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Cleveland, Oh, Us

Cleveland , Oh, Us

At IT-Envision, we help organizations bridge the gap between:- The complexity of modern business and IT landscapes, and…- The simplicity of a strategically built IT ecosystem that directly drives business valueOur approach integrates into your current and future initiatives, projects, and challenges, making transformational changes along the normal evolutionary course of your business and IT landscapes.Battling the dragons of today’s complexity requires a proven process to - Clarify Value Targets - Expand and prioritize strategic goals for maximum impact.- Engage Diverse Resources - Gather critical insights from diverse perspectives for clarity.- Expose Growth Options - Leverage insights gathered to reveal the optimal value targets.- Identify Tactical Options - Identify and align design options with key goals and project needs.- Target-Informed Collaboration - Craft a forward-thinking, value-focused roadmap.- Finalize and Deliver - An actionable roadmap for optimized value and growth.Essentially, this approach supports your efforts to create business success through a collaborative process that:1. Breaks down silos impeding smart solution designs2. Transforms resistance to change into a culture of innovation3. Upgrades strategic and tactical thinking so your team can harness proven wisdomThis repeatable approach delivers value as lessons learned from each project become stepping stones, empowering your teams with new and powerful disciplines.Most importantly, this method, which enables and accelerates tech optimization and adoption, is laser-focused on achieving high-value business outcomes.If you're looking to:- Expand and sharpen business value- Accelerate and enhance the design process- Create a path forward with actionable insights- Optimize your IT landscape along the way- Build team rapport and elevate strategic thinkingReach out to explore what’s possible and achieve new levels of service, performance, and overall business value.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

In my tenure with Expedient, I've navigated roles from Enterprise Sales to Commercial Strategy, consistently driving transformative initiatives that strengthen client relations and elevate our market presence. I've worked via collaboration, content creation, and strategic alignment to ensure our services resonate with evolving industry demands and client needs. Influenced business growth through speaking engagements in private and public settings.- Content Leadership: Crafted varied content, from webinars to blogs, to help enhance Expedient's market visibility.- Strategic Messaging: Crafted presentations to demonstrate how our portfolio of solutions addresses challenges across the IT landscape for strategic business value.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

- Methodology Design: Formulated and facilitated innovative workshop, extracting insights from stakeholder and team interactions.- Partnership Development: Championed workshops that addressed key challenges and deepened internal collaborations with our partner.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

- Cloud Narrative: Helped initiate a pivot in our cloud messaging, aligning it with the broader cloud adoption landscape.- Strategic Sales: Led high-profile client engagements, helping identify needs to align tailored solutions to meet unique business challenges.

Plano, Texas, Us

An innovative leader in IT, building a transformative approach to business and technology alignment. Adept at reshaping business models, notably transitioning from traditional to solution-centric sales methodologies while ensuring streamlined operations and sustainable growth.- Strategic Business Evolution: Supported sales teams transition from a 'box-selling' to a 'solution-based' model, merging smaller acquisitions into cohesive, efficient units.- Pioneering Client Engagement: Implemented a 'Land & Expand' engagement model, enhancing client relationships and ensuring clearer strategic solutions.- Operational Leadership: Established a comprehensive structure for Black Box’s managed services, addressing network, desktop, and field services support.- Financial Acumen: Defined/deployed standards for pricing models, anchoring a competitive edge through a profitable model that tailored pricing to client needs.- Empowering Talent: Devised specialized training initiatives for Solution Architects & Consultants, amplifying the organization’s technical and strategic capabilities.- End-to-End Sales Strategy: Overhauled traditional sales approaches, introducing innovative frameworks and robust process management, resulting in amplified revenues and client satisfaction.- Financial Results: Jim's application of the above accomplishments resulted in the winning key contracts - six figures of monthly recurring revenue - with Roche Genentech, TJX Companies, Wells Fargo, and Intel to name a few.

