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Virginia, United States

• Managed team responsible for $200M of divisional IT budgets encompassing financial planning, variance analysis, processes, and control to support internal financial results and management.• Forged partnerships with IT divisional leaders in developing financial plans and helping them to achieve results in labor and non-labor spend.• Key participant in the design, implementation, and structure to support required CEO/President approval of consulting statements of work.• Developed… Show more • Managed team responsible for $200M of divisional IT budgets encompassing financial planning, variance analysis, processes, and control to support internal financial results and management.• Forged partnerships with IT divisional leaders in developing financial plans and helping them to achieve results in labor and non-labor spend.• Key participant in the design, implementation, and structure to support required CEO/President approval of consulting statements of work.• Developed and coached a team of high performing finance professionals including the training of interns and rotational analysts.• Instrumental in the delivery of IT divisional operational efficiency program results to the CIO and IT COO identifying functional overlaps.• Supervised recasting of IT divisional budgets and forecasts following IT reorganizations impacting IT Finance and other lines of business. Show less

Mclean Va

• Conducted investigation and gap analysis into fixed price milestone billings to lessen impacts to monthly results following A/P process change.• Directed software as a service expense analysis, providing change recommendations and required new accounts to increase IT spend visibility across the enterprise in collaboration with line of business G&A leads.• Chaired project cost rate development resulting in salary and benefit recovery of < 1% for 4 consecutive years.• Introduced… Show more • Conducted investigation and gap analysis into fixed price milestone billings to lessen impacts to monthly results following A/P process change.• Directed software as a service expense analysis, providing change recommendations and required new accounts to increase IT spend visibility across the enterprise in collaboration with line of business G&A leads.• Chaired project cost rate development resulting in salary and benefit recovery of < 1% for 4 consecutive years.• Introduced demand governance and intake process across IT Finance for all IT labor position requests to align to staffing strategy to forecasts.• Established mid-month process for project labor spend to predict month end actuals allowing IT and business owners to achieve 4% favorable variance to FY project budgets.• Stepped up as SharePoint site owner for IT Finance sites, challenging the team’s thinking on how documents are searched and stored across multiple platforms, retiring old sites, and enhancing site usability to increase collaboration efficiency. Show less

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Recruited by the global CIO to create the Office of the CIO function for a transparent and consistent approach to the way IT services were delivered value to the business.• Established IT as the first global shared service team in the company for service chargeback/showback transparency.• Drove $20M in savings from the global consolidated IT budget and operating expense from $55M in 2013.• Designed annual multi-million-dollar global OPEX/CAPEX IT budgets and consistently received… Show more • Recruited by the global CIO to create the Office of the CIO function for a transparent and consistent approach to the way IT services were delivered value to the business.• Established IT as the first global shared service team in the company for service chargeback/showback transparency.• Drove $20M in savings from the global consolidated IT budget and operating expense from $55M in 2013.• Designed annual multi-million-dollar global OPEX/CAPEX IT budgets and consistently received executive board budget approval to support business operations.• Developed IT cost framework identifying risk, analyzing scenarios, and investment opportunities to meet demand and project management needs.• Formalized IT CAPEX portfolio management practices to the CFO to gain approval for IT transformation and innovation budgets.• Saved $1.8M in year one of the Microsoft enterprise agreement by negotiating and moving to a subscription license model for O365 and Azure.• Reduced future planned OPEX by $8M per year as part of the senior IT management team tasked with transitioning the IT service to an outsource model for all IT functions.• Restructured software agreements and license usage to align entitlements to reduce compliance risk, to meet global stakeholder needs, and to reduce spend.• Built first service catalog of IT software titles to streamline deployment, procurement times, and support needs to meet business requirements.• Bettered Gartner Consulting’s IT benchmarks for professional service organizations for three consecutive years.• Founded enterprise software asset management office, team and processes to track license deployments, support, and asset life cycle management.• Hired the organization’s first chief information security officer and launched the information security office within one year.• Built IT procurement and vendor relationship team to support over 5000 employees in North America for the acquisition of hardware, software, and services. Show less

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Established IT financial and contract services as a global corporate function within IT.• Received annual management approval on budgets developed to support on-going activities and new annual initiatives with input from IT peers on staff, hardware, and software requirements.• Collaborated with internal stakeholders and third party design team on intranet user experience redevelopment effort.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Unified corporate communications to over 7,000 personnel through the largest investment and development effort to date on a collaborative SharePoint intranet platform. • Led the design, development and released on time/budget the first global extranet platform to serve clients and internal project managers. • Improved intranet adoption by leading the integration of extranet, enterprise search and Microsoft Dynamics CRM. • Increased intranet availability to 98% by resolving outages… Show more • Unified corporate communications to over 7,000 personnel through the largest investment and development effort to date on a collaborative SharePoint intranet platform. • Led the design, development and released on time/budget the first global extranet platform to serve clients and internal project managers. • Improved intranet adoption by leading the integration of extranet, enterprise search and Microsoft Dynamics CRM. • Increased intranet availability to 98% by resolving outages with outsourced offshore development team. • Led migration to SharePoint 2010 in under one year by refactoring custom SharePoint 2007 code with outsourced offshore development team. Show less

Greater Los Angeles Area

Greater Los Angeles Area

Washington Dc

Greater Los Angeles Area