Leslie Margolis Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Springfield, Ma, Us

Full Scope CIO, leading in cross-functional process optimization, strategic technology assessment and team building.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Chief Information Officer (1/2022 -2/2023); Interim CIO, Consultant via Corbin Hall (11/2021 – 12/2021) • Following Covid, new leadership charted the course for the future. HEERF funding provided for investments in technology to support the new realities for higher education. Led Enterprise Applications, Infrastructure and Help Desk Support, Data / Reporting, Vendor Management of 100+ vendor contracts, and Security. • Led network and security infrastructure initiative. Engaged team for planning, obtained funding and implemented $1.5M investment. Provided for 5x increase in throughput supporting first time media network for residents, Esports arena, and hybrid, hi-flex classrooms. Implemented MFA; began technology assessment for newly purchased campus.• Initiated complete review of employee and classroom technical devices and launched 3-year refresh plan to support high quality remote options.• Restructured IT organization allocation to reward high performance employees and support priority needs of the University. Revised 50% of job descriptions.• Convened cross-functional team to assess GLBA requirements for Authentication, Safeguarding and Assessment requirements and initiated plan. • Began integration of core systems-of-record and processes to provide for an automated flow of high-quality data within and with vendors: LiveSafe, ADP, Keypath, CAS(s). Cleansed 10,000+ abandoned accounts.• Implemented backlog of applications: Fourwinds Cloud, Watermark, Ally, AppReview (TargetX), AIM, Prowatch. Inventoried for Enterprise and Business Architecture views.

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Client: Holy Family University. Providing full scope Interim CIO services. Client: Precision BioSciences, Providing expertise in Information Technology role definition and recruitment servicesClient: American Geophysical Union. Providing full scope Interim CIO services. (Prime Contract held by AssociationCIO)Client: Export Import Bank. Program Director with Binary Information Technology to provide exceptional customer service and technology services to the Export Import Bank. Additional skill provided for Business Analysis and Quality Assurance. (Prime contract held by BIT) Client: Business Transformation Agency. As a member of the ERAM Team, responsible for assessing risks and recommending mitigation opportunities to successfully field major business system initiatives across the Department of Defense. Earned “Extra Mile” Award for strategic assessment and recommendations related to the Business Enterprise Architecture. Participated as active team member on Clinger Cohen, Lean Six Sigma, Business Process Re-engineering Sub team sponsored by Acquisition and DoD CIO. Guest Speaker on Business Transformation for National Defense University (Prime contract held by TERACORE)Engaged in Product Development and Proposal Response for Government Agencies(No contracts pursued during full time role with GWU in Jan 2013 – Jun 2016 or Arcadia University October 2017 - January 2020)

Glenside, Pa, Us

Interim CIO (10/2017 – 9/2019) Strategic Advisor, Human Capital Management Lead (9/2019 – 1/2020) • Stabilized, secured, and assessed. Began developing strategic architecture and re-built 15+ member team for the future. Supported organizational capabilities to enable successful students, faculty, staff, and researcher. • Re-engineered network capability: Awarded a grant and deployed a first-time high-speed Science and Education Network, replaced network service providers; increased bandwidth by 5x for same costs. Teamed to launch Esports program attracting a new demographic. Increased ability to conduct research and provided for residential streaming. • Selected integrated ID carding system: Launched a point-of-sale system that handled meal plans and replaced campus identification cards. Provided a technology path to move from swipes to contactless entry and participation tracking. • Revamped / enhanced wireless and mobile capability: Enabled administrative and faculty employees the ability to provide services and operations at the point of convenience for students to order food, sign up for classes, see events on campus, see common headline communications items, and quickly report safety or maintenance issues via mobile app. • Lifted legacy systems supporting payroll and other HR services to a cloud-based human capital management system. • Launched committee on data and privacy to ensure compliance with new EU-GDPR

Washington, D.C., Us

• Facilitated the development and adoption of the Division of Information Technology Customer Engagement Model and key participant in the GW DIT Strategic Plan. Created an integrated process for architecture, governance, PMO, PMLC through Services elements.• Led Business Architecture and Advisory Services, establishing processes for On-demand Technical Review Boards (TRB) process for collaborative alignment of architecture, capabilities and security review.o Led Monthly Resource Lab for the continuous support and improvement of the intake process for effective Demand and Resource Alignment across waterfall, iterative, prototype and agile teams.

Mclean, Virginia, Us

Full Scope Responsible for a $2B leader in the health care industry providing assisted senior living in approx. 450 communities in the US, UK, Canada, and Germany. Reported to CFO, managed 140 employees & contractors globally and approximately $36 mil in expense, recoverable and capital spend.• Led development of first-time strategic architecture for $2.5 billion-dollar global senior assisted living organization planning to double in size in 3 years.• Tackled significant pain point with Service Desk, multi-faceted approach that changed vendor processes, on-boarding new services, Tier 1 / Tier 2 integration, wellness visits, Field Service organizational change and training. In 6 months call answer stats improved from approx. 67% to 90%.

Uniqema, Billion-dollar business of ICI, $8 Bil. Chemical Manufacturer, Regional CIO & Global Architect.• Designed first time Global Architecture Strategy (embracing Asia, Europe and the Americas markets) for this mature $1B manufacturing organization. Provided for global SAP ERP, portal and business intelligence. Supported Lean Manufacturing initiatives.• Developed web-based customer support center to coordinate Americas services, hardware and project requests. Low-ered costs by 20% (i.e., $1M) while improving customer satisfaction from 61 to 84%.

A $5.5B office equipment sales, service, and solutions. Reported to the Vice-President of North American IT. Managed a team of approximately 60 on-shore, offshore and project resources.• Identified 3 core customer groups and their business requirements. Focusing on one core group developed a plan for implementation and migration of national accounts processes and data from 13 Legacy systems in 10 districts to Oracle. For the beta group implemented automated functionality was increased by 50% and the customer billing error rate was reduced from 40% to 25% in one year.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Finance

Completed Some Graduate Work Toward Mba