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Evaluated product maturity and business process opportunities associated with emerging solutions. Identified operational process improvements to drive product quality. Encouraged greater collaboration across sales and product development to ensure alignment and enable seamless customer delivery.

Managed $55M annual operating budget, 100+ FTE’s, and 250+ contractors. Delivered application development and support for 125+ applications to internal business partners and corporate functions. Provided enterprise quality assurance for 800+ applications. Established vendor management governance to ensure quality services and improved strategic vendor partnerships and collaboration. Pursued simplification to achieve cost reduction while expanding business capabilities.*Delivered $70M multi-year finance program replacing on premise applications with integrated cloud-based solutions (Oracle Financials integrated to Workday, CA PPM, Salesforce) to enable redesigned business processes.*Redesigned chart of accounts, improved finance data quality, and enabled straight through processing.*Established finance shared data model and data repository to enable data lineage and improve reporting and analytics.*Consolidated distributed quality assurance teams to drive consistency and discipline in execution while optimizing resource utilization by 20% through alignment of quality assurance teams by technology.*Rationalized QA vendors by 70%, reduced costs by 15% via rate discounts, and strengthened strategic partnerships.*Established enterprise Test Data Management practice creating efficiencies, reducing risk, and enabling test automation while shifting to test driven development practices in partnership with development teams.

Led enterprise project portfolio planning. Established enterprise project delivery practices as well as program / project governance. Drove efficiencies and achieved improvements in delivery quality while reducing costs. Supported Chief Information Officer (CIO) in enterprise IT strategy definition and execution, IT communications, and executive reporting.*Delivered project portfolio management and program / project execution support for $100M+ portfolio.*Established and matured project portfolio management to enable objective prioritization of strategic investments and sustained support for long term business capability improvements.*Monitored enterprise IT strategy progress and communicated results to execution leaders and Board of Directors.*Improved IT operations through infrastructure insourcing, application rationalization, and continuous improvement.

Led finance strategic initiatives portfolio. Managed vendor relationships and communicated updates to executive management. Drove project execution discipline while ensuring strategic alignment of initiatives with overall business goals.

Provided consulting advisory services to clients. Helped design and build effective program / project delivery teams. Advised on the design and implementation of information technology governance and risk management structures.

Defined enterprise risk strategy and operating model to support ING US information technology (IT) operations. Served as executive sponsor and leader for a multi-year, multi-million dollar strategic program designed to reduce IT risk.*Sponsored and led $50M strategic program to enable successful achievement of user access, platform security, security monitoring, and continuity risk mitigation objectives.*Recommended and implemented changes to existing enterprise risk management shared service functional increasing operational efficiency, improving overall effectiveness, and reducing risk.

Established the Solutions Delivery Enterprise Shared Service supporting ING US information technology. Responsible for ING US Project Management Office and Six Sigma team. Delivered systems development life cycle (SDLC) standards and governance to distributed virtual teams. Managed a $5M operating budget and $40M strategic project portfolio.*Leveraged quality improvement methodologies (Six Sigma) to achieve $3M+ in annual expense savings.*Deployed Solutions Delivery vision, mission, and strategy to 1,700 US employees, a model for country deployments.*Implemented program / project tollgate governance process improving on time, on budget delivery while reducing risk.*Delivered and governed development practices to geographically dispersed and organizationally independent teams.*Established role-based communities of excellence to share practices and evolve skills within and across roles creating greater cross team collaboration, improving delivery quality, and reducing rework.

Defined strategic plans, managed application availability and performance, delivered enhancements, and ensured compliance with policies and standards for finance and HR functions. Delivered cost effective solutions to solve complex business problems, Improved operational efficiency. Obtained funding to support multi million dollar strategic initiatives.*Managed $3M operating budget and contributed to planning and management of $11M Corporate IT operating budget.*Implemented onshore / offshore staff augmentation model and evolved to a managed service model providing just-in-time support for unplanned demand and reducing operating costs by 10%.*Spearheaded large program teams of internal and external, onshore and offshore, functional and technical resources.

Responsible for Upgrade Lab Assistant product vision and strategy. Directed development and cross-functional teams in defining, delivering, and launching new application features. Conducted technical feasibility studies to verify viability of proposed solutions.*Partnered with PeopleSoft development, sales, and consulting areas as well as key strategic customers to identify new solutions.*Developed sales/marketing content to promote new service offerings (product demos, white papers, conference presentations).

Directed 15 upgrade consultants responsible for $4M+ in annual upgrades. Improved execution efficiency and reliability. Determined upgrade lab service pricing to achieve target profitability. Drove sales and marketing plans to strategically accelerate revenue growth and maximize profits. Created and reviewed content for PeopleSoft’s upgrade methodology.*Collaborated with regional upgrade lab managers to define and deliver consistent, cost effective, high quality upgrade services.*Streamlined internal upgrade practices and provided oversight to ensure efficient execution of standard practices.