Providing fractional program/project leadership and consultative services in the form of CIO, CISO, IT strategy/roadmap, vendor management, IT staffing assessment/reorganization, and program/project management with focus on cloud (Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure), ERP (SAP, NetSuite), CRM (SalesForce, NetSuite) and HRIS (PeopleFluent, Taleo).Highlights• Helped Donatos with their ERP and WMS implementation in their retail business, bakery and Walmart partnership.• Led Testing Organization for Cardinal Health to implement SAP Hanna.• Helped Carolina Center for Medical Excellence reorganize their IT staffing and led application transformation moving legacy applications to Microsoft Azure. This allowed company to scale its business and operations.• Led implementation of NetSuite (Project Management and Administration) to include ERP, CRM, Project Management and Customer Support for Sigmatek including SOX compliance.• Led RFI/RFP for local garment manufacturer/retailer AirWaves to determine ERP solution. Customer chose Microsoft Dynamics 365 and I moved into a Program Management role leading the financial and WMS implementation.• Brought on to local Microsoft Partner, formerly Socius, to build their Dynamics 365 practice and build team and processes to accommodate the shift from on-premise Dynamics solutions to the cloud based 365 solution. Also stood up Innovation Lab to bring product ideas to market such as IoT for greenhouses.

RWB is the leading manufacturer of racing and high-performance parts sold to automotive and powersports markets. RWB is the preferred choice for high-end pistons, engine blocks, cylinder heads, intake manifolds, connecting rods, crankshafts, clutches and other engine and driveline-related performance components. Owned by private equity Middle Ground, RWB has 20 brands, 23 global manufacturing and distribution sites.• Responsible for day-to-day technology operations for global organization to include shop floor, ERP, BI and cyber-security. Partnering with private equity to plan for acquisitions (five in the last nine months) and industry best practices and compliance requirements.Highlights• Reorganization of IT team to include new team structure with new Application and Data focus along with implementing Build versus Run for added enterprise project focus.• Developed cloud strategy then migrated North American enterprise systems to Expedient private cloud.• Shifted IT financial strategy to Opex to align with private equity ownership and five-year private equity exit.• Migrated manufacturing sites to edge cloud technology solution from HP and standardized on Cisco infrastructure.• Aligned with private equity, board, and ELT, on program/project strategy and multi-year roadmap to accomplish.• Led efforts to migrate ten legacy ERP systems across enterprise to five ERP systems globally.• Drove shopfloor upgrades and overall technical debt mitigation with focus on Expedient private cloud.• Consolidated twelve phone systems to a single cloud-based phone system.• Created cyber security team and mitigated third party audit risks, resulting in $40k cost savings in cyber insurance.• Implemented Johnson Controls systems to standardize building/office access controls and video surveillance.• Led integration of twenty brands including five recent acquisitions on to standard enterprise systems.

Laid off as part of company split out, reported to the CISO.Led Enterprise Security projects including response to the SolarWinds breach and company separation projects while working in the Office of the CISO.

Mentored and led staff to include those at the manager level and business analysts. Contributed to revising the intake and project approval process and various project methodology improvements, Responsible for enterprise projects such as HRIS, WMS, and TMS.

Oracle Corporation in an international company that sells database software and technology, cloud engineered systems and enterprise software products-particularly its own brands of database management and ERP systems including NetSuite. There are 136,000 employees and the company generate $40 billion in annual revenue.Consulting Project Senior Principal ConsultantDemonstrated expertise to deliver functional and technical solutions on moderately complex customer engagements. Effectively consults with management of customer organizations and participates in business development activities.Highlights• Led integration strategy to include SalesForce, Advanced Manufacturing, Avalara, Expensify, DocuSign, Box, etc.• Led numerous “high profile” customer projects simultaneously including several planning IPOs.• Routinely responsible and “graded on” technology project on-time delivery, scope and budget.

