Brad Boles Email & Phone Number

Plano, Texas

• Reporting to the CIO, and peered with a team IT Directors, set IT strategy and policy for the entire organization including the following corporate initiatives:
• Key contributor in developing mobile/BYOD strategy.
• Key contributor in establishing project management standards and training.
• Advocate for establishment of a centralized Project Management Office (PMO).
• Key contributor to developing integration and big data strategy.Responsible for an IT department of 40+ (5 direct) that built and maintained applications supporting the 2 million customers and $2B in revenue Retail.
• Champion, architect and program manager for infrastructure refresh program that included data center consolidations, migrating from single Oracle databases to RAC and Solaris/Windows to Linux, Integration of all center.

Richardson, Texas

• I had the amazing opportunity to build the IT function at Cirro Energy from the ground up, growing the business to almost $300 Million in revenue and working as a member of the senior executive team to successfully.
• Developing and constantly refining the IT strategy to address infrastructure, applications, security and people/project/process management at a rapidly growing company.
• Cultivated and maintained a strong network of vendors (onshore and off) and consultants to maintain flexibility in staffing while accessing key skills sets.
• Heavy use of capital lease and finance options to facilitate growth while minimizing the strain on operating funds.
• Privilege to hire and mentor a team of 20.
• Managed an application development program that accomplished:o Architecting and building key custom software platform to support data warehouse, energy forecasting, financial settlement, and ISO interface using Java.

Carrollton, Texas

• In addition to the CIO position I also held Software Product Manager and Software System engineer roles.Insurance Technologies Corporation is a software firm that developed point of sale, transaction processing and.
• Architected and managed transaction processing line of business.
• Partnered with Vice President of Marketing in building and managing relationships with all key accounts.
• Product Manager holding P&L responsibility for rapid expansion of software product into new markets.
• Delivery of new accounting BI platform.
• Relocation of our on premises data center and also migrating key applications to a collocation facility for disaster recovery.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science