John Abel Email & Phone Number

Sunnyvale, California, Us

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Morrisville, Nc, Us

Santa Clara, California, Us

Hired as part of new CEO leadership team to turnaround this $2B enterprise software company. Leading a global team of over 370 IT professionals, covering Enterprise Application, Infrastructure and Cloud Services, Cybersecurity, Product Labs, and Data Intelligence and Analytics. Achievements to date include;• Drove improvements and brought stability to core applications and systems that have led to improvement in company renewal rates of more than 20% over two years, a core goal for the company. • Added approx $400M in company valuation through reduced spend in IT by 40%, across 3 fiscal years. • During COVID pandemic, moved over 6000 employees to remote working environment within 1 week, with no customer impact. Customer Service function leadership and entire executive team recognized IT enabling such a significant transition so quickly without impacting services. Currently serving in role of executive leading Enterprise Resiliency Office for the company during the pandemic. • Moved entire Oracle ERP and OBIEE suite over to Oracle Cloud within 6 months, and team completed the move in a single weekend without any business interruptions. 95% of global company IT architecture now runs in public cloud environments. • Drove a mobile culture for employees by enabling simple to use program for everyday tasks across the Veritas Workforce, e.g. meetings and facility scheduling activities, business function approvals, onboarding etc. • As an executive promoting strong culture and diversity in my team, I was requested by Social Responsibility function to be the executive sponsor for Women At Veritas Empowered (WAVE), promoting gender diversity within the company. • Implemented a new program for Veritas on Veritas (V2) promoting use of Veritas own products within our hybrid cloud. Leveraged by sales and marketing functions for external executive sales efforts especially in CIO to CIO discussions.

Pleasanton, California, Us

Senior vice president & Chief Information Officer, for this hyper growth SaaS FinTech company, I was responsible for all aspects of the company’s internal Information Technology and Systems and aligning those with Ellie Mae’s business strategy to automate everything automatable in the residential mortgage industry. Achievements included;• Established a vision for the IT organization to Automate, Scale and Secure the enterprise to enable Ellie Mae to reach $1B revenue goal. • Implemented new governance processes to bring transparency to IT investments and ensure that 40% of IT spend is going into strategic growth initiatives. • Successfully passed and achieved highest rating in company history for FFIEC examination.• Transitioned the company from 605 to 606 Accounting standards, required for subscription software companies. • Introduced ServiceNow platform as a employee portal solution, alongside existing Workday HCM & Financials and Salesforce CRM, to build out a 95% cloud based application footprint that will allow the company to scale and pivot with industry changes. • Achieved 100% compliance against aggressive SLO’s on vulnerability management to ensure company is protected against latest cyber threats. • Implemented additional layers of security and authentication for protection in mobile and remote working environments. • Implemented new innovative cloud solutions reducing costs and improving employee satisfaction in areas of Talent Acquisition and Learning Management. • Partnering with Engineering to automate account and environment provisioning processes for customers on AWS and reducing SKU creation process steps from 26 to 6. • Begun the migration of internal IT Applications from data centers to AWS. • Bringing innovative collaboration ideas to improve employee effectiveness in the digital office place.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Santa Clara, California, Us

San Jose, California, Us

Chandler, Arizona, Us

Amsterdam, Nl

New York, Ny, Us

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Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Management Information Systems, General

Cio Academy Diploma