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South Holland, Illinois, US

Advise a $15 million revenue, 50 employee tech startup that provides SaaS-based solutions and professional services to dispensaries, cultivation facilities, manufacturers, and state governments in the cannabis industry.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Leveraged my unique blend of entrepreneurial acumen, industry expertise, and innovation; I transformed an ambitious idea into a thriving business, driving client satisfaction and revenue growth. Defined consulting practices that specialized in cloud readiness, technology due diligence, cybersecurity, supply chain planning, master data management, and ERP.

London, GB

Work directly for CxO level executives to provide strategy, process, and IT advisory services on mission-critical initiatives across Risk, Insurance, Retirement, Finance, Marketing, and HR.

Chicago, IL, US

Created an enterprise IT organization to support all operational processes and technology company-wide. Responsibilities included oversight of software development, enterprise architecture, network infrastructure, service desk, project management, quality assurance and security across 5 offices, 260 stores in 11 states, and 1 offshore location.

Established business development & IT operations for issuing payment card processor. Handled information security, application and infrastructure development, telecommunications, systems architecture, program management and network infrastructure. Leads and directs security, regulatory compliance, business analysis, quality assurance, and business process.

Managing partner of a global consulting firm (partnered with IBM Global Business Services) focusing on strategy, corporate finance, capital acquisition, treasury and financial management functions. Planned and negotiated mergers, acquisitions and corporate partnerships. Directed design and implementation of financial and operational systems and controls.

Chicago, Illinois, US

Developed organizational policies and strategies for the build-out and support of environments that were consistent with Six Sigma quality controls, Sarbanes-Oxley, and financial compliance controls. Defined and maintained ITIL, ISO9000, and SEI CMM Level 2 & 3 compliant processes for the IT organization. Led and directed team of 35 professionals. Managed.

Charlotte, NC, US

Led team of 50 associates that supported foreign exchange, fixed income, global derivative products, and global corporate risk projects in US, London, and Hong Kong. Managed budget of $10 million. Forecasted organizational supply and demand and reconciled variances. Created, maintained, and managed "best-of-class" standard operating procedures for.

Chicago, Illinois, US

Managed multi-disciplinary team of 35 code deployment, UNIX, network, security, and capacity planning engineers in the US and Canada. Developed and supported tools for streamlining and automating software build and deployment process. Established department policies and SEI CMM level 2 standard software procedures. Developed and modified UNIX system.

Amsterdam, NL

Led and directed multi-disciplinary development team of 15 software developers. Developed and managed project plans and schedules for multiple projects. Handled troubleshooting on NT servers consisting of IIS 4.0, ColdFusion, and SQL Server 7.0. Identified and resolved technical, change management and manpower planning issues affecting the project.

Chicago, Illinois, US

Authored scripts and Web interfaces that gave each group member seamless interaction with switching modules. Maintained and administered resources on four multi-tier UNIX systems. Wrote scripting tools in Perl and UNIX shell script, which increased the group's productivity by a projected 25%.

Mba, Economic Strategy, Finance

Bs, Computer Science