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Responsible for the digital transformation at Nationwide. Lead the technology team responsible for delivering Nationwide's strategy for digital product transformation and operational efficiency through automation.

Monroe, Louisiana , Us

Member of the Lumen Board of Directors, Audit and Risk Committees

Boston, Ma, Us

GE Group CIO leading global technology strategy for the General Electric company including the operations of the global corporate IT Infrastructure and associated shared services. Manage $3B+ annual budget and 25,000 global employees and contractors.Appointed by CEO to oversee Digital Transformation program across GE. Digital Thread will connect enterprise systems and data with operations data to generate $1B in productivity between now and 2020. This includes setting the strategic vision for the GE employee experience with technology in 2020 and driving enterprise architecture development by business to meet Employee 2020 vision.Ensures the safety and security of GE’s information assets. Oversee 1,000-person Cyber Security organization that is responsible for both Enterprise and Product security. Provide regular status on Cyber Security to GE Board of Directors.Drives the organizational transformation for IT through insourcing of information technology workers across GE to recover lost intellectual capital and technology skills. Strategy developed to move from over 70% outsourced to less than 50% outsourced by 2018 by deploying 2,000 new GE employees to 5 technology centers around the world while eliminating over 6,000 contractors.

Norwalk, Ct, Us

Responsible for all technology related services used to originate, underwrite and operate the $350B portfolio of GE Capital. Manage large annual budget, 4,400 global employees and 9,000+ contractors.Charged by Senior Leadership Team to oversee multi year program to simplify and modernize the transactional systems used to originate, underwrite and operate $350B worth of assets. Defined a detailed program plan to ensure GE Capital can meet the regulations defined by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Funded and staffed agile development teams (User Experience, software development, DevOps and mobility) to deliver solutions using the FastWorks methodology. Centralized team of 200+ in two technology centers located in Detroit, MI and New Orleans, LA. Functionalized the 4,400 member technology organization across GE Capital. Eliminated P&L specific teams and redundant work. Developed strategy to move from over 70% outsourced to less than 50% outsourced in three years while keeping costs flat.

Schenectady, Ny, Us

Led global team of IT professionals responsible for digitizing all processes from Inquiry to Order through Service and Support. Managed significant budget, 1,000+ employees and 5,000 contractors.Hired by business CEO to drive a strategic program to reduce the number of ERPs supporting GE Power & Water from 30 to three in four years. Focus of the program was on enabling key capabilities in the areas of variable cost productivity, cycle time reduction and base cost reduction. Developed and validated a converged technology strategy for two businesses being consolidated into one. Drove digital products delivery. Launched multiple programs tied to incremental revenue for the Power & Water business. Developed strategy for customer/supplier connectivity including the launch of a configurator used by sales times to deliver real time quotes and a new CRM tool used to connect with customers in real time.

Boston, Ma, Us

Responsible for developing and delivering the global information technology strategy. As part of his role, led process excellence and advanced analytic programs to best support both internal and external customers. In addition, I was responsible for developing commercial offerings that use internal and customer data to drive optimization of customers’ assets. I also serve as the Leader of IT for GE’s Services Council.

Boston, Ma, Us

Managed all IT Services for $1 Billion dollar software and electronics manufacturing company with locations globally; supervised 100 employees. Additionally, led IT functional committee or GE’s industrial services businesses responsible for executing a $300M multi year program to address specific audit issues.Approached by leadership team to take on a dual role leading all IT initiatives for the Intelligent Platforms business while leading a cross-business program to eliminate audit issues related to data quality problems in our industrial services businesses.

Cincinnati, Oh, Us

Managed all manufacturing related IT Services for $20 Billion dollar manufacturing company with locations in 80 cities; supervised ten managers and 170 employees.

Boston, Ma, Us

Responsible for the design of all application, data and infrastructure architecture for $40 billion dollar manufacturing organization located in over 200 locations globally; supervised ten managers, 100 employees, and 50 contractors.

Managed team of 20 people responsible for designing and implementing all human resource systems used across multinational corporation of 315,000 employees. Supported global ERP containing over 600,000 active and retired employees. Supervised global consulting firms with approximately 100 developers. Implemented custom developed compensation planning system that supported global currencies, salary planning, options planning, as well as incentive compensation planning.Ensured successful divestiture of over 60,000 employees and transition to new ownerSuccessfully implemented all changes related to major organizational realignment impacting over 200,000 employees

Cincinnati, Oh, Us

Completed certification as Six Sigma Blackbelt through two year hands on training program. Led server/storage capacity planning project that increased the overall utilization of technical infrastructure by 50% while reducing spend by over $1 million dollars. Drove team of blackbelts in the design and implementation of a project management methodology across the entire IT organization to reduce cycle time and increase quality while maintaining cost.

Cincinnati, Oh, Us

Managed team of 10 people responsible for the design and implementation of all UNIX server and desktop technology used within global manufacturing organization. Responsible for driving on time delivery of all technology required to support application projects.

Dublin 2, Ie

Managed team of consultants responsible for implementing operations architecture in support of global ERP programs. Served as technology manager for more than 20 ERP programs globally. Developed ERP Operations Architecture framework used by ERP practice globally.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Implemented global Salesforce management system using Lotus notes on Windows NT infrastructure. Acted as systems analyst for Windows NT infrastructure supporting Lotus Notes in AT&T.

B.S, Business Administration; Mis And Marketing

Masters, Business Administration And Management, General