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Cary, NC, US

Enabled deeper alignment across global solutions, optimized strategic investment decisions, and streamlined portfolio management.

Cary, NC, US

• Led software development, data science, cloud deployment, quality assurance, and regulatory affair teams for the Health and Life Sciences division of the leader in analytics.
• Decreased time to market from years to months by implementing a data agnostic platform that ingests from industry standard sources to feed a common data model that supports all products in the portfolio.
• Dramatically increased team productivity through agile transformation and increased CI/CD automation.
• Drove organizational transformation by establishing mission, vision, strategies, responsibilities, metrics, and execution plans.

Cincinnati, Ohio, US

• Accountable for the product, development, data science and analytics, quality assurance, infrastructure, and security organizations at the premier middle market Legal ERP company.
• Executed a company sale with a $50 to $200 million increase of value from organic growth in 2 years.
• Established product-centric culture by collaborating with C-Suite to establish roadmap and execute.
• Implemented an AWS/On-Prem hybrid cloud architecture to launch new mobile, analytics, and SaaS products leveraging serverless architecture, Big Data, Java, React, Node.js, Sisense, and Python.
• Performed assessments on numerous acquisition targets and assisted with build, buy, partner strategy.
• Transformed a 5 FTE waterfall development team into a 40+ onshore/offshore agile team in 6 months.

Boston, MA, US

• Led organization to deliver architecture, strategy, and roadmaps in the areas of Enterprise Product application, integration, infrastructure, DevOps enablement, and analytics.
• Saved the company $24 million/year by implementing near zero downtime ERP infrastructure
• Architected an enterprise analytics solution leveraging AWS, HVR, Talend, and Spotfire.
• Directed team accountable for the ERP re-architecture of the $25 billion/year aviation engines business.
• Leveraged DevOps and CI/CD best technologies to automate ERP code and configuration deployments.
• Led team to deliver ~700 integration user stories/year to support various business needs leveraging webMethods, Informatica, Oracle SOA, Oracle Integration Cloud, and Dell Boomi.

Boston, MA, US

• Directed a team of Technical Product Managers to continuously deliver high value improvements to GE Aviation’s most important application and largest ERP generating $52 million in revenue daily.
• Collaborated with the leadership team to establish the organization, processes, and tools to adopt Agile.
• Implemented a material logistic solution that will result in a $3 billion ROI over 20 years.
• Achieved a $45 million ROI by partnering across the organization to help implement Oracle WMS.
• Managed a vendor swap knowledge transfer for the operations team resulting in $1.5 million of savings.
• Partnered with Senior IT and Business Executives to launch a $100 million program to replace 75 legacy applications with 1 ERP to modernize the platform and processes of the GE Aviation Engines business.

Boston, MA, US

• Orchestrated overlapping releases for a 22 site multi-year global Oracle R12 ERP implementation with a $20 mil/year run rate and over 300 resources across multiple departments.
• Implemented a new site on Oracle E-Business Suite(EBS) every quarter by redesigning organization and processes to adopt FastWorks Lean Startup philosophies.
• Managed infrastructure delivery of 8 ERP instances each with 30 additional connecting applications.
• Architected and documented design of 27 Finance and Engineering integrations and 16 conversions.
• Saved ~1500 working hours by optimizing environment refresh plan from 21 days to 8 days.

San Jose, CA, US

• Performed numerous roles, each with increasing scope of responsibilities in finance application development.
• Led the company’s top program to enable real time attributions of bookings, COGS, and revenue using a service-oriented architecture to enable new cloud business models providing a $3 billion ROI.
• Administered an IT budget of $18 million with over 40 IT personnel working on 4 overlapping phases
• Conducted a cost reduction exercise resulting in a $1.6 million savings over 7 quarters.
• Consolidated requirements from multiple initiatives to devise a system to amortize and execute revenue, bookings, and COGS adjustments in Oracle 11i and R12 with Sub-Ledger Accounting (Patent Applied)..
• Designed a custom application to automate rate setting and fair value completeness processes related to VSOE/SOP 97-2/EITF 08-1(Patent Applied).