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Irvine, California, Us

Responsible for establishing the company's technology vision and leading all engineering, infrastructure, technical operations, quality operations, information security and service delivery. Work in close collaboration with the Senior Leadership team to provide strategic direction, development and growth of the company. Manage a global organization of employees who build, improve, and maintain the software applications that underpin the Accurate product offerings. A catalyst for innovation and transformation, helping to evolve the way Accurate brings new products and services to market and supports existing customers.

Northbrook, Il, Us

Direct the strategy for the ADS technology group, providing technology thought leadership for ADS for driving implementation of business and corporate initiatives

Overland Park, Ks, Us

Responsible for creating and delivering a framework for digital transformation. Responsibilities include,Oversight: Oversee all enterprise and global digital solutionsDigital Roadmaps: Accelerate digital roadmaps across our value chain and business unitsOperational Efficiencies: Identify key opportunities for operational efficiencies both within IT and in business unitsValue: Create customer intimacy and value realization

Dublin 2, Ie

Applied Intelligence Leader for Chemicals. Responsible for strategy and solution development of Accenture's Applied Intelligence Offerings (Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotic Process Automation and Chatbots) for the Chemical Industry.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Supervised 10-person department to identify and initiate digital transformation across product lines within 4500-employee, $1.4B international company. Developed vision and strategies, won buy-in of division executives, aligned objectives, and partnered with divisional business leaders to create internal divisional value propositions. Regularly reported status of digital programs to Board.• Launched new digital division focused on developing smart water technologies. • Took charge of industry’s First-ever Water as a Service Product line• Created vision, authored technology roadmaps, developed IoT model, built Cloud platform, and supported/managed actual marketing, sales, and product implementation. Used AI to reduce costs 15% and introduced market-unique product.• Partnered with global/divisional sales and marketing teams to create branding and marketing models and launched Water One concept across the company.• Water One product offering won 2019 industry “Digital Edge 50 Award for IoT.”• Implemented Microsoft Azure Cloud-based IoT portal, cutting costs from legacy platform by $1.5M+ yearly.• Created state of the art digital Command Center to monitor/manage 4000+ digital assets. • Led team to create/conduct workshops for local/regional decision-makers. • Developed partnership with Carnegie Mellon University to leverage digital engineering capabilities.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Supervised 385 employees to deliver customer service and supply chain business operations in US and Canada for 17K customer, 1700-employee industrial division. Led operations across Technical Support, Billing, Customer Service, Delivery, Manufacturing, Warehousing. Delivered P&L for business unit. Created digital team to identify opportunities to convert product lines to smart water solutions.• Supported and co-presented IOP Digital Water concept and promoted ‘SaaS as customer water model’– Evoqua would own/maintain equipment and customer would pay for water only; company listed on NYSE Nov 2017.• In 6-month project, consolidated 3 manufacturing plants, optimizing plant footprint and production capabilities; realized $600K in annual savings.• Initiated/oversaw 9-month project to replace legacy software with new tablets and Microsoft Field Service software. In first 6 months, realized $3.2M in additional service revenue through enhanced up selling.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Led 105-member organization in all IT-related support and projects company-wide. Developed vision and set IT strategy. Reviewed strategies and progress with Board of Directors on a regular basis. Built/re-built organization to minimize non-value costs and create capabilities supporting standalone public company after divestiture from Siemens. Reduced budget by $6M+.• Successfully integrated 6 acquisitions to fully realize projected synergy savings.• In 9-months, migrated corporate systems to Cloud, eliminating need for internal data center. Requested by Microsoft to represent Evoqua on blog as example of “quickest digital transformation to the Cloud.”• Implemented Single Sign on for all major software applications, increasing corporate software security.• Migrated 4500 employees to Windows 10 and implemented Office 365 for e-mail and Office products, including enterprise voice via Skype. Eliminated legacy phone lines, improved features and resiliency, and saved $2M yearly. • Implemented Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) model and moved corporate phones to MaaS model.

Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, Us

Directed 50 personnel to transform business organization through analytics for $10B generic drug manufacturer with 35K employees. Developed/maintained analytic solutions globally for all levels of the organization. Consolidated data warehouses into single global instance and implemented global IT organization to support Analytics strategy.

Jacksonville, Fl, Us

Accountable for the global operations and daily leadership of the IT Applications department, Knowledge Management Organization and the Master Data Maintenance department, reporting to the CFO. Responsible for the operations, maintenance and continued enhancements of all IT applications within Arizona Chemical including the global ERP (SAP) system, Content Management Systems, CRM, and Plant Management systems, including outsourced relationships for hosting and application management. Responsible for setting corporate IT policies and standards. Developed and implemented an enterprise governance model, including the establishment of an IT Executive Steering Committee, made up of members of the Senior Executive team, to ensure the IT effort and resources were aligned with the corporate strategy.Responsible for developing and setting IT strategy and executing the strategy.Built a "Best of Breed" global BI organization, using SAP BI/BO, and an employee self service model.Successfully developed an Enterprise Portfolio Management Office (ePMO) across the entire organization focusing not only on IT projects, but also business project and capital improvements. Implemented Planview and project management capabilities in the organization.Successfully converted the commercial organization from legacy Lotus Notes applications and spreadsheets and implemented a single global CRM platform based on Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Hosted system in a private cloud with full Outlook integration and Reco's Mobile CRM platform.

Abbott Park, Illinois, Us

Accountable for the global operations and daily leadership of a $7-$10 million, 11 person global IT department including planning, workflow prioritization, project supervision, and oversight of all IT applications and projects for two global business divisions. Maintain IT systems and implement globally aligned projects based on business needs for more than 9,000 end users. Meet with global senior management on a regular basis to discuss alignment of priorities and review status of IT based projects and system operations. Maintain multimillion-dollar outsourcing contracts with US, European and Indian based technology companies. Coordinate multimillion-dollar, multi-year implementation contracts with external IT implementation partners.

Manage six direct reports across two local IT departments. Department was responsible for six projects and 12 applications located throughout various remote data centers in Europe and the US. Accountable for the management and implementation of projects between $500,000 and $1 million. Oversaw multiple projects related to the development and implementation of an application that tracks all regulatory filings for the company – from requirements gathering to vendor selection.

Senior member of an IT department responsible for the global document management suite of applications.Key member of team responsible for the architectural development and execution of a global document management system. This included the integration of six local applications into a single repository and outsourcing all hosting activities to a third party in Europe. The application served 3,000+ users with approximately 1 million documents and 1TB of content.

Team leader responsible for the configuration, implementation and project management of multiple laboratory systems and the US document management application.Analyst for a complex legacy data migration involving laboratory instrument information. Provided expertise on systems and data, and the quality assurance of migrated records.

Abbott Park, Illinois, Us

Responsible for the management of the LIMS and Chromatography Data Systems for the Pharmaceutical Products Division of Abbott Laboratories.

Abbott Park, Illinois, Us

Chemist responsible for raw product and finished product quality testing within the QA Laboratories of the Pharmaceutical Products Division within Abbott Laboratories

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Leadership Development

Bachelor Of Science, Chemistry