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Grosse Pointe, MI, US

Provide consulting expertise in the full scope of IT specifically: IT Strategy & Planning, Chief of Staff, IT Management advisory, Transformation, Vendor & Contract Management, Contract Negotiation, and Strategic Sourcing, adding value to CxO-level executives by assessing IT challenges and improving management practices. Align organizations to business.

• Partner in a management consulting practice specializing in IT strategy and planning, organizational development and transformation, and interim executive leadership with a focus on organizations undergoing strategic.
• Rapid growth
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Turnarounds
• Outsourcing
• Sudden departure of a key executive

Provided Operations leadership to a network and security services company that has grown organically and through acquisitions. Provided transformation services with regard to infrastructure architecture, IT strategy and planning, organizational alignment, process improvement, audit compliance, & operations management principles, policies and practices.

Detroit, MI, US

Chief of Staff to the Chief Archtiect. Leader responsible for driving Global IT Standards. Established Global Governance for non-integrated GMAC Subsidiaries. Drove Business Unit Integration to establish Federated IT Standards and Processes to enable enterprise architecture building blocks for convergence, infrastructure & application architecture.

Detroit, Michigan, US

Led IT transformation by driving common and consistent IT infrastructure framework driving a $200M IT cost reduction for an annual IT Infrastructure and Operations budget exceeding $2B.

Detroit, Michigan, US

Chief of Staff and Leader responsible for the IT Business Management and the development of the Strategic plan, roadmap, annual business plan and investment portfolio, influencing over $1.2B of GM IT infrastructure spend annually. In that capacity, directly managed a $50M IT infrastructure project portfolio, a $25M staff departmental budget, and provided.

Detroit, Michigan, US

• As the Chief of Staff for the GM CTO’s IT Center of Excellence, initiated and led key start-up phases during GM’s global IS&S’ early formation:
• Organized the ITCoE group,
• Led a competitive assessment for GM’s Global Infrastructure,
• Led the development of GM’s IT Architecture Framework, which also defined the services of our organization,
• Led the development of the IT business plan,
• Managed the financial portfolio, and

Dublin 2, IE

Led structuring of key technology alliances plus enterprise software and hardware licensing; Led Mid-Atlantic Channels practice; Acted as a turnaround executive, ultimately repairing client relationships, improving the Mid-Atlantic Territory business operations for our channels practice, and increasing revenue for the practice

Dublin 2, IE

Dublin 2, IE

Managed engagements for application systems development efforts in the systems integration practice. Held multiple project manager and systems architect roles. Experience in multiple industries including: automotive, consumer products, financial services, pharmaceutical and government. Experience includes: program management and planning efforts, large.