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Formed from the merger of Sunera, APTEC, and ANRC, Focal Point Data Risk is a new type of risk management firm, one that delivers a unified approach to addressing data risk through a unique combination of service offerings. We’ve brought together industry-leading expertise in cyber security, identity governance and access management, data privacy and analytics, internal audit, and hands-on training services to give companies everything they need to develop effective risk and security programs.

Greater New York City Area

Project manager for software implementation team for an Expense Management software company, which specializes in delivering fully integrated and outsourced IT service lifecycle operations for large global organizations.•Manage software and business process integration for large firms in the financial services, Healthcare, Pharmaceutical, Retail and Government sectors. Successfully led implementation team to integrate Expense Management software into Client’s IT and financial… Show more Project manager for software implementation team for an Expense Management software company, which specializes in delivering fully integrated and outsourced IT service lifecycle operations for large global organizations.•Manage software and business process integration for large firms in the financial services, Healthcare, Pharmaceutical, Retail and Government sectors. Successfully led implementation team to integrate Expense Management software into Client’s IT and financial infrastructure, ensuring all project deliverables and milestones are completed within the projected timelines and budgetsDeveloped PMO implementation standards and guidelines to ensure efficient onboarding of new clients, including creating standardized project documentation, resource task benchmarking metrics, thorough UAT testing and platform acceptance documentation, standard implementation checklist, and client communication documentsAssess client's current processing environment and introduce efficiencies though business process outsourcing. Create RACSI and operational run book documenting current steady state vs. future state environmentsSupport business development initiatives providing executive presentations and product demos for prospective clients. Participate in pre-sale workshops with prospective clients to understand client’s current issues, provide guidance on implementation methodology, and show effectiveness of product integration into client’s foundation systems. Support RFP’s with prospective clients by providing details on pricing, implementation and live operationsInitiate development of new product vertical for Cloud Services Expense Management. Engage existing and potential new clients in user groups and surveys to understand current spend, business drivers, key demands in the market place to develop tool to manage cloud expenses. Show less

Greater New York City Area

Member of Citi Technology Infrastructure- Transformation Team, primarily focused on developing and executing strategies to reduce IT and Communications expenses and optimize productivity across the Investment and Consumer Bank businesses within Citigroup. Responsible for conceptualizing and implementing key optimization initiatives to reduce Data Center spend and footprint. Initiatives include Virtualization, hardware resource optimization (CPU, Storage and Memory), platform… Show more Member of Citi Technology Infrastructure- Transformation Team, primarily focused on developing and executing strategies to reduce IT and Communications expenses and optimize productivity across the Investment and Consumer Bank businesses within Citigroup. Responsible for conceptualizing and implementing key optimization initiatives to reduce Data Center spend and footprint. Initiatives include Virtualization, hardware resource optimization (CPU, Storage and Memory), platform migration, and consolidation of excess infrastructure. Conducted extensive analysis on major software expenditure across the firm to ensure spend is appropriate and necessary. Created governance model for all new purchase and renewal requests which focuses on, business demand management, software license utilization, contract re-negotiation (aggregate deals to leverage spend and introduce more favorable contract terms), and researching potential lower cost alternative solutionsInvolved in productivity analysis. Created metrics reporting on operational functions for various IT groups. Created benchmark metrics to provide visibility on deployment efficiencies. Provided financial models evaluating feasibility to migrate certain functions to externally managed services.Evaluated vendor RFP's and prepared financial business cases, identifying optimal solutions, based on cost, in-house capabilities and strategic roadmap for various IT sourcing initiatives. Prepared presentations on critical IT expense transformation initiatives and strategies to executive committees, business heads and senior management. Actively participated in Architecture and Governance councils to evaluate emerging technologies Show less

Greater New York City Area

Planned and managed key operations initiatives for the Technology Services Group (TSG) directly involving operational and cost optimization Managed deployment of Telecom Expense Management (TEM) application to create a uniform distribution of products and services, producing a global enterprise standard for streamlining voice, network and wireless services management Instrumental in providing Moves, Adds, Changes and Disconnect (MACD) work flow architecture for Cisco IPT… Show more Planned and managed key operations initiatives for the Technology Services Group (TSG) directly involving operational and cost optimization Managed deployment of Telecom Expense Management (TEM) application to create a uniform distribution of products and services, producing a global enterprise standard for streamlining voice, network and wireless services management Instrumental in providing Moves, Adds, Changes and Disconnect (MACD) work flow architecture for Cisco IPT infrastructure. Provide integration between multiple external systems and Cisco Call manager to track service information, account information and QoS metricsDirected multiple wireless cost savings initiatives which resulted in over 10% direct savings towards an $11m annual corporate wireless spend. Instituted corporate policies and best practices documentation to better manage and utilize wireless devices Key member in RFP decision process for pivotal IT sector applications and functions, including wireless vendor contracts, TEM service provider, voice telephony provider, and wireless operations outsourcingProvided presentations outlining critical TSG operational initiatives to senior and executive management. Presentations included wireless optimization analysis, wireless policies and best practices campaign, vendor outsourcing evaluations and ROI models and global application standardsProject managed voice and network services integration efforts during acquisition of JPMC Corporate trust and services division. Show less