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Denver, Co, Us

Colorado-Wyoming

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Brian is a Managing Director in KPMG’s Procurement & Outsourcing Advisory practice with over 23 years of business experience, delivering complex transformative projects that span the shared services and outsourcing lifecycle. His insights are drawn from experience as a Service Provider, buyer of outsourced services, global IT delivery leader and Outsourcing consultant which he leverages to bring innovation and thought leadership to his clients.Brian has experience across multiple industries -- Technology; Oil & Gas; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing; Financial Services; Life Sciences. He has an exceptional ability to communicate complex esoteric technical and business concepts throughout the organization. Brian utilizes an extensive technical and business background as well as creative thinking to transform technical components into optimized business solutions to meet your business objectives.

Greater Denver Area

Brian is a Director at KPMG’s Advisory practice with in-depth knowledge in Strategy and Operations as well as Shared Services and Outsourcing. He is a ‘Puzzle Resolver’ with the ability to take vision to reality. His extensive technical and professional experiences combined with strong education credentials make him uniquely qualified to be an exceptional member of your team. Brian has experience across multiple industries -- Technology; Oil & Gas; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing; Financial Services. He has over eighteen years of IT experience utilizing extensive technical and business background as well as creative thinking to transform technical components into optimized business solutions. He has an exceptional ability to communicate complex esoteric technical and business concepts throughout the organization. Diverse leadership and fearless change agent experience across multiple industries with depth and breadth in supplier, vendor, relationship, and service management.

Denver, Co

Brian has experience across multiple industries -- Technology; Oil & Gas; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing. He has sixteen years of IT experience utilizing an extensive technical and business background to transform technical components into optimized business solutions. He has an exceptional ability to communicate complex esoteric technical and business concepts throughout the organization. Diverse leadership and fearless change agent experience across multiple industries with depth and breadth in supplier, vendor, relationship, and service management.• Advise KPMG clients through the global shared services and business process outsourcing (BPO) planning, deployment and management lifecycle • Establish and standardize internal advisory tools and delivery frameworks • Guide clients on alternative shared services delivery models including captive centers, joint ventures, spin-offs ,and hybrid sourcing relationships

Waterloo, Wi

Responsible for leading Trek’s Global Infrastructure team comprised of 28 professionals distributed across 25 locations in North America and countries throughout South America, Europe and Asia. Specific areas of leadership include service, capability, process and project management as well as local and wide area networks, data center operations, servers and desktops, voice and video communications, help desk, data storage and data backup.• Analyze technology trends and develop infrastructure strategy, architecture, and delivery processes designed for agility and cost effectiveness. Current focus is on cloud and mobile migration strategies.• Establish metrics, key performance indicators, and service level agreements to continually improve the performance of IT operations.• Interface with business and IT management to define solutions for improving service efficiency and effectiveness utilizing Net Promoter Customer Satisfaction surveys for feedback.• Ensure project deliverables, budgets, and timelines are met. Integrate project prioritization into Trek’s Agile methodology for Application development.• Manage human resource activities including personnel planning, hiring, performance management, training, and career development.• Maintain desktop and end user support for 1000+ users.• Develop and manage external vendor partnerships.

Golden, Co

Serve as Business Information Solutions (BIS) Transformation leader integrating industry standard best practices of IT-CMF and ITIL into function. Focus on documentation, waste elimination, and improved performance of BIS delivery to the business. Manage and lead two Service Delivery Managers, providing direction to partner management and ~220 technology professionals distributed globally. - Lead contract analysis, business case development, negotiation, and budget oversight of ~$35 million.- Drive implementation of offshore development center focused on repeatable processes to achieve factory level efficiency, effectiveness, and quality using a model based upon RICEF objects.- In the process of increasing customer satisfaction by 5% through the integration of Application Management and IT Operations processes.- Guided entire BIS transformation team in selection of industry best practice framework ITIL v3 (process workstream) and provided significant input into the selection of the industry best practice framework IT-CMF (capability). - Leveraged the sourcing workstream as a development opportunity for direct reports to provide training in the areas of contract negotiation, process improvement, and service management.- Designated as one of two presenters helping the organization understand BIS transformation, IT-CMF, and how they tie together to the Process workstream for ITIL.

Key leader in contract level negotiations for selection of a new strategic IT Operations (ITO) service partner with contract spend of over $150 million. Lead development and implementation of service transition program from two service partners to a single integrated ITO service partner responsible for on time and within budget delivery while serving as the point of escalation for risks and issues. Lead strategic initiatives, ITIL process development, service stabilization, cultural change and communication throughout organization. Develop and enhance IT partner relationships through straight talk and continuous process improvement.

Managed and led service delivery operations to MillerCoors by two IT service partners. Provided business direction to partner management and approximately 193 technology professionals. Led contract analysis, business case development, negotiation and budget oversight of $31 million. Led contract level programs and projects as well as developed and led multi-partner cross service governance model.

Provided leadership to and remote management of 23 network support specialists, 4 billing/reporting/audit professionals and 2 contractors distributed across 5 states. Led and managed integration of sixty-one employees into the IBM culture and operational model. Utilized business and technical acumen to increase effectiveness of operations. Led team preparation for audit readiness and developed cost management policies. Teamed with peer to allocate $3.3 million annual capital budget.IBM, AMERICAS COMPETENCY SERVICE LEAD-INTEGRATED INFRASTRUCTURE & UTILITY SERVICES

Led, developed and implemented policies, strategies and tactics for the Infrastructure Service line (1,100 employees) across Americas. Analyzed and audited service line costs of approximately $100 million. Engineered and streamlined network fiber cost recovery for United States operations. Led development of service component definitions and proposed service costing methodologies.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), General Management

Bachelor Of Science In Business Administration, Computer Information Systems