Position was eliminated following completion of acquisition. Velocitel assets have since been sold off and FDH was further restructured again as an independent company.Network services and Engineering company delivering a complete suite of professional services to acquire, design, engineer, implement, upgrade and maintain wireless infrastructure sites as well as civil, water, geotechnical and structural engineering. $500 million company with 1000+ employees across 20 domestic sites.Reporting directly to the CAO, tasked with IT operational responsibility for the domestic enterprise. Partnering with the business and stakeholders, created IT roadmap and set strategy to execute. The IT organization consists of Help Desk/IT, Project Management Office and Software Development with 25 FTE and additional consultants/contractors across 20 US sites.Highlights• Led creation of PMO and implemented Agile methodologies for IT project delivery. • Responsible for three off-site data centers and one on-site data center consisting of heavily virtualized environment utilizing VMWare, Cisco and EMC storage as well as SSAE-16 compliant.• Introduced DevOps and Agile, to support and consolidate forty-four legacy applications, moving to SaaS solutions. This “build vs buy” strategy would mitigate technical debt while driving operational efficiencies.• Leveraging cloud technologies such as Office 365, Skype for Business, Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to solve challenges of antiquated technologies and technical debt• Technical sponsor for consolidation of ERP across acquisitions, deploying a single ERP including SOX Compliance.• Worked with PE to first merge then later split the two organizations.

Position was eliminated as part of restructuring, following Chesapeake's acquisition by Multi Packaging Solutions. MPS has since been acquired by WestRock.Brought on board to lead restructuring efforts, focused on strategic vision, efficiency improvement, business process optimization, and systems standardization. Tasked with IT operational responsibility across 17 NA sites, with dotted line reporting structure to Global CIO in the UK and direct line reporting to NA CEO.• Assess and realign North American IT resources with ITIL/Service Delivery methodologies for support efficiency and implement training and mentoring programs.• IT organizational responsibility included Help Desk, desktop support, systems/network administration, project management and enterprise application support staff.• Consolidate IT assets and data centers resulting from inorganic M&A growth.• Manage transition from SAP to EFI Radius including SFDC/integration of plant machinery working closely with the Commercial Manager and VP of Sales.• Architect and implemented virtualization technologies to mitigate risk for aging equipment.• Architect and implemented Disaster Recovery/Business continuity solution.

Position was eliminated following acquisition and corporate HQ shift from Raleigh, NC to Waltham, MA. PeopleFluent has since been sold to Learning Technologies.Brought on board to lead restructuring efforts, focused on strategic vision, efficiency improvement, business process optimization, and systems standardization. Developed and executed IT project plans with ownership responsibility for the technology budget, initially reporting to the VP of Cloud Technology but later promoted, and then reported directly to the CFO.• IT organizational responsibility included Help Desk, desktop support, systems/network administration, project management, enterprise application support and security staff.• Led the selection and deployment of cloud/SaaS solution SalesForce.com to consolidate multiple Help Desk systems, replacing antiquated and unsupported platforms.• Oversaw the selection and deployment of cloud/SaaS solution NetSuite to consolidate and replace multiple ERP systems.• Planned and implemented consolidation efforts across multiple M&A instances.• Reorganized technical department into a team-focused, service delivery organization,• Collaborated with departmental stakeholders and executive team members to understand and resolve technical challenges supporting long term strategy and corporate mission.• Mitigated risk by addressing technical debt across enterprise information systems, implementing a hybrid cloud solution, a mixture of on-premise and off-premise private cloud.

Initially brought on board in newly created role to oversee the IT operational transition from the UK to the US. Focus then shifted to re-engineering the IT organization, SaaS infrastructure and corporate IT systems to strengthen quality of service, timely delivery and staff capabilities while reducing costs. • Managed global organization consisting of DevOps, Help Desk, and Corporate IT staff• Reorganized technical departments into a team-focused, service delivery organization, including a tiered staff model and “follow the sun” workflow leveraging Europe and Asia staff.• Reduced SaaS downtime via implementation of IT training programs, stringent change control, and reengineered virtual environments housed in 2 US-based and 1 Asia-based data center.• Drastically reduced time to “go live” through implementation of enterprise storage using compression and replication technologies, connecting Asia to the US based datacenters.• Resolved audit findings (discovered prior to my employment) as determined by Quintiles leading to the elevation of our organization as a “Silver” preferred partner.• Collaborated with department stakeholders and the executive team to develop the first-ever long term technical strategic plan in compliance with company BOD.• Identified IT organizational strengths and weaknesses and addressed by leveraging cloud/SaaS/AWS solutions, creation of new vendor/partner relationships, and staff augmentation.• Ensured Global policies, legislation, and procedures are adhered to, such as: SOP’s (Standard Operating Procedures) and CFR Part 11 and HIPAA compliance.• Define operational procedures, compliance, capacity, release and change management.• Effectively manage IT projects within budget, scope and timelines driving for maximum ROI.• Established SLA (Service Level Agreements) for corporate IT and SaaS offering.

