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St. Louis, MO, US

Rolla, MO, US

Recruited to support university growth as S&T transitions into an R1 research university by meeting the mission of educating our students, expanding research, and making a difference in our communities.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Offering interim CIO / CTO leadership, organization consulting, and vision, strategy and transformation services across industries including retail, manufacturing, hospitality, restaurant, and construction.Referred by.
• MODERNIZATION: Successfully migrated workload to cloud infrastructure (e.g., IaaS, PaaS) by establishing strategy and governance, including Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• ORGANIZATION: Realigned organization to eliminate redundancies and eliminate gaps.
• ORGANIZATION: Recommended organizational change across a complex multi-unit organization, identifying centralized functions, those that should remain decentralized, and the standardized processes needed to provide for.
• STRATEGIC PLANNING: Facilitated creation of IT vision and strategy for technology corporation in collaboration with CEO and Executive Leadership Team.
• STRATEGIC PLANNING: Provided product development and implementation guidance for new technology startup.

Dalton, GA, US

• Recruited to assist in the modernization effort of complex multiplatform systems. Lead enterprise systems, including infrastructure strategy, transformation, and service management for mainframe, distributed, cloud.
• ORGANIZATION: Successfully restructured organization to consolidate infrastructure engineering and operations.
• CLOUD MIGRATION: Successfully migrated workloads to cloud infrastructure (e.g., IaaS, PaaS), including virtual machines and Kubernetes environments.
• CLOUD GOVERNANCE: Implemented digital cloud policy and governance strategy to mitigate sprawl and manage cost.
• INSTRUMENTATION: Developed roadmap to drive observability and instrumentation maturation.
• RISK: Reduced enterprise risk profile by improving risk management process for systems infrastructure.

Richmond, Virginia, US

Visual Workforce is a unique enterprise skills management system designed to help organizations visualize their current skills inventory and compare them to current and future requirements. Employees can demonstrate skills growth and progression over time, while aligning career development with organizational needs. Organizations can utilize data-driven.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Recruited by previous leader to help company address resiliency issues and investment prioritization challenges. 180+ reports and direct budget responsibility for $30M.
• ORGANIZATION CREATION: Created Enterprise Operations organization to improve resiliency, reduce cost, and drive business value.
• SERVICE LEVERAGE: Expanded services 42% YOY and reduced resolution time 33% while reducing overall spend 8% to allow investment redirection.
• SERVICE IMPROVEMENT: Led Enterprise Data Center refresh to improve resiliency and service delivery time 45%.
• TALENT DEVELOPMENT: Established leadership, management, and technical development roadmap for each position, role, and skill.
• RESILIENCY ENHANCEMENTS: Led replacement of data center electrical grid automation controls without incident.

Charlotte, NC, US

• Recruited to address leadership and service failures compounded by enterprise budget challenges, poor delivery, and unfulfilled customer expectations. Led Enterprise Technology, including strategy, transformation.
• STRATEGY CREATION: Improved service delivery and technology innovation by collaborating with customers to develop and implement an IT strategic plan.
• STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT: Expanded the geographic service area for Public Safety Communications to include additional Public Safety agencies in the Greater Charlotte Area;
• PORTFOLIO IMPROVEMENT: Established portfolio prioritization process to leverage limited resources and accelerate delivery by approximately 30%.
• CUSTOMER SERVICE: Created customer service culture by applying organizational change management and transformation activities that met defined strategy.
• LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT: Formally created leadership development materials and trained leaders in preparation for organization transition.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Offering interim CIO / CTO leadership, organization consulting, and vision, strategy and transformation services.Referred by other leaders to provide assistance to companies in growth or turn-around situations.
• STRATEGIC PLANNING: Led creation of IT vision and strategy for insurance firm in collaboration with CEO and Executive Leadership Team including COO, CMO, CFO, CHRO, GC, and CIO.
• RISK REDUCTION: Reduced corporate integration risk by reviewing and recommending changes to CIO IT integration plans for manufacturer’s latest acquisition.
• RESILIENCY ENHANCEMENT: Improved resiliency and reduced cost by designing data center strategy to support future growth for major retailer, and led data center consolidation program.

Mooresville, NC, US

• Recruited to assist with organizational changes for company facing market challenges and significant technical debt requiring investment redirection. Led vision, strategy, transformation and delivery for engineering.
• STRATEGIC PLANNING: Led creation of IT vision and strategy for transformation of organization.
• ORGANIZATION TRANSFORMATION: Led organizational change management initiative to create the organization, recruit leaders, and develop talent pool; served as transformation leader for company organizational change effort.
• SERVICE LEVERAGE: Expanded individual services delivery 175%-1200% while reducing costs 8%.
• Improved service delivery quality 63%.
• MASS SAVINGS: Saved $19M annual savings by negotiating cost savings of 42% for new technical infrastructure and additional 20% average savings from previously negotiated hardware maintenance, software licenses, and.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Promoted by VP to redress IBM and customer issues discovered by customers threatening to terminate relationships with IBM. Executive turnaround responsibility for troubled customers, including CIO / CTO relationships.
• STAKEHOLDER LEADERSHIP: Led complex cross-functional efforts, across organizational silos, including executive vision and strategy design through delivery, achieving real client results.
• TURNAROUND EXPERTISE: Rescued troubled relationship with major retailer, building strong business partnerships with CIO and other C-level executives that proactively identified business objectives and priorities, reset.
• TURNAROUND EXPERTISE: Recovered troubled $35M annual relationship with major retailor, solidified CIO and other C-level executive relationships, reset customer expectations, restructured customer and vendor teams.
• TURNAROUND EXPERTISE: Recovered troubled $120M annual relationship with major retailer, identified base issue, addressed vendor and customer failures, reset expectations, and delivered portfolio on time and within.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd; Doctoral Candidate, Business Administration - Information Systems

Master In Business Administration, Business

International Business Studies

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science