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New York, Ny, Us

Own the overall leadership for corporate product groups in agile transformation across MTA agencies. Drive the digital agenda and roadmaps for application and infrastructure products. Manage a team of product directors with agile coaches responsible for defining the launch of new products and services, developing technical roadmaps for existing and new products, and delivering product features in an agile environment.• Direct digital transformation of MTA agencies to enhance business agility, effectiveness, and cost competitiveness. Drove the transition of traditional IT organizations to product teams.• Responsible for the Revenue Fare Collection, Capital Planning & Budget, Procurement & Supply Chain, and Operations product lines teams led by Product Directors. Each product line contains multiple products (applications and infrastructure products).• Provide executive leadership to the $18 MM PeopleSoft upgrade program. Accountable for functional and technical alignment across HR, Finance, and Supply chain tracks and ensuring the program's progress and success.• Supporting the OMNY program deployment for the NY metropolitan area – transforming the legacy MetroCard system into next-generation mobile-based ticketing and validation platform.• Collaborate with InfoSec to ensure TSA, ISO, PCI, SSAE 18 Type II SOC and other standards are adequately met for application and infrastructure products.

Jersey City, New Jersey, Us

Reporting to the CFO, the primary responsibility drive the execution of business-critical programs by defining and institutionalizing the industry standard IT management processes that provide repeatable and predictable results in a high-growth environment.• Responsible for delivering a large-scale, global ERP implementation on Salesforce and Oracle HCM/ERP Cloud for the enterprise. The implementation spans Finance, HR, Supply Chain, Sales, and Technology tracks with an ambitious schedule.• Direct development of capabilities using Salesforce APIs and Oracle ERP API using Oracle Integration Cloud framework to extend the core functionality to support business needs. • Manage the IT development team (matrix model). Set OKRs, drive daily SCRUM meetings, prioritize features, Manage Backlog, and ensure timely delivery.• Deploy standardized work, Agile methodologies, governance, facilitate JAD sessions, and tools to enable a high-quality agile program management style execution of IT programs across the organization.• Establish functionality release governance and measurement models. Define meaningful KPI that drives decisions and removes roadblocks such as team velocity, • Deploy standardized work, project management methodologies, governance, facilitate JAD sessions, and tools to enable a high-quality agile and waterfall project management style execution of IT projects across the organization.• Advise leadership, customers, and staff on strategic solutions to dealing with barriers within the program and ensure learnings are shared across the organization to enable higher productivity.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Reporting to the CIO, I oversaw an operating budget of $12MM and a global staff, providing strategy development, solution design, execution, integration, and risk management for a data and technology company that minimizes risk and uncertainty in clinical trials.• Served as the principal liaison for CIO, CFO, and product line teams, directing the development and implementation of cloud strategy and approach for Amazon AWS, Clinical applications, ERP Systems, EPM Systems, Salesforce CRM, Oracle HCM, Google G-Suite across multiple lines of business. • Achieved 20% reduction in IT license spend by consolidating three of six legacy ERP systems into a single Oracle EBS (R12.2) platform significantly reducing redundancy and driving operational efficiencies in HR, Finance and Supply Chain areas across business lines.• Led the financial transformation program to deploy Planning/Budgeting and Financial Consolidation using the OneStream XF platform. Directed the migration of finance applications from Oracle PBCS and FCCS to OneStream. • Re-design and architect the end-to-end business-critical processes for revenue-sustaining applications. Identify incremental improvement opportunities and address them working with the business.• Establish high stability, performance, and scalability in a previously fragile environment in compliance with GCP, 21 CFR PART 11, HIPPA, and GDPR. Provide support for internal and external audits.• Manage cloud/data center consolidation and IT rationalization initiatives by working with business partners. Contributed to the DevOps toolchain development and rationalization initiative across Polarian, Jira, Crucible, Jenkins, Selenium, Protractor, AccuRev, Qualys, and Splunk. • Drive operating costs down 7% within the initial eight months, maintaining service levels through strict budgetary control and effective vendor management to ensure competitive pricing.

New York, New York, Us

Responsible for vital technological areas (Architecture, DevOps, Data Strategy, PMO, Quality Engineering) in the organization. In charge of developing and executing global technology vision and roadmap to harmonize business processes, various platforms, and solutions, address business demands, optimize spending, and drive continuous innovation. • Delivered assessment of the enterprise IT landscape and developed an IT strategy for EDF, focusing on Security, Architecture, DevOps, PMO, and Service Management areas.• Developed a business architecture model for the end-to-end constituent journey, starting from identifying donors to segmentation for improved targeting for campaigns. Led the implementation of the Enterprise Data Strategy platform using Snowflake and Looker to generate actionable opportunities on donor data leveraging the Constituent Journey model.• Led the architecture and solution development for the economic mitigation of Brazil's deforestation big data project using Amazon EMR, R, and Amazon Redshift. • Led strategic initiatives, including grants management, IT governance, HR Applicant Tracking System, Salesforce, Office 365 deployment, enterprise data warehouse, identify and access management, network modernization, enterprise performance management, and contracts management.

Orlando, Florida, Us

Architected and executed global strategic projects to simplify and standardize technology services for 15,000 users in 22 countries. Led direct reports, matrix resources, and offshore teams through initiatives for financials, Supply Chain, CRM, and HR on Oracle e-Business Suite (EBS) and other enterprise applications. Built consensus on approaches for:» Governance Models» Disaster Recovery» Data Strategy» Cloud/Digital Strategy for Enterprise Applications» Business Process ReengineeringContributions: » Provided technical leadership and resolved 1,600+ defects in 4 months to enable on-time, on-budget delivery of $15 million Global Oracle EBS ERP upgrade from 11.5.10 (R11) to 12.1.3 (R12) impacting all business units worldwide. » Directed key initiatives on ERP including solutions for brand acquisitions, revenue recognition, SOX audit support and remediation, mobility enhancements, payment integrations, global withholding tax, international invoicing, Salesforce integrations, and integration of ERP with regulatory reporting systems for LATAM countries (Mexico, Brazil, Columbia, Chile and Uruguay).» Supported 15% reduction in OPEX spend with direct impact on department P&L through resource forecasting, capacity planning, and assisting in management of $1.2 million department cost center. » Won the Diamond Award of Excellence for leadership, planning, collaboration, execution skills.

Orlando, Florida, Us

Orlando, Florida, Us

Executive Mba, Finance

B.Sc., Physics

Gniit, Software Development & Exports