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San Francisco Bay Area | Additional Geographic Locations

In addition to the full time executive positions I have held, founded this firm to provide a range of interim executive and strategic consulting services, including M&A. Representative Engagements:Interim VP / CTO for “stealth-mode” dot-com in pursuit of VC funding. Partnered with Founder/CEO, after only technical staff member and CTO became unable to work, to finalize a product plan and create a functionality specification to redevelop two patented revenue-producing internet advertising products. Hired and managed an offshore vendor specializing in Agile and a development toolkit that ensured quick time to market and dramatically shortened development cycles. Both products were delivered in less than two months. Hosted on Amazon Cloud.Interim M&A Program Executive – Global Infrastructure Operations, SAP BusinessObjects After merger of two $500M corporations, implemented program saving 55% of budget, reduced global data centers from nine to two, and server count (i.e.1062) by 1/3 through Virtualization (VMware), avoiding the need to acquire 12,000 square feet of new Data Center Space. Led selection of standardized enterprise ERP and business applications; led several competitive bids, including outsourcing the wide area network (WAN) to meet expanding needs, reducing costs by 40%. Advised CIO on outsourcing projects – assessing advisability, key contract terms and strategy.Product Management Consultant: Hardware Diagnostic & Repair Tool, Network Appliance Assessed the “root causes” of 10 years of poor customer adoption by Enterprise Class Global Infrastructure Operations Customers of NetApp’s critical hardware diagnostic and repair tool. Delivered over 40 software product changes based on extensive user experience interviews and developed solutions for numerous enterprise security and Sarbanes-Oxley risks.Interim Senior Director, Global Server & Network Operations, Applied MaterialsInterim VP | Chief Information Officer (CIO), Storage Dimensions

San Francisco Bay Area

Joined Fortium as a San Francisco Bay area Partner initially and then promoted to Area Managing Partner in early 2016. Fortium is a firm comprised of the world’s foremost C-level technology leaders (i.e. CIO, CTO, CISO). Area Managing Partners recruit these executives as regional Partners for the firm.Fortium Partners provides interim and fractional IT leadership and technology advisory services. As Area Managing Partner I led a team of Partners with 20+ years’ experience as C-Suite executives of significant, recognizable companies, bringing our clients a unique perspective that results in better outcomes, lower risk, and shorter time to value.Some of my specialty areas are: Interim CIOCorporate and IT strategic planning (led 12)IT-business alignmentBusiness and IT turnarounds (led 8)M&A merger integrationLarge-scale project rescues

Los Gatos, Ca (Traveled 80% Of Time)

Representative Engagement:Engagement Lead for $1.6B Electronic Design Automation firm: Delivered Applications and Business Process assessment and improvement recommendations with implementation roadmaps. Led and helped sell this seven-figure engagement, viewed as most successful IBM engagement client had experienced. SCOPE: After two mergers, led client team in assessing 100+ IT applications; identified level 1, 2, & 3 business processes in-scope for this set of SAP and business suite applications. This was an enterprise suite selection and re-architecture project, a best practices business process assessment and improvement project, a realignment of IT priorities and investment to be in line with business strategy KEY FINDING: discovered that 60% of the “Client Executive picked” critical business processes were NOT supported by any information systems or were poorly supported. Counter to this, some of the highest investment was on unimportant business processes. Technology spend was misaligned, and in opposition to strategic business need. Recommended highest priority areas/gaps to fill first. Recommended standardized application suite (SAP plus other packages) to be migrated on to and proposed the migration path for each application. Identified which applications to decommission.

Redwood City, Ca

Recruited to this Trident Capital VC-backed firm, to spearhead all website, and wireless software development, as well as responsible for hosting decisions. The S-1 was completing its finalization before the initiation of the “Roadshow” when funding was lost, and the company closed its doors.RE-ARCHITECTED a high transaction volume web site (1.5 million page views/day), circumventing web sales losses of $500K/month by resolving time critical scalability, performance and capacity issues. Evaluated and selected a Java™ technology-based application server (e.g. BEA, Websphere) and Complex Website Content Management System (CMS) to replace existing custom code that was not scalable.

