Partnered with businesses, deal teams, and corporate functions to support IT aspects of due diligence, data room sourcing, carve-out planning, target valuation, potential synergies, post-merger integration strategies & budgets, project planning, execution & reporting, adherence to and implementation of privacy & cybersecurity policies, cybersecurity vulnerabilities remediation, business organization & process transformation, project execution and post-cutover business hyper-care. Provided stakeholder management, IT change management, project management, and vendor management.Managed or provided oversight of legacy IT organizations of acquired companies during their transition into Philips. Guided IT staff and facilitated their placement and integration into the receiving business organization or the global IT Function.

Head of IT NVI Excellence Value Space: managed global team of IT M&A managers and architects for all Philips sectors, reporting to Healthcare CIO.Harmonized IT M&A Due Diligence processes across all sectors and created standard IT M&A Playbook which also allowed for a selective toolbox approach where required. Developed standard reporting dashboard on post-merger integration projects to update executive stakeholders in the businesses, global IT function, and acquisitions’ project management offices. Corporate New Venture Integration IT Manager: performed IT M&A function for Healthcare Sector, reporting to Head of Corporate New Venture Integration.Partnered with Corporate M&A and IT teams to evaluate business requirements for deal-making, due diligence, and program/project management platform for mergers & acquisitions, divestitures, and post-merger integrations, ultimately choosing and transitioning Corporate M&A and NVI to the Midaxo platform.

Partnered with businesses and Corporate IT to develop IT PMI strategies and budgets; recruited IT PMI team members and formed teams.Remediated cybersecurity vulnerabilities.Extended Philips WAN infrastructure to acquired sites.Executed IT PMI plan on-time, on-budget with quality.

Performed due diligence on IT aspects of target companies .Performed SWOT analysis, provided guidance to M&A deal team on valuation, synergies, risks, and post-merger integration strategies & costs.Created IT PMI budget and managed costs during project execution.

IT Service Delivery Manager for Engineering in North America, Philips Medical.

Head of IT Infrastructure & Operations for Philips Medical Systems' North American sites.Integrated Bothell IT organization into Philips Medical Systems.Migrated all business and engineering computers from ATL's Class B IPv4 address space to Philips'.Remediated security vulnerabilities of Engineering development and production domains.Upgraded Bothell Data Center with full-redundancy, fail-over and disaster-recovery.Migrated Philips Medical Systems' SAP environment from Best, NL to Bothell, WA.Supported business transformation of Ultrasound Business to SAP.Supported business transformation of N. American Sales & Service organization to Siebel CRM.Relocated Philips Medical North America Sales and Service HQ from Shelton, CT to Bothell, WA.Partnered with counterparts at 4 major USA acquisitions to create a single IT Shared Services organization for Philips Medical Systems in North America.

Ultrasound Business (formerly ATL) Head of IT, European HQ in Munich.Supported sales offices in London, Paris, Brussels, Milan, Vienna, Amsterdam, Stockholm, and service center and parts depot in Solingen, Germany.Extended global WAN from Bothell HQ to all European offices.Introduced VoIP telephony and video-conferencing across global sites.ATL was acquired by Philips Medical Systems in 1998.Supported post-merger integration of European offices of ATL into Philips.Developed and managed Y2K plan for all European offices including software upgrades to IBM AS400 financial systems.

Introduced structured cabling and network switching to Ultrasound Business' (formerly ATL) Bothell campus providing a scalable and reproducible network that became the standard template for rapid expansion across 4 campus buildings.Created WAN to connect global sites and fiber-Metropolitan Area Network to provide robust fail-over networking between campus data center and off-site facilities for high-availability and disaster-recovery capabilities.Managed telephony service provider to reduce expenses and negotiated global telecom contract.Replaced aging PBX telephone system and upgraded call center infrastructure.

Ultrasound Business (formerly Advanced Technology Laboratories) Network Engineer, PC Manager, System Administrator, Software Build Librarian

Completed my undergraduate Honors Thesis on using HPLC to develop an accurate method to quantify a marker for the metabolism of chloramphenicol under the supervision of Arnold L. Smith, M.D., Chief, Infectious Diseases Division, Children's Orthopedic Hospital & Medical Center.Publication: Allan F. Weber, Daniel W. Lee, Kent Opheim, Arnold L. Smith, (1985). Quantitation of iothalamate in serum and urine by high-performance liquid chromatography. Journal of Chromatography, Vol. 337, pp 434-440.