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Seattle, WA, US

Greater Seattle Area

Greater Seattle Area

Seattle, WA

• Zenitas, a management consulting firm, was launched in 2009, combining operational excellence and technology expertise, to help companies identify opportunities, address challenges, and transform their business..
• Directed restructuring of CIO’s 2,200 person global workforce to align FTE/Contingent staff to IT’s long-range plans, reinforce core competencies and optimize costs. Identified $30M in cost savings. Guided executives.
• Developed and managed implementation of business/IT systems’ end-of-life strategy and transition methodology for retirement of legacy applications. Led 150+ key stakeholders from across U.S. through end-of-life.
• Created outsourcing strategy, performance objectives, forecasts and risk assessment for executives at mid-sized financial management firm. Established necessary competencies and drove discipline and maturity within.
• Launched Customer Service team for Series B start-up in retail food business. Built and managed 24x7 Service Desk and Field Support team using scalable/Lean ITIL/ITSM model, and implemented ticket management and client.

United States

• Practice and engagement leader for technology business consulting services, developing and delivering IT Strategic Planning, Spend Management and Program/Project Management professional services to Fortune 500/1000.
• Developed a 3-year, quarter-by-quarter IT Strategic Roadmap for the CIO to guide IT investments and resource allocations. Linked corporate priorities and line-of-business procedures with underpinning technologies, I.T..
• Delivered an Identity Assurance and Fraud Prevention capabilities strategy for CISO, Corporate Risk and Line-of-business VP’s. Managed multiple Identity Assurance and Fraud Prevention initiatives, including voice.
• Prepared multi-year global WAN TCO, Service-level performance and contractual terms analysis for client’s CIO, IT management and Procurement. Guided the architecture, design and sourcing evaluations involving AT&T.

Managed a PMO team responsible for portfolio of corporate-wide project/product delivery methodologies (Project, Program, Systems Development and Release Management). Conducted survey of 600+ methodology users and executive stakeholders, then planned and delivered a lean six-sigma based re-engineering of the methodologies incorporating PMI, Agile, Lean/Six.

Managed $170 million/150+ program and project portfolio for CIO. Analyzed, prioritized, tracked and reported on portfolio and project performance/risk, portfolio balance, resource demand/capacities and enterprise change management timelines. Managed/coached program and project managers on portfolio performance objectives and measures. Utilized Kaizen and.

Program Managed $70 million IT consolidation strategy. Consolidated datacenters, rationalized platforms via virtualization/compute compression and retired end-of-life systems. Planned led cross-functional delivery in all life-cycle phases from justification to benefits capture. Advanced project quality and maturity growth through staff coaching and.

Led project, program, product development and operations initiatives within IT. Established global ITIL Configuration Management service, automated management of 166,000 devices and employed six-sigma methods within reporting and service improvement plans. Managed Product Group and IT joint-deployment/testing programs (‘dogfooding’) for Microsoft’s.