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Newark, DE, US

Brisbane City, Queensland, AU

Owings Mills, MD, US

Reporting to the CEO, managed the organizations risk profile and position as a SAAS provider in accordance with all statutory and regulatory requirements of the US Financial Services sector (NIST, PCI-DSS, FFIEC and more).

Bellevue, Washington, US

Provided leadership and mentoring to college students from other countries to prepare them for their first career job.

Owings Mills, MD, US

Reporting to the CEO, completed the upgrade, migration and virtualization of all infrastructure and upgraded all software applications. Organized, managed and standardized all aspects of the business analysis, software development and infrastructure management required to support the SaaS for some of the largest US banks.

San Jose, CA, US

Reporting to the CIO and a stakeholder team of 20+ (West Kowloon District Board of Directors, Building Manager, and Building Works teams), managed a team of 12 to deliver the design, procurement, and sourcing plans for the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) required for West Kowloon buildings being constructed across the district.

Paris, FR, FR

Reporting to the AXA CIO and COO for the AXA/HSBC Integration Program (US$400M), managed a multi-function, culturally diverse onshore/offshore team of 30 across 13 workstreams delivering the design, development, and implementation of all the network, server, storage, security, middleware (integration) and backup solutions required to support the.

Chek Lap Kok, HK

Engaged by the CIO, managed the strategic planning, budgeting, and program planning of the E-Enabled Aircraft Program (valued at US$500M), an award-winning Avionics and Flight Operations e-enablement initiative involving the real-time integration of all Engineering, Flight Operations, and Inflight Services from the aircraft to backend ground systems.

Newark, New Jersey, US

Engaged by the Regional CMO to manage an extraordinarily complex, Asia region multi-market program involving two failing systems implementations with frustrated / fractured teams, and highly visible campaigns worth over US $300M in sales. Built solid plans, secured diverse stakeholder buy-in and a platform for collaboration across the teams and vendor.

Central, HK

Engaged by the Chamber Director, identified all processes within the Chamber to identify the current state and desired future state of the operations, and develop a roadmap to get from point to point.

Hong Kong, Hong Kong, HK

Engaged by the CEO to assess the need for implementation of a new hospital management system (valued at US$3M). Realized cost savings of US$2.75M within 6 weeks.

Waterloo, ON, CA

Engaged by Asia-Pacific CEO to turnaround the AXS-One Asia business. Turned around US$8M software business (ERP and Digital Data Archiving) within unfamiliar markets across Asia through design, development, and implementation of market penetration strategies.

New York, NY, US

Engaged by the global CFO to assess the current situation and define a new solution to manage the rollout of global time and expense accounting management solution across multiple countries, yielding a solution where 80% of worldwide requirements were fulfilled within the core technology, leaving 20% adaptable for regional and local requirements.

Engaged by the COO, developed processes to optimize and streamline business processes, inclusive of requirements gathering, concept development, functional and technical design, quality assurance, and customer support across AS400, UNIX, Windows and Linux operating systems and SQL, Oracle, Sybase, and Informix database technologies.

Turned around US$20M software business (ERP and Digital Data Archiving)in unfamiliar markets in Australia through implementation of design, development, and implementation of market penetration strategies and best practices, resulting in 50% reduction in software implementation costs.

SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS:Streamlined and automated processes associated with US$20MM implementation of global finance and operating systems across industries.

Sydney, New South Wales(NSW), AU

Managed all the IT applications and infrastructure (front office and back office) for the Australian operations.

NYC, LA, US

Managed all client accounting and internal accounting for the San Francisco agency.

New York, NY, US

Managed all client accounting associated with the San Francisco customers.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Commmunication Arts

Certificate, Advisory Board Chair