Building, presenting, tracking the technology budget for the Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines merger.

Influenced efficient IT operating spend. Developed roadmap and strategy for governance of T-Mobile’s Information Technology application portfolio with software license entitlements, labor support, and hardware allocation costs. Partnered with IT silos to provide holistic view of application landscape to drive informed decisions to replace, retire, and maintain applications and support vendors. + Drove $20M reduction in $270M software budget by coordinating thorough review of software contracts and actual consumptions with cross-functional team.+ Consolidated software contracts post-merger by leading joint Sprint and T-Mobile teams in evaluating shared vendor agreements, enabling consolidation and improved volume discount negotiations.+ Managed tiger team of 10 during Sprint / T-Mobile merger for software contract consolidation, resulting in improved vendor terms, cost savings, and enhanced procurement efficiency. + Increased value and impact of weekly CIO accomplishments newsletter, leading to streamlined internal communications and quarterly All Hands presentations, while instilling practice of emphasizing value and impact of IT deliverables.+ Pioneered development of comprehensive IT application support costing model, conducting cost benefit analysis, resulting in improved decision-making accuracy and resource allocation. + Managed day-to-day tasks for team to create pilot for application costing and labor (FTE / Contractor) allocation to application support, ensuring product was delivered on time with quality and consistency.Partnered with Enterprise Architecture to create governance committee to rationalize IT Apps. Cost model was leveraged as part of the evaluation criteria.

Oversaw IT application portfolio, software and data center hardware asset management, and outsourced vendor finances. Directed infrastructure project charge-out process and supervised roles of vendor management senior analyst and IT application portfolio manager.+ Established centralized software contract database for audits, procurement, and renewals, leading to time savings of 8-16 hours per software renewal process.+ Maintained consistent software maintenance budget by effectively managing renewals with key vendors including Oracle, HPE, IBM, Microsoft, and Atlassian, minimizing renewal cost increases to typically standard 5% or COLA adjustments.+ Changed procurement policy to optimize license utilization, resulting in significant cost savings and lowered risk exposure.+ Managed data center inventories, driving maintenance savings and reducing risk of unsupported hardware.

Led comprehensive management of IT application portfolio, software asset inventory, and outsourced vendor finances. Gathered, documented, and presented application costs and lifecycle stages to enable holistic view of application landscape and drive informed decisions to replace, retire, and maintain applications. Developed streamlined process to capture and document server and workstation software deployments and entitlements to minimize audit risks. + Researched and managed deployment of agent-based workstation discovery tool, lowering risk and matured process by connecting purchased entitlements and software deployments.

Managed diverse IT outsourcing partnerships to drive business objectives, customer satisfaction, and cost efficiencies. Oversaw services spanning mainframe, mid-range servers, software licensing, storage, telecom, network, and DBA services. Collaborated with functional area IT Directors to strategize, budget, and address business challenges. + Analyzed operating results and trends to partner with IT infrastructure team, leading to implementation of improvements that yielded cost savings and increased operational efficiencies across power, telecom, and computing utilization.+ Improved IT division’s monthly project forecast process by developing reports that communicated infrastructure support costs.+ Partnered with finance and IT teams to develop IT applications’ total cost of ownership, aiming to achieve 7% reduction in overall IT operating costs within 3-year timeframe.+ Analyzed and renegotiated telecom and hardware maintenance contracts, resulting in cost reduction and increased bandwidth capacity.

Manage and provide governance oversight of Gap Inc.’s headquarter divisions (IT, Real Estate, Finance, Legal, HR, etc). Responsible for consolidating budgets, financial risks and opportunities. Responsible for developing annual project budget, and monthly forecast. Tracked project labor and capital spend. Provided monthly variance analysis to project Senior Executives and leaders.

Taught undergraduate level Excel and Powerpoint classes. Increased student engagement by providing the context and relevance where the skills would be used and the value that these skills add to their lives.

Responsible for the overall financial planning, reporting and analysis activities for the Schwab.com, Executive, and Marketing divisions over the 5 year tenure.

Supported the Lung Biology Center with monthly financial reports, grant submission, capital investment analysis, and long term planning. Responsible for managing 20-30 grants of $20 million.