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Elmsford, Ny, Us

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

I bring a unique combination of Executive, Technical and Business acumen as a part of outcome based, proven track record. I routinely interface with members of the C-Suite of Multi-national, Fortune 500 companies, including IBM. IBM business partners and IBM clients in the C-Suite, look to me in helping them define innovation, strategy and vision. I am recognized as a thought leader who has the foresight and ability to deliver multidimensional, impactful innovation. I have a great ability to take very complex business and technical problems and breaking them down into simple and elegant solutions. As an Innovation Officer, I am passionate about innovation that matters to my clients and to the world. My innovation thought leadership has yielded over $800M in growth for clients and IBM and over $2B in my previous roles. I advise companies and government entities on creation of new growth models and next-generation jobs. I excel at creation and implementation of new organizations and new capabilities. I regularly appear as a keynote speaker at many industry events, articles and blogs I have authored are published world-wide.

New York, Ny, Us

Leading the migration of Legacy Applications to a Cloud Service Model. Updates will be forthcoming, as I learn more about this exciting opportunity!

Managed and Operated within a consortium of consultants which provided C-Suite Business Process Consulting on a corporate level over the broadest enterprises possible. Clients included United Health Group, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield, US Tennis Association, Xerox, IBM, Travelers Insurance, Express Scripts, Eileen Fisher, and Jaguar Land Rover.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

The Director and Transformation Program Manager serves as a strategic partner for the cross-enterprise Transformation work streams, governance bodies, and functional groups to ensure alignment and progress against Transformation program plans while also building standardized processes and sustainable program management capabilities. The Senior Director facilitates the scale out of the Federated Enterprise Architecture model (FEA) model by engaging global FEA domain leaders in enabling our FEA toolkit. This included supporting the business case of the technology, and to make work visible with the use of KanBan, communication platforms and frameworks to enable maximum collaboration between existing FEA domains. The role was responsible for day to day management of FEA operations such as, Lead team member of the Architects, Technology Procurement, Implementation, and Deploy teams. Lead for the global enterprise infrastructures. Lead for the Architecture Center of Excellence, Cloud, Analytics and Cognitive organizations. • Accountable for leading the development and evolution of the global Federated Enterprise Architecture organization through training development, coaching, and establishment of a “certification” track. • Shaped and measured the maturity of FEA domains in the application of lean and flow thinking adoption as well as impact of execution. • Demonstrated IT leadership by planning and championing the execution of cross enterprise initiatives aimed at delivering value to internal and external stakeholders. Oversaw the analysis, design, architecture and implementation of IT infrastructure with a focus on public, private and hybrid Cloud solutions, Advance skills in IT compliance & Security, CISSP, SANS.• Oversaw the development and maintenance of common Program Management standards and methodologies

Completed previous Hartford Insurance assignment as an independent consultant, and obtained additional clients (Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield, United Health, ESI, SwissRe, Hilton, Xerox, and IBM) based on that success. • Managed a project to overhaul the reservation system for the Hilton Hotels chain. Developed and installed a Customer Data warehouse which incorporated Data Mining for clients who fit business models for travel Sky Miles excursion specials, and travel incentives.• Built a case study group to engage clients in service delivery cost reduction opportunities worked with ITSM, Process Management and Incident Management. Managed 25+ case studies that monitored ROI, and successfully handled client escalations.• Project Managed Affordable care Act projects (Pediatric Dentil and Membership Billing) into unit/integration test and deployment which involved Government/Healthcare reform, Chapter 224. • Implemented 40 improvements to a medical claims management system for 10 US cities. Assured improvements met schedule and cost constraints. C-level recognition for achieving project milestones.• Architect, procure, deploy and support critical path, global enterprise infrastructure as part of the Engineering Center of Excellence (ECoE), Technical Data Systems organization.• Responsible for the ongoing systems needs of the client/user community; provided project status reports; developed and maintained Executive reporting; identified and defined user needs; analyzed project proposals; developed conceptual systems requirements; provided business application consultation; provided problem tracking and management.

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Created test data migration and integration plans for FDA Regulatory, Content Management, Clinical Trials, Safety and Centralized Services IT M&A Integration activities. Deep involvement monitoring resulted in improving the quality, predictability, and efficiency, of the information management integration delivery capability. Ensured the operational issues of integrations are managed, focusing on the project interface with project leaders, stakeholders, SMEs and execution team.Through my leadership, my team accomplished the deployment and management of Integration and Pharmaceutical Business/Industry Clinical, Safety, Regulatory and Content Management systems and processes utilizing the following. • Clinical: EDC (Oracle Clinical), Registry (RTII), Analysis and Reporting (CDARS)• Regulatory: Product and Licensing (PEARL), Submissions (eCTD)• Content Management: Document Management (GDMS)• Safety: Pharmacovigilance System (ARGUS)Within UHG managed programs using web dashboards that optimized project efficiency, linking global resources. Budgeted application development and IT infrastructure assets. As the program manager, my office was recognized as the “Source–of–Truth” for program status and financials, and through a cost-benefit analysis.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Lead technical team comprised of System Architects, Engineers and Project Managers to improve system engineering architecture and test the new processes. • Leveraged Agile methods for rapid application development, server consolidation, and data migration projects with budgets > $100 million. Over 90% of projects delivered on time and achieved quality objectives. • Increased project profitability 50% by verifying process changes with stakeholders before implementation. • Developed server capacity and size-planning tool. This achieved 20% reduction in server footprint over all platforms. Reduced operational costs by 30% and improved customer satisfaction by 40%.• Selected by Senior Management as for IT Architect Certification Board. Provided mentoring/guidance to other IT architects on gaining certification. Updated the IT certification process to be TOGAF compliant.• Promoted to personal IT Architect to the CIO. Provided guidance to global project teams on deploying IBM systems, ensuring privacy & security compliance standards within a virtual shared hosting environment. • Increased chip manufacturing productivity 20% by implementing MQ messaging continuous availability infrastructure, enabling industry clients to meet aggressive product shipment schedules. US Patent awarded.• Led world-wide team that deployed B2B and B2C architecture using WebSphere, DB2, MQ and SAP.• Consolidated 9 eCommerce engines into a common platform, reducing operations cost by 50%.• Introduced parallel DFS design to reduce system outages during fixpack installations. This model was replicated in 20 data center locations increasing uptime 5% worldwide.• Interfaced directly with major corporate clients: St. Paul Reinsurance, ADP Brokerage, Swiss Re, Oppenheimer Brokerage, Lucent Technologies, and Vanderbilt Medical Hospital.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Planned and managed the customization and deployment of the Orion Healthcare Integration Engine, Rhapsody. The Rhapsody Integration Engine is placed between healthcare systems, in support for numerous communication protocols and message formats. Mapped a translating mediator between incompatible systems, where messages are reliably and accurately delivered regardless of the format or transportation type required.

Master Of Science, Computer Engineering

Bs, Electrical Engineering