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• Executive leadership selected me to create and serve in a role designed to drive high-level IT strategy for the assurance line of business and provide technical operational leadership. Currently, I oversee a team and.
• Building multi-disciplinary and multi-firm team to define, develop, and deliver Digital Strategy for Global Audit practice, reducing technology redundancy, driving audit quality, and improving efficiency.
• Driving multi-firm initiative aligning data models, processing, and analytics platforms, to enable global-scale implementation of AI-powered anomaly detection and other leading edge analytics
• Leading effort to achieve alignment across digital approach to quality initiatives in all firms, including ISQM1.
• Drove introduction and development of business intelligence program as part of global data strategy. Collaborated with Global IT and Microsoft’s development team to roll out in 120+ firms that saw immediate ROI..
• Ideated creative solutions to obtain funding for projects of vital importance to individual firms but outside of top-level priorities. Established means for individual firms to invest resources to support Global IT.

• This role straddled Assurance, IT, and strategy. I oversaw development of solutions for the assurance line of business for use by auditors worldwide. My team and I ensured a proper fit for organizational needs and.
• In a large-scale project, I liaised between business and the contracted Microsoft India Global Development group that was tasked with fully re-developing the APT solution (a very large scale, proprietary methodology.
• I intervened when Microsoft’s sales leadership nearly sold BDO Global IT on subpar solutions that would fail to meet the needs of individual firms and users, hosting a series of workshops with key architects and lead.
• Guiding development of the company’s first fully functional client portal, now hosting 175K+ clients online, I shifted our approach to development of global client portal by bringing leadership back to the basics and.

• In this role, I led a team of analysts, project managers, deployment & support specialists, and QA staff, reporting to Global Director of IT. My priority was to ensure a cohesive approach and execution of the.
• I drove alignment and consistency among individual firms’ previously fragmented IT practices and architecture by founding director-level collaborative group, International IT Council (IITC), to share best practices and.
• By introducing and enforcing consistency and standardized processes and strategy, I strengthened BDO’s position throughout the firm accreditation process.
• As an architect, I led an architectural effort to establish a standardized global directory and database of firm and user information, laying the groundwork to implement consistent tools across all firms and integrate.
• To earn trust, establish competence, and ensure compliance with local regulatory environments, I led the technical launch of APT globally, supported by the company’s first global hosting services (GHS).

Chicago, IL, US

• During this time frame, I was promoted through 3 positions of growing responsibility and increasingly global scope, supporting the US organization’s role as part of an expanding international company.My best.
• To create a consistent approach to architecture across the organization, I developed and established an Enterprise Architecture practice and framework within BDO USA. This led to the elimination of silos both within IT.
• I introduced a business architecture philosophy within IT that positioned IT to take a more active role in strategy development and in the achievement of objectives. I did this by developing cross-functional.

Tampa, FL, US

Business operations consultant

Grand Rapids, US