Raymond Lasak Email & Phone Number

New York City Metropolitan Area

As the head of Enterprise Solutions at STAND 8 I lead the company’s solution delivery practice, product strategy, strategic alliances, and I am a member of the executive leadership team.

Greater New York City Area

Leading professional services team spanning 300 members to deliver digital transformation projects and services across Warner Bros. Discovery. • Contributing to delivery lead sales efforts by establishing relationships with key customers, understanding LTI’s value proposition and offerings, and aligning them with customer needs to grow the business.• Hands-on project management, including initiation, planning, and execution of projects and account-related activities, P&L management, facilitating resolution of issues and roadblocks.• Establishing long-term customer partnerships by delivering complex projects effectively.• Growing the capabilities of the delivery team through continued development of consulting, program management, new technologies, and engagement skills.• Driving key decisions across projects, managing customer expectations, presenting and interfacing with project sponsors at SVP and VP levels, and communicating trade-offs and risks.• Leveraging Agile principles, coaching and training technical project and customer team members.

Greater New York City Area

Directed technology delivery, strategic planning, data center facilities, business continuity planning, and disaster recovery. Built project teams, oversaw business cases, resource planning, project scoping, up to $20 million annual project budget, vendors, and delivery. Maintained the multi-year roadmap and the $50 million annual department operating budget supporting 275 team members. Developed organization design and external benchmarking to drive operational improvements.• Developed multi-year cloud strategy including architecture, business application readiness, migration efforts, support functions, financial models, and business case with $41 million opportunity. Completed selection assessing Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and the Google Cloud Platform.• Led 18-month security program to close multiple vulnerabilities: - Migrated 14,000 email accounts to Microsoft Office365 Exchange Online - Implemented multi-factor authentication with the Okta Cloud Identity solution - Encrypted 3,000 laptops with Dell Data Protection - Implemented content collaboration with Box - Patched 100% of all servers with IBM BigFix Patch - Deployed mobile device management across 6,000 devices with VMware AirWatch• Minimized operations risk through business continuity planning and disaster recovery for over 100 critical applications across 8 business units. Improved recovery by 97% through automation. Stood up emergency management team and was acting incident commander. Passed internal audits and ensured compliance with IT controls.• Partnered with Simon & Schuster to replace legacy order processing system with SAP S/4HANA. Ensured infrastructure, networking, and security integration. Prepared disaster recovery plan and performed testing between SAP data centers.• Executed program to reduce use of Oracle database software. Planned to reduce maintenance costs 75%+ through contract negotiations, virtualization, consolidation, re-platforming, and retirement.

Greater New York City Area

Led turn around of infrastructure project delivery performance and contributed to build PMO. Developed traditional and agile methodologies.• Delivered $23 million data center migration to reduce operational risk and eliminate technical debt. Developed build vs. buy strategy, site selection, financial model, standards, application assessment, and migration plan. Modernized data center by increasing virtualization by 50%.• Completed $50 million of business application projects to support content distribution, rights management, asset management, promotions, scheduling, sales and traffic, and broadcast television.• Modernized West coast data center through refresh program and virtualization. Implemented VCE Vblock converged data center technology reducing the overall footprint as well as power and cooling requirements.• Deployed Cisco VOIP phone solution to over 3,000 devices spanning multiple properties across the United States. Developed change management and communications strategy.• Led infrastructure planning for divestiture of CBS Outdoor advertising division.

Greater New York City Area

Provided leadership to global business solutions team delivering initiatives that increased efficiency and controlled costs. Drove the design, build, testing and deployment of solutions across Finance, Procurement, and Supply Chain. Led direct organization of 35+ including managers, project managers, and business analysts. Engaged with executive leaders to develop business cases with tangible results for annual demand planning and budgeting.• Mobilized virtual team spanning CIO and CFO organizations to prepare multi-year IT investment plan aligned to Finance transformation; received approval of $36 million 3-year proposal including internal and external, operating and capital budgets.• Led end-to-end project lifecycle to deliver highly complex technical upgrade to SAP Business Suite 7, ERP 6.0, SRM 7.0, NetWeaver BW 7.3, GTS 10.0, GRC 10.0, MDM 7.1, Portal 7.3, and PI 7.3. Budget responsibility of $8 million.• Successfully delivered SAP business optimization program. Reengineered existing business processes to implement a commissionaire business model in Europe to achieve $40M recurring hard savings. Budget responsibility of $6 million.• Successfully delivered global Oracle Hyperion upgrade to Enterprise Performance Management 11.1.2.1 Financial Management, Planning/Essbase, Financial Data Quality Management, Financial Reporting; improved close, planning and forecasting processes. Budget responsibility of $2 million.• Successfully delivered SunGard AvantGard GETPAID solution to Latin America; improved management of collection strategies and processes, retired legacy tools and manual processes, exceeded cash collections forecast, improved Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) metrics.

Greater New York City Area

Provided leadership to global solution delivery team spanning program management, project delivery, and production support. Responsible for estimating, planning, design, build, and support of projects. Delivered multiple large-scale projects on time and within budget. Mentored team members, motivated team to succeed, and gave recognition for results. Prepared and drove steering committee meetings for approved programs. Awarded one-year leadership development program for business leaders rated high potential for advancement across corporation.• Led integration and build for big-bang SAP rollout to 25 countries across Europe; delivered 250+ configuration and development objects, reduced time to close defects by 50%.• Successfully managed and implemented multiple end-to-end SAP releases to optimize business processes across North America Sales, Finance, and Procurement.• Partnered with VP, Global Supply Chain to transition to new outsourcing service provider fully integrated with SAP.• Improved strategy to operationalize the delivery of production support services; built stakeholder engagement model, customer satisfaction survey, major incident escalation process, and post mortem process.• Successfully delivered JP Morgan XIGN Business Settlement Network integrated with SAP to reduce manual processes to enter vendor invoices; increased invoices processed electronically from 0% to 60% and reduced Accounts Payable processing cost per invoice by 40%.• Implemented SAP Test Acceleration and Optimization package to automate end-to-end regression testing to reduce the cost of release test cycles by reducing use of external consultants.• Deployed cost reduction strategies through contractor conversion program and expanded use of offshore team.

Greater New York City Area

Built team of business analysts to deliver SAP business transformation. Performed recruitment, development, coaching and mentoring. Fostered relationships with business counterparts across multiple departments. Developed KPI metrics and measurements to improve performance. Provided hands-on support working with SAP system and individuals.• Managed the SAP Procure-to-Pay (PTP) and Order-to-Cash (OTC) teams, consisting of 20+ IT and business resources.• Partnered with Procurement business lead to implement the SAP SRM 4.0 and ECC 5.0 systems in an out-of-the-box configuration with minimal customization; defined global business processes, best practices, and