Organization and technology strategy development and advising to senior technology leaders. Specializing in operational excellence, investment optimization, technology evaluation and selection in virtual and cloud infrastructure, networks, voice and video.

Responsible for Global Infrastructure including Systems, Networks, Security, Voice, Video, Database and Reservation Center Engineering and Administration for International hotel corporation covering more than 16 brands, 5000 properties and over 700,000 rooms world-wide.

Vice President, Market Data and Network & Telecom Services (2/10-11/13) Vice President, Voice and Network Services (04/08-02/10) Sr. Director, Networks Services (05/06-04/08)Director, Global Technical Operations (08/01-05/06)•Led project to evaluate, select and implement new market data technology resulting in better quality data, increased capacity and ability to deliver new products•Analyzed vendor contracts and eliminate excess costs: Reduced communications spend by 60%while increasing subscribed bandwidth by more than 5x•Led teams responsible for architecture, development, engineering and operations of converged voice and data networks, contact center systems and market data applications•Worked with business partners to develop strategic plans and road maps aligned with business goals •Establish process, standards, metrics and controls for managing, monitoring and reporting on infrastructure and application performance•Led the evaluation, selection and implementation of multiple data centers for Disaster Recovery, centralization and high frequency/low latency trading in the US, Canada, Europe and Asia•Centralized regional operations centers reducing from 4 to 1 and reduced staff by 50% while improving performance, availability and delivery

CTO: 01/01-08/01Chief Architect: 01/00-01/01•Prepared strategic IT plan and present to the Executive Management Team and Board of Directors•Optimized technology spend on multiple contracts with liabilities in excess of $15M to decrease run rate and improve company viability•Transformed and centralized technology and IT staff of acquired companies •Recommended synergies and integration methods resulting in the successful acquisition of a company that doubled the gross revenue and increased net revenue by 120%•Evaluated technologies, set technical architecture and standardized infrastructure