Newly created position aimed at bringing “Best Practices”, IT image makeover, project management, and external exposure of technical abilities via speaking engagements, industry trade shows, local groups and networking. Position reported to business equivalent COO. Managed IT team to include Help Desk/Training, Desktop Support, Infrastructure, Litigation Support and Library/Information Services.• Collaborated with CEO (Managing Partner) to review technology proposals and with the Practice Group leaders to determine technology initiatives.• Oversaw all IT-related purchasing and budget usage; worked with the Firm’s leadership to develop the first IT capital and operational budgets.• Promoted the Firm through speaking engagements and social networking at industry conferences as well as involvement in local business organizations.• Exercised staff oversight to ensure new operational plans, policies, procedures, and transition/migration plans were consistent with the Firm’s overall goals and objectives.• Designed and implemented a disaster recovery/business continuity plan to move production equipment to local co-location including disaster recovery equipment co-location in the Midwest.

As the volunteer city representative, I organized monthly meetings bringing in various vendors throughout the legal vertical to present based on their areas of expertise.

ChannelAdvisor has since been acquired by CommerceHub• Managed Global IT staff at remote sites including Ireland, England, Germany, and Australia.• Managed the creation, maintenance, implementation and support of the global IT end users.• Managed the Financial Application systems and provided the Finance organization with technical guidance and support.• Led the global deployment of SaleForce as the foundational tool for all business operations.• Teamed with the HR Department to provide technical guidance and support of HRIS.• Managed the planning, design and implementation and support of high quality Microsoft back office environments that included IIS and Exchange.• Ensured the development and use of an effective preventive maintenance program suitable to meet the operational objective of "99.9% availability" and as well as other objectives.• Supported the company goals and objectives through new and enhanced technologies.• Evaluated and selected equipment, services and vendors.• Managed all financial requirements for the procurement, deployment and maintenance of the WINTEL systems.• Led project with development for product enhancements that would provide PCI complianceAccomplishments:• Identified and implemented a Travel & Expense system that allowed for better reporting and expense oversight through effective communication with the CFO, VP of Marketing and the VP of Sales.• Identified and implemented major revisions to the SalesForce instance including various workflows through collaboration with the CEO, CFO, VP of Marketing and the VP of Sales.• Effectively project managed the rollout of a new ticketing system that included the identification and implementation of an appliance solution for synchronization of data from the ticketing system to SalesForce.

Laid off following sale of DoD focused business unit and NetDirectSystems has been acquired by BlueAlly.IT Manager Formed the IT department and led all technical support services. Reported to CFO• Created first IT budget and utilized various partner programs to reduce costs.• Developed and deployed strategic IT solutions including hardware/software.• Planned and implemented Windows 2000 to Windows 2003 Active Directory/Exchange.• Planned and implemented server consolidation utilizing HP Blade server and HP SAN.Systems Architect, Consultant, Trainer and Pre-SalesTraveled extensively in support of product launch for the US Armed Forces. • Conducted meetings and presentations with US Army staff to include the ranks of Major, Lt. Colonel and other commanding officers.• Conducted interviews and assessed technical requirements and designed solutions. • Participated in various trade shows in support of product branding and marketing.• Collaborated with the Marketing and Sales staff in design of product literature.• Accompanied sales staff in “meet and greet” customer meetings to answer technical questions.

•On-site Contract position at GlaxoSmithKline•Managed Sales Force HelpDesk staff•Provided technical leadership•Provided Level III Technical Support for entire US Sales Staff (9000+)

•Primary goal was to provide technical support to highly specialized R&D department of nearly 400 employees including multiple labs and a datacenter•Responsible for all computer systems/processes within integral R&D department•Acted as techincal liaison between department's technical needs and Corporate IT

• Hand chosen to be the on-site System Administrator for First Citizens Bank • Provided technical support for various business groups and their various network, desktop, and server operating systems such as Unix Sco, Netware 3.12, Windows NT 3.51 and Windows NT 4.0 such as user/group maintenance, • Responsible for system design, installation, and maintenance of marketing network. This included upgrading the network operating system, acquisitioning new hardware, creating drive images and upgrading users' desktop operating systems. • Worked on the Help Desk providing first and second tier support. • Established and implemented users' right and permissions • Supported TCP/IP in both using static IP and DHCP for network protocols.