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* Providing C-level senior technology leadership, management, transformation, governance and mentoring.* C-Level Strategic & Integration IT M&E Cyber Security professional services at Warner Brothers Discovery (WBD)* Independent Board member for Entertainment 2 Affect Change(E2AC).* Board Observer for Beckon Ice Cream, a late-stage premium lactose free ice.

New York, United States

Greater New York City Area

• Initial executive spearheading the industry transforming, cross company, HBO GO initiative; co-chair of the HBO Patent Committee; inventor on 6 media industry technology related patents; CIO sponsor of the Time Warner.
• Spearheaded the overall company business coordination and implementation of the industry breakthrough HBOGO Internet distribution product.
• Represented the TW CIO Council on the TW Corporate Information Risk and Information Security Committees; led the Time Warner Information Security Committee for 8 entities (Corporate, HBO, Warner Brothers, AOL, Warner.
• Led a multi-year companywide digital transformation from a non-linear broadcast supply chain to support domestic and international business expansion.
• Introduced IT architecture standardization and vendor multi-souring, resulting in multi-million dollar savings across products and services.
• Deployed an international broadcast system for HBO Asia and Central Europe, with common functionality and local flexibility, saving each entity over $2.5M.

Greater New York City Area

• Responsible for IT strategic planning, budgeting, infrastructure, development and support, encompassing 8 international and 3 domestic offices. Supervised 75 staff with an annual $16 million operating and $5 million.
• Directed the first NBA retail store technology system selection and implementation, encompassing a digital photography library, E-commerce, financials, warehousing, merchandising, point-of-sale, and labor.
• Reduced annual operational consulting dependency by $5 million and aligned the IT organizational to support business requirements.
• Outsourced operations to improve service levels and reduce annual costs by $.75 million.
• Exploited electronic distribution facilities (Internet site and broadcast faxing/e-mail) to reduce annual publishing and distribution costs by $500,000.
• Implemented a restructure to encompass international regional office support.

Greater New York City Area

• Directed corporate-wide strategic IT planning and support for an IT organization supporting 12 decentralized business units encompassing corporate, manufacturing, distribution and record marketing entities in the US.
• Structured and recruited 50 internal staff and eliminated full time contractors, increasing internal knowledge retention and reducing costs by $5 million over 2 years.
• Reduced staff costs 20% by restructuring and eliminating redundant functions across fragmented IT departments, saving over $1 million in annual overhead.
• Stabilized a six-year, $40 million dual-territory artist royalty system (US and UK) project that was over budget and behind schedule with a total dependence on contractors. Restructured and staffed a 25 person project.
• Directed the on time, within budget implementation of a $10 million common ERP financial and accounting system, downsizing from an existing mainframe application.

Greater New York City Area

• Provided support of NBC's home base and remote efforts (NY and Barcelona) for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. Subsequently became Director of Finance Systems reporting to the Treasurer of NBC.
• Reduced staffing costs by $1 million via an integrated ERP logistics and financial system that tracked air, hotel, ground transportation and salaries for over 2,500 people.
• Reduced IT project costs by $.5 million from the previous Olympic effort while implementing more systems of greater complexity.
• Structured and staffed a 7 x 24 support group that maintained joint operations capability between NY and Barcelona sites.

Education record

B.B.A., Mis, Cum Laude