As a Vendor Management Office Senior Leader, I am directly responsible for ensuring 3rd party IT needs are identified, contracted, and delivered to meet defined requirements. Partner with Global Procurement to support direct and competitive (RFI/RFQ/RFP) sourcing activities. Aligned to Senior Leadership Team to ensure comprehensive management of all 3rd party agreements and related vendors to drive cost reduction and enhanced value. Provide operations management support for the Information Technology (IT) Vendor Management Office to ensure processes are in place for efficient utilization of IT resources. Manage the development of tools, processes, and senior leadership reporting requirements. Engaged directly with key Information Technology suppliers to manage flexible IT resource needs and coordinate onboarding/offboarding processes. Partner with internal value chain partners, global procurement, and suppliers for requests for proposals for deliverable-based statements of work.Manage IT vendor relationships to ensure optimal service delivery to Xerox. Address performance related issues as well as impacts related to project changes.,

Selected to lead the build-out of a new Business Operations team. Established a centralized financial planning and analysis process to manage the $200M+ information technology budget. Provide primary support and approval during business case development. Supported corporate business transformation reporting efforts and validated program savings are accounted for in the P&L / ledger. • Successfully delivered financial outlooks for a $200M+ budget along with ensuring alignment to corporate guidelines related to cost allocations, capital expenditures. Achieved improved cost center ownership through process development and audit practices. Dedicated to process improvement to drive organizational efficiency. • Focal point for all financial planning and analysis, purchasing, procurement, and business operations support. Successful in aligning personnel from multiple organizations to ensure supplier contracts and statements of work are funded and executed on schedule. Audited invoices for compliance with terms of agreement and actual consumption. • Significantly improved visibility of financial performance and identified potential risks and opportunities. Created management dashboards and presentations which provide senior level management with key performance indicators and relevant financial and operational statuses.

Promoted to an expanded Financial Planning & Analysis role with a focus on integrating the European and South American countries into the global organizational financial planning and reporting process. Led team with P&L outlook submission, as well as budget and controller responsibility for $75M of global infrastructure spend including the direct management of a $20M+ capital budget.• Drastically reduced monthly variances in actuals vs outlook from ranges of +/- 25-50% down to +/- 5% and improved the financial planning and performance of the European IT organization. Employed effective relationship management which resulted in improved predictability and restored our global organization’s budgetary credibility.• Consolidated global financial plans/outlooks across multiple Information Technology (IT) organizations (U.S., Europe, South America). Improved the communication process with senior leaders about potential issues affecting P & L performance and identified actions to offset and resolve. • Facilitated procurement and purchasing activities within the organization. Inspected purchase orders for accuracy and alignment to plan and approved purchases. Worked directly with suppliers to resolve purchase order issues as well as with accounts payable to reconcile invoices. • Core team member responsible for evaluating feasibility of and deploying the IT Business Management (ITBM) toolset (Apptio) within Xerox. Conducted ‘proof of concept’ and worked alongside the Financial Controller to validate results. Core team member responsible for deploying ITBM and validating cost alignment to ledger.

Member of a new business operations team within the Information Management division focused on financial and operational support for the Infrastructure organization. Performed month-end close processes to ensure alignment to expected budgets. Prepared journal entries to establish asset and purchased services amortization. Performed Financial Planning & Analysis for the global midrange organization.• Achieve improved financial reporting processes and provided a deeper understanding of operating budgets managed by IT service delivery managers by utilized lean six sigma tools and methodologies.• Significantly improved financial outlook accuracy through strong governance processes and team collaboration to achieve internal finance targets.

As a senior consultant, I performed business analysis on software projects and gathered customer requirements. Participated in the software development process and provided project management oversight. Led a software quality assurance team to perform testing on a custom Sales and CRM toolset. • Delivered a custom software development tool on time and under budget which helped the client, Xerox, realize over $1M of annual savings. This project identified IT services which were not in use by Xerox, but were being charged for by service providers.• Slashed annual network spend by $1M+ by conducting an audit of the Xerox network topography and eliminating circuits which were no longer in use.