Eli Collier Email & Phone Number

Phoenix, Az, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Advance KPMG Deal Advisory group as a leader in back-office & front-office technology, infrastructure cloud migration, and enterprise technology strategy. Drive M&A pre-sign, pre-close and post-close activities, including due diligence, operating model definitions, cost optimizations, and synergy realizations. Key advisor to C-suite of Fortune 500 and PE clients, aiding complex deal areas of supply chain, finance, HR, manufacturing, warehouse and IT infrastructure, working with industry-leading ERP, SaaS and cloud providers.

Warren, Mi, Us

New York, Ny, Us

✔ Drove front-office infrastructure workstream of a $5B carve-out of a healthcare technology company, serving on buy-side to conduct due diligence assessment for acquisition by private equity.✔ Enabled $2.1B carve-out of a cybersecurity company by leading back-office planning for buy-side PE consortium. ✔ Built strategic international ERP expansion plan and designed new PMO structure for a Microsoft Dynamics 365 rollout for a $1B technology service integrator. ✔ Developed new external client business in M&A Services, collaborating with partners to develop and execute business development and proposal strategies and activities. ✔ Cultivated and maintained positive client relationships. Led client interviews and workshops. Developed and presented final project deliverables. ✔ Elevated KPMG Diversity & Inclusion (D&I/ I&D) as active member and ally of employee business resource group. ✔ Achieved 30% above utilization targets and exceeded sales and management quotas within 1st year. ✔ Built and managed teams of cross-functional professionals on various engagements. Developed and motivated staff to ensure project delivery to meet or exceed expectations for deadlines, budgets, and quality.

Boca Raton, Florida, Us

Reporting into VP IT (acting CIO), spearheaded enterprise applications, architecture, security, IT operations, program management, and service delivery, including help desk. Developed corporate and IT strategies, policies, and initiatives. Designed solutions and technology roadmaps. Managed stakeholders and removed barriers in a rapid-change environment. Nurtured high-performance team of 5 direct reports responsible for a cross-functional workforce of 75.✔ Enabled scalability to meet corporate growth projections, including international market expansion, new product launches, and channel partner community. Designed a simplified enterprise architecture with Salesforce, Oracle Cloud, and Service Now, utilizing MuleSoft. Developed 3-year roadmap.✔ Spearheaded IT integration for 18 acquisitions. Partnered with M&A team on strategy, due diligence, and integration of back-office IT components. ✔ Owned and expanded relationships with Microsoft, Oracle, and Salesforce. ✔ Introduced Agile and continuous process improvement. ✔ Realized ~$750K in annualized savings, while reducing risk and improving services, by leveraging strategic thinking to move application support and development to MSP. ✔ Reduced licensing costs 20% by architecting large-scale cloud migration (Azure). Consolidated all physical servers and databases to a fully virtualized cloud infrastructure.✔ Secured an agreement with Oracle, delivering $500K+ cost savings over 3 years by negotiating elimination of revenue-based license and reduction of software maintenance fees by ~$75K annually. ✔ Turned around unfavorable perception of IT and improved customer satisfaction scores by instilling customer service mindset among IT staff. Led change management to ensure enterprise-wide adoption.✔ Maximized staff retention, employee engagement, and morale by championing a growth-minded culture to actively support achievement of individual goals in alignment with organizational mission, vision, and values.

Boca Raton, Florida, Us

Boca Raton, Florida, Us

Boca Raton, Florida, Us

Drove P&L and business operations for K-12 and Emerging Markets within the Professional Services division responsible for implementing, customizing, and integrating Blackboard products with clients’ back-office systems. ✔ Transformed division’s revenue model by developing Blackboard’s highest-margin product ICS (integration and customization support), a subscription service. Created pricing strategy and SOPs for recurring revenue model. ✔ Achieved revenue increase of ~50% YOY by coaching and mentoring consultants to drive consistency in delivery.

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

11-month engagement, contracted through Focus Consulting to manage Nextel's largest CRM implementation of Amdocs, representing the 4th largest IT project for FY 2003 with a budget of more than $10M. Worked within a matrix environment to manage a project team of developers and contractors.✔ Co-led development and rollout of enterprise services API framework based on IBM’s Crossworld and MQ Series software during design, development, test, and production rollout phases. ✔ Crafted and delivered project status communications to all levels of management and stakeholders. ✔ Guided IT leadership and legal counsel on contract renegotiation with the primary OSS/BSS software vendor. Improved their ability to write rules of engagements into contracts. Advised Amdocs on a work slowdown.

San Francisco, Us

Portal Software, Inc. was a leading global provider of billing and revenue management solutions for the communications and media industry. Company was acquired by Oracle in April 2006. Developed competitive strategy for sales and marketing groups to position CC&B software product against primary competitors. Led implementations. ✔ Trained marketing and sales teams on how to go head-to-head with specific competitors, marketing to their weaknesses and undercutting their advantages. ✔ Contributed to several major contract wins by gathering, analyzing, and delivering intelligence.

Worldwide, Oo

Oversaw implementation of multiple global ERP, CRM, and OSS/BSS (operational support systems/bus support systems) applications at large multinational telecom clients. Managed workstreams and project teams.✔ Managed teams to implement global customer-care, provisioning, and billing platforms at clients Cable & Wireless, Certen, Excel Communications, and Verizon Wireless. ✔ Improved ROI and achieved 30% acceleration of time to provision, support, and launch new products by implementing flexible systems that allowed company to. ✔ Developed full system configuration project plans from staff acquisition, through implementation, to full knowledge transfer in post-production billing implementations. ✔ Successfully implemented a new CRM/BSS system at Cable & Wireless allowing the selling, provisioning, and billing of international products to multi-national corporations in 9 currencies and 7 languages across 11 countries. ✔ Led the implementation of a new CRM/BSS system at Bell Canada to support over a million customers and serve as the model system for its future implementations at other subsidiaries. ✔ Managed teams that engineered and documented procedures for utilizing new billing/CRM and call technology systems at Bell Canada (Certen) and Verizon Wireless, resulting in reduced bad debt by as much as 75%, improved collection rates, increased operational efficiencies and mitigated overall risk associated with poor credit profiling and high-risk customers. ✔ Managed the teams on multiple PeopleSoft ERP engagements at companies such as Washington Gas Light and Genesis Health Ventures. Coordinated and directed functional user groups and technical IS resources. Provided General Ledger expertise in configuration, version upgrade, and/or performance improvement in all GL areas including complex consolidations and equitizations processes and FP&A.

Worldwide, Oo