Cleveland, Oh, Us

In my role as CTO with MCPc, I played a pivotal role in transforming Managed and Hybrid Cloud Services, establishing MCPc as a dominant force in the SMB and Commercial sectors. Drawing on a dynamic team of professionals spanning sales, marketing, finance, and operations, we developed a robust business model that enhanced our market position, operational efficiency, and financial health.- Operational Blueprint: Pioneered a practice structure, revolutionizing our service delivery and sales trajectory.- Sales Leadership: Spearheaded significant growth by directing large-scale opportunities.- Product Innovation: Supervised and contributed to the product development team, ensuring market relevancy and innovation.- Stakeholder Collaboration: Seamlessly integrated Sales, Partner Management, and Marketing for unified business strategies.- Executive Engagement: Acted as a pivotal executive liaison and trusted industry advisor.- Consulting Excellence: Delivered impactful consulting projects, solidifying our industry expertise.- Financial Oversight: Championed financial strategies, optimizing profitability and resource distribution.- Financial Results: Using the strategies above, I achieved $3 million in cloud sales within five months and generated $6.25 million in managed services in the first year.

Jim steered Foundatia into steady growth (37% year over year in first 5 years) and clinched client contracts with substantial businesses in his market. He championed strategic IT solutions, bolstered infrastructure operations, and introduced an Amazon Cloud-backed offering, optimizing and modernizing managed services resources and tools.- As Olympic Steel's IT Architect, designed and documented expansive business continuity plans covering their most critical business systems.- As a consultant for Zenith Systems, rapidly addressed a significant security breach, instigated key IT process enhancements, and slashed operational costs by $500K annually.- Amplified performance by 4x for an insurance client, preventing a costly system overhaul (saving $12+ million), and crafted seamless data migration strategies for a major law firm.- Expertly diagnosed and rectified database performance and code issues for an e-commerce client, optimizing system utilization and forestalling substantial expansion expenditures that would not have resolved the underlying issue.- Interim CIO – Cleveland Chapter of the American Red Cross: As the interim CIO, Jim was chosen from four contenders to oversee the IT operations for The American Red Cross (Cleveland Chapter), spanning all areas of service desk support. The mandate was twofold: enhance efficiency and elevate service quality, all while reducing costs. By integrating cutting-edge technologies, refining support structures, and reshaping established service consumption habits across the org, we successfully introduced and trained for new IT roles, setting clearer service expectations, and delivering enhanced performance.

Detroit, Mi, Us

Drawn to Compuware from prominent opportunities with Sealy and Ernst & Young, I rapidly revitalized operations. Serving in multifaceted roles—Director of Data Services, Sales, and Solutions Architect—I spearheaded the expansion of our team from a trio in database support to a 17-member data services organization, generating over $4M in additional annual revenue. This approach yielded successful collaborations with industry giants like BP, GE Lighting, Westfield Insurance.- Revenue Boost: Elevated Cleveland office revenue by $4M via an innovative SLA-based database services design.- Microsoft Adoption: Secured adoption of our MS model by Desktop Support Group.- Team Growth: Expanded database professional team from 3 to 17 members.- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Enhanced pre-sales engineering, solution delivery, and customer support through collaboration with sales and engagement teams.- Sealy Initiative: Centralized technology infrastructure for Sealy, supporting 32 manufacturing sites with an $8M CAPEX budget.- BP Solution: Successfully designed BP's web-based trade floor system.- Government Project: Delivered a comprehensive environment for a joint governmental initiative, encompassing a data warehouse and reporting system.

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I led a series of strategic planning and change management initiatives that employed emerging technologies and developed core applications to improve business processes and performance. These initiatives included the implementation of an electronic archiving solution to capture POS credit card signatures, development of a data warehouse to store data across 4 back-office and client-facing systems, and optimization of the Oracle Core Inventory Module peak load performance.

I led the design and build out of a comprehensive system infrastructure for a restaurant supply distributor. In an engagement with OfficeMax, I revamped the database reporting platform to meet the stringent requirements set forth by Founder and COO Michael Feuer for timeliness and accuracy of reporting.

I was recruited as a Programmer Analyst and rapidly promoted to Lead Technical Consultant and then Vice President. As a VP, I directed consulting engagements with clients in diverse industries and led teams in technical solution design and delivery.