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San Francisco, California, Us

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Oversee multimillion dollar programs for numerous business lines ensuring scope, budgets and timing of endeavors are aligned to strategic requirements of enterprise initiatives. Provide management for implementations, upgrades, revisions and maintenance of infrastructure, in house developed and off the shelf applications that service global small and medium businesses.Direct program for facilitating security of systems and data on three tier application systems to ensure customer facing enterprise resources are protected against risk exposure.Manage million dollar program for implementation of Oracle GoldenGate replication product on redundant infrastructure environments to enable 24/7/365 business tier 4 application availability. Coordinate application development life cycles to ensure implementation, functional testing and validation are conducted across multiple infrastructure environments from Development to Live. Direct program for remediation of application vulnerabilities of over 2000 global servers.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Senior Program Manager (Office of the CIO – Contract through SystemTec)Provided management of internal and external resources for enterprise portfolio of programs covering software and infrastructure projects as core member of Enterprise Program Management Office. Managed successful on time and in budget deliverables for portfolio of 5 programs covering 29 initiatives overseeing 25 project managers as member of EPMO team that accomplished 120 projects in preparation for City’s successful hosting of the 2012 Democratic National Convention.Partnered with personnel across multiple business units to effectively collapse duration of a 2.6 year infrastructure upgrade project to successful accomplishment in 12 weeks.Managed $10 million infrastructure upgrade requiring oversight of core Cisco router replacements & upgrades, build of DMZ, communication device upgrades and distribution of over 6000 devices.Manager (Full Time Employee)Provided leadership and direction for tactical and strategic initiatives of Communication Services Organization. Aligned and focused efforts of 22 personnel managing and participating in 71 multimillion-dollar projects. Led operations and enterprise initiatives to improve processes, asset management, and service offerings.Prepared $4.5 million budget forecast through partnerships with 70 organizations to conduct annual services negotiations required for budgeting basis.Collaborated with cross organizational coordinators to refine process for annual true-up of 13,000 assets distributed to personnel and vehicles.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Recruited by Business Support Services Key Business Executive to provide leadership and direction for tactical and strategic initiatives of IT Communications Services organization. Responsible for aligning and focusing efforts of 20 engineers managing and participating in projects ranging in size from thousands to millions of dollars. Provided leadership for cross functional initiatives to improve asset management and services offering.- Managed project for consolidation of services to decommission facility required for maintenance and repairs on fleet of over 2000 vehicles.- Facilitated collaborative effort across 67 organizations to manage tracking 13,000 assets deployed in vehicle fleet and distributed to personnel.- Created process for True-Up of $35 million in assets contained in records across 3 systems requiring linkage of 5 data sets.- Used Tableau Business Intelligence analytics tool to perform analysis on 134,000 data records required for input to prepare $4.5 million services budget forecast.

Work with team of peers to determine tactics for assisting people working through transition.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Participate with North Carolina business leaders to discuss current technology trends and discovery of how to educate technology and business leaders on the value of emerging technologies to business.

- Provided direction for selection of leadership consultant for the City of Charlotte Wireless Mobile Broadband Long Term Evolution communications project. - Advised Power Plant Management Services on strategic and tactical components of IT organization for acquisition candidates as member of due diligence panel.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Promoted to executive level director for division and global applications. Delivered competitive advantage leveraging technology resources that provide flexibility in dynamic business environments. Led technically and internationally diverse group of IT professionals. Planned and managed multiple site multimillion-dollar budgets. Coordinated applications development initiatives that enhanced operations, reporting, and cost controls. Directed installation and service provision of infrastructure systems.- Participated as member of leadership team that consistently achieved or exceeded EBITDA goals.- Collaborated with peers to establish Polypore’s 5-year Information Technology strategy.- Championed implementation of multimillion-dollar MS AX ERP system with 39 month payback.- Controlled upgrades and maintenance of multi-million dollar built and bought application portfolio.- Led buy or build decisions and development of global enterprise solutions.- Oversaw planning, forecasting, budgeting, financial consolidation, and reporting applications.- Dveloped and monitored SLAs, KPIs, metrics and operating results of business service delivery.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Promoted to lead this operation in North America and Asia. Provided leadership for activities of Infrastructure, Operations, and Applications personnel located in North America, Asia, and Europe and coordinated corporate service provider contracts. - Achieved 35% decrease of IT budget for four sites over three year period.- Participated in acquisition due diligence.- Lead Global IT Career Path Review Team to develop role titles, descriptions, and progression.

Washington, Dc, Us

United Stated Naval Reserve, Retired Electronics Technician Provided leadership for 50 personnel in preparation of value adding contributions during augmentation or duty assignments. Selected for mobilization to active status after September 11th, 2001 events. United States Navy Electronics TechnicianCertified Top Secret clearance level supervisor of 11 personnel responsible for selection, installation, and maintenance of tactical resources critical to fleet deployments and Special Warfare Unit operations.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Promoted to lead this IT team. Coordinated activities of team members, external vendors, and contract personnel for sites located in North America and Asia to ensure that Infrastructure Team goals were aligned with business objectives.- Reduced business unit IT Expense and Capital budgets 28% during two year period. - Analyzed benefits of project proposals for cost savings and internal rate of return. - Employed resource management systems that resulted in saving over 400 personnel-hours.- Lead and participated on organizational teams to determine allocations of business resources.- Spearheaded standardization of global technology resources resulting in a $1 million cost savings.- Championed mobile and remote access applications that added $800,000 of productivity benefits.- Achieved 35% decrease of IT budget for 4 sites over 3 year period while improving services.- Cut $3.5 million voice and data services costs by 14% by reducing vendors from 8 to 1.- Led Global IT Career Path Review Team to develop role titles, descriptions, and progressions.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Promoted to SNA to provide support, direction, and leadership for deployment of business solutions for parent Hoecsht Celanese.- Coordinated Capital Projects of local and global resources for recovery from 18-month backlog.- Participated on team that evaluated and implemented multimillion-dollar SAP ERP solution.- Collaborated with business leadership on Y2K initiative to establish business continuity plan.- Saved hundreds of personnel-hours by automating delivery of applications with MS SMS solution.- Increased resource availability from 95% to 98% in 3 quarters by integrating proactive tools. - Provided leadership, mentored personnel, and participated in hiring during absence of IT Director.- Coordinated 1998 United Way Campaign that exceeded goal.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Developed curriculums, set objectives, and taught evening undergraduate Information Technology courses.

Planned, coordinated, and implemented Local Area Network and Wide Area Network technologies.- Planned 1400 person, 11 site, $850,000, enterprise wide system deployment.- Eliminated need for additional IT headcount through direct support for 6 sites with 850 employees.- Standardized hardware and software technologies to reduce support costs.

Us

Participated on team that planned, implemented, and maintained over $30 million worth of systems for support of retail, corporate, and trading floor operations.

Mba, Finance

Ba, Computer Information Systems

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