George Talbot Email & Phone Number

Durham, North Carolina, United States

Member of the Cristo Rey Research Triangle High School Job Advisory Board. The Job Advisory Board works with local businesses to employ the students in the school's corporate work study program.

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

Senior IT Manager leading the Analytics IT team during the Cisco Workday(#2919) implementation. Responsibilities included the evaluation and purchase of the Workday Prism platform, oversight of legacy reporting retirements, and retro fit of existing MicroStrategy functionality. Additional responsibilities included budget management for the IT Workday team.- Executed product evaluation of Workday Prism - Sized Workday Prism environment and negotiated contract with Workday- Inventoried more than 1,000 legacy reports and dashboards- Migrated 20 years of legacy data- Converted necessary functionality for go-live

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

Program Manager responsible for Global IT Cisco on Cisco Learning program. Designed curriculum to cover Cisco's Networking, Data Center, Security, and Collaboration products. Contributor to published white papers on the Business of IT.- 93% organizational completion rate of Cisco on Cisco Fundamentals program- Defined and built learning platform in Jive`- Established an advisory board for driving technical content- Created and deployed Cisco on Cisco IT content for Global IT Cohort sessions (~2,000 participants)- Led Webex technical talks- Implementation of technical assessments for learning programs- National Program Lead for the Cisco Cristo Rey Work Study program- Grew Cisco Cristo Cristo Rey Work Study program from 8 to 29 students- Identified Executive support for the Cristo Rey Research Triangle High School

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

IT Sr. Manager responsible for the Global IT University Program. Global program which is focused on the hiring of ~500 interns and new graduates each fiscal year in San Jose, Raleigh, Bangalore, Shanghai, London, and other locations.- Defined operating model for the annual hiring of ~500 individuals globally- Created and implemented strategy to improve the diversity of the candidate pipeline and hiring rate globally- Established $60,000 annual scholarship fund- Expanded intern and new graduate onboarding process from 4 sessions in the US to 24 global sessions annually- Implemented Early in Career educational program- Delivered various manager and team training sessions Awards- CIO IT Champion Award for Customer Service- CIO IT Group of Excellence Award

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

IT Sr. Manager holding various responsibilities within the HR IT organization including the HR IT Business Intelligence Practice; HR IT Program Management Office; HR IT Operations; HR IT Intern Program.- Implementation of Oracle HRMS replacing PeopleSoft- Deployed HR Management Metrics Center to more than 10,000 managers globally- Owned and maintained HR IT departmental budget of $28 million annually- Led post go live stabilization of Oracle HRMS global implementation - Led S-Ox compliance effort of Oracle HRMS post implementation- Ensured corporate security certification for more than 200 Application Service Providers - Moved technical architecture, more than 150 applications, into the Richardson, TX datacenter- Over a five year period, grew HR IT Intern program from 2 summer interns to 55 summer interns- Management sponsor for HR IT Analyst Community of Practice

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

IT Manager directly responsible for the excellence and growth of the HR IT organization in Raleigh (RTP), NC and Bangalore, India. System and architectural ownership of several HR functional areas including Compensation; Staffing; HR Call Center.- Management of 30+ Employees in Bangalore, India- Defined Vision and Mission of Bangalore, India location- Implemented a Off Shore Engagement Model based on Vision and Mission- Created hiring model for Bangalore, India based on a university hiring strategy- Deployment of Seibel WMS for HR Call Center in English and Kanji- Oversight of 20+ Employees in Raleigh, NC- Implemented S-Ox compliance processes for Compensation Systems- Deployed Manager functionality to calculate Total Target CashAwards- CIO IT Manager of the Year Winner- CIO IT Manager of the Year Finalist

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

Program manager responsible for the technical strategy required to revamp the staffing systems environment including partnering with the business clients to perform vendor evaluation. Provided the IT leadership to define and execute RFP to various vendors, work with business leaders to access the benefits and liabilities of execution of a vendor provided solution, and facilitate a decision for execution.

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

As the first individual that was hired in the RTP location for the HRIT organization, responsibilities included establishing working norms across the country and insure strong team work across the locations. Responsibilities included establishing the RTP location as a viable technical center capable of project delivery. Assumed technical leadership for the Resumix platform from existing team and created a technical roadmap to evolve the environment into a global solution.

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

Responsible for the design and delivery of various process automation projects. This also included the delivery and deployment of a large client-server self-service environment deployed globally to more than 50,000 employees. Migrated the architecture to the emerging web technology.Awards- President Award for Outstanding Accomplishment- Human Resources Award of Merit for Excellence- Information Services Award of Merit for Innovation