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Miami, Florida, United States

Alpharetta, Georgia, United States

Greater Boston Area

Greater Boston Area

Boston, Massachusetts

Senior member of Hackett's Oracle practice with focus on PeopleSoft and ERP Finance Transformation (strategy & execution), Program Management Office Transformation (governance, design & deploy), Enterprise Performance Management, Benchmarking and Business Case Development, Total Cost of Ownership, Complex ERP Health Checks, Finance and Accounting.

Mclean, VA

Perform Project Management Office (PMO) transformation services for a new enterprise PMO. App portfolio consisted of $240M+ in business/IT projects across the Freddie Mac enterprise. Prior to this role, directed a staff of 14 focused on solutions management related to information technology delivery services within the Finance & Corporate IT division.

Lexington, MA

Co-Founder of a start up organization that focuses on design, implementing and maintaining Intelligent Decision Systems. Responsible for the initial integration design component of the organization’s formal business plan. Actively participated with executive team on overall business plan components, including marketing, sales and financial. Additionally.

Reporting directly to the EVP of Operations and Administration, directed 50 employees / $7m direct budget and oversight of company’s $400M+ annual IT budget. Established formal systems portfolio management organization to support business strategy, process improvement and systems portfolio planning across all Property/Casualty business processes and.

Reporting directly to the CEO, directed 14 employees / 10+ consultants and $2M budget. Oversaw day-to-day strategic initiatives exceeding $100M, which included project governance/standards/reporting, quality/risk assessments, and enterprise portfolio analysis. Presented executive project status reports to CEO, Office of the Chairman and the company’s Board.

• Following acquisition of PwC Consulting by IBM, led large complex sales initiatives focused on overall solution architecture, ERP implementations/upgrades, application management and hosting services. Performed.
• Developed new integrated proposal methodology for cross-IBM sales efforts, including Hosting, Application Management Support, Off-shore Development and PeopleSoft delivery.
• Performed SAP feasibility assessments for existing PeopleSoft clients looking for Oracle alternatives.

Responsible for defining, selling and delivering global strategic solutions for Fortune 200 companies. Led client teams of various sizes across multiple industries and disciplines. Key in "architecting" the solution, driving complex sales efforts and delivering $300M in revenue.

• Performed project management and business process consulting services within firm’s PeopleSoft practice.
• Performed day-to-day project management duties at a large hospitality client supporting PeopleSoft’s Financials, Distribution and Manufacturing project (consisted of $110M, 150+ resources, 10 months).
• Performed successful turnaround of an “at-risk” PeopleSoft Financials and HR/Payroll project.

• Performed project management, business process and system testing services on ERP projects.
• Developed best practice methodologies for PeopleSoft implementations, including functional specifications, test scripts, security/control requirements and end-user training guides.
• Prepared formal policy documentation for ISO9000 certification at Manufacturing company.
• Performed SAS70 audits on Fortune 200 Financial Services organizations.

Performed middle market consulting services, including implementation of small PC-based financial applications.

Bachelor Of Science, Accountancy

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