David Aldea Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

Strategic Planning: Led the development of a 5-year Strategic Plan for the National Institute of Health (NIH) Library - including an execution path to achieve this strategy.Increasing Customer Appeal: Increased the engagement of customers by gaining a thorough understanding of their needs by developing a communications program which incorporated these.

- Developed a self-storage facility (Guardian Storage) - with two locations in Ontario, Canada- Transformed and monetized a number of residential properties in the NYC area - including a townhouse with celebrity notoriety on Cornelia Street, New York.- Advised a number of investors in various real estate projects in London and NYC.

Responsible for selecting the platform to enable the launch of SohoWorks - a co-working adjacent offering to existing private member clubs. Participated in the design and configuration of spaces, formulated revenue enhancing offerings, and selected the platform to support both SohoWorks operations, and a platform that ‘virtually’ connected SohoWorks.

Hoboken, NJ, US

" Responsible for Wiley Online Library - a subscription oriented content discovery platform that allows for the discovery of massive volumes of structured and unstructured electronic information from books, journals, and other correlated databases." Responsible for implementing a pan-Wiley technology innovation program including identification, negotiation.

New York City, NY, US

" Responsible for the development of a portfolio of Litigation Software Products yielding $200+M in annual revenue supporting a growth portfolio with an annual increase in revenue of 25+%." Responsible for the development team of Concordance (a tool to accurately perform e-discovery on mass quantities of unstructured data in a legal environment)." Led a.

New York, NY, US

" Led the Innovation, Strategy, and Reporting Groups for the Information & Media Segment at McGraw-Hill reporting directly to the Chief Information Officer. " Designed and Deployed a Transformational & Innovation Program for six businesses including JD Power & Associates, Business Week, Aviation Week, McGraw-Hill Construction, McGraw-Hill Broadcasting, and.

" Full Profit & Loss responsibility for the company. Defined sales & corporate strategy, corporate organization structure, financial reporting, and recruiting needs." Recruited and led the team to design and deliver a web-based front-end to over 70 law enforcement systems for the State of Minnesota's Homeland Security initiative.

New York, NY, US

" Developed an innovation program for Card Operations that included the automation of the merchant acquisition process and tools that assisted in the rapid approval of new merchants." Multiple engagements designed to improve the innovation and efficiency of operations through the consolidation of global shared services in strategically located finance and.

" A 'step in and cleanup' situation required me to provided immediate leadership to the entire technology organization which included a tight coordination with the CEO, COO, and Portfolio Managers." Performed an end-to-end process and group re-design which resulted in a refocusing of investment and personnel resources to the highest priority initiatives.

London, GB

" Developed a performance measurement and rewards approach for a $1B centralized IT organization allowing the company to focus on driving down technology costs which had begun rising at a rate which exceeded the annual increase in revenue.

" Built a strategy consulting company of 170+ consultants, and served as relationship manager to each of our largest clients - resulting in growing sales throughout." Clients included American Express, Barclay's Bank, John Hancock, JP Morgan, Mobile Oil, and GM.

Rapidly progressed within the firm from Staff Auditor to Consulting Manager in various areas of the company including Audit, Computer Risk Management, and Management Consulting.

Bachelor Of Commerce, Minor In Econometrics

Commerce