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Hopkinton, Ma, Us

Director and experience leader for Tax applications across Dell IT. Responsible for business engagement, NorthStar roadmap, strategy, delivery, and oversight of $20M+ Indirect Tax Compliance portfolio.

Hopkinton, Ma

• Responsible for driving sustainable integration of acquisitions and subsidiaries with Dell Digital IT's service offerings in order to impact top-line growth, drive down cost, and simplify customer/employee experiences.• Lead active collaboration with business partners as a strategic advisor across all corporate functions.• Accountable for business development and account management.• Provide the single IT point of contact for subsidiary CIOs and leadership.• Host the bi-annual Dell Technologies CIO Council.• Focus on leading, motivating, and developing a strong, multi-discipline team.• Saved Dell $5M in one-time costs and $18M+ ongoing to-date through integration and alignment efforts (accrued $53M).• Rationalizing software vendor contract across seven subsidiaries for additional multi-million $$ savings.• Driving solution delivery - multiple successful, parallel programs to increase business value, reduce costs, improve user experience, and implement foundational infrastructure and services change.

Hopkinton, Massachusetts, United States

Southborough, Massachusetts, United States

Southborough, Massachusetts, United States

Greater Boston Area

PMOST is responsible for administering 32.7 acres of land across five parcels within and adjacent to the Piccadilly Mill subdivision that have been permanently deeded as conservation land. The PMOST is legally required to maintain the land according to specific conservation, environmental and historic requirements. Former Chairman for 2 years.

Greater Boston Area

• Teamed with business partners to spearhead the creation of five-year strategic roadmaps and budgets instrumental in IT executive team planning.• Provided governance, architecture leadership, and lifecycle management for multiple products.• Managed technical and development teams (35 direct plus matrix teams) in three countries.• Increased department’s offshore footprint from 10% to 50% in less than six months, realizing $3+M yearly savings. Initiated team building efforts during transition to minimize productivity loss.• Led technical and development efforts for one of the largest programs ($50+M), a big data profitability tool driving key enterprise business decisions. Improved cycle time from four weeks to four hours.• Directed efforts to modernize and enhance efficiency while reducing TCO and risk through technology rationalization and process improvement; e.g. open source, system retirement, data center migration.• Delivered IT product leadership for an $8M program to migrate an aging home-grown Master Data Management (MDM) system, including 600 hierarchies, to Hyperion MDM. Managed politically-charged business relationship and technical team (28 members) across three countries.• Strategized and directed the replacement of an error-prone manual process with a custom workflow solution integrating Oracle SOA, BPEL, security components and a Java-based user portal.• Established a standardized modeling process for managing database structures. Instituted an enterprise repository and led the creation of data models utilizing SAP’s Sybase PowerDesigner.• Transitioned to Agile and Scrum to accelerate release-to-market and gain competitive edge.• Led architectural strategy for a custom developed big data Finance Hub; Netezza warehouse (16TB/yr.), creating the 1st standardized, complete client asset and flow data in the company.

Boston, Ma

• Managed numerous successful multi-phased projects with budgets upwards of $7M per year, primarily focused on full service implementations of Oracle PeopleSoft Financials, HRMS, Procurement, and Manufacturing applications.• Managed teams of over 40 consultants in a variety of operational disciplines, including off-shore developers in China and India, as well as providing guidance of up to 30 client team members and executive leaders.• Assisted with the leadership of the Oracle Advanced Technology Group. Responsible for enriching the careers of technical personnel, project staffing, and technical proof-of-concepts for new Oracle Fusion technologies.• Example project: Technical Manager for a $3.5B global client’s $12.1M European rollout project of Oracle PeopleSoft HRMS to 6,000 employees across 15 countries. Managed a 16+ person technical team. Coordinated the stabilization and expansion of the architecture with the application service provider (ASP), development of 70+ interfaces (including to a 3rd party SAP HR and Financial system and numerous outsourced payroll and benefits providers), and 80+ reports.

Boston, Ma

• Utilized business skills as a foundation for providing technically-oriented solutions to clients.• Managed both functional and technical teams in mid- to large-scale ERP system selections and implementations, primarily PeopleSoft Financials, Supply Chain, and HRMS.

• Provided consulting services to a variety of organizations, including system design, application development, data analysis, desktop publishing, and technical support.

Southwater, England; Fort Lee, Nj

• Initial accounting duties for this international digital media manufacturer led to responsibility for creation and administration of their first value-added PC and Mac computer network.• Negotiated with vendors for equipment and support contracts.• Assisted with product sales, negotiating with customers, and created the company’s first pricing matrix.

Ba, Economics

Mba, Business, Management, Marketing