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Senior IT Executive managing IT portfolio for Advertising Sales and Marketing for all A. H. Belo newspapers. Managing Advertising IT strategy, staff and operations at the The Dallas Morning News, Providence Journal (RI), Riverside Press Enterprise (CA) and the Denton Record Chronicle (TX). • Improved efficiency, reduced IT and operations costs implementing enterprise wide advertising and AR system for all A. H. Belo newspapers, centralizing IT and business operations. Reduced operations and IT head count by approximately 20 FTE’s. Reduced IT operational costs by over $1mm per year. Delivered project on time and $8 million under original budget.• Reduced cost and improved efficiency by leading implementation of full integration between ad ordering system and 3rd party ad serving platform using custom and vendor supplied web services. We were the first newspaper in the US to accomplish this. • Implemented java based customer self-service portal using java, and vendor supplied web services. Custom portals service B2B and B2C business needs.• Improved sales operations leading implementation of SalesForce.com, integrating lead and opportunity management and booked and billed sales. Led development of integration with backend ad ordering system for customers, leads, closed/won opportunities, and commission revenue reporting.• Improved sales order process by leading implementation of Tactician integration into AdBase for pre-prints. • Leading implementation of the BURT pre-print distribution management system. Eliminated duplicate entry and automated manual processes to enable staff to operate more efficiently. Managed full project life cycle and led development of custom interfaces for 3rd party web order entry, packaging and circulation systems. • Reduced Credit Card processing costs implementing (Edgil – PayWay) enterprise wide web-services based processing system PCI compliant. Implemented PCI compliance standards for business and systems.

Senior IT executive, member of senior executive team responsible for strategic planning, goal setting, expense and revenue budgeting, capital and staff development. Divisional responsibilities include managing technology support and related services, project management and production operations.• Grew ad revenue by leading development of web strategies to reach our USC sports fans with www.gogamecocks.com.• Enhanced revenue opportunities by implementing numerous web based services, including subscriber services, online digital edition and retail advertiser website for ad entry and management. • Led implementation of the BURT preprint management system. Replaced manual calculations and operations, developed custom interfaces with circulation system for distribution counts by zone, and route. Allowed business to implement sub-zone targeted marketing.• Led development of coordinated strategic and capital plans for all McClatchy newspapers in the southeast region.• Developed strategic plan for reducing technology expense across all 32 Knight Ridder papers. One of four members on corporate team that developed plan to significantly reduce headcount, capital and expense over next 4 years by standardizing systems, outsourcing services and restructuring IS staff. • Improved accountability by developing and implementing SOX procedures for IS, Production and Payroll operations.

Senior IT executive managing all technology needs for Ellett Brothers and subsidiaries in Prosperty SC, North Carolina and Missouri. Managed 20 person staff of developers, network technicians and operations plus consultants and vendors. Developed strategic technology plans, established & managed budgets and negotiated contracts.? Reengineered business processes developing significant modifications to and installing ERP systems for Ellett and subsidiaries. Led user team, managed project schedule and budgets, and managed MIS staff and consultants in development and deployment.? Generated over $1 million in annual revenues implementing web site for Business to Business e-commerce.

Senior IT executive Managing all technology and communications needs for university administration and faculty. Including strategic planning, budgeting, and staffing. Led management team searching for new computer system to manage university operations. Developed budgets, search criteria and made presentations to university upper management and board.? Implemented client-server university system, converting from AS400 to HP9000 system running Informix. Chaired Management overseeing the project. Managed vendors, programming staff, scheduled training and implementation. Project came in ahead of schedule and within budget? As a non-profit managed entire IT operation on tight budget. Managed capital and expense budgets, staying withing or under budget.

Developed systems to meet technology needs for securities clearance and settlement for 11 major trading divisions. Managed staff and budgets, established strategic plans.

Managed customer front-end systems for Cash Management, funds transfer, ACH, and core banking with 24x7 access for over 2,000 institutions worldwide.

Managed and developed decision support systems for Fixed Income research, sales, and trading. Developed analytic systems and programs for traders and Institutional sales-force.- Led project to bring new Dec Vax systems inhouse and converted data and applications from Timeshare site to internal systems. - Developed government bond hedging algorithms and related applications for derivative products (bond options and futures.) - Developed binomial options model used for valuing call options on government bonds.- Developed reports and applications for risk management for all bond trading desks.

Developed Applications for Short Term Securities Trading system. Managed data conversion to new IBM System 38 Platform and implementation of new trading floor in mid-town Manhattan.

- Wrote Specifications and developed new Financial Futures Trading Position for Kidder Peabody, Inc.. Developed position tracking and management applications, Installed hardware and software on IBM System 38.- Developed Applications for Fixed Income Trading systems for Aubrey G. Lanston - Government Bond Trading system. Developed Analytic applications to manage trading positions.