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Streamlining companies by making the right decisions for finance and information technology.Fixed cost reduction - Reduce companies' recurring expenses by 20-40% in most categories without changing their operating model, service levels, or vendors. Commonly reviewed categories are waste removal (including medical waste), telecommunications, utilities, maintenance contracts, shipping and logistics, armored car service, bank fees, and many more. Cost Optimization – Optimize costs by taking an unbiased look at companies' business and operating model, reviewing business cases for planned initiatives and vetting the financials, optimizing processes and determining what can be automated, and developing a clear and actionable strategy to implement the recommendations with minimal disruption to the organization. Unlike cost reduction, cost optimization may involve changing the operating model, service levels, and vendors.General Business Advisory and Management Consulting – Improve companies' performance with objective advice borne from years of experience both domestically and internationally. I help companies make tough choices that produce significant differences and to be able to accurately see the consequences – both positive and negative.

Head of the IT Finance and Administration group; accountable for preparing and managing the IT capital and operating budgets, workforce planning, vendor management, procurement, cost optimization and control, business value proposition review, staff expenses, managed services and outsourcing, and workforce planning. Created and implemented a new IT financial strategy to stabilize the P&L and enable full transparency and visibility of true costs for business lines.

Senior member of the ENJAZ 2015 project team tasked with expanding GIB’s services as an established wholesale/investment bank to include digital banking, transforming the Bank into a pan-GCC bank. Led the IT Infrastructure transformation in preparation for GIB to go live with Retail Banking in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain becoming the first end-to-end digital bank in both countries. I also managed the new production data center construction; testing and commissioning the entire solution which was delivered on time and within budget.

Managed the systems migration and data consolidation from non-strategic Merrill Lynch and Bank of America data centres to two main strategic data centres to leverage the capabilities of the combined infrastructure and facilities.• Developed and executed the strategy for the consolidation and move of 500+ applications, 3000+ servers and approximately 400 TB of data into strategic data centres throughout the United States to streamline support and reduce operating expenses.• Reduced system downtime by managing the data centre migration methods and tool sets. • Engaged internal resources, outside vendors and offshore partners to install network connections, perform hardware upgrades and deploy new infrastructure systems as needed in the target data centres to support application migrations.

Senior member of the North America Microsoft / VMware Regional Team tasked with ensuring adherence to corporate IT standards by local infrastructure teams at 14 sites across the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico to streamline support and implementation through consistency and standardization.• Initiated and participated in periodic reviews of qualified / validated systems to ensure that they were being maintained in a controlled state and in compliance with all applicable Food & Drug Administration (FDA) regulations to guarantee product quality and safety.• Managed the deployment of qualified enterprise level systems which provided the backbone of all laboratory functions including environmental monitoring, sample management, finished goods release, stability testing, test method consistency, reporting, data analysis and archived data retrieval to improve product quality.• Managed the data centre consolidation from all sites into three regional data centres in North America to reduce operating expenses by increasing the infrastructure capabilities through virtualization, eliminating data centre facilities redundancy and reducing the infrastructure footprint. • Coordinated the architecture, implementation and support of Manufacturing Execution Systems for consumer healthcare product manufacturing, pharmaceutical manufacturing, vaccine research and biotechnology manufacturing to optimize and improve production output.

Managed a team of network, SAN, Windows/VMware/Citrix, and Unix administrators and engineers.• Led a team tasked with the construction of a new data center in Puerto Rico, responsible for qualification of and migration to the new facility. Coordinated the infrastructure installation and oversaw the systems migration.• Directed the PMO and application technology coordinators for all IT projects at the Richmond, VA sites to ensure adherence to global standards and to streamline project implementation and delivery.• Managed the installation and maintenance of the wired and wireless network infrastructure.

Systems Engineer on the Richmond, VA Network / Server Operations team.• Redesigned the infrastructure architecture for 60 production, quality assurance and disaster recovery systems.• Collaborated with quality assurance and IS compliance groups to ensure that systems comply with FDA good manufacturing practices (GMP).• Developed new change control procedures and implemented a new enterprise change management system.