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 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 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 local area and wireless networks, a cloud-based phone system, etc.• 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).• Relocated Innocor’s corporate HQ from West Long Branch to Red Bank. Designed and built out the new facility.• Implemented ServiceNow and associated service processes to yield vastly improved IT customer support.• Implemented security improvements including a new firewall / Internet content filter, an email security system, two-factor authentication, password self-service, and mobile device management. • Conducted a comprehensive ERP optimization program with workstreams for costing, pricing, sales quotations, shipping, procurement, finance, planning, master data management, and reporting. • Implemented a new Business Intelligence program built on the Microsoft BI stack; MS SQL Server and PowerBI.• Rearchitected and rebuilt the corporate Intranet in MS SharePoint 365 to yield improved collaboration, process workflows, and project management support.• Negotiated / renegotiated every IT supplier contract to yield more favorable pricing and terms. Show less

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 transformation objectives.  • 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 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 transformation objectives.  • 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 creation of a business relationship management function, and gain consensus on restructuring.• Analyzed a UN institution’s IT innovation program. Recommended structural improvements and research targets.• Provided guidance to the IT leadership team of a large UN institution that has hundreds of field offices globally in support of organizational restructuring and offshoring. Developed an innovative model for analysis of restructuring impacts on service levels.• Advised a US military service arm on the outsourcing of its IT service desk and unified communications services.• Developed an ICT and Information Security Guidance Framework for a new UN institution based on the COBIT 5 Process Reference Model, ISO standards 27001-27005, 22301, 22313, 31000, and 38500, PMI’s PMBOK, ITIL V3 2011, and TOGAF.• Conducted an IT strategy, architecture, and organizational assessment for a UN institution.• Supported organizational change management efforts associated with the implementation of Workday cloud-based ERP system for a UN institution. Conducted an overall project risk assessment. • Developed recommendations for an improved IT governance and capital allocation process for a UN-related financial institution. Show less

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 packages.• 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 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 packages.• 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

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 selection, infrastructure integration planning, training program development, SOX planning, policy analysis and consolidation.

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 enabling rapid growth to a $2 billion enterprise.•… 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.• 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 enabling rapid growth to a $2 billion enterprise.• 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 Laboratory Information Management (LIMS), as well as a versatile collaboration environment built on MS SharePoint.• Successfully planned and executed several acquisitions and a large divestiture.• Designed and implemented a robust, efficient technical infrastructure employing server and storage virtualization, desktop virtualization (thin clients), PC management, a global meshed data network, WAN accelerators, VoIP, and other leading edge technologies. Implemented disaster recovery.• Built a new IT support center in Hyderabad, India for service desk, infrastructure, and applications.• Introduced and optimized IT best practices, policies, and procedures including IT governance, strategy and architecture management, portfolio management, project management, relationship management, service management, security management, risk management, quality management, communications management, and organizational change management. Show less

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 engagements for pharmaceutical customers.

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, enterprise architecture and standards, an advanced technology research program, and an IT internal process optimization… Show more 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, enterprise architecture and standards, an advanced technology research program, and an IT internal process optimization program. Developed a 3-year global IT strategy and architectural convergence plan that targeted a 50% reduction in non-discretionary spending. Managed the preparation of all IT systems and personnel for the planned transition to two competitors’ organizations when a joint bid was made for BOC in July 1999. IT DIRECTOR, APPLICATIONS AND RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT, Murray Hill, NJ (1994 – 1998)Led a department of 50+ IT professionals responsible for all US region software applications development and maintenance. Developed and controlled an $8 million budget. Managed a program of 100+ active projects.Delivered all information technology supporting a three year, $65 million Business Process Redesign initiative, yielding $25 million annual and $39 million one-time benefits, streamlined operations, and improved sales and service.MANAGER, SAP CONTAINER MANAGEMENT FEASIBILITY ANALYSIS, Woking, Surrey, UK (1994)Developed an innovative container management / returnable packaging solution enabling SAP adoption by BOC worldwide, yielding $20 million in annual savings. MANAGER, TECHNICAL SYSTEMS, Murray Hill, NJ (1989 – 1994)Developed a plant order processing and operations management system, an inventory management and loss prevention system, a delivery truck scheduling and routing system, and a customer tank level telemetry system. Show less

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.