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Mckinney, Tx, Us

Irving, Texas, Us

Irving, Texas, Us

San Jose, California, Us

McAfee, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC), is the world's largest dedicated security company. Since our founding in 1987, we have had just one mission: to help our customers stay safe. We achieve this by creating proactive security solutions for securing your digital world. Our Mission is that McAfee: proactively secures systems and networks from known and as yet undiscovered threats worldwide. Home users, businesses, service providers, government agencies, and our partners all trust our unmatched security expertise and have confidence in our comprehensive and proven solutions to effectively block attacks and prevent disruptions.We also provide software that makes it safer for children to be online, with filtering and monitoring options that give parents greater peace of mind.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Teleflora provides innovative marketing, education and technology support for its more than 20,000 member florists throughout the U.S. and Canada, with an additional 20,000 affiliated florists outside North America. Global IT Operational and Infrastructure Support, IT Architecture and Strategy, InfoSec, PCI Compliance and Governance; Directly responsible for hosting over 13,000 independent global ecommerce web sites• Deployed 3 year IT Roadmap to align with business objectives; establishing an InfoSec program to protect business operations (SIEM, PEN, IPS / IDS, Threat Intelligence)• Renegotiated and established a long term Enterprise License Agreement realizing over $100K in savings in perpetuity• Launched ITIL Methodology project focusing on ITIL best practices • Completed the outsourcing of our Contact Center into a cloud based model• Designed business continuity plan focused on leveraging a cloud based model / utility pricing

Dallas, Texas, Us

Uplift is an amazing public charter school network that consists of 7 campuses and 22 schools serving the greater Dallas area. We have successfully aligned business growth with technology in the creation of a School in a Box.Technology department head and board participant responsible for aligning the technology vision to our strategic business initiatives. Report directly to the CEO.• Established and chaired Technology Board• Championed the implementation of a custom Data Warehouse and Intranet providing ease of use and robust decision making to greatly improve Student Achievement• Centralized and aligned Technology Roadmap with business objectives to effectively serve short, medium, and long range business initiatives; Leveraging SDLC and ITIL for Service Delivery • Deployed secure cloud based computing for students and staff; virtualized entire server infrastructure• Implemented Cisco VoIP call center management services and Citrix virtual desktops / applications to streamline operations, reduce total cost of ownership while increasing functionality• Established and deployed standard application and infrastructure framework to accommodate growth• Contractual negotiations and execution on over $5 million worth of goods and services

Served as a member of the acquisition team on the sell side. Provided strategic direction to consolidate services to provide additional value and cost savings to the business.

Deerfield Beach, Florida, Us

Southeast Toyota spinoff - JMSolutions develops and markets innovative, integrated software systems to help automotive retailers improve operational efficiencies for over 5,000 rooftops. Served all major automotive groups Autonation, Penske, Sonic, Asbury, Van Tuyl. Acquired by DealerTrack in February 2009Promoted from corporate IT position to lead 3 senior managers and 40+-member team for internet startup operation installing, supporting, and training customers on the product suite in a shared-services organization • Designed and architected secure data extraction product to retrieve highly valuable vehicles sales data from dealer management systems• Reduced operating expenses $400,000 by transitioning 20% of training staff to account manager roles• Cut fixed costs by more than 50% while generating $225,000+ in annual revenue by developing data extraction product• Created employee development program to recruit and mentor future organizational leaders • Implemented more than $200,000 (topline revenue) in software solutions in one month by developing staff and applying iterative lean processes that reduced installation time by more than 70%• Established Service Delivery Model - Delivered $187,000 annual savings by utilizing offshore data entry• Key member of the deal team performing due diligence during acquisitions, both integrations and divestures

Deerfield Beach, Florida, Us

$13 Billion privately held diversified automotive conglomerate whose principal businesses focus on distribution, technology products and services; finance and warranty services; insurance activities; retail sales; and marketing and consulting.(165 retail centers,1,400 service providers, 3 manufacturing centers and parts distribution centers)Enterprise IT leader managing cross-functional team implementing strategic IT operations direction, coaching and mentoring staff, and directing finances, budgeting, and forecasting• Managed $25+ million software/hardware budget for large heterogeneous environment, including all enterprise software, ERP and financials• Led transformational efforts to migrate core legacy applications to multi-tiered, highly available, client server environment• Led integration efforts to incorporate over 100 disparate applications into a single portal interface • Lowered raised-floor utilization 40% by implementing ITIL and HP Openview to trend performance metrics of resource utilization and enable optimal provisioning forecasts• Realized $500,000 annual savings by implementing shared-services operating model• Reduced staffing 30% by consolidating SMEs into single shared-services organization; successfully retooling and repurposing personnel to accommodate transformational shift• Saved more than $10 million annually by consolidating Data Centers and outsourced Mainframe operations• Infrastructure leader establishing highly available customer and dealer portal environments• Implemented a cost recovery and service delivery model to accurately recover IT spend from various business units• IT Operations audit and compliance owner for SAS70, SOX, GLBA

Startup Technology Company established by former Autonation Executives that delivers robust CRM, training, and portal technologies to automotive dealers. Asista.com - B2B e-Marketplace for indirect goods and services in Latin America (Brazil, Argentina, Mexico)Led team in design and on-going support of highly available global server infrastructure in three languages, and established and managed hosting environment. SDLC practitioner.

Ft. Lauderdale, Fl, Us

• Key contributor in building and securing one of the first automotive retail eCommerce sites that generated $1 billion in sales in less than two years• IT Mergers and Acquisitions participant assigned to evaluate and integrate newly acquired dealer groups• Established and decoupled Shared Service organization for Autonation, Republic Services, and Rental Car divisions

Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Bba, Management