the transformation of the IT organization, which was still using 1980’s and 1990’s technology. Zoduna Corporation – Investor and Interim CEO/CTO – Worked to architect and launch data storage technology for mobile, IoT, desktop, and embedded environments. Micros Systems ($2.6 Billion Hi-Tech Systems for Hospitality) (Has since been acquired by Oracle) – Program Executive - Led turn-around and delivery of $180 million M&A integration program across 72 countries; and creation of global shared service center. Ascena Retail ($7.5 Billion Apparel Manufacturing and Retail) – Program Executive - Turned around failed M&A integration program run by large consulting firm. Delivered project in five months per agreement; saved $2 million on planned budget. Consolidated 300+ legal entities supporting 36,000 users in six countries. Dover Corporation ($7 Billion High-Tech Medical Device Manufacturing) – Program Executive - Turned-around M&A integration project. Met rapid nine-month deadline to disentangle acquired division. Supported operations in nine North America, Asia and Europe countries.

Crystal Lake, Il, Us

Zoduna Corporation offers an innovative data management solution offering developers a single solution that supports data architectures for SQL, key value pair, object, index DB, and web DOM. The solution is supported across embedded, IoT, mobile, desktop and server platforms with more than 100 million licenses in use in 58 countries. The platform offers integration with numerous IDEs, support for 15 programming languages, 14 operating platforms across consumer and business mobile, smart city, smart manufacturing, smart home, embedded automotive, and embedded medical device systems. The platform provides many industry firsts for mobility and IoT with many patents related to security, encryption, embedded self tuning AI, cloud data management, integrated block chain, and other areas of innovation that have never before been offered in any data management platform.

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) fintech and mortgage company providing a platform for real estate and mortgage brokers, providing brokerage and wholesale origination as well as servicing operations and shared service center operations in the U.S. and India. • Worked with investors and CEO to create residential lending rollup company;• Led build out and hosting of scalable cloud infrastructure supporting millions of transactions; • Developed new, web-based software to support the streamlined flow of residential real estate and mortgage transactions in an integrated franchise, independent operator, and in-house broker model;• Established a business off-shore center for data entry of real estate and mortgage applications;• Established base M&A business operations and IT infrastructure platform; • Merged acquired companies into the business platform; and• Led organizational change to integrate and transform acquired company operations.

Austin, Texas, Us

Tier 1 consulting operation, implementing Oracle business and advanced technologies. Contracted to revitalize services operations, which had declined over previous two years. Met recovery objectives in 18 months.• Led P&L and revitalized operations, growing from $80 million to $126 million annual revenue with over 720 staff across North America and 600 staff in international off-shore centers in Asian and South America.• Leveraged off-shore outsourcing teams in India, Peru, Mexico and Canada, reducing operational costs. • Outsourced client IT and managed infrastructure, business systems, maintenance and operations.• Led commercialization of 11 products originally developed through projects. • Led global application reengineering practice moving client legacy systems to modern technology.

Hoffman Estates, Il, Us

Company, providing mobile software for inventory management, asset management, asset maintenance, field service, and inspections (safety, environmental, quality) for retail, consumer products, food products, entertainment, manufacturing, energy, financial, healthcare, medical device, pharmaceutical, government compliance and high-tech industries markets. Contracted to revitalize Company. • Led P&L and company turnaround. Assessed all parts of the operation and completed the following: Reengineered corporate governance, product management, marketing and product engineering; Added new senior management to lead sales, professional services, product engineering, product management, human resource management, product quality and product support; Improved engineering quality, reduced product time-to-market by 12%, and increased customer satisfaction more than 40%;  Completed strategic planning process for entire company across finance, accounting, engineering, product quality, sales, services and support, establishing the first strategic plan for the company; Implemented employee career tracks, performance planning and career planning; Consummated key partnerships and changes internal and direct sales approach leading to over 80% year over year sales growth.• Through signed partner agreements, company grew 300% over 5 years.

