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Goal: Obtain a Director or Sr. Director Position utilizing my international management, business transformational & leadership skills for developing high performing & motivated teams to design, implement & support strategic solutions for business problems.Summary of Most Recent Professional experience: July 1996 - June 2008 MEDTRONIC, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minnesota)Director of Business Quality Management Systems, CRDM: Responsible for developing the strategy definition & leading the execution of the strategy for the CRDM(Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management) Quality System.Director of I.T., Regulatory Compliance and Sarbanes Oxley (SOX): Responsible to provide leadership & execution responsibility for the SOX initiative. Acquired additional responsibility for two functions (SAP ERP SOX & Global IT Regulatory compliance functions). Responsible also to develop the strategy, roadmap & build the team for gaining appropriate regulatory compliance for IT services Director of I.T., Global Partners Program & Application Services: Responsible for leading the turnaround in the Global Partners Program (GPP), a sourcing strategy program. Acquired additional responsibility for managing several global finance, & regulatory application functions. Director of I.T., myMDT, Centerpiece(SAP Proj). & Bus. Relationship Mgrs.:Responsible for leading the turnaround of myMedtronic(myMDT) the internal company portal, which suffered from technical and negative perception issues. Managed the Communications team during 1st phase of the Global Implementation of SAP ERP project.Director of I.T., Asia Pacific: As the first Director of IT for Asia Pacific(AP), I was responsible for taking the existing silo IT functions in Asia Pac & building a shared services function with the primary locations of Japan, Australia, India and China.May 1987 - July 1996