Bill O'Neill Email & Phone Number

La Grange, IL, US

Barrington, Illinois, United States

Support the leadership team of Kavi Global to meet their goals to grow and transform the company. Kavi Global is a thought leader in data analytics, AI and digital knowledge worker development.

Assisting customers with organizational, strategic, process and project management consulting. Helping my employers and customers visualize and accelerate change for more than thirty years.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Partner with Chicago-based non-profit organizations to promote growth strategies and provide ad hoc support.

New York City Metropolitan Area

Work with client IT leaders to build and refine strategies across a variety of focus areas. Manage projects to help them execute to these strategies.

Greater Chicago Area

Lead transformation of multiple business IT departments into a modern, efficient and creative technology team scaled to help a $2B sector of a global holding company shed legacy processes and meet its growth goals.

Greater Chicago Area

• Lead diverse, global technology initiatives for a diversified financial services company as it goes through massive transformation.
• Led finance systems separation and bridging to buyer of $34B divested assets and associated processes.
• Led IT initiatives to position $40B assets in a legal entity structure supporting divestitures and continuing operations.
• Led global initiatives to migrate GE Capital’s systems to meet Systemically Important Financial Institution (SIFI) requirements. Initiatives involve 20+ business units and more than 200 impacted systems.
• Led IT tracks of acquisition of $7B retail deposit platform (infrastructure, network, security, applications, people) from due diligence through cutover.
• Deliver and run technology for GE Capital’s Risk and Modeling functional teams.

• Modernized IT, developed world-class intelligence capability and exhibited financial discipline. GE Rail Services was an $800M provider of leasing and operational services to the rail freight industry.
• Converted 40% of legacy code on AS400 platform (inventory, supply chain, engineering) to J2EE/service-oriented platform.
• Led a team of 27 employees and 80-100 global contractors. Team delivered up to 50 initiatives of varying investment ($10k - $3.5M) each year.
• Reduced run costs by between 4% and 15% each year as CIO. Managed a $13MM budget covering application support, infrastructure, license management, development programs and consulting.
• Delivered $3M savings though staff reorg and development of shared services across multiple business units.
• Improved billing of regulation-mandated maintenance by $500k per year through improved system controls.

• Served as project manager for $50M+ Oracle CRM and ERP implementation for the global leader in safety certification. Project team consisted of 20 staff and 30 client and contract employees.
• Managed client and employee expectations and productivity through transition of engagement from Arthur Andersen to BearingPoint.

• Managed technical design and deployment of integration between consumer website and Oracle Applications fulfillment system for startup web grocer. Java and XML technology utilized. Developed customizations to Oracle.
• Developed cost estimating model implementation of a common chart of accounts across several major ERP systems to 20+ business units of a leader in the consumer packaged goods industry.
• Managed nine developers and as many as a dozen simultaneous development efforts as part of Oracle Financials implementation for a Fortune 500 commercial services provider. Served as coordinator of all discussions.

• Developed engineering, Financial and HR applications using C, Visual Basic and Oracle databases.
• Served as Oracle database administrator for several clients.

• Developed processes and systems to manage a multi-carrier long-distance network aggregation.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Journalism

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