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Richardson, TX, US

Irving, Texas, US

As the VP, Partner Integration & Delivery, responsible for driving governance, delivery, and operational excellence with all our strategic partners. Additionally, collaborate with key business stakeholders to ensure we maximize value delivered on shared outcomes while aligning with McKesson Technology’s strategic objectives.

Round Rock, Texas, US

• Direct the global business, digital and IT operations of Dell Technologies to deliver business transformation results through large, complex engagements that identify, design, and implement creative business and.
• Manage the business and technical transformation efforts as EMC Corporation becomes an integral component of the $67B acquisition by Michael Dell (MSD Capital) and Silver Lake
• Broad technology experience and leadership with a reputation of effective transformation, vision and execution to achieve exponential growth to over $2B in annual revenue in less than 4 years
• Leverage breadth of technology acumen and program management experience to execute leading edge agile-based application development, support cloud based infrastructure solutions, and implement emerging technologies for.
• Experience in strategic planning and execution and considerable knowledge of business theory, business processes, management, budgeting, and business office operations to support high-growth company experiencing 6.
• Substantial exposure to data processing, business analytics, enterprise software applications, application integration, and outsourced systems

• BFN Operations, LLC is a portfolio company of Insight Equity Group.Consulting assignment responsible for alignment of IT systems and services to business activities, including all aspects of solutions development, IT.
• Simplified the IT infrastructure through the consolidation of 7 disparate operating centers onto a centralized Tier-1 co-location facility solution and reduced overall infrastructure expenditures by over 50%
• Hired strategic team members to consolidate onto unified ERP solution for 300+ users across 9 locations
• Designed and implemented comprehensive communication architecture that consisted of enterprise-wide intranet for team collaboration, VOIP telecommunications cost-effective solution and integrated website.

Irving, TX, US

• Established the 5-year strategic plan for TXU’s IT function. Led a 28-member team consisting of architects, senior technical engineers, analysts and project management resources from varying companies and organizations
• Reduced operating expenses 20% and consolidated supplier base 30% by establishing a vendor management office (VMO) focused on top 20 strategic relationships and aggressively managing service level agreements
• Instrumental in the IT leadership team’s being recognized by ComputerWorld (Honors Laureate) and CIO Magazine (CIO 100) for its customer acquisition innovative technology solutions

Irving, TX, US

• Directed 200 vendors and oversaw the annual IT budget of $100 million for customized and fully integrated SAP CRM application and related technologies that support 2 million residential/business customers
• Directed a multi-million dollar decommissioning project terminating a $1 billion 10-year outsource agreement
• Brought company into compliance with governance, risk and compliance (GRC) mandates by integrating 6 contract management repositories into a unified SaaS supporting 10,000 contracts and reducing costs 40%
• Led a 6 person team that negotiated and executed 300 IT-related contracts with cost savings of $10 million
• Reduced budget variances by 35% by reorganizing departments, increasing staff productivity, and consolidating IT procurement practices

• Recruited to optimize capital investments and establish Shared Services among operating centers: real estate, life insurance, and telecommunications. Managed SG&A functions including IT, Finance, Operations, HR, and.
• Managed $27 million in fee-based revenue from the real estate management fund and reduced operating expenses by 28% through best-in-class vendor management practices
• Instrumental in securing $34 million of capital by using structured methodologies (CMM, DFSS and Balanced Scorecard) to meet the requirement for IT business processes to align with European business practices

Scottsdale, AZ, US

• Introduced by Golden Gate Capital and recruited to manage P&L of Axway’s Professional Services organization
• Generated $14 million in revenue and industry leading 32% profit margins for Financial Services organization
• Grew quarterly consulting revenue run rate to $3.2 million from $750,000 by increasing staff from 35 to 120 to service client backlog and expand new business capacity
• Designed, developed and delivered web-based PSA application for tracking 120 consultants and managing $100 million in cost and portfolio management opportunities
• Teamed with sales leaders as deal facilitator and assisted in sales of $7 million of Axway’s software licenses
• Led strategic business development initiatives including alliance with system integrators (Accenture, BearingPoint, S1) and middleware and application providers resulting in $1.5 million in incremental revenue

Gaithersburg, MD, US

• Led process-based analyses, developed implementation protocols for an EDI application and supervised cost saving measures for a world-class manufacturing organization three months ahead of schedule.
• Consolidated full life cycle software development processes for five separate business units
• Enhanced compliance to customer service level agreements (SLA) within a 98% confidence interval
• Constructed and implemented a customized change request application to increase delivery of product by 80%
• Responsible for analyzing/integrating the impact of product, service and process changes to systems and procedures.
• Interface closely with our product management organization and core applications teams to integrate customization requirements into future releases of the core applications, where appropriate.

Gaithersburg, MD, US

• Directed all sales and administrative operations for this B2B ASP company focused on enterprise managed services customers
• Generated $12 million in annual revenue from clients including Visteon – one of the world’s largest automotive suppliers, On Semiconductor, and Xerox
• Implemented product cost and pricing analysis tools that improved gross margins and simplified pricing

• Reporting to the CEO, oversaw key internal finance and accounting functions including external audit supervision, capital spending policies, investment criteria, and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance
• Responsible for analyzing and integrating the impact of product, service and process changes to systems and procedures utilizing Project Management Professional (PMP) certification practices.
• Contributed to company growth from $5 to $22 million in annual revenue with 25% EBITDA by integrating product, service, and process changes to systems utilizing PMP/Six Sigma methodologies
• Implemented process and technology improvements that resulted in a $1.25 million annual cost savings from outsourcing 30% of application development and a 35% cost reduction from vendor consolidation

Dublin 2, IE

• Exposure to the full life cycle of project development at three separate engagements; from gathering requirements and analysis, to building and developing the software solution, to the actual implementation and support.
• Defined and co-managed business processes for a $72 million project for a gas utility transitioning to a deregulated market.
• Conducted rate tariff analysis, economic and financial valuations, and developed information strategies to consolidate 102 tariffs for a cost savings of $2.8 million per year.
• Supervised 10 programming analysts, authored performance evaluations and directed work tasks.

Mba, Finance & Operations Management

Mba, Finance & Operations Management

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Industrial Engineering