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Information Technology, Infrastructure, Platform, Information Security, Data & Analytics, Data Science, Applications, and Technical Program Management

Led HR, Finance, Procurement, BizTalk, RPA and OCR technologies. Direct report to CIO and business partner to the CHRO and CFO. Developed strategies and multi-year roadmaps for IT solution development, delivery, and support. Built the business case to move away from a legacy on-premise HRIS to new, modern cloud technology. Talent lead for IT, sponsor of the IT mentorship program and steering committee member for diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI) efforts.

Led the delivery, support, security and governance of lodging, reservations, golf/clubs, transportation, and group sales technologies. Transformed and modernized the technology landscape for lodging, owners, and group sales, building the business case, ROI, and executing on the delivery of new core systems in all areas. Led the full lodging/hospitality integration (people, process, technology) of Whistler Blackcomb into the Vail Resorts portfolio. Direct report to the CIO, talent lead for IT, and steering committee member of Vail Resorts POWDER (Providing Opportunity for Women through Diversity Equality and Respect).

Direct report to the CIO, leading a team of over 80 employees and serving as the focal point for architecture, design, development and delivery of new technology solutions.- Defined IT vision and strategy and made key decisions on IT investments- Designed and led an IT transformation from a single IT organization to an IT Solutions Delivery organization and an IT Shared Services organization.- Process leader responsible for the processes from requirements to deploy (requirements, design, development, testing, release and defect management), master data management and business process management governance.- Introduced ITIL practices into the IT organization- Accountable for IT employee engagement and leadership development - Responsible for Application Architecture for purchased and custom technology including digital development

Designed business processes and technology solutions. Rotated leadership within multiple global teams covering both solution delivery and support for SAP.2013 Product Line Management, Research & Development, Source to Pay2012 Marketing, Research & Development, Source to Pay2011 Marketing, Research & Development

Leader of web development, SAP ABAP, Business Warehouse, Sharepoint, Biztalk and data management/EDW (SQL Server, Oracle) teams. Developed sourcing strategies and partnered with vendors to ensure we could flex both project and support/helpdesk resources based on demand.

Drove continuous process improvement within the Application Development SDLC and the enterprise PMO. Responsible for vendor management of our offshore development partner support/helpdesk. Program leader and designer responsible for implementing a system inventory that allowed us fully understand the makeup, costs and complexity of our technology portfolio.

Web application designer and developer for strategic e-commerce initiatives. Designed and developed the dowcorning.com and xiameter.com product finder, search, and internationalization capabilities (now part of dow.com). Expert in skills/technologies such as .NET(C#), Oracle, SQL Server, JavaScript, HTML and Sharepoint.