Innovative and strategic IT leader with extensive experience leading teams to design, develop, and implement solutions that support global business initiatives. Focused on delivering business value through the appropriate use of technology based on a strong "People, Process, then Technology" philosophy. Particularly effective in quickly understanding business needs, setting goals, defining actionable technical solutions, and driving outcomes. Skilled communicator able to interact effectively with C-level executives, staff, vendors, consultants, and partners.Responsible for all aspects of IT at Mezzetta, reporting to the CFO and managing a team of nine covering Applications, Analytics, Help Desk, and Infrastructure across three sites. Joined Mezzetta in the newly created position to provide structure and vision to the IT department and prepare the company for future growth. Led the company in transitioning from running on Excel spreadsheets to modern IT solutions that fit the business needs and supported its growth.

Responsible for defining architecture and managing the delivery of BI systems, Data Warehouses, and integrations for Treasury Wine Estates with a current focus on the demerger of Treasury Wine Estates from Fosters Group. Responsible for collaborating with business users and IT staff around the globe to formulate a consistent and effective strategy to separate the two businesses and set the future direction for Business Intelligence within Treasury while continuing to deliver many regional North America projects.

Leading a team of developers and architects to deliver IT solutions for Fosters North American business. Responsible for leading architecture for North America as part of the global architecture team and delivering regional development projects. Collaborates and contributes to overall global architecture and identifies specific impacts to the North American business as part of the Fosters Enterprise Architecture project. Defines architecture and manages internal developers, consultants, budgets and timelines. Delivers technology solutions to all areas of the business.

Responsible for all aspects of in house developed applications and supporting infrastructure for Fosters North America. Transitioned Fosters Custom Applications group from individual, independent, developers to a formal development organization. Planned, managed and supported fully virtualized development and production environments, and introduced SOA techniques that enabled significant reuse within Fosters applications.

Fosters lead on a three company project with Constellation Brands and JDEdwards to develop a winemaking module for JDEdwards 8.12 (WIM). Drove the internal Fosters project and actively partnered with a similar role at Constellation to formalize requirements, negotiate scope, and manage the overall project. Worked with the JDEdwards teams in Australia and Denver as Solution Architect defining the overall solution in close partnership with a JDEdwards Technical Architect. Consolidated and standardized winemaking reporting and information standards for Fosters as part of a global deployment plan for WIM.

An independent contributor responsible for requirements, development, rollout and support of internally developed applications and interfaces.

Lead consultant for a small consulting firm developing applications for the legal, government and wine industries.

Network consultant responsible for designing, estimating and installing local area networks for small to medium sized businesses