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Member of the Senior Leadership Team bringing together our corporate accounting, client analytics and reporting, enterprise transformation, corporate audit, and information technology organizations.Accountable for delivering the post-sale value chain and end-to-end experience for our clients and customers while providing thought leadership and strategic vision for our growth strategies.

Enterprise Digital Transformation:• ERP and CRM selection, deployment, and operation• Organizational Change Management• Desktop refresh / MDM rollout• PCI complianceOrganizational Leadership:• Corporate Strategy & Innovation• Business Alignment• Operational Excellence• Process Reinvention• Program Management

Scaling Product:• Reliability and Serviceability• Development, QA, and deployment processes• Technology platform evolutionInnovation & Design:• Product Management• User Experience• Analytics: customers, users, operators

Engaged undergraduate students across a breadth of curriculum including object-oriented software engineering, machine learning, and statistics concepts. Prepared and delivered courses including lectures, homework assignments, and laboratory exercises using up-to-date and industry-relevant sources, tools, and practices. • Received accolades for engaging and relational content delivery, classroom management, and conflict resolution.

Led a team of 90 delivering the MISO IT Infrastructure & Operations mission, including: enterprise compute, storage, networking, data center, desktop, mobile, 24x7 call center, and IT service management (ITSM / ITIL) supporting an enterprise population of over 1000. • Stabilized key corporate initiatives around new regulatory compliance requirements and Identity and Access Management.• Defined and evolved strategy and business case for hybrid cloud platform to transform IT Infrastructure services delivery and operations.• Introduced modern infrastructure operations practices and metrics for improved efficiency, transparency, and visibility.• Improved alignment with the business lines by building relationships and delivering value across the enterprise.• Improved culture and collaboration through personal engagement, communication, expectation setting, and visioning.

Led a team of 150 US-based and over 200 global members supporting 4000 staff to transform and modernize the developer experience by building and operating a modern, elegant tool chain that enhanced productivity and served as a competitive differentiator. • Developed a culture of innovation, experimentation, and appropriate risk taking while providing a strong client focus and budget oversight of approximately $30M OpEx and $25M CapEx.• Integrated seven unique teams into a global organization responsible for infrastructure, platform, security, compliance, and application services. • Transformed the developer toolchain used to build, test, and support next-generation offerings resulting in faster time to market, improved client support, and increased software reuse.• Build and operate the premier hybrid DevIT cloud for Development, Test, and Support workloads resulting in faster time to market and lower operational cost.

Built and led an interdisciplinary team of technical and business leaders partnering across the functional units of IBM to develop, deliver, maintain, and lifecycle manage the large and growing portfolio of IBM Appliances. • Innovated the business processes required to transform the Appliance software deliverables into physical Appliance offerings that are manufactured, shipped, supported, and lifecycle managed from Concept through End of Support. • Drove the business innovation required to scale the business nearly 4x from 2010 to 2015, nearly $2B revenue.• Engaged with leaders from across IBM Software Group to consider Appliance Go To Market opportunities, expanding the Appliance Model to cover Guardium, QRadar, MessageSight, DataPower, and other IBM strategic Appliances. • Drove the team to support 20+ product launches and 51 GAs in 2014.• Supported Netezza, Q1 Labs, The Now Factory, and other new acquisition opportunities during Due Diligence and drove the Product Integration, business transformation, and launch into operational cadence.• Key leader for the System x divestiture to Lenovo. Drove the post-divestiture internal operating model and business transformation required to support it. Worked with IBM Finance, Development, Supply Chain, and Support organizations to align expectations and ensure Day One readiness. Deep engagement and leadership on the post-divestiture external operating model with Lenovo.

Led a large cross-functional team to bring the Netezza offerings into IBM smoothly and efficiently. Defined and built solutions to numerous unique “first time in IBM” challenges. I drove many significant integration and operations issues across product management, development, sales, support, order to cash, legal, ISC, and several other IBM and heritage Netezza teams. • Business Unit responsibility for integration of the 400-person, $2B Netezza acquisition and development/launch.• On-time launch of the post-integration product portfolio and next-generation offerings.o Developed and drove the execution of the Enterprise-wide 18-month, ~75-person Hardware integration plan.• Worked with Finance and Accounting to develop internal business model, including $400M revenue and $25M inventory treatment.• Proposed and drove the Fulfillment model, working with IBM IT on detailed requirements and $7M implementation effort.• Worked with IBM Supply Chain to leverage an IBM Business Partner into a $30M/yr third-party systems integrator.• Developed strategy for Netezza Development organization to migrate to common IBM toolchains.• Managed WW regulatory compliance plan to ensure compliance to over 100 country standards and IBM requirements.

Led the cross-functional team composed of Product Development, Marketing, Finance, Integrated Supply Chain, and Service & Support teams in delivering complex computer system and solutions products to the IBM BladeCenter business. •Partner with technical and business Subject Matter Experts, executive sponsors, and key clients to define future industry-leadership portfolio content.•Responsible for end-to-end management of multiple programs to deliver products and solutions from initial concept to market delivery and through lifecycle management.•Typical development budgets of $5-15M per program, annual portfolio revenue ~$100M.•Leverage the IBM Integrated Product Development process to deliver innovation by interlocking across matrix-managed functional teams and with suppliers/partners to execute program objectives, manage risk, and ensure quality with a focus on key business metrics including revenue and profit targets, development expense, cost of goods sold, and internal rate of return.•Developed and implemented BladeCenter Technology License capability for multiple third parties.

Lead architect for Open Security Platform • Partnered with clients to understand pain points and translate into product requirements.• Worked with suppliers to evaluate available technologies and drive new innovation required to realize the solution.o Developed several enabling innovations that led to 4 patents related to server load balancing.• Evangelized the value proposition and promoted migration to the new platform to ISVs such as:o Industry-leading firewall, intrusion prevention/detection, anti-X, and other network and information security suppliers.

Various roles growing from a software developer specializing in systems and performance engineering, database development, and automation, to principal platform architect for the Application Solutions Business Unit platform development team.