Accomplished IT strategy and transformation professional with career marked by consulting with CIO, CFO and VP level counterparts at Higher-Education institutions and Fortune 500 companies spanning retail banking, manufacturing, and technology.

Consulted with 50+ clients across higher-education (public and private universities and systems), academic medical centers, healthcare and county government, and led projects that totaled over $10M in revenue. Delivered strategic plans and integrated roadmaps for transforming IT capability and capacity, IT funding and spend, IT organization structures, service delivery and service management, and IT governance supported by business cases identifying opportunities to optimize operating and investment spend. Authored multiple proposals and participated in oral presentations.

Spearheaded multiple engagements across large and midsize public and private institutions and county governments focused on evaluating and enhancing IT capabilities, organizational structure, sizing and operating models, IT spend analysis, funding and chargeback, benchmarking, designing and implementing IT governance models, and service delivery rationalization and management

NETWORKING AND COMMUNICATION FIRM  Served as IT Transformation Advisor to the executive of the IT Delivery organization Worked closely with the executive to define the three-year strategy to transform the organization into a strategic partner of the business  Developed relationship and identified multiple opportunities to partner with the clientHIGHER EDUCATION Conducted an IT Cost analysis and built the business case for the IT transformation program to rationalize and consolidate IT Services in a shared services model and demonstrated sustained multi-million dollar benefit achieved through economies of scale and scope Designed a framework to enable fact based decisions to determine IT Services appropriate to be transitioned to a shared services provider Designed a Funding and Chargeback model for the shared services provider to drive alignment of demand and supply behaviors and leverage economies of scale and scope where appropriate across a highly decentralized and autonomous environment o Establish cost-effective and sustainable funding and cost recovery strategiesGLOBAL METALS AND MINING MANUFACTURER Conducted a high level IT Capability assessment of the IT organization Designed the Organization to transform it from a regional to a global, business driven, flexible, cost efficient organization Developed a roadmap for improving critical capabilities, specifically IT-Business Strategy alignment, Organizational Capability, IT governance and PMO frameworksMARKETING AND EVENTS FIRM Conducted an Application Portfolio Assessment across five lines of business Developed a roadmap to consolidate critical applications (ERP, CRM, Operations and Payroll) across business Units  Coordinated the ERP roadmap with the Finance & Process Management team recommendations for process improvement and the transition to a shared services model

 Developed a business led Global Product Lifecycle Management strategy for integrating business processes and IT systems across multiple automotive brands Developed integrated global product definition processes through the complete product lifecycle and enabled them through IT systems to enable global cross brand platforms  Led a cross functional team to to streamline product direction processes and reduce the occurrence of vehicle mis-builds by 70-80% Conceived and implemented engineering solutions to assess and react to product definition changes affecting vehicle build combinations early in the product lifecycle resulting in $1MM+ savings

 Structured and led a cross functional effort to implement processes and IT technology to institutionalize part/system commonality across vehicle programs saving $500MM over five years Responsible for the budget, vendor evaluation, sourcing and negotiation for IT solutions and implementation

 Led the effort to improve vehicle weld quality by coordinating activities across engineering and manufacturing functions and the product lifecycle. Achieved 50% reduction in missed welds Managed a team of six engineers to implement collaborative information management process and tools for coordinating global vehicle programs