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Framingham, Ma, Us

Framingham, Massachusetts, Us

Framingham, Massachusetts, Us

Making our strategic ambitions a reality through new or completely remodeled digital and business capabilities. Connecting the dots across corporate strategy, product divisions, sales, customer service, software engineering, manufacturing, global business services, finance and more – influencing and working with colleagues at all levels of the company. Developing strategic and architectural direction and driving action to ultimately get to market with new products and digital customer experiences. A highlight in this role was launching the first stand-alone SaaS, B2B product in company history, the Bose PinPoint™ noise filter.

Framingham, Massachusetts, Us

Championed the transformation of a traditional I&O organization to an agile, cloud-first, service-based organization while managing Infrastructure Engineers, Cloud DevOps Engineers, Scrum Masters and Product Owners across multiple scrum teams with increasing responsibilities, including: • Leading a multi-year, multi-phase journey to migrate out of two on premise data centers to AWS• Championing employee growth and transition to cloud-first and automation skillsets• Leading the research and creation of our next-gen cloud and AIOps strategies• Chartering our first cloud devops team• Managing our Enterprise IT Cloud for cost, performance, security, and operations• Owning $4+ Million Enterprise Infrastructure Cloud budget • Delivering cost savings for cloud infrastructure, people time, and cloud licensing against budget• Negotiation of $3+ Million Microsoft Enterprise Agreement and vendor management• Owning global Microsoft 365 environment and leading administration and license management• Leading new Office 365 technology roll outs including Power BI as our enterprise standard visualization tool• Innovating our method for people development, training, and imagining the art of the possible with new technologies by leading and hosting multiple hackathons (Robotic Process Automation, Power BI, and Service Bots) • Developing stretch assignments to grow employees and coaching individual leaders to be trusted advisers and change agents during a time of organizational transformation

Framingham, Massachusetts, Us

Managed a 15+ person infrastructure team with expertise spanning networking, server O/S, storage, endpoint, and cloud focused on delivering projects and production support for IT Infrastructure. Drove the restructuring of our engineering delivery model into a services-based portfolio and agile team structure. Started shifting our talent and culture from reactive O/S administration to proactive solution engineering and automation. Catalyzed our major journey of migrating our people, processes, and technology to the cloud – starting with our massive SAP landscape.

Framingham, Massachusetts, Us

Chartered and managed an upstart team focused on employee productivity and lean IT automation. Our team automated the high touch repeatable work that returned hundreds of hours per month of employee time back to the IT organization, reduced friction for employees who engage with IT, and transformed the business with new productivity solutions. My biggest accomplishments were making automation a lasting strategic imperative in the infrastructure organization and driving the time it took for our engineers to get a new server from 40 days to 40 minutes.

Framingham, Massachusetts, Us

Member of an elite team of IT professionals who focus on imagining, researching, prototyping, and blazing a path to the future of Information and Workplace Technology. My biggest accomplishment was bringing our company’s first enterprise video solution to production and achieving wide adoption.

Framingham, Massachusetts, Us

Member of one of our first agile teams delivering SAP Projects and leader in our early agile community. Our team delivered many projects but our biggest was to enable Bose’s first venture into mass customization – our custom Quiet Comfort Headphones. I delivered the product master data and materials customization model which was used from procurement to manufacturing to ordering to delivery of the final product.

Amherst, Ma, Us

The Isenberg OIM major provides students with education and training in operations, analytics, supply chain, business intelligence, enterprise systems and transportation and logistics. The program has a tradition of teaching pragmatic problem solving skills using real world business situations shaped by experiential-learning-based classes. The department regularly seeks the advice of the OIM Advisory Board, the membership for which includes both alums and major recruiters, to ensure that the curriculum continues to provide students with cutting-edge technology that allows them to excel in the workplace.

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Operations And Information Management

M.S. In Management, Strategy, And Leadership, Business Administration And Management, General

Graduate Certificate In Business Leadership, Business Administration And Management, General

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