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Houston, Tx, Us

A leading global communications and IT services provider, Speedcast delivers critical communications services to Maritime, Energy, Mining, Media, Telecom, Cruise, NGO, Government, and Enterprise clients across 40 countries.• Lead the development of future-minded models and initiatives to accelerate organizational efficiency, automation, and digitalization. Develop customer-facing systems and IT solutions in full alignment with business objectives, establish partnerships with strategic service providers, and ensure world-class service delivery while controlling costs. Implemented a project prioritization framework to ensure alignment with strategic initiatives and accurately quantify the return on capital investments.• Transformed an inefficient, manually intensive order-to-cash process arrived at after 16 acquisitions. Engaged strategic technology partners Cognizant and Wizeline in the implementation of a modern application architecture, anchored by a modular eCommerce platform from Kibo that fully digitized and automated the OTC process. • Streamlined fragmented IT systems and time-consuming workflows following a multi-year phase of M&A activity that had caused a lack of visibility and unnecessary costs. Initiated a project with strategic partners CDW and ServiceNow to review business processes across Network Operations and automate manual processes.

Houston, Texas, Us

A provider of Design, Consulting, and Construction Management services with a focus on infrastructure, DCCM serves a wide range of end markets across the United States through its brand companies and strategic partners. • Developed and executed an IT strategy in partnership with business leaders from internal operating companies under a complex matrixed organizational structure during an aggressive period of M&A growth. Increased collaboration across acquired companies, supported local autonomy while implementing global standards, and improved visibility for clients accessing engineering data.• Built an enterprise-wide IT group to enable acquired teams to work together on Enterprise initiatives while serving the needs of each operating company. • Defined a multi-phased plan to successfully integrate the Project Management function of nine recently acquired civil engineering firms in just five months. Enabled multi-disciplined teams across the DCCM family of companies in new bid strategies to pursue larger and more profitable contracts by aligning data security standards, consolidating project accounting, and improving engineering document management. Analyzed accounting systems and project management processes, formed a strategy and roadmap, and rolled out a centralized ERP system, enabling $16M in net new project revenue. • Implemented a cybersecurity and enterprise risk management program including multi-factor authentication

Houston, Texas, Us

A leading global provider of solutions to the Floating Offshore Oil & Gas market, MODEC specializes in the execution of large and complex EPCI (Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Installation) and Floating Production Storage and Offloading projects.• Led IT globally to improve project delivery in Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC), enhance vessel operations, and reposition IT as a central driver of business strategy. Cut IT spend by $2.4M, decreased outages by 90%, and reduced the ticket backlog by 90% in the first six months. Served as a trusted advisor to the Board and strategic partner to executive leaders to build a solid digital foundation aligned with a $40M P&L. • Managed 8 direct reports, 150+ indirect reports, global project teams of 200+, and $7M to $10M in annual CapEx with 99% budget accuracy. Established a unified, business-facing global IT team, partnered with HR to attract top talent, actively supported and engaged employees, and achieved an employee retention rate of 98%. • Developed and executed a strategy to save a mission-critical system used to support over $5B in capital projects, with the software vendor six weeks from bankruptcy after terminating 80% of their staff. Built a digital transformation strategy with senior executives and the Board of Directors in Tokyo. • Launched a three-year, $52M transformation initiative that brought operating companies across 10 countries onto a big data modern application architecture anchored by SAP, automated manual processes, and introduced data-driven decision-making and real-time access to project data. Achieved a $15M EBIDTA improvement annually and dramatically reduced re-work and lost project hours caused by delayed materials. • Managed key strategic partnerships with Capgemini, Accenture, Documentum, Microsoft, SAP, and Gartner, encompassing $85M in vendor agreements. • Shifted to a customer-first IT delivery model that elevated customer satisfaction scores to 4.25/5.

• Served as Interim CIO for a national hospital provider and led the development of a risk mitigation strategy for an electronic trading firm. Improved uptime in critical customer systems from 80% to 99%, repositioned IT to align with key business objectives, and created an updated risk strategy that delivered a 20% improvement in failover time.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Led an ERP digital transformation and standardization initiative globally that lowered expenses by $825k, reduced unplanned outages by 95%, improved inventory costs by 20%, and doubled confidence in IT within three months.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Established a global Service Desk and shared services support model, consolidated three IT support teams, and achieved a $5M (20%) reduction in annual expenses while improving system uptime by 25%.

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Mba, International Business

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