Global, Us

Second largest publicly traded Indian IT services firm in 1998 with $850 million in revenue, providing software products, technical services and managed services. • Managed the P&L of three divisions:• Led turnaround of an education software products division (27 universities and 78 K-12 customers);• Led start-up of global ERP and CRM integration services division; • Led startup of outsourcing and managed services division.• Developed centers in India, Canada, Philippines, and U.S.• Reviewed and revamped IT operations teams, delivery teams and sales teams. Replaced staff, reorganized business units, provided training and mentoring to build competencies.• Led rapid business development from $4 to $136 million run rate in 17 months with nearly 1,000 staff.• Led turnaround of the education software group acquired from Unisys to grow 250+% in 18 months with a gross margin correction from -8% to 64% and winning key deals in both K-12 and Universities. • Booked $665 million in contract backlog for outsourced, hosted, managed services contracts.• In behalf of CEO, led the following Company initiatives:• Led the developed of staffing and investment models to rapidly deploy new competency centers;• Led the developed of job classifications, career roadmaps, incentives and MBO plans; • Led an internal IT strategy, enterprise architecture and selection of internal ERP systems;• Assisted chief executive officer to perform investor presentations and strengthen investor relations; • Led pre-M&A evaluation of eight targets and post-M&A integration/consolidation of six companies.• Managed IT operations for numerous clients, including the following:  General Motors - Managed $120 million global human resource operations. CB Richard Ellis - Managed $360 million global finance, sales, supply chain and CRM operations. The GAP - Managed $37 million annual IT operations for accounting, supply chain, and HR.

Financial Management and Business Advisory (FMBA) practice supporting 25 industries, provided business process improvement, business advisory, business strategy, M&A, divestiture and transformation services for clients ranging from $500 million to $75 billion in size. • Led Office of the CFO advisory services: Business process compliance and outsourcing strategy advisory services; Financial close best practices and chart of accounts design; Finance and accounting strategy, planning, policies and practices globalization; Organizational change, restructuring, governance, and communications; Transformation from controller to trusted business advisor advisory services;  Supply chain and demand management strategy and processes best practice implementations; Operational strategy, performance engineering, process engineering, governance and shared service center advisory and implementation services; Pre-M&A and Pre-divestiture / carve-out due diligence; and Post-M&A integration services.• Developed and led Office of the CIO advisory services: IT strategy & planning advisory services;  Master data architecture and documentation services; Process engineering and governance model advisory services; Enterprise architecture and solution architecture design services; Organizational change, restructuring, governance and communications; Request for proposal development, proposal evaluation, and vendor selection; Enterprise security assessment and design, privacy audits, and business recovery;  Pre-M&A and Pre-divestiture / carve-out due diligence; Post-M&A integration services; and  IT outsourcing and in-sourcing advisory services.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Consulting operations management, software engineering, advisory services, integration services and outsourcing services. Led services supporting primarily consumer products, food, and apparel manufacturing, distribution, logistics and retail. Also, led services for telecommunications, high-tech, education, government, insurance and financial markets.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

• Led the product sales, sales engineering, installation, and implementation services for retail, wholesale, consumer products, transportation and logistics; • Led a tri-state business unit turn-around and rapid growth of a product and services business to $21 million, a 79% growth over the previous year, during year of deteriorating sales and market share for IBM; • Recognized by IBM CEO for outstanding work turning around business unit despite organization opposition;• Received local awards for excellence, customer services and as #1 contributor in the region;• Receiving awards for exceeding sales and service objectives. Was in top 3% in the Mid-Atlantic Region;• Led new account sales and large account partner management for the niche; and• Managing help desk / customer care in support of client infrastructure operations 7 / 24 in a tri-state area.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Led $30 million expense accounting and $1 billion cash management processing operation for three years. Managed the Chemical Bank relationship and contract for banking services. Also, led the development of expense accounting systems and the transition of these systems from a legacy architecture to a new application platform for a $2 billion procurement operation.

Washington, Dc, Us

Processed over $250 million in loan consolidations and repayments. Managed political risk and financial risk research for the loan and insurance committees and facilitated risk discussion for loan reviews. Led banking systems review and requirements gathering.

Masters, Business

Systems Engineering, Computer And Information Sciences, General

Bs, Accounting / Economics

Aa, General

Education record