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Kennett Square, Pa, Us

Overseeing the portfolio of large IT investments for several divisions and helping lead Ryder on its agile journey by enhancing scalable agile IT Portfolio Management practices.

Align IT strategies with business goals, optimize IT processes, and deliver innovative solutions that drive digital transformations and enhance competitive advantage. Skilled at stakeholder engagement, cross organizational communication, technology resource development, budget management, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.Governance expertise spans:• IT governance best practices• IT Strategic Planning• Technology Project Portfolio Management • Enterprise… Show more Align IT strategies with business goals, optimize IT processes, and deliver innovative solutions that drive digital transformations and enhance competitive advantage. Skilled at stakeholder engagement, cross organizational communication, technology resource development, budget management, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.Governance expertise spans:• IT governance best practices• IT Strategic Planning• Technology Project Portfolio Management • Enterprise Architecture • Agile methodologies• Complex cross-functional collaboration Show less

Baltimore, Maryland

Spearheaded the planning, build-out, and management of a new enterprise data platform, modernizing data services onto the AWS cloud.• Instituted IT governance best practices, ensuring seamless alignment of technology initiatives with organizational objectives, resulting in strategic relevance, and maximizing business value.• Enhanced leadership and stakeholder input and control by establishing comprehensive performance metrics and KPIs, furnishing performance dashboards, trend… Show more Spearheaded the planning, build-out, and management of a new enterprise data platform, modernizing data services onto the AWS cloud.• Instituted IT governance best practices, ensuring seamless alignment of technology initiatives with organizational objectives, resulting in strategic relevance, and maximizing business value.• Enhanced leadership and stakeholder input and control by establishing comprehensive performance metrics and KPIs, furnishing performance dashboards, trend analysis, and data-driven insights.• Improved value delivery by pioneering collaborative processes across cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and executives, yielding clear team objectives (OKRs), Minimum Business Increment (MBI) delivery roadmaps, and precise project success criteria.• Introduced and refined a SAFe-aligned, data-driven, agile project management methodology, markedly enhancing team productivity and operational efficiency.• Provided strategic guidance to leadership on the adoption of new data services and technologies across the organization including establishing comprehensive metrics and KPIs, furnishing performance dashboards for trend analysis and data-driven insights that drove continuous enhancements. Show less

Installed and oversaw FFIEC required best practice Project Portfolio Management (PPM) processes aligning IT investment with business strategy and objectives to meet FFIEC audit requirements and free the organization to execute fundamental business transformations.• Provided strategic guidance to senior leadership on technology annual planning and periodic new demand encompassing risk distribution, strategic alignment, and budget performance.• Orchestrated extensive technology… Show more Installed and oversaw FFIEC required best practice Project Portfolio Management (PPM) processes aligning IT investment with business strategy and objectives to meet FFIEC audit requirements and free the organization to execute fundamental business transformations.• Provided strategic guidance to senior leadership on technology annual planning and periodic new demand encompassing risk distribution, strategic alignment, and budget performance.• Orchestrated extensive technology resource capacity planning, optimizing value delivery within resource constraints and prioritized projects. Show less

Led startup through M&A with global conglomerate. Enhanced market dominant positioning with industry leading profitability and growth through digital transformation, enhanced operational efficiency, and vastly improved customer experiences via critical CRM, ERP, Salesforce, and Business Intelligence solution improvements.• Maximized business value from IT budgets by instituting IT Strategic Planning, Technology Project Portfolio Management, and Enterprise Architecture governance best… Show more Led startup through M&A with global conglomerate. Enhanced market dominant positioning with industry leading profitability and growth through digital transformation, enhanced operational efficiency, and vastly improved customer experiences via critical CRM, ERP, Salesforce, and Business Intelligence solution improvements.• Maximized business value from IT budgets by instituting IT Strategic Planning, Technology Project Portfolio Management, and Enterprise Architecture governance best practices.• Formulated and executed IT strategies fostering digital transformation, operational efficiency, and improved customer experiences via critical CRM, ERP, Salesforce, and Business Intelligence initiatives.• Led the seamless integration of a scientific equipment startup into Thermo Fisher Scientific global operations including relocating R&D and manufacturing, consolidating marketing and sales activities, and enhancing customer service.• Maintained service excellence and dramatically enhanced business capabilities while continually minimizing year over year budget increases.• Continually improved IT systems, networks, and infrastructure, ensuring robust availability and performance.• Ensured adherence to industry standards and regulations, including SOX and PCI, bye enforcing best practices for IT governance, security, and compliance. Show less

Led consulting engagements for mid to large-sized organizations across the US, facilitating the adoption of industry best practices for IT management including IT Strategic Planning, Enterprise Architecture, and PMO adoption.• Led IT Strategic Planning engagements for S&P 100 companies.• Piloted the development and inclusion of best practices into Strategic Planning methodology that ultimately became part of PMI PPM standards. • Contributed to an industry thought… Show more Led consulting engagements for mid to large-sized organizations across the US, facilitating the adoption of industry best practices for IT management including IT Strategic Planning, Enterprise Architecture, and PMO adoption.• Led IT Strategic Planning engagements for S&P 100 companies.• Piloted the development and inclusion of best practices into Strategic Planning methodology that ultimately became part of PMI PPM standards. • Contributed to an industry thought leadership group on the development of Enterprise Architecture best practices and methodologies.• Presented at the META Group’s (now part of Gartner) national EA conferences. Show less

Bba, Finance

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba), Bba Finance

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Finance