Mark Gill Email & Phone Number

Morgan Hill, Ca, Us

Morgan Hill, Ca, Us

Redwood City, California, Us

Responsible for Security, Infrastructure and Service Management.

Redwood City, California, Us

Newbury, Berkshire, Gb

Implementing release and deployment standards for Micro Focus back office stack, including defining entry, exit and success criteria for all major release events. Staffing a new team to implement automated deployment pipelines for the new system implementations. Standardizing development processes from waterfall to DevOps across the application landscape. Application scope includes Salesforce, NetSuite, Informatica MDM, Workday and internally developed systems.Leads a global team of release managers delivering new scope to the business while maintaining the integrity, security and reliability of the platform that runs the Micro Focus business. Owns $3.5M in spend with external resources supplementing overall development and support processes.Previously delivered key components of the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Software Spin-Merge to Micro Focus.HighlightsDelivery of a comprehensive data migration and transformation engine. Migration included the transformation of all master, transactional and reference data from legacy environments into a new SaaS based architecture that now transacts a $3B business.Management of a $30M budget across additional workstreams including SaaS vendor engagement, integrations, BI, Security and SOX compliance and testing.

Houston, Texas, Us

Led an organization responsible for more than 20 discrete software applications implemented in HPE for the Enterprise Services business. Application suite directly generated more than $600M of HPE’s annual revenue. Owned release and test delivery of the majority of development change on the SAP platform for HP Enterprise Services – one of the largest SAP platforms in the world processing more than $24B of HPEs revenue.In 2014 delivered more than $50M in new incremental direct business value in the form of both cost savings and increased revenue through system changes. 2015 incremental business value was approximately $25M due to a focus on HPE divestitures.Provided leadership during an IT organizational transformation, pivoting the organization into a true leveraged resource model from a traditional project based delivery team. Developed the internal discipline to migrate legacy systems to improved future states with cloud, micro services and SaaS solutions.Led an initiative to shorten value delivery times by 20%. Work included strategic implementation of multiple software delivery mechanisms (SDLC) across the portfolio (agile, waterfall, DevOps). Also pushing the envelope on highly efficient testing practices across enterprise solutions and strengthening business prioritization models for planned IT work.

Houston, Texas, Us

Led a team of 45 that delivered more than $10M of incremental business value in systems processing more than $10B of revenue. Implemented functionality and plan to migrate customer accounts from legacy platforms to a go forward platform. Regularly visited with customer accounts to understand system impacts and gather feedback for process improvements.Key Contributions:Delivered platform functionality enabling the migration of 1000+ legacy contracts to a go forward SAP platform, representing $3.5B of the company portfolio. The ‘top 10’ accounts represented more than $1B in revenue each.Staffed core team of release managers, test managers and support personnel from the ground up to implement a coordinated release delivery plan and supporting processes including business engagement and demand planning.Implemented end to end SDLC process for the IT organization. Made solution available to other organizations in company. Focused on the areas of test accelerators, standardized development mechanisms, and enterprise architecture.

Houston, Texas, Us

Designed and implemented the release management process team used to integrate the IT functions of a major acquisition (EDS). Work required bringing two very diverse cultures together to deliver five distinct waves of coordinated system functionality across more than 25 systems. The program represented one of the largest business transformation initiatives ever attempted at Hewlett Packard.Key Contributions:Provided delivery leadership for a system release across 23 discrete systems. Implemented solutions enabled the business to standardize revenue of $190M across 10 countries.Led and assisted teams across the enterprise with core release management expertise, including the release management process, toolset usage, testing strategies, change control processes, and release planning.

Houston, Texas, Us

Implemented the major components of an enterprise E-commerce strategy. Role included scope definition, plan execution and change management across all regions worldwide. Provided expertise and ownership for complex issue escalation and triage. Key Contributions:Implemented baseline E-commerce solutions to the Asia Pacific region to enable the retirement of three legacy Ecommerce stores. This baseline solution impacted 4 different call centers across Asia and over 10,000 corporate enterprise accounts, measuring $1.4B in annual revenue. Implemented a significant system upgrade to the direct business model that provided a conduit for more than $5B in annual business. The implementation involved 107 application teams with more than 35K test cases executed to validate changes.

Houston, Texas, Us

Developed an architectural strategy for business units in Latin America and Canada. Eliminated redundant systems that saved the regions $1M annually. Consolidated distributed support centers into a single center of 22 reports that processed more than 1400 calls per month. Overall savings to the organization exceeded $2M annually with more than 50% improvement in support response times.

Houston, Texas, Us

Owned the IT strategy for the PC business unit in Canada. The Personal Systems Group provided desktops, laptops, workstations and thin clients to all customer segments worldwide including a $500M annual business in Canada. Led IT implementation work needed to start up a manufacturing facility in Toronto, Canada producing 25,000 business desktops per month.

Houston, Texas, Us

Led a worldwide team that designed, developed and maintained systems that were instrumental in the manufacturing of Intel based servers. Software was implemented in both company owned and outsourced facilities worldwide.

Houston, Texas, Us

Provided project management expertise for cross-functional IT project implementations at the Hewlett Packard Network Server Division. Implemented a major upgrade to an existing defect tracking system with a user base of more than 400 users in support of Y2K issues.

Houston, Texas, Us

Designed and managed the Integration Testing environment for a PeopleSoft HRMS implementation supporting approximately 80,000 HP employees.Presented testing strategy and toolsets at the 1997 Peoplesoft User's Conference.

Houston, Texas, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Mba, Mis/Marketing

B.A, Business Administration - Finance Option