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Texas, United States

Plano, Tx, Us

Serve as CIO and CISO to lead the global IT organization supporting a rapidly-growing medical device manufacturer. Provide the vision, strategy, and execution delivering effective, efficient, secure information systems and tools in support of the global business strategy. Developed and implemented a modernization and cloud-first strategy ensuring 100% of enterprise business applications including ERP, CRM, QMS, HRIS, Marketing, Financials, ITSM, UCaaS, and Collaboration are located in the cloud. Lead digitalization efforts as well as select vendors and negotiate/manage all IT-related contracts. Optimized the IT organization and established the Information Security and Governance strategy and function. Instituted a formalized change control process to minimize risk, maximize uptime, and enhance compliance. Established a strong customer service culture across the global IT organization generating customer satisfaction scores consistently in the 98th percentile.

Purchase, New York, Us

Global product owner for Collaboration and Enterprise Content Management technologies at PepsiCo. Define strategy and lead the engineering organization delivering world class collaboration and ECM solutions. Help lead the company's digital transformation by identifying legacy applications and systems candidates for migration to cloud and mobile platforms. Develop multi-year roadmaps, set standards, and oversee security and governance for both on-premises and cloud-based IT infrastructure. Own the architectural specifications and application development efforts for the Office 365 ecosystem and accelerate the adoption of new and emerging technologies.

Purchase, New York, Us

Led the group responsible for planning, designing and building server, storage, and database infrastructure systems for PepsiCo. Develop technology strategy and roadmaps, conduct POCs, and define global corporate standards. Build out reference standard systems and related process documentation for large scale global deployment. Drive standardization and automation efforts across the enterprise and ensure optimal balance of performance, stability, security, and financial efficiency.

Provide vision and leadership to IT engineering, architecture, and operations teams for high volume electronic payment processing company. Architect, build, secure, and maintain mission-critical systems and processes to ensure optimal costs, performance, and reliability. Own the network and data centers along with the service levels they deliver. Oversee issue resolutions/escalations and publish metrics on service delivery. Assess systems and infrastructure to determine their life cycle and develop technical strategy and road maps to support continued rapid growth and meet future goals. Evaluate new and emerging technologies for applicability in reducing costs and optimizing operations and drive their implementation.

Austin, Tx, Us

Assist with optimizing and supporting business processes and systems, IT infrastructure, and data analytics/reporting for a rapidly-growing nationwide retail, wholesale, and e-commerce organization ($160MM+ and opening 20 new stores a year). Primary focus on supporting and optimizing POS and ERP-related strategy, systems, and processes. Lead projects, manage vendors, and resolve issues affecting key business systems and related integrations. Assess current ERP, CRM, POS, and other business, supply chain, and reporting/analytics tools and infrastructure to determine their life cycle with respect to the changing needs of a rapidly growing and increasingly complex organization. Evaluate ongoing infrastructure projects and suggest options and enhancements to these efforts. Assist management with developing the long-term technology strategy and road maps to support continued growth and meet future goals.

Led the group supporting the global leader in information security and data leakage protection. Teams in the group include network engineering, systems engineering, enterprise application support, information security, database administration, data warehouse/BI, and service desk. Provided support across an international footprint with numerous facilities located throughout EMEA, APAC, and the Americas.Recruited and built IT infrastructure services group of 35+ from ground up after global HQ was transitioned to Austin. Led the build out of a new HQ facility and data center. Owned the strategy and implementation for all corporate IT infrastructure and application services. Emphasis on quality and scalability while simultaneously lowering expenses and controlling future investment requirements. Key technologies implemented to support this transformation include virtualization, converged infrastructure, IaaS resources, hosted data centers, SaaS applications (Salesforce, Workday, Jira, Confluence, Concur, etc...), VoIP telephony, and mobile technology.

Austin, Tx, Us

Provided vision and leadership for the IT group responsible for supporting the systems and data needs of a rapidly growing 650+ person multi-disciplined national engineering company. Oversaw and maintained the design and operations of a state of the art, high-performance, heavily-virtualized computing environment and achieved a 99%+ uptime across all systems and applications. Focused on integrating cutting edge technology to support operations and the high data-throughput and analysis needs of engineering processes such as LiDAR imaging, spatial mapping, GIS, CAD, and host/client virtualization. Also responsible for business-process technology such as CRM (Salesforce), messaging, and Finance/Accounting systems as well as the telecom, mobile, and web environments.

Employee number 4 in an angel-funded startup company focused on providing an enterprise grade, cloud-based archival storage service to commercial clients. Responsible for designing, building, and operating the Vaultscape data centers underlying the cloud-based service. Functioned as VP and CIO. This included selecting and managing hardware and software suppliers as well as collocation providers and outsource vendors to provide a highly reliable, “lights out”, cost efficient storage environment. Company could not secure ongoing investment during the recession and ceased operations.

San Diego, Ca, Us

Led the group responsible for all computing and telecommunications infrastructure as well as database administration, web development, and application support for a global BioTech and medical device manufacturing company. Managed technical and DBA teams to ensure success of Illumina's research and manufacturing operations in North America, Europe, and Asia. Responsible for recruiting, mentoring, appraising, and developing IT Staff as well as defining technical architecture and strategic direction. Evaluated/selected technologies, managed SOX/ISO/FDA compliance, developed policy, managed budgets, and led projects. The accomplishments of the IT team were instrumental in supporting an organization that was consistently among the 1st or 2nd fastest growing tech companies in America for a number of consecutive years.

Bs, Computer Science

Executive Mba