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- Provide overall direction, guidance and definition of the applications architecture to support the company’s business strategy- Work with key business stakeholders to gain a strong understanding of the business objectives and related technology needs across the enterprise- Work with internal customers, consultants, IT team members and other stakeholders to identify requirements, assess available technologies, and recommend solution options- Partnered with IT team members and business stakeholders to build consensus, gain approval, and ensure the successful migration of a Global sales force to a single Salesforce.com SalesCloud instance and delivery of Service Cloud for call centers in the Americas, EU,and Asia-Pac.- Serve as a visionary, providing new solutions to solve business challenges and utilizing new trends and technologies

Responsibilities included:-Leading the program to develop, maintain and leverage the enterprise architecture (EA) across the organization. - Defining EA governance and processes and leading their integration with related business and IT processes. - Collaborating with IT leaders, IT Centers Of Excellence and leaders in the business to document strategic IT capability requirements as part of annual/on-going planning and governance- Delivering Enterprise IT strategic roadmaps focused on technology capabilities for Business, Information (data) and Technology solutions as part of the annual / on-going IT planning processes- Overseeing EA implementation and reporting on progress and value delivered to the organization.- Developing and delivering "Cloud First"strategy for deployments for SaaS, PaaS,, and SIaaS to transform business capabilities.- Leading matrixed team in delivery of a Mobility program with focus on app standards, app delivery, and security, in the deployment of tablets to 3,000 sales representatives globally and creation of solutions available to all employees.

• Delivered $10 million savings by managing 9,000 applications as a global portfolio. Savings realized by life cycle management and through applications decommissioning, including licenses and hardware.• Delivered 25% reduction in number of desktop applications by portfolio analysis of 3,000-desktop applications. Concurrently, performed review of potential impact of VISTA on mission-critical desktop applications, and drove decision to delay implementation, delivering savings of over $4 million. • Led team in analysis of gaps and potential conflicts between Seven Core IT strategies (e.g., single data center, outsourced information workplace, externalization to third parties). Identified savings based on potential duplications in software / functionality and potential cost increases based on gaps in requirements and conflicts in functionality..

•Aligned European and international SFA architectures to offer support from centrally provided Siebel service. •Developed a strategic hosting solution, working with Siebel expert services, to support 11,000 sales representatives across 18 time zones. •Working closely with Legal and Finance, formulated the benefit proposition to consolidate existing Siebel licenses. Assisted in development of licensing proposal. Delivered 20% reduction in cost through renegotiation and extended availability of software solutions.•Led Global SFA Governance authority to assure alignment of business processes and adoption of globally delivered solution. •Established architecture to support thin client access for international sales force members from public access points. .

•Reduced Web site development costs 80% through creating architecture and design, and delivery of Web page generation engine that provided core capability to create new external Web sites via delivery of XML-based content from creative agencies and generation via single engine with no coding requirement. •.•Acted as sole US Pharmaceuticals representative in selection of globally implemented central architectures : collaboration, portal technologies, middleware/SOA target architecture, and access management architecture•Delivered first extranet-based solution to support access to GSK’s most-valued 30,000 physicians.•Developed architecture and design for 1on1Health.com, a single platform for delivery of multi-lingual, non-branded health care education for 14 health care topics. •Reduced negotiated, external consulting, development costs 25% through creating external Web development guidelines to support 100 GSK commercial Web sites.

•Established data architecture strategy for data warehousing and OLTP environment for sales and marketing systems. •Provided technical consulting for 1-terabyte Oracle-outsourced data warehouse on Sequent NUMA Quad architecture. •Provided support to Marketing Sciences for development of datamart strategy and tool selection. •Served as Data Architect for newly developed closed-loop CRM solution for 3,300 sales representatives, responsible for alignment of data exchange among four external providers (including NDC and Dendrite) and internal systems. •Led team in initial data load of 7 years of historical data into transactional systems and initial load of central data warehouse for consolidated reporting.

Responsible for supporting the Decision Support division of Advanta’s Credit Card company in identifying technology strategies to meet the existing Business needs and providing single point of contact with the technology group to assure service

Principal Consultant for Oracle Financial Services Consulting for delivering Datawarehousing and application solutions for the Credit Card, Financial services, and Brokerage industries.