San Jose, Ca

Recruited to lead cross-functional team of sales, marketing, finance, and technical project management resources that developed and delivered a new worldwide web hosting and Internet Services Provider (ISP) services business cloud, leveraging their market leading SAP outsourcing business.REDUCED TIME TO MARKET AND INCREASED GROSS MARGINS from a loss to +41% by partnering with internet “pipe” vendors to build an outsourced Cloud services business with sophisticated automated operations, using HP market leading tools such as HP OpenView. Earning $40M in its first partial year, beating revenue goals by 200%. Delivered an Outsourcing capability competitive analysis, as part of the division’s strategic plan, resulting in a decision to shift strategy from building in-house to acquiring. Identified market-leading outsourcing company acquisition targets.

San Francisco Bay Area

Elected to Technology Federal Credit Union's Board of Directors ($800MM). I led the Technology Subcommittee and was a member of the Human Resources and Nominating subcommittees as well.

Milpitas, Ca

Recruited to redesign, rebuild and optimize the Global Information System and Technology delivery system with a multinational staff (i.e. Germany, Japan, U.S) of 200 and $38M budget for this world-class semiconductor manufacturer. Prepared and delivered complex RFPs and bids for large outsourcing and “Big 5” SI contracts, ranging between $5M and $100M. Led and partnered with Executive Team in formulating and executing a three-year Business and IT strategic plan. Prevented $400M in revenue losses during a crisis, by rewriting 600,000 lines of code for a mission-critical Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) software application used in LSI's Joint Venture Japanese wafer FAB to manufacture each chip. REBUILT / REPLACED THE APPLICATION PORTFOLIO delivering enterprise software benefits of $165M+, and generated infrastructure operations savings of $30M, while dramatically improving service. Hired 60% new staff. Rebuilt information systems, implementing ERP, Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM), Oracle HR and CRM, Disaster Recovery, and rebuilt staff to align with new business strategies and new skill requirements. Led business process design in preparation for system implementations; spearheaded a cross-functional team in redesigning key manufacturing, order management, forecasting, and activity-based costing (ABC) processes.

Calgary, Alberta Canada

Recruited as one of five executive officers reporting to the CEO, with BOD responsibilities, to take over as super-CIO and oversee a 160-person organization with a $50M budget leading corporate strategic planning, business process redesign and benchmarking, financial reporting, Global IT Application Delivery and IT operations. After benchmarking Husky’s key business metrics, led an executive improvement team to perform business process redesign, saving $20M in the first nine months without requiring any IT technology changes.SUCCESSFULLY REBID AND DELIVERED $20M of systems and technology for a sophisticated multibillion-dollar refinery. This project involved the selection and implementation of a complete set of Hydrocarbon and business systems (i.e. SAP), in seven months, in 70% less time than originally forecast. Current yearly revenue is $1.2 billion.

Cupertino, Ca

Recruited to re-architect and transform organizational performance. Responsibilities encompassed seven of Apple’s largest global data centers, and a worldwide voice and data network, managing 238 employees and a budget of $64 million. BUILT information security, help desks, Network Operations Center (NOC), automated operations, established a budget -- cutting 40%, built performance tuning and capacity planning and other key areas of the organization. Rebuilt technical staff as well as hired and promoted 15 new managers, re-setting direction to provide leadership in delivering financially responsible customer service. Created a three-year strategic direction, developing a state-of-the-art infrastructure to replace seven computing architectures, 17 data centers and 18 networks.

Sunnyvale, Ca

Recruited to lead 4 data centers, staff of 220, $63 million budget -- considered among the largest and most complex on the West Coast. The data centers were:• Worldwide production data center & global network staff of 180. These responsibilities included: 40 technical support programmers, global voice & data network & data center operations, client support help desk, security & disaster recovery. Led designing and building a new data center. Other three data centers were: Customer benchmarking, UNIX software development, engineering product certification center.Manager Technical Support Services - Managed 40 Technical Support programmers. 1982 to 1985Award Winning (see on LinkedIn Awards) Customer Support Manager, Staff Software Instructor and Course Designer. 1979 to 1982

Certification: Internet Business And Technology, Computer Science

Msie, M.S. Operations Research In Industrial Engineering – Emphasis In Computer Science, 3.85

Bs, School Of Business, B.S. Public Administration – Emphasis In Business

Executive Management Program, Executive Mba Equivalent For Working Executives