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Addison, Tx, Us

Oversees all dimensions of DE&I, focusing exclusively on advancing diversity strategy and initiatives to help achieve long-term success for company and its associates, customers, clients, investors, suppliers and communities. Develop and deploy a unified global DEI strategy across the international footprint of the Credera portfolio (over 4,000 employees across the US, Europe, India, and Australia), incorporating a “glo-cal” approach that builds synergy across a 5-pillar strategy but also adapts to and respects regional/local context.Create, launch and grow a client-facing set of DE&I services, trainings and accelerators to technology, mid-market, and non-profit organizations across industries to solve for challenges with internal and external DEI strategy, investment, sustainability and to increase engagement, retention, impact and belonging for all.Reporting directly into the Global Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the executive leadership team, ensures that the DE&I strategy is fully incorporated into the firm’s strategy and leveraged to drive results-oriented execution across the company.Create data-driven toolkits for the firm’s consulting practice areas and markets to identify and triage specific DEI-related issues, define relevant goals around impact and engagement in support of underserved communities, and thought-leadership on how to improve operations to ensure equity and access.Leads efforts to design and deliver equitable practices across talent acquisition, learning, talent development, practice operations & supplier diversity.

Addison, Tx, Us

Championed, developed and promoted company-wide inclusion strategies and diversity initiatives resulting in an over 6% increase in employee sentiment around belonging and fostering an inclusive workplace in one year. Created a 5-pillar strategy (Recruiting, Retention, Marketing, Learning & Development, and Strategy pillars) to ensure DE&I initiatives, priorities, and focus are woven into the fabric of the firm.Activated over 7,400 hours of volunteerism across multiple DE&I workstreams and over 35% of our partner team actively serving in sponsorship roles and developed the firm’s first public-facing DE&I Transparency Report.Built and implemented a playbook for Employee Resource Groups, incorporating governance, guidelines, processes, and scorecards for measuring outcomes. Grew our ERG footprint to 10 groups, expanding to create additional community and belonging for People of Color, Veterans, Wellness, Women in Technology and Disability.Established deep partnerships with DEI-centric organizations to enhance impact and better serve communities. As a part of the Omnicom DE&I Executive Team, led the Impactful Partnerships task force to determine the best fit partners for the 1500+ agency footprint and multi-million dollar budget allocation. Increased supplier diversity from 9% to 16% of controllable spend in one year.

Addison, Tx, Us

Responsible for leading strategic and technical teams at key client accounts across multiple industries, size and geographies, developing and maturing relationships with client executives, ensuring quality delivery of projects and programs, and identifying future business opportunities through proactive account planning.Serve as a senior leader within practice operations, coaching and overseeing our senior manager and above cohorts, ensuring connection and growth for each individual. Direct and evolve the Program & Change Leadership service offering for the firm, focusing on evolving the tools, frameworks, methodologies, and go to market strategy for project, program, and portfolio management, agile leadership, and governance.Known as a highly influential DE&I Champion, building the business case and leaning into implementing strategies for diversity recruiting and retention, as well as creating a sense of belonging for our minority and underrepresented communities. Led organic efforts to define DE&I metrics, reporting, and trend analysis focused on qualitative data about our growth and commitment to gender and racial equity. • Executive Sponsor of CredColor, Credera’s ERG for People of Color• OPMG Anti-Racism Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Steering Committee, Belonging Workstream Lead• Executive Sponsor of OPMG BLQ, Omnicom Precision Marketing Group's ERG for Black Associates• Credera Women’s Network, Career Growth and Development Co-lead

Columbus, Ohio, Us

Led high-performing team of 125+ FTEs, Contingent and off-shore resources to deliver mission-critical technology solutions to operationally support our $8B family of companies, including four distinct Lines of Business [LOBs] focused on financial services and digital marketing. Oversaw the evolution and ongoing execution of IT strategy and core delivery capabilities across the corporate ADS environment, including business relationship management [BRM], portfolio and project management [PPM], business process optimization, enterprise architecture, software development and quality assurance. Matured the software development capability, ensuring code quality, adherence to architectural standards, consistent delivery of business value, and a focus on agility and innovation. Re-invented our IT services catalog, to highlight our enhanced integration services, automation, and data platforms to support our business partners’ journey to cloud SaaS solutions.Defined our enterprise Cloud Computing strategy and successfully re-platformed 95% of our mission-critical systems to cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS, OCI Cloud Infrastructure) and DB PaaS. Intentional focus on continuous improvement and operational excellence, seeking out opportunities to eliminate waste in processes, implement new ways of working, and optimally steward our IT resources (capacity/people, budget, assets/IP).Championed a culture of innovation, transparency and accountability in IT. Re-centered the culture of the overall team to embody trust, collaboration, and diversity from the ground up.

Columbus, Ohio, Us

• Responsible for the triage and re-planning of the development of a $15M financial and operations platform.• Established program governance, introduced more lean working models, and fostered executive alignment.

Grapevine, Texas, Us

Served as PMO Director for the eCommerce and Digital Distribution business units supporting Gamestop.com, international websites, and newly acquired digital entities. Transitioned to the global PMO Director for the Enterprise Strategy and Program Management organization, responsible for Strategy Creation, Business & Process Architecture, Portfolio Management, and Program/Project Management across both digital and traditional channels. Led the transition from a Federated PMO to a centralized PMO Center of Excellence (CoE), Re-tooled the organization in Resource Management and Financials, empowering data-centric decisioning based on real-time data through executive dashboards and easy to use reporting (Clarity PPM solution).Served as the “Office of the CIO”, responsible for budgeting, forecasting and financial reporting for a $120M annual capital and operating budget. Implemented strategic governance processes and structures to support the new business-aligned IT Portfolios.Championed and fully integrated the Agile SCRUM methodology, patterns, and ways of working into our business and IT operations.Served as Program Manager for multi-million dollar multi-channel initiatives.

Denver, Colorado, Us

Direct report into CIO. Led tactical and strategic decision-making for both the enterprise technology organization and the Blockbuster Online business unit.Planned and monitored $60M+ annual capital IT budget and owner of both administrative and project cost centers, working closely with Finance and Accounting on budgeting, financial reporting, reconciliation, and accruals.Resource management of up to 25 direct reports, including Project Managers, Business Analysts, Project Coordinators, and Program Managers. Responsible for hiring, performance management, career path definition, mentoring/coaching, issue resolution, and project assignments.Led the portfolio management function for both the Enterprise IT team and Online Business Unit. Responsibilities included prioritization, ROI / business case justification, project sizing and estimation, resource pool allocation and tracking, metrics and executive reporting.Defined key controls and change management standards associated with SOX and various industry-specific auditsServed as Program Manager for new, high-visibility integration programs.

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Primarily responsible for managing project execution of software implementations at key client engagements.Demonstrated expertise in project management, conflict management, risk management and change management. Served major Fortune 500 clients in Financial Services, Government, Telecommunications and Construction industries.• Representative projects include:o AmSouth Bank – Project Manager: Led the effort for a robust Reporting and Analytics Strategy Assessment for AmSouth’s Mortgage Divisiono Compass Bank – Program Manager: Planned, developed and implemented a $20M Data Warehouse / Marketing Information Systemo Nokia – Program Manager: Created and deployed internationally a new business capability and toolset around self-service support for Nokia’s internal global user community

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Led team of 20+ IT technologists for all custom application development, governance, and processes required to grow and support a large supply chain and logistics software company

Customized large software packages to meet the needs of our customers with a heavy focus on process re-design, ease of use, and field adoption

Developed workflows, processes, and tools to support the acquisition and integration of small companies seamlessly into the MMI family.

Bba, Management / Organizational Behavior

Management Information Systems