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Morristown, New Jersey, Us

Executive leadership over a large organization of senior management and a staff of more than 130 employees who specialize in tools and automation; digital transformation; software development; architecture and design; infrastructure and applications support; service management; cyber security; and synergy capture. Owns the platform, tools, and automation strategy and architecture for Avaya IT and Services.

Morristown, New Jersey, Us

Chief Technologist and engineering manager for the Avaya Services platform and tooling organization, with responsibility for strategy, architecture, technology and tools in support of Avaya's Client Services business. Experience with product management, sales strategy, customer engagement, and financial management.

Owner / Developer of Commercial Multi-Family Real Estate in my hometown of Burlington, Vermont. Recent renovation and conversion of a 1850's historic downtown property into a beautiful 6-unit apartment building with modern comfortable units while retaining the property's historic New England charm.

Ashburn, Virginia, Us

Broad industry experience Chief Technologist with specialized focus on Aerospace & Defense clients. Additional industry responsibility over Life Sciences, Medical Device Manufacturing, and Telecom customers. Ownership of technology strategy and roadmaps for a $1.3B book of business. Trusted advisor to customers and internal stakeholders. Broad IT and business transformation knowledge and experience.

Ashburn, Virginia, Us

Account CTO for five large enterprise clients across four industries (Aerospace and Defense, Telecom, Healthcare and Life Sciences). Responsible for strategy and innovation across these key accounts. Total contract scope is greater than $1.1B. In April 2017, Enterprise Services split from HPE and merged with CSC to become DXC Technology, the world's largest pure play IT services company and a leader in digital transformation.

Houston, Texas, Us

- Ownership, authorship and execution of the Technology and Innovation Roadmap for a $400M telecom account.- Led technical strategy and development for the Customer Experience on Demand offering, launched Jan 2017.- Engaged regularly with senior Avaya leadership (including CEO, CTO and EVP staff) to provide businessdevelopment and transformation consulting.- Invited by Avaya EVP to co-deliver Keynote speech with him on the main stage at the Avaya International User Group Conference Las Vegas, February 2017.

Houston, Texas, Us

- Recipient of the HP Distinguished Engineer Award- Core team member for the Acquisition and Merger of HP and EDS. Developed the technology strategy and architecture for the new combined company.- Personally identified > $26M in hardware and nearly $70M in labor synergies. Developed the consolidationstrategy to be achieved within 18 months of acquisition close.- Built and led a high-performance team of Enterprise and System Architects responsible for designing EDS’ global leveraged datacenter environment known as the Standard Operating Environment (SOE).- Led cloud assessment and transformation initiative for the ES/IT portfolio of 100+ applications.- Architecture lead for HP Global PLM, Offering Development and Social Learning Platform, built on Salesforce.com

West Hartford, Us

- Founder and Chairman of EDS’ Chief Architect Community, a cross-Service Line organization of Chief Architects who promoted re-use and standardization across the corporation.- Chief Architect for EDS' Agile Enterprise Reference Architecture.- Certified by the Open Group as a Master Certified IT Architect, among other certifications.- Developed company’s first Enterprise-wide reference architecture standards. Led to >20% improvement in time-to-market across the Portfolio of Offerings and Capabilities.- Member of the EDS Architect Job Code board – mentoring, guidance and review for 30 architects, many who achieved promotions and Open Group ITAC and TOGAF certification as a direct result.- Developed and implemented the EDS Standard Operating Environment (SOE) Governance Process and associated standards.Direct-report to the GM Account CTO and a trusted advisor over a wide-array of IT-related domains.- Chief Tools Architect on the landmark GM 2006 Re-Compete (codenamed Triple Crown). Developed the overall tools architecture and technology strategy for all 32 GM RFP’s. EDS won more than $3.8 Billion over the 5-year deal. Recognized by EDS executive leadership as key contributor to the world’s largest IT Services contract to-date.- Lead Architect for the Next Generation Management (NGM) project sponsored by the GM CTO. Pull-through estimated at > $20M.- Led a Tiger team to resolve a major issue with GM OnStar’s Advisor application related to their highly-touted Blue Button Giveaway promotion. Commended by the GM client for a rapid and successful resolution.- Software engineer and leader of the GM Tools Team. A team of software developers building automation tools for GM Product Development and Manufacturing. Reduced systems management burden for GM PD operations by nearly 40% over 3 years.- Developed the Corporate Release Cycle process, the foundation for GM’s “Blockpoint” which governed all large scale deployments to the GM production environment.

Essex Junction, Vermont, Us

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Information Systems

Associate Of Science - As, Data Processing