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Detroit, Michigan, United States

Responsible for the overall leading, planning, organizing and execution of all IT Functions for EW Grobbel. Partnering across the organization to implement processes and systems to support business growth.

Detroit, Michigan, United States

• Leader of a hands-on team focused on operational improvement implementing automation technology, monitoring & observability technology & engineering practices, Resulting in a reduction in MTTR, MTTD and failed customer.
• Developed agile process & toolset to integrate infrastructure technology project processes with banking, automotive finance, and insurance application development solutions.
• Successfully designed and developed a patent pending tool using distributed tracing techniques to generate business insights based on the Open Telemetry standard; DISTRIBUTED TRACING TECHNIQUES FOR ACQUIRING BUSINESS.
• Developed a strategy to implement corporate standard solutions for automation & observability tools achieving efficiency objectives & exceeding operational metrics (MTTR, MTTD & Failed Customer Interactions)
• Met all IT budgets while creating a strategic infrastructure portfolio for security, network, automation, IT currency, data center improvement, and AWS cloud adoption transformation.

Lansing, Michigan Area

• Leader of mid-sized IT service company with 50+ clients including Delta Dental, and State of Michigan.
• Developed a strategic growth plan to expand the company into new technologies, geographies, and customers.
• Expanded the agile development factory business by 20% and achieved annual growth targets, increasing overall revenue & profit by 8%.

Greater Chicago Area

• Led the successful overhaul of a $100 million global IT services contract through building a strategic transformation plan to implement new digital technologies & infrastructure services. Mission was to increase IT.
• Created & executed a comprehensive corporate initiative to retain a global workplace services contract with industry leading digital technologies.

Dallas, Texas, United States

• Vice President of IT – Sabre
• Leader of a successful 7-year contract renewal and converted the corporate relationship from adversarial to a long-term partnership.
• Exceeded all 1st year objectives while transforming a business-critical application. The transformation included creating a new agile development solution & building strategic infrastructure technology solutions.

Plano, TX

• Global IT Director – PepsiCo
• Leader of a 7x24 global IT operations team supporting multiple technologies and infrastructure services for PepsiCo’s corporate business units; maintained an “excellent” customer satisfaction rating and met or exceeded.
• Led a corporate strategic initiative to transform and maintain a new PepsiCo datacenter hosting environment which successfully consolidated 13 global data centers to 3 strategic regional data centers.

Detroit Metropolitan Area

• IT Director – General Motors Global Operations
• Leader of the global corporate initiative to transition IT operations from HPE to GM.
• Responsibilities included contract termination, corporate strategy, developing the closed down organizational structure, technology transition, operational transition including network, infrastructure, and application.
• Consistently achieved or exceeded all performance metrics across the enterprise, executed the global project on time and with positive results
• While executing this transition program, responsibilities included IT operations in over 52 Countries including 8500 employees, 1200 applications, 3,400 servers in 84 locations, 110,000 client devices, 16,000 network.

Nashville Metropolitan Area

• IT Director – Nissan
• Led the competitive win of a new logo client; Including sales cycle support, contract negotiations and delivery management for a $238M, 7-year ITO contract
• Account start-up including establishing leadership team, building executive governance, global delivery model development, transition management, SLA development, contract management
• Named ‘Most successful Start-up’ in 2010, achieved 122% of financial targets

Detroit Metropolitan Area

• Regional IT Operations - General Motors Manufacturing Account
• Leader for the global manufacturing organization for the General Motors account, 700+ team members in 12 countries
• Responsible for all IT services (applications, database, hosting, WAN, LAN,) utilized by 35 GM North America vehicle assembly and stamping plants including 30 computer rooms containing 1,600 WINTEL and 250 UNIX servers
• Led the implementation of a new global engineering data center and operational command center
• Delivered a 58% reduction in net lost vehicle production due to IT incidents from 2005 to 2008
• Delivered a 70% reduction in net lost engineering hours due to IT incidents from 2007 to 2009

Detroit Metropolitan Area

• Delivery Manager - General Motors Hamtramck Assembly & Metal Fabricating
• Responsible for IT operations at the GM assembly plant
• Managed 24x7 data center, 30+ systems spanning multiple HW/SW platforms and technologies
• Led Y2K remediation program for GM North America Metal fab division
• Promoted to division manager of GM Metal Fab Division – responsibilities including 24x7 operations of enterprise IT throughout 15 GM Metal Fab facilities in North America
• Champion of an ISO certification program, leading successful registration of (56) GM Manufacturing facilities, spanning Powertrain, Metal Fab, Car and Truck plants in 8 monthsApplications Development & Project Manager.

Masters Of Business Administration, International Business

I was able to balanced full family life along with a challenging professional position and successfully complete a challenging MBA program.

Bachelor Of Science, Engineering

Activities and Societies: Engineering Honorary Society, IEEE membership, IIE membershipWas awarded multiple Senior Leadership awards.

Associate Of Science - As, Engineering

Acquired Associates of Science - Engineering while working costs of education