Develop/Lead Software Negotiations Strategies, Coordinate Legal Terms and Conditions reviews, Provide Oversight on Strategic Roadmap for Engineering Software and Business Applications, Including Oracle, Ansys, Dassault, Siemens PLM, TEAMCENTER, EXA. Management of a Software Budget of $100 Million. Provide Oversight on Software Asset Management using HP ITAM, BDNA AND ORACLE OEM. Cost Management and oversight of software utilization .• Implemented software utilization tool to monitor software utilization resulting in a $2.2 million cost savings.• Negotiated several multiyear contracts providing GM price stability and cost effective solutions

Manage software support agreements and Asset Management involving Computer Aided Design, Computer Aided Engineering, Computer Aided Testing and Electrical and Control Systems for General Motors - GM Product Development. Hold regular meetings with stakeholders to identify needs and review key issues; working cooperatively for reducing client and company costs. Generate technical and pricing proposals. Manage company workforce, and prioritize / assign team member tasks. Monitor scope, time, costs, risks, procurements, and solution quality to ensure deliverables meet stakeholder requirements and contractual commitments. Coach and mentor employees on effective management practices.

Led Global Data Center services organization supporting multibillion dollar reinsurance client Towers Perrin. Set technical direction and coordinated to provide proposal solutions, created uniform set of processes / procedures for meeting contractual agreements, and built cross-functional team with resources from several different client contracts and vendors to support global data centers services. Integrated global diverse team of 75 individuals into a cohesive organization providing 7x24 support.Managed efforts to standardize support for Wintel, database, UNIX, and mainframe services across Towers Perrin global enterprise.Managed virtualization of over 200 servers reducing overall footprint in Global Data CentersOversee various projects including developing, implementing and successfully testing Towers Perrin’s Disaster Recovery Plan. Managed engineering team, Backup and Restore, OS System Administrators and vendors to implement the Towers Perrin Disaster Recovery Plan.Managed server migrations from various dedicarted server rooms to Towers Perrin first enterprise wide Data CenterManaged implementation of Towers Perrin first ever knife edge release process of Reinsurance Systems at Towers Perrin’s Global Data Centers.