Founded Digital Transformation Consulting Firm to help traditional businesses navigate digital disruption in their marketplaces.

Serving as an Board Member providing technology, business and marketing strategy for a global IT services and development company focused on AI, robotic process automation, blockchain, and machine learning.

Served as an advisory board member to aid Yext's expansion and rapid growth in the AI based search category.

REBUILT AND GREW DIGITAL CHANNELSLed the combination of both digital and information technology organizations which grew global digital sales 115%, increased loyalty participation rates exponentially, while reducing ongoing operating costs by substantial amounts.ESTABLISHED TECHNOLOGY OPERATING BEST PRACTICESTransformed Technology Organization through the introduction of ITIL, ITBM, SDLC, DevSecOps, and overall operational best practices which resulted in improved uptime, reliability, and security metrics across all platforms.BUILT TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE AND ARCHITECTURE FOR GLOBAL GROWTHReplaced digital back end, middleware, and north American consumer apps with flexible code and Amazon AWS Lambda functions which can adequately scale to meet the global order volumes of our 40,000+ franchisees and provide real-time interfaces to our global POS systems.RECRUITED HI PERFORMING TEAMS WHILE LEVERAGING EXTERNAL PARTNERSHIPSRecruited hi-performing leadership team members and technical leaders to lead the transformation from a custom-internally focused culture, to one that leverages partnerships to grow all over the world.

Led a dynamic workforce of over 350 employees and 750 contractors to drive industry change and meet the rapidly changing technology needs of a $15B company with a frugal annual IT budget.DROVE IT TRANSFORMATION FOR INNOVATION AND GROWTH• Reorganized IT into nine functioning and segmented businesses (three P&L, and six cost centers) to better meet and adapt to internal and external customer demands. • Established Land O’ Lakes’ Winfield Division as the premier provider and distributor of AgTech products to US farmers and grew IT derived revenue by over 40% per year over five years.• Launched new startup to deliver IT solutions and services to local dealer network in rural America. Grew revenues >100% for last two years while aggressively expanding services. • Created a comprehensive innovation program that expanded beyond normal product R&D into other areas such as user experience, service development, channel development, and customer engagement.LED IT AND DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION DRIVING COST SAVINGS • Drove the transformation of Land O’ Lakes marketing approach to embrace modern digital marketing technologies and techniques, ultimately resulting in the restructuring and rebalancing of marketing investments to better meet the needs of emerging consumers. • Consolidated, centralized, and outsourced the MDM function of the corporation, delivering 30% cost savings and increased capabilities, data quality, and throughput.• Built relationships with multiple cloud vendors, including a marquee relationship with Microsoft. • Migrated the application portfolio from 30% SaaS to over 60% SaaS in three years. COMPREHENSIVE LEADERSHIP APPROACH TO ATTRACT AND RETAIN TOP IT TALENT • Established comprehensive “Investing in You” program to attract, develop, and retain the very best IT talent in an extremely competitive regional marketplace.

Vice President, Information Technology - Agricultural Services - Accountable for overall technology leadership in support of the Winfield and Purina Animal Nutrition Divisions representing $9.3B in sales. LED TRANSFORMATION AND INNOVATION FOR TECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESS STRATEGIES• Developed the vision, plan, architecture and organization to deliver Winfield’s innovative Data to Insights strategic vision. Included the deployment and launch of the Winfield R7 Satellite Imaging Platform, the Emerald Equinox Data Analytics Platform, and enhancement of the AgriMine Point of Sale platforms. • Sponsored five major IT initiatives under the Land O’ Lakes IT transformation program, including the Winfield ERP consolidation program that successfully integrated the legacy chemical and seed businesses into one common system and operating methodology.• Supported the strategic re-branding of Winfield and Purina businesses across all internet and electronic customer interactions.• Led all IT acquisition and integration work within Winfield and Purina.DROVE OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE OF IT FUNCTION• Sponsored the first significant international systems implementation across three Mexican entities. • Redefined IT project management function, roles, and responsibilities to achieve a ~85% on time delivery and ~90% under budget performance across 300+ projects. TEAM WON CHAIRMAN'S AWARD FOR M&A• Achieved Chairmen’s Award for the speed and benefits of M&A efforts.

RESTRUCTURED GLOBAL IT FOR IMPROVED PERFORMANCE AND EFFICENCY• Developed new corporate methodology for the assignment of company-wide IT costs. • Designed new corporate methodology for the consolidation of IT purchasing across the company. • Reengineered IT portfolio management processes. • Re-designed sector IT prioritization and budgeting process. • Designed and executed upon the creation of a transformational ERP Enterprise Standardized and Accelerated Deployment Program across the corporation. • Developed and managed worldwide corporate Enterprise Resource Planning, Supply Chain Management, Enterprise Application Integration, and Datawarehousing and Reporting strategies. • Created global plans, budgets, and resource models to accelerate the company’s Oracle migration from 45 years to four years. • Developed new “acquisition playbook” for estimating and executing the rapid integration of mergers and acquisitions into the corporate technology portfolio. PIONEERED GLOBAL TAX OPTIMIZATION AND MANUFACTURING PLATFORMS • Managed team of ~80 technical individuals to the successful implementation of 85 modules of Oracle 11.5.8 application suite to enable company’s tax inversion. Led team of off-shore resources to meet project objectives and minimize cost. Managed $10MM budget as part of the program. • Successfully led 80-person team as Project Manager to deploy Oracle Financials and Manufacturing 11.5.10 suite to manufacturing facilities in eastern europe.

PIONEERED VIRTUAL CORPORATIONS AND OUTSOURCING• Helped developed concepts, methods, and processes for the rapid online collaboration of companies to create virtual entities to address market needs.• Pioneered outsourcing non-customer facing functions such as finance, accounting, and HR.• Helped to create several virtual entities to address unmet defense department requests.• Helped founders raise $4MM in angel funding.

SUPPORTED ALLIEDSIGNAL ACQUSITION OF HONEYWELL• Provided technical leadership toward anti-trust review of alliedsignal acquisiton of honeywell.• Organized and managed due dilligence requests from the department of justice.• Prepared data rooms and information for the divestiture of product lines and businesses.

FOUNDED LOCAL "GEEK SQUAD" COMPANY FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED BUSINESSES• Founded IT services company in Southern New Jersey that focused on delivering value to small and medium size businesses, schools, and governments.• Grew revenue to $500,000 per year in first two years