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Round Rock, Tx, Us

After almost 30 years in IT and a timely layoff, I decided to take a break from my career to catch up on life outside of work including:* Caring for my parents* Spending more time with my family* Catching up on projects* Reading* Working on being my best self* Explore other career opportunitiesI am now re-energized and ready to take on the next step in my career. If you need an experienced IT leader, please reach out and lets have a discussion!

Solna, Stockholm, Se

Snow Software delivers a next-generation IT management platform. Our single platform of best-of-breed solutions makes it easier for you to manage and optimize your infrastructure spend and governance across on-premises, SaaS and hybrid cloud.Head of the Global Enterprise IT Applications team, reporting to the CIO.* Led a team of Directors, Sr. Managers, developers and software administrators to provide timely business capabilities and automation to the enterprise.* Developed and executed the company’s technology roadmap driving business strategy to execution, increasing automation, driving efficiencies and innovation. * Led an operational and executive steering team to ensure oversight and accountability for the IT applications portfolio. * Worked closely with business stakeholders and executives across functions to identify gaps and opportunities to apply technical solutions that solve for business needs.* Responsible for vendor management for our IT Applications portfolio including evaluating and selecting technology, negotiating contracts, managing relationships, and streamlining the application portfolio. * Oversaw planning, development, delivery and support of applications and solutions.* Developed IT operational processes and best practices to ensure compliance and public company readiness. * Promoted right sized Agile development methodology.* Managed custom, in house developed applications to contain risk, harden solutions and map functions into commercial software solutions. * Enabled quote to cash operational processes leveraging Salesforce with CPQ and multi-dimensional quoting capabilities.* Managed our ERP systems working closely with Finance and Accounting to provide capabilities and support related to accounting activities including AR, AP, revenue recognition, audit support, reporting and banking.

Austin, Tx, Us

Lead an Enterprise Applications team responsible for Corporate IT business applications and operations at a fast paced, high growth fintech company. Oversee technology and personnel budget of $18M * Lead a team of Sr. IT managers, system administrators, developers and analysts responsible for providing business applications and capabilities to the enterprise. * Develop and own the roadmap and change management capability to ensure we are aligned and working on the right priorities. * Partner with business leaders and stakeholders to ensure alignment and shared accountability to the roadmap and provide solutions for M&A consolidations. * Retooled the IT Steering committee to provide guidance on priorities and to resolve roadblocks that arise. * Developing a maturity strategy to assess current state and define our desired future state. Building a maturity roadmap to work toward the future state. * Developing an Architecture practice to provide guidance on solutions and to manage technical debt. * Partner with PMO to help transition to an Agile methodology. * Own vendor relationships and contract negotiations for our portfolio of tools. Our strategy is SaaS first and includes tools like Netsuite, Workday and Salesforce.

Austin, Tx, Us

Lead global infrastructure team responsible for Corporate IT infrastructure and operations at a fast paced, high growth company. Oversee technology and personnel budget of $15M* Lead a team of system administrators and operations personnel responsible for overall IT System architecture, implementation and operations.* Provide governance oversight to ensure compliance to in highly regulated banking industry. Ensure proper controls are in place and adhered to in order to meet compliance obligations.* Established strategic roadmaps and change management processes to ensure we focused on the most important demand. This was a gap that was identified early on in my time at Q2. * Create overall IT strategy and report the vision and strategy to the Board of Directors audit committee. * Created processes and policy in real time to ensure the workforce can transition and work effectively in a 100% remote environment due to the effect of the COVID pandemic

Austin , Texas, Us

Lead global team dedicated to providing quality and timely IT solutions for internal business partners and customers of this multinational test equipment and software company with $1.3B annual revenue.* Lead and coach team of 7 senior managers and architects, overseeing 120 FTE in total; partner with cross-functional leaders to identify business needs, align/leverage technical resources, and deliver holistic solutions.* Head technology transformations from business case development to budgeting, re-tooling, vendor relationships and negotiations, operating models, implementation, and continuous improvement; oversee $10M budget.* Drive efficient, lean culture in delivery teams while upholding governance controls; improved time to market by following Agile processes and creating a release process that allows for multiple releases per week. * Own strategy, planning, engineering, and delivery of data technologies (e.g., data warehouse, data lake, master data, enterprise integration) and front office IT portfolio (e.g., websites, customer support, middleware).* Saved 30% on resource costs by building highly productive engineering teams offshore; reduced run overhead 50% by leading a data warehouse optimization and standardization effort.* Revamped eCommerce technology, enabling personalization, live testing, and order automation; drove 20% increase in online revenue and 10% bump in marketing conversions by transforming the customer experience.* Guided creation of a Systems of Innovation Team focused on big data challenges; partnered with Marketing to capture game-changing capabilities/value driven by big data infrastructure.

Austin , Texas, Us

Founded IT Architecture practice, improving technical design, solution quality, and management of technical debt; advanced through roles and led multiple, cross-discipline IT teams of up to 65.* Delivered enterprise platform strategy promoting efficient use of technology, lean processes, and reusable development patterns; improved IT approaches within Customer Support and eBusiness.* Improved website availability (to 99.8%) by refactoring infrastructure and consolidating on an internal VM strategy. * Led collaborations with Software R&D on strategies and systems to integrate graphical programming software with online content and assets. * Managed budgeting ($4M) for IT systems including hardware, software, employees, and services.* Elevated employee engagement and instilled a collaborative culture at the enterprise level.* Managed relationships, negotiated service level agreements, and served on vendor customer advisory boards.

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Software developer modernizing customer service capabilities and online order services for an industrial manufacturer.

Software developer for the government owned Austrian telephone company. Built customer service and billing systems in preparation for deregulation of the telephone services.