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Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT) is the world's leading information technology research and advisory company to over 14,000 global organization in over 100 countries, equipping executive leaders with indispensable insights, advice, and tools to achieve their mission critical priorities and build the most successful organizations of tomorrow. As a trusted executive advisor/mentor, I support CxO's and Senior IT Executives with contemporary, strategically aligned tools and insights to deliver exceptional business results, and develop themselves professionally as successful business leaders.

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Global Chief Information/Technology Officer for Cherokee Federal, a division of Cherokee Nations business comprised of 28+ federal contracting companies focused on building solutions, solving complex challenges, serving the nation’s mission globally. Accountable for all technology strategy and delivery services supporting 3000+ employees located across 50 states, 2 US territories and 26 countries including United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Japan, Germany and Saudi Arabia. Since its creation, the company has grown 24 percent year-over-year while tripling profitability.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Global Chief Information Officer for a leading, sector-focused global law firm with 415 partners, 2200 legal professionals and 3800 staff in 50 offices and associated offices on six continents. Directed team of 200+ IT professionals distributed around the world in the implementation of a board-sanctioned program of technical transformation including the modernization of the firm’s infrastructure platforms, enhanced security measures and the enablement of legal teams through case automation.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Accountable for creating, building & managing new enterprise business PMO for privately-held investment firm. Key accomplishments included:• Led value alignment of enterprise strategic priorities w/ execution portfolio• Established enterprise executive and senior executive governance boards• Successfully delivered diverse portfolio comprising new mutual funds, mergers, liquidations, regulatory/compliance & technology projects

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Senior Executive responsible for directing technology execution efforts for $1B, 3500 employees• Transformed solution-oriented teams to remove functional siloes & improve execution• 4-year roadmap w/ MS Dynamics & pure/hybrid, private/public Cloud• Decreased firm-wide risk through: 2ndary DC, critical upgrades, replacing at-risk hardware • Established HNTB’s 1st IT Program Management Office (PMO) & supporting practices • Refocused IT capacity from 100+ projects to 20-25 value-generating projects with defined ROI

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Created, grew & tech. enabled B2C, B2B ecommerce retail salvage motorcycle start-up business• Over 2,500 domestic/international customers in >30 countries inc. Asia, S. America and Australia• Custom developed e-commerce application supporting real-time inventory of >7,000 parts• Custom developed search engine, shopping cart, invoicing & PayPal integration IaaS services with 24x7 internal customer support• Profitable every year with highest profits posted in final year of operation

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Senior executive responsible for global information security function for $4B, 6000 emp. corporation comprising security strategy, architecture development, and global function oversight- SCOPE: 30K endpoints, 68K stores, 7 corps. (inc. UK, Eur., Australia, Asia), PCI, SOX,HIPAAOther roles at Hallmark: - Enterprise ERP Order to Cash Leader: Re-engineering efforts for enterprise SAP program (Distribution, Finance & Sales) - 100+ team, $100M budget, 68K customers, multi-currency- Sales Technology - IT Infrastructure & Application Development Group - Operations Manager, Operations Division

US Army’s first female Senior Intelligence Officer for 3500-man infantry brigade • Directed & completed hands-on development for intelligence gathering applications• Routinely presented to General officers; tasked w/ translating data into consumable terms• Managed staff of 10 programmers, 10 DBAs, counter-intelligence agents and interrogators