Michael Carper, Phd Email & Phone Number

Dallas, Texas, US

• Fractional/Interim CIO or CIO Advisor, I bring my experience to bear in helping mid-market organizations build their vision, strategy, and roadmap in support of the organization's digital transformation journey.Areas.
• Cloud migration & digital transformation; SaaS, IaaS, PaaS strategies
• Modernization of the application, infrastructure, and network landscape
• Digitization of customer experience
• Business process improvement and automation
• Finding solutions to complex technology issues or difficult-to-solve operational challenges

London, Greater London, GB

• Provided strategic and technical leadership in support of a digital transformation for an AU$140B market cap global mining company, the second largest in the world. Responsible for the design, development, release and.
• 300% decrease in communications faults of autonomous vehicles; improved overall safety profile
• $85M annual savings through cost-reductions in the IT operating budget
• $67M 5-year reduction through the negotiations of a $100M annual global professional services contract
• Led the negotiations of a $87M Microsoft Server Cloud Enrollment contract
• Gained executive committee approval for a $1B IT Asset Management strategy over seven years

Hoffman Estates, IL, US

• Provided strategic and technical leadership to execute a “go-to-the-cloud” strategy for all business applications that support ERP, point-of-sale (POS), merchandise planning, and supply chain applications for a $2B.
• Negotiated supplier contracts, resulting in $1M+ annualized saving in operating expenses; Total IT expenses estimated to be 1% of gross revenue on a recurring basis after all-cloud migration
• Led systems integrator delivery of over 100,000 hours of customization to a point-of-sale system
• Established and managed off-shore business process outsourcing (BPO) services that support IT and business functions; service providers, systems integrators; cloud services, on-shore/off-shore out-sourcing
• 100% of all business applications replaced with SaaS or PaaS
• 100% of all business applications were single sign-on (SSO) with multi-factor authentication

• Being a fan of the brand, I joined RadioShack to have the opportunity to contribute to the future success of the company through business transformation. I was responsbile for the entire IT landscape and cyber.
• $20M annual savings through the implementation of an automated credit scoring system
• 50% faster private label product delivery via new B2B portal

Plano, Texas, US

• Provided strategic and technical leadership to develop and execute the Information Technology vision for a $13B publicly traded, Fortune 500, multi-channel retailer. Managed and allocated an annual budget of $220M. Led.
• Drove the deployment of a mobile POS platform reaching 35% of transactions within 6 months
• Directed the implementation of technology solutions and infrastructure initiatives; prepared the foundational infrastructure for the implementation of Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS)
• Drove the development of a hybrid cloud strategy that created the environment for Oracle EBS
• Eliminated $25M of ongoing expense through accelerated system retirement and waste elimination
• Created vendor management office (VMO) to improve the performance of strategic suppliers

Coraopolis, PA, US

• Led the development and implementation of a comprehensive technology plan to support and enable rapid growth. Directed a team 100 professionals supporting the global technology infrastructure solutions engineering and.
• Managed positive variances annually, a capital budget of $43M to 4% and $18M expense budget to 5%
• Delivered over 200 technology-related business projects per year; within scope; on-time; under-budget
• Exceeded 99.95% availability target for key business systems; Service level performance for incident and request management exceeds 97% for entire year
• Realized a $1.1M savings by negotiating a 15% reduction in the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement
• Led the completion of a $40M data center project; managed the design, budget, and migration of the primary data center; within budget, 2-months early with no unplanned business impact or downtime

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US

• This company operated like a start-up.Massive growth; 2x growth in gross revenue, 4x growth in store count; eCommerce grew to nearly 40% of the business.
• Reduced the deployment cycles for point-of-sale releases from 12 weeks to 2 days

Bset, Electrical Engineering Technology

Ms Ics, Information & Communication Sciences

Ph.D., Technology Management (Digital Communications Systems)