Brian Link Email & Phone Number

Nashville, Tn, Us

Managing and integrating activities across Information Technologies including infrastructure design and administration, application analysis and design, information management, architecture, computing security, computing project support and/or process analysis.Leading multiple teams in a portfolio delivery capacity covering a combination of strategy, business process-related, employee experience, and technology enhancements and initiatives.Developing and executing integrated organizational plans, policies and procedures and guides the development of business and technical strategies, goals, objectives.Sourcing resources for organizational activities, provides technical management of suppliers and leads process improvements.Developing and maintaining relationships and partnerships with customers, stakeholders, peers, partners, and direct reports.Provide oversight and approval of technical approaches, products, and processes

Responsible in managing platform ecosystem and integrations for internal and external offerings.Lead agile offering managers who deliver external IT solutions/offerings in support of the Corporate functions.Develop technology strategies and roadmaps in support of global and regional programs.Create and develop automation for offering and compliance management activities.Identify and evaluate emerging trends, new solutions and best practices to improve our learner experience and content development capabilities.Manage complex, matrix projects including content, data, UX/UI design, change management, and reporting for multiple global stakeholders.GPO business unit focal

Managing operational financial and reporting teams with a total of 100+ global resources with a $120m budget. Driving collaboration across business functions to meet financial and shared service efficiencies.Key Interfaces with Corporate Finance, CIO and Lines of Business Leaders/Teams related to financial, capital and IT planning.Delivery a reporting suite to meet internal and corporate requirements, and drives new measurements of success and increase employee engagementLead the execution of new process requirements in driving transformation and roadmap goals.Manage procurement processes and vendor relationshipsLeading teams in creating and deploying financial and reporting dashboards to support Business Unit key metrics, KPIs and NPS goals.

Managing Product owners who drive business requirements/enhancement for global complex programs/projects and reporting functions. Driving teams with using Agile methodologiesManaging and supporting Reporting tools (Brio, Cognos, Tableau) for better analytics and cognitive results/dataManaging multiple external tool sets from Saba, Kenexa SAP, etc. which are scaled to support 400k user populationManaging multiple internal WebSphere application servers on AIX environment to support 400k user populationDrive business requirements/enhancements for global enterprise applications and reporting functions. Manage business executives and geo leaders relationships in support of multiple tooling functions.Identify, implement and consult on effectiveness and efficiencies to meet budget constraints.Continually building solid partnerships with the Geo Business Unit and Executive Leadership.Serve as the single point of contact between the CIO teams and external vendorsManage SOW, SLAs to completion and report status back to stakeholders

Responsible for all gross and net spending budgets for organization.Responsible in providing monthly/quarterly forecasts, and business case updates. Managing and negotiating all external contracts, Document of Understandings (DOUs), and Service Line Agreement (SLAs) for assigned portfolios.Responsible for providing/coordinating all Fall Plan development, Information Technology (IT) spending, IT development, Workforce Management

Responsible for all Contract/Procurement Activities, Vendor Relations, Utilization Reporting, Capital Requests, and Telephony Requirements.Managed/Coordinated existing and new Documents of Understanding (DOUs) with other Geo Centers for global contract support.Fall Plan Coordinator for coordinating existing and future capital requirementsBusiness Controls coordinator for employee/contract assets and IT Security.

Planned and executed an effective client relationship and customer satisfaction for strategic delivery activities in new and existing client offerings. Responsible for developing effective/complex project plans integrated with other IBM organizations, and Business PartnersEnsured new offerings are communicated, created and implemented in meeting customer marketing deadlines.Responsible for continuous and effective services that are provided based on the contract terms and conditions.