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Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

Collaborated with Corporate Finance, business organization leaders, and CFOs to achieve $1.5B (over 3 years) cost transformation benefits. Provided consistent valuation guidance, auditing program initiatives for accuracy and sound business case, and reporting on program financial status.Evaluated program pipeline for duplication of benefits being claimed, erroneous financial data, and risks and/or opportunities to maximize value.

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

Partnered with C-suite, senior executives, consultants, and multiple organizations across the business to drive transformational savings of $500M+ by helping to solve unique and complex issues that have a broad impact on the business.• Operational Focus: Delivery, IT, Finance, HR, Legal & Procurement• Regularly created transformation program status presentations for consumption by C-suite, Board of Directors, and senior executives. • Performed analysis on underperforming accounts and Service Level Agreement performance – identifying focus areas for improvement.

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

Directed cross functional staff of 10 (up to 22), responsible for financial planning/analysis, IT applications/systems, IP operations, department staffing, research, and administration. Member of the OGC SLT, reporting to the General Counsel, responsible for financial planning and analysis of $80M+ global budget and compensation planning for more than 250 worldwide employees. Liaised with Corporate Finance, IT, HR, and Real Estate departments on initiatives impacting the Legal Department.• Acted as organization Business Transformation leader, developed new organization structure and improved legal operations process while reducing cost base by 25%.• Co-led separation activities for the Office of the General Counsel organization to facilitate the company separation announced in January 2016 and completed December 31, 2016, including:o Identified staffing requirements for both future companies.o Determined cost synergies/dis-synergies resulting from separation used to develop operating plans for both organizations.o Led effort to replicate and stand-up systems required for the separated company's legal department.o Developed and implemented cost transformation strategies to reduce ongoing cost base.• Implemented new matter management and e-Billing solution providing greater process flexibility and collaboration with internal and external parties.• Implemented new legal hold system, providing enhanced audit tracking and reporting capabilities while creating a more comprehensive, defensible legal hold / eDiscovery process.• Developed financial models to analyze patent acquisition sourcing and maintenance strategies, saving $6M+ annually.• Oversaw implementation, migration, and deployment of new intellectual property management system and its integration with supporting systems.• Acted as change agent with Information Security organization to implement an eDiscovery data collection and review solution saving $500K annually in outside vendor spend.

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

Recruited to manage applications and systems for Office of General Counsel. Collaborated with internal patent and litigation attorneys to develop solutions to meet all business needs with a focus on increasing productivity and reducing costs. Oversaw change requests and managed vendors. Enforced compliance with Safe Harbor, Information Security Risk Assessment (ISRA), and Sarbanes-Oxley. Communicated all changes to computing environment including PC software/hardware changes and rollouts. Collaborated in development of Business Resumption Plan.• Implemented $1M+ records management and document repository systems with dual functionality as a data loss prevention mechanism. Enabled organization to securely store email and files in central location that could be remotely accessed and provided full text search capabilities. • Elevated efficiency by automating notice process for e-Discovery purposes. Designed and implemented Document Preservation Notice systems that integrated notices with IT and Records Management departments, allowing data to be preserved across the company.

Pittsford, Ny, Us

Hired as first full-time employee and promoted to manage company’s largest contract, as well as 3-4 employees. Established self as Organizational Focal Point and Application Transition Coordinator/Technical Focal Point for client’s server certification/consolidation implementation. Developed and executed project plans, defined requirements for new applications and change requests, performed costs analysis, and documented and reported project status to clients. Acted as application subject matter expert (SME) for disaster recovery.

Mba, Finance, Operations

Bs, Management Information Systems (Mis)