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Jersey City, New Jersey, United States

Red Bank, NJ

• Innocor, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of polyurethane foam commercial products and sleep/comfort-related retail products with revenues of $1 billion, 2300 employees at 23 locations nationwide.
• Supported two successful private equity changes of control over a four-year period; Sun Capital to Bain Capital (sale) and Bain Capital to One Rock Capital (merger).
• Transformed a severely underperforming IT department into a highly productive, value-driven cohesive unit while operating in… Show more Innocor, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of polyurethane foam commercial products.
• Transformed a severely underperforming IT department into a highly productive, value-driven cohesive unit while operating in a very lean environment ($8 million opex budget).
• Completely retooled a poorly architected, unreliable, unsupportable, and failing technical infrastructure. Built a new wide area network with resilience and redundancy, data center and disaster recovery sites, site.
• Migrated all critical applications, JDE, DSI, and EDI to the cloud (AWS), adding high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR). Also migrated email to the cloud (O365).

Branchburg, NJ

• Cutter Consortium is an IT consulting firm of best-in-class experts serving clients in companies, government agencies, NGOs, and universities worldwide.
• Designed and facilitated an IT strategy 'retreat' for a large UN institution and gained consensus on a strategy and program of work to support the institution's five-year plan as well as the CIO's digital.
• Led an IT investment prioritization engagement for a major UN institution, recommending a $55… Show more Cutter Consortium is an IT consulting firm of best-in-class experts serving clients in companies, government.
• Led an IT investment prioritization engagement for a major UN institution, recommending a $55 million project portfolio.
• Led an initiative for a large UN institution’s IT leadership team to develop a vision, strategy, and organizational restructuring plan. Facilitated a global IT leadership workshop to assess IT maturity, promote the.
• Analyzed a UN institution’s IT innovation program. Recommended structural improvements and research targets.

East Windsor, NJ

• Elementis is a global specialty chemicals company with revenues of $760 million, 1300 employees at 30+ locations worldwide.
• Successfully delivered a complex ERP conversion project (PRISM to JD Edwards EnterpriseOne), including prerequisite upgrades of The Wercs authoring / compliance and Create!Form electronic document output management.
• Drove technical infrastructure performance and reliability improvements while achieving $0.4 million in annual cost reductions via new… Show more Elementis is a global specialty chemicals company with revenues of $760.
• Drove technical infrastructure performance and reliability improvements while achieving $0.4 million in annual cost reductions via new global telecommunications, co-location data center, and output management contracts.
• Structured and initiated projects to deliver a new Business Intelligence platform and Electronic Records Retention system to improve decision making and compliance while reducing risk. Show less

Wayne, NJ

Ashland acquired ISP in August 2011.Co-lead for ISP IT integration with Ashland, supporting integration planning, transition service agreement development, negotiation, and execution, contract analysis and assignment, day one planning and execution, organization strategy and design, budget and synergy analysis, applications portfolio analysis and.

Wayne, NJ

• International Specialty Products was a premier specialty chemicals company with revenues of $2 billion, 3300 employees, and operations in 67 locations (NA, EMEA, LA, AP), serving customers in 90+ countries.
• Transformed an under-performing IT department of a $1 billion company into a cohesive, motivated team of 100+ IT professionals in 11 countries delivering business critical, cost-effective, and reliable IT services, and.
• … Show more International Specialty Products was a premier specialty chemicals company with revenues of $2 billion, 3300 employees, and operations in 67 locations (NA, EMEA, LA, AP), serving customers in 90+ countries.
• Dramatically improved business engagement, customer service, and overall department throughput.
• Operated in an extremely lean environment, managing a $18 million opex / $6 million capital budget.
• Partnered with key stakeholders to deliver many high-value programs including Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), R&D Knowledge Management (KM), Business Intelligence (BI), and.

Princeton, NJ

Incoda Corporation was a start-up consulting and software development partnership specializing in knowledge management solutions and offshore development in IndiaDeveloped strategy, methodology, and prototype products for a new venture. Vetted Indian offshore software development companies to form a partner network of 6000+ developers. Conducted consulting.

Murray Hill, NJ

BOC Group was the world’s second largest industrial gases company with revenues of $6 billion, 33,000 employees, and operations in 62 countriesVICE PRESIDENT, GLOBAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY SERVICES (1998 – 2001)Reporting to the CIO, designed and built a new global IT strategy and architecture organization. Directed development of IT strategies.

Linden, NJ

Managed refinery instrumentation and process control system projects. Responsible for all phases of project implementation including detailed engineering design, cost estimation, economic evaluation, vendor selection, equipment purchase, field construction, and startup.

Ms, Business Administration | Information Technology

Chemical Engineering

Graduate studies part-time toward a Master of Engineering Degree. Completed 50% of degree requirements.

Bs, Chemical Engineering

Graduated summa cum laude