Gartner Research Board for Chief Data and Analytics Officers helps D&A leaders in the world's largest and most admired organizations shape and achieve success on their mission-critical priorities. This is the fastest growing board in the history of Gartner and is shaping the future of the how the CDO role is evolving to support digital transformations.

Led global and regional teams that deploy best-in-class data management, reporting, and advanced analytic capabilities to drive actionable business insights for competitive advantage. Set strategy and developed cloud-based, mobile-enabled integrated digital platform for high-quality data discovery, visualization, and advanced analytics. Partnered with senior brand, function, and regional leaders to provide near real-time data and analytic solutions driving greater consumer marketing insights, competitor and market opportunity assessments, social media listening, sentiment analysis, and demand sensing to improve market share, identify new revenue opportunities, increase time-to-value, reduce cost, and enhance efficiency. Reported to CIO/CTO and on IT Leadership Team leading master data management and data lake technology, data science, data visualization, self-service analytics, data engineering, data & analytics community of practice, management reporting, and data governance & quality functions. Built-out and led global team of 40+ colleagues and 200+ contractors & consultants with $30M project, $15M business & reengineering, and $12M operating budgets in FY20.

Partnered with global and regional corporate functions to develop and align IT strategy to business strategy; managed $30 million portfolio of strategic programs and projects to deliver effective and efficient technology capabilities; reported to global CIO and member of IT leadership team; built-out and led team of thirty senior technologists.• Sponsored and led Enterprise Information Management / Master Data Management initiative to create new organizational capability establishing enterprise data governance.• Led the development of Enterprise Performance Management dashboards; implemented quarterly performance reporting and IMS healthcare competitive intelligence dashboards on new SAP HANA platform.• Delivered enhanced Financial Management Reporting capabilities to enable re-modeled corporate performance reporting and drove planning of future state SAP globalization initiative.• Implemented Workday Human Capital Management globally replacing sixty disparate systems in one-year time frame; created Total Rewards technology strategy to deliver global on-line portal capabilities.• Transformed Global IT into a high-performing learning organization built for scalability and sustainability to support aggressive corporate growth targets through 2018.

Led Global Finance Technology / Hyperion performance reporting organization; assumed additional responsibility leading Enterprise Business Intelligence group; founded Enterprise Applications Leadership Team; reported to global CIO and member of IT Leadership Team.• Envisioned and obtained CEO approval for an Enterprise Business Intelligence strategy; sponsored the development and communication of a reporting catalog to support SAP ECM and Business Objects suite of tools.• Optimized Hyperion HFM closing & consolidation platform and upgraded to highly available environment accelerating monthly close process, reducing down time and lowering overall support costs; streamlined Hyperion shared service build and run organization by 30% and doubled portfolio of new projects and enhancements.• Implemented global product costing application in three months replacing unfinished activity based costing system.• Expanded technology capabilities across finance organization by delivering SaaS based Global Treasury system, domestic sales and use tax reporting (Sabrix SAP bolt-on), audit management system (TeamMate), process controls (SAP GRC), expense management (Concur), and procurement system (Ariba).• Transformed Finance IT from Hyperion-focused shared service organization to business technology group driving broad capabilities across global and regional finance organization.

Senior Director - Global Information Technology (Global HR, Legal & Corporate Services)Provided strategic IT leadership and key interface to business and IT functions in delivering Information Technology services; partnered in the formulation of process strategies and underlying systems architecture.• Transitioned SAP Human Capital Management on-premise system to hosted Human Resource Information System for North America while implementing a Global Payroll system in parallel.• Implemented and enhanced tools for recruiting (Taleo), performance (SuccessFactors), learning (Plateau), compensation & grading (Talent|Reward), and global time keeping (Kronos).• Partnered with Global Legal to implement eDiscovery (Symantec Enterprise Vault) capabilities to archive, manage and discover critical unstructured data to ensure compliance and reduce the costs of litigation support.• Collaborated with Global Corporate Affairs on launching a harmonized & globally branded Mylan.com web presence; led implementation of content management system to manage global web sites.• Led yearly refresh of IT Strategic Business Framework for Global CIO.Senior Program Director – Europe Transformation Program (2010 – 2011)Special assignment by Mylan’s executive leadership to manage corporate initiative to improve global technical and commercial business operations in Europe; managed twenty projects in program scope to defined targets; developed strong business relationships and individual project subject matter expertise to ensure proper planning, coordination, and reporting.

Director - Business Operations (Discovery Response Team - Legal Division)Led operations of $30 million shared service in support of electronic discovery needs for the enterprise; managed internal project management staff and best of breed suite of vendors to ensure high quality, low cost discovery operations.• Envisioned and implemented transformational plan to restructure organization and outsource functions & processes to ensure a more responsive, efficient and scalable eDiscovery business unit.• Negotiated with leading eDiscovery vendors to provide innovative flat rate processing via new technology platform with twelve-month savings of $1.7 million (38% unit rate reduction) and exclusive hosting & storage arrangements yielding an estimated 20% savings on projected 2008 budget volumes.• Evaluated and implemented with vendor a hybrid document review strategy using both domestic and offshore (India based) contract attorneys to guarantee 20% year over year unit rate reductions.• Implemented workflow and legal hold systems; counseled IT in the implementation of email archiving / journaling.

Senior Finance Manager (EuCan AfME Finance - Global Pharmaceuticals Division)Provided financial reporting, analysis and commentary on regional strategic operating plans, forecasts and actual P&L performance; prepared senior management communications; led reporting & analysis of parallel trade activity; interfaced with European trade and pricing groups on modeling activities to support new product launches and price changes.• Developed structured reporting and analysis on parallel trade activity; improved forecast accuracy by developing financial modeling on parallel trade trends; streamlined FTE and reduced parallel trade work effort by 75%.• Led finance optimization team in reengineering reporting & analysis for the region.

Customer Relationship Manager - Corporate Information TechnologyPartnered with corporate business units to ensure enterprise infrastructure needs were fully understood, service levels and budgets were agreed upon, projects were properly prioritized & managed, and performance levels of Corporate IT against commitments were adequately measured and communicated.• Led cross-functional account team in transforming infrastructure service performance for the corporate business units and improved overall Corporate Finance and HR 2004 customer satisfaction scores by 36% and 20% respectively; developed cost saving strategies for global system rollouts and current production systems with realized savings of 15% in the Corporate Finance area and $1 million in Corporate HR.• Ensured successful deployment of expense management, consolidation & reporting, procurement and human resource global applications by championing a formalized enterprise-wide production acceptance initiative.• Co-launched enterprise-wide planning council that established long-term service strategies for IT infrastructure shared services, aligned investment plans, and managed shared corporate IT project portfolio.

Senior Business Technology Manager - Global Pharmaceutical DivisionPartnered with international finance organization on strategic and tactical information technology projects; assisted senior management in identifying effective use of technology to improve business processes; aligned technology solutions with business strategies and developed & deployed applications in support of key business processes.• Led team which designed, developed and implemented a re-engineered strategic operating plan process and system for the global pharmaceutical division; rolled out and trained 500 users in 60 international locations.• Partnered with European area finance to create a parallel trade reporting process and web-based system that facilitated greater precision in product supply performance and 30% reduction in actual financial loss.• Conceived and implemented a technology strategy and set of flexible & reusable components to support the ad hoc requests of divisional finance; leveraged architecture in creating financial integration systems to support the analytical & reporting requirements of the Pharmacia & Warner Lambert mergers.

Directed corporate financial performance reporting team; defined strategic direction of reporting and analysis platform; identified and implemented process efficiencies and new technologies; analyzed key monthly performance measures.• Championed initiative to re-engineer Essbase OLAP reporting platform to leverage latest database technologies and provide a scalable and robust foundation for increased volume / growth of the wireless business.• Guided cross-functional team of finance, sales & marketing colleagues in designing and implementing web-based dashboard technology to enable improved decision support by domestic executive leadership team.

Senior Systems Analyst - Strategic & Analytical Systems - Financial Reengineering (1996 – 1998)Performed detailed business analysis and led contractors in the design, development & implementation of client/server applications with an emphasis in OLAP systems in support of divisional & corporate finance organizations. Led consultant teams in creation of company-wide management variance reporting and executive information systems.• Received Special Award from Merck CFO for teamwork and performance following the successful roll-out of new enterprise-wide closing & consolidation system.Senior Financial Analyst - Animal Health Corporate Financial Services (1995 – 1996)Prepared divisional operating plans and monthly forecasts, including analysis on significant variances. Managed team which designed, developed and implemented long range operating plan & forecasting systems based on Oracle (Hyperion) technology providing faster, more accurate and detailed reporting for senior divisional management.Senior Accountant - General Accounting (1994 – 1995)Managed mainframe general ledger system and collaborated with financial reengineering team in implementing new JD Edwards general ledger package; streamlined monthly close & reporting procedures via technology automation and process redesign.

Participated in audit, review and compilation engagements of different size companies in a variety of industries; prepared corporate, partnership, personal, trust and estate tax returns; developed financial and tax projections; assisted with bankruptcy and litigation support.