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Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, United States

Responsible for creating value as a trusted advisor for specific MaxAttention Premium Engagement customers on their digital transformation journey to a sustainable, intelligent enterprise.

Charleston, South Carolina Area

United Technologies Corporation - Pratt & Whitney AccountResponsible for leading and managing the SAP Basis and Archiving, SAP Transport Management, and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Program Management teams• Direct reports performed upgrades and operating system migrations to virtualize SAP systems, which reduced customer’s operating costs by by $250,000.• Direct report archived over 14 billion database records, an annual all-time high, which reduced customer’s operating costs by by $1.39 million.• Participated in monthly, quarterly, and annual operational reviews by providing ERP operational quality metrics and project updates.• Submitted budget requests and monitored budgets.• Performed employee performance appraisals and approved employee billable and non-billable time.

Bluffton, South Carolina

United Technologies Corporation - Pratt & Whitney AccountResponsible for the UTC – Pratt & Whitney United States (US) and International (INTL) ERP Landscape programs• Created and over communicated the program’s mission, vision, strategy, and behaviors statements.• Built winning culture by praising and celebrating outstanding performance and program wins.• Led and managed over 18 virtual project teams comprised of network, server, storage, operating systems, database, middleware, and SAP and non-SAP software from multiple companies to deliver very complex information technology solutions in the IBM Cloud with firm deadlines to create customer value.• Led customer validation team during first successful disaster recovery in the IBM Cloud.• Collaborated with the SAP Basis, security, and infrastructure teams to deliver quality system refreshes.• Implemented Net Promoter Score (NPS) surveys to continuously improve the system refresh process.• Approved change control requests related to the US and INTL ERP landscapes.

Bluffton, South Carolina

Westinghouse Electric Company AccountResponsible for delivering SAP projects on-time and within budget• Delivered a high available, mobile cloud platform to provide mobile appliances instantaneous access to ERP information.• Led and managed a team to deliver best practices for 24x7 customer support by leveraging Work-Out sessions, Six-Sigma, and Continuous Process Improvement as organizational change tools.• Led, managed, and delivered the business planning and consolidation project on time and within budget, which resulted in the first short-term win of a five-year $300 million enterprise resource planning project. The short-term win provided financial analysts with instantaneous access to financial information for financial budgeting and planning.• Led, managed, and delivered the business intelligence report distribution project, which increased operations productivity by providing instantaneous access to reports that mine data warehouse information.• Developed new team members in preparation of the five-year $300 million enterprise resource planning project.

Bluffton, Sc

Westinghouse Electric Company AccountResponsible for performing SAP Basis Administration tasks• Performed SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) operating system migration as part of the virtualization project, which the project reduced the customer’s operating cost by $2 million.• Installed the SAP ECC software, support packages, and add-on components..• Performed SAP ECC development and quality assurance system refreshes and client copies.• Released and imported transports into the development, quality assurance, and production landscapes.• Performed SAP landscape database upgrades and patches.

Bluffton, Sc

General Dynamics Corporation - Gulfstream Aerospace Subsidiary AccountResponsible for performing Oracle and SQL Server database administration tasks• Managed the installation, customization, maintenance, and migration of relational databases.• Implemented database backup strategies to improve application availability and mitigate the risk of losing business critical information in the event of a disaster.• Performed point-in-time database restorations and recoveries.• Proactively monitored and optimized database performance and resolved database incidents.• Implemented multi-master database replication, which improved the instantaneous check-out of engineering drawings by 60 percent and optimized network bandwidth, which mitigated demand for additional network capacity investments

Strayer University

Capstone Simulation Course | Executive Masters of Business Administration• As the Vice-President of Finance and the Vice-President of Operations and Human Resources in the capstone course, led the turn around the Card Tech Company to achieving an increase in gross margin from $2.4 million to $35.4 million, operating margin from $2 million to $16 million, net profit from $1 million to $7.9 million, available capital from $2.2 million to $29 million, equity from $1.4 million to $17.9 million and a decrease in debt from $4 million to zero during a six-quarter real-time business simulation.

Savannah, Georgia

Responsible for performing Oracle database administration tasks• Managed the installation, customization, maintenance, and migration of relational databases.• Implemented database backup strategies to improve application availability and mitigate the risk of losing business critical information in the event of a disaster.• Proactively monitored and optimized database performance and resolved database incidents

Savannah, Georgia Area

Responsible for delivering a prototype e-business infrastructure to provide access to data on disparate platforms • Led a new business venture to build an e-business prototype infrastructure based on implementing transaction processing software on disparate platforms to increase operations productivity by providing instantaneous access to information residing in databases on disparate platforms.• Led an e-business strategy to evaluate enterprise application integration suppliers

Aiken, South Carolina

Responsible for procuring a report distribution system with a zero budget• Led, assembled, and managed a cross-functional empowered work team from a cross section of departments to evaluate and procure report distribution software with a zero budget. Cultivated relationships in the finance department with the goal of the finance department championing the project. A successful pitch resulted in the chief financial officer awarding $500,000 to procure the report distribution software, while paper costs were reduced by 40 percent

Aiken, South Carolina

Responsible for the administration and performance of the transaction processing systems• Managed the installation, customization, maintenance, and migration of transaction processing systems.• Led teams to improve engineering, procurement, and warehouse management productivity by leveraging bottleneck analysis, mathematical models, and continuous process improvement. The bottleneck eliminations increased productivity by increasing transaction throughput while simultaneously decreasing transaction response times by 50 percent.• Participated on the capacity planning and performance management team to optimize operating systems, telecommunications software, storage controllers, and direct access storage device performance to meet service level agreements. Leveraged capacity planning to forecast future transaction processing demand and to maximize the capacity utilization of hardware and software resources.

Aiken, South Carolina

Responsible for the administration and performance of the transaction processing systems• Managed the installation, customization, maintenance, and migration of transaction processing systems.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

College Internship• Interned on the Combined Interest team in the Information Systems and Research Department. Completed a formal three month training program. Analyzed, designed and coded various COBOL applications using dynamic dataset allocation. Enhanced the batch COBOL application that printed the 1099-INT statements. Utilized TSO/ISPF, IBM JCL and IBM utility programs.

Master Of Business Administration (Emba), Jack Welch Executive Mba, 4.0

Honors Medallion; Graduated as a distinguished student with honors and carried the Jack Welch Management Institute banner during the JWMI.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Applied Mathematics

Activities and Societies: Kappa Mu Epsilon Honary Mathematics FraternityGraduated Cum Laude

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

Graduated Cum Laude

Diploma, College Preparatory

Activities and Societies: James Welsh Leadership Award; Health and Physical Education Award; National Honor Society; Captain of Baseball.