IT leadership, at its best, should function as a strategic enabler of business growth. This is what I've spent the past 2+ decades doing on behalf of established players, start-ups, and organizations in critical need of a turnaround across the Healthcare, Professional Services, Manufacturing, and Aviation industries. Redefine the mission. Build passionate, goal-driven teams which can withstand rapid change. And back it up with cohesive IT Service Management, IT Security, Data and Application Management functions. ✓ Transformational Leadership through Technology. Owning global growth and change initiatives and forging strategic alliances that reduce costs and optimize user satisfaction. Senior leadership roles at GAF and Ernst and Young with a deep background in large scale infrastructure, global team development and process evolution. ✓ Extensive experience with major aspects of IT including aligning business functions with IT, supporting enterprise business applications, vendor management, project and program management, portfolio management and planning, PMOs, SDLC, infrastructure and data center, and support/operations. ✓ Expert in partnering with the C-suite to align IT with core business objectives, and getting diverse stakeholders and groups together around a compelling vision of how to make things better. A teacher and mentor who has come up through the ranks and can speak the language of both business and technology. ✓ Unafraid to make the hard decisions, raise performance standards, and make sure our people have the support necessary to realize their full potential. Ceaselessly curious, someone who is always asking, "Is there a better way?Always open to connect with fellow IT leaders, as well as those with an interest in using technology to spark positive change, or simply looking for a different perspective on career options.