Responsible for the overall strategic direction, growth, and success of the organization. Provide leadership, sets goals, and ensures that all departments and employees work together to achieve the company's objectives. They oversee the entire operations of the company and collaborate closely with the Board of Directors to drive long-term profitability and sustainability.

Business and Technology Advisor

The Chief Transformation & Information Officer (CTIO) is a key member of the Executive team and an active participant in acquisitions, integrations, sales, information technology, and transformation activities of the organization. It is a dual role charged with transforming the organization and traditional CIO duties. The CTIO is responsible for formalizing the company’s strategic planning and execution to drive growth, streamline and digitize operational processes, champion organizational change, and forge new working relationships and synergies across the organization.The position also serves as the principal technology leader for the organization providing the vision and leadership for developing and implementing information technology strategies and initiatives organizational-wide.

As Chief Information Officer (CIO) responsibilities include overall IT leadership and strategic direction to the corporation across all businesses and geographies. Driving the integration of IT functions from each of the business units to create a more cohesive, clarified view to the customer as well more effective and efficient IT operation for the corporation.

Extensys, Inc. is an enterprise IT solutions integrator and managed services provider. Partners with clients to design, implement, and manage infrastructure that supports mission-critical business applications. Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to clients to assist with technology solutions to overcome business challenges. Clients included financial, manufacturing, state government, and local government.• Built trusting relationships with customers, partners, and internal business leaders to ensure success• Led digital transformation to ensure infrastructure stability and security (Digital / IoT)• Designed and implemented technical plan for an international business merger for infrastructure and applications• Created a holistic solution or disaster recovery to meet the business Outage Level Acceptance• Increased security to ensure PCI compliance; included policy, operations, and technical design_________________________________________________________________________________________________________RELEVANT SKILLS: Team Building, Business Partnership, International Experience, Vision and Strategy, Disaster Recovery, Acquisitions and Integrations, Technology Roadmap, Security & Compliance, ERP Software (Oracle eBusiness), CISSP Certification, CRM

Verifone is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Jose, California, that provides technology for electronic payment transactions and value-added services at the point-of-sale.• Managed all 52 customer facing data centers including centers that transact credit / debit card information (PCI-DSS) with a budget of $20M and 70 direct reports.• Led the effort on consolidating legacy (52) data center to (6) regional centers into private clouds (PAYcloud) to enhance reliability, security, and scalability.• Served as a member of the following teams: IT Disaster Recovery, Security, Mergers & Acquisitions and SOX. Global travel with business leaders in the following countries: Canada, England, France, Germany, Sweden, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Indonesia, Australia, and New Zealand• Built relationships with country and regional business leaders to assist in transforming the technology services. The regional relationship building was instrumental to ensure success globally. Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)• Served as a member of the M&A team for Verifone as well as conducted due diligence on future acquisitions. Executive participation with C level executives including CEO, CFO, CIO, and General Counsel for due diligence meetings.• Integration Experience: After acquisition, led teams to integrate internal and customer facing functions. (Below chart provided by Wikipedia)PAYCloud (cloud based data center)Rapid expansion of Verifone through acquisition caused an increase of customer facing data centers globally. Tasked with coming up with a plan to reduce data center footprint, reduce cost, and increase security. The consolidation saved $20M in future capital expenditures and millions in annual operational expenditures. Developed the idea for 6 regional consolidation of data centers (as shown below) into private clouds “PAYcloud.”• Atlanta • London • Australia• New York • Paris • New Zealand

Power Design Inc. provides electrical contracting services in the United States. It offers design-build, preconstruction, construction, and engineering services, fire and life safety, telecom, audio, visual, security, lighting control, and distributed antenna systems, and lighting products and services.Led technology practice that allowed for business growth from $100M to $600M in 8 year period.• Managed a team of 25 staff and contractors to implement a disaster recovery plan, update the primary data center to industry level standards for reliability and security, and establish a second data center that synchronized data real time with the first center.• As Chief Information officer (CIO) provided executive leadership and created/headed the IT Steering Committee comprised of (6) other divisional leaders. Committee aligned business needs with IT objectives• Managed all aspects of strategic IT planning, implementation and support of companywide objectives• Implemented Oracle E Business ERP with Ceridian Payroll and established a second data center and disaster recovery (DR) Plan Data Center & Disaster Recovery• Developed and executed a plan to enhance the primary data center and establish a DR Center • Data was synchronized real time between data centers and eventually split data load between centers to mitigate risk for the company• Project ensured the company can operate and recover from a disasterERP Replacement• Selected a new ERP platform to replace antiquated application that did not meet the needs of an expanding business. Evaluated a number of systems and decided on Oracle E-Business.• System allowed company to grow from $100M to $600M in 8 years• Project enabled growth of the company, increased financial reporting, streamlined processes, and pushed data to the field resulting in an eliminating double entry of data.

• Served as an IT Consultant and supported the business needs for various customers in varying industries.• Supported companies and organizations such as financial, manufacturing, government (Law Enforcement, Transit, Court, Tax, and Municipals.)

• Managed global network and NOC consisting of two data centers and 80+ offices. In addition to being part of the BCP/DR and SOX team.