Senior Director, It Finance Infrastructure
Provided financial and business partnership support for the IT Infrastructure organization which provides Data Center Hosting, Engineering, Network, Facility, Security, and Help Desk services for all hotels. Provide leadership and guidance to eight team members who provide department financial management support across IT. Specific accomplishments include:• Provided analytical support for IT Network, Data Center, Facility, Engineering, and Security Senior management… Show more Provided financial and business partnership support for the IT Infrastructure organization which provides Data Center Hosting, Engineering, Network, Facility, Security, and Help Desk services for all hotels. Provide leadership and guidance to eight team members who provide department financial management support across IT. Specific accomplishments include:• Provided analytical support for IT Network, Data Center, Facility, Engineering, and Security Senior management teams.• Developed an approval workflow process to control our capital expenditure requests, which totaled $25M annually, reducing approval time by 50%.• Led long term planning (LRP) efforts across multiple teams to align with corporate goals.• Negotiated several enterprise software license agreements and managed financial aspects of the deployment with the largest contract exceeding $30 million with over $5 million in savings.• Developed a process to track key infrastructure and business metrics (KPI’s) to demonstrate demand growth for key services.• Provided subject matter expertise in support of the contractor resource management program ensuring a consistent process for sourcing and tracking contract resources. This program has saved ~$1 million annually.• Supported the design and implementation of a Project Accounting and Time Reporting System that enabled over 1,200 resources to effectively track and allocate their time daily. This PeopleSoft application is now be leveraged by three additional business.• Led a benchmarking effort to compare our infrastructure services to leading outside experts. Show less