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Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Plano, Tx, Us

Fortium's technology leadership-as-a-service platform quickly delivers leadership to fill a role, produce an outcome, or offer an expert opinion through the largest group of world-class, operating technology leaders in the world.Consulted with a private equity (PE) backed national home window and door manufacturer to review and prepare sale of one of their divisions. Reviewed IT maintenance and support functions across the enterprise for a national retailer with over 1000 stores in 40 states. Conducted review of IT landscape for an industrial services company. Completed a detailed IT assessment for a PE backed fire-suppression company.

Wilmington, Delaware, Us

Chief Information Officer (CIO) for a $1Billion textiles company. The Lycra Company is the world leader in fiber and technology solutions for the apparel and personal care industries. Responsibilities and accomplishments included:• Managed IT carve-out to create $1Billion entity – The Lycra Company - from $110B Koch Industries. This included migration of 8 global manufacturing plant sites, 23 office sites and standing up of a new global SAP instance. • Implemented AI and advanced analytics projects through extraction of IOT related data from all manufacturing plant systems. These projects helped drive $10M in savings based on advanced and predictive analytics to improve product yield, preventative maintenance costs, and overall quality.• Transitioned to a new managed services provider; savings more than $3Million a year.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

Global Director, IT Transformation for Axalta Coating Systems, a $4.5Billion global coatings company.Managed M&A Strategy and Integration to meet $2Billion inorganic growth targets. Led pre-close due diligence, business synergy/IT strategy definition, Day 1-100 planning and integration execution. Leveraging M&A deals as opportunities for global ERP upgrade to SAP as well as consolidation of more than 200 supporting systems. Developed scalable playbook and strategy to enable integration of more than 12 deals worldwide valued at more than $1Billion.Successfully managed and directed the $100M IT transition and transformation carve-out from a complex DuPont legacy system environment to form Axalta Coating Systems. Significant transition accomplishments included:• Carving out of multiple SAP ERP systems supporting more than 13,000 users across 130 countries and nearly 50 manufacturing plants.• Reducing the original IT systems footprint of DuPont from 450 applications to less than 270.• Completing 15 transformation projects to accelerate our IT roadmap by over 2 years.• Identifying and negotiating $8M in transition services agreement (TSA) cost savings from the seller. • Completing the transformation in less than 18 months to support one of the most successful IPOs in Carlyle’s history.

Wilmington, Delaware, Us

Chief Information Officer (CIO) for $1.1Billion Legal Technology/Consulting Services CompanyOverall responsibility for IT resource planning, budgeting, and project initiatives for this privately-held global company that serves 90% of the Fortune 500, all major M&A law firms, most major lenders and many of the world’s top brand owners. Managed 200 IT professionals and consultants; $40 million annual operating and capital budget. Recruited to transform IT group from back-office support function to customer facing technology solutions company.Challenged to create integrated IT ecosystem to support double digit annual growth through acquisition and meet goal of $1 billion valuation in four years. Directed IT development, capital and operating budget, acquisition integration, emerging technologies, enterprise architecture, data center operations, infrastructure, voice/data networking, business continuity/disaster recovery, and systems and data security. • Directed IT due diligence and systems integration for 14 major acquisitions. During tenure, increased corporate revenue by 250% and company value by 430%.• Developed and supported 17 IT groups across three countries to support 24x7 coverage while reducing costs by 20% and increasing productivity by 25%. • Created IT and business process efficiencies boosting operational productivity by 15% in one year. Achieved savings of $4.5 million.• Developed and supported over 200 applications for five business units leveraging Agile/Scrum process.• Developed cloud based global collaboration systems for the legal market that supported an active user base of 220,000 users averaging 100,000 logins per month, helping transform this $100 million business.• Created cloud based domain registration system managing the largest corporate domain portfolios in the world. Supporting Global 2000 companies; system manages one million names with registry interfaces to 200+ countries.

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

CIO at OnePoint Communications. A successful venture start-up sold to Verizon Communications for $250Million.Managed technology and operations for a telecommunications entrepreneurial startup venture providing nationwide voice, cable and high speed data services to 650,000 apartment units in 31 major metropolitan cities. One of five firm principals. Hired to manage IT and operations for early-stage start-up. Acted as both CIO and COO through early stage growth. Responsibilities included managing over 40 IT resources, building and managing a 100 person call center, and overseeing 14 regional hubs located across the U.S.• Increased subscriber base 400% in less than three years by automating and integrating systems from order to activation. • Centralized all processing and provisioning systems across 14 regional hubs. Estimated savings of $2.5 million annually.• Leveraged enterprise customer care, billing and provisioning systems that reduced the order to activation process by 60% in less than one year.• Created and managed 100 customer care and billing specialists for two years increasing customer satisfaction ratings by 40%, during startup period.• Acted as key contributor on a leadership team engaged in planning, assessing and completing sale of company to Verizon for $250+ million. Company rebranded as Verizon Avenue.

Principal at AMS - IT Systems Integration and Management $1.5Billion consulting firm. Part of management team that developed AMS’ future customer care and billing products. These products were used to support this $300Million IT telecommunications consulting business unit. Managed large system integration contracts for major telecommunication clients.Recruited to help form and develop the IT strategic consulting practice for the telecommunications division. Responsibilities included managing vendor relationships for $300 million business unit, directing large systems integration and consulting implementations, and developing and supporting IT engagements for global client base. • Managed $25 million in subcontractor and vendor relationships. Negotiated savings of $7 million in less than three-year period. • Directed large systems integration contracts for global telecommunications providers. Largest contract was $16 million managing 60 IT consulting professionals.• Built reorganization and restructuring plan for major European cellular provider. Saved client $35 million over a two-year period.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Management Information Systems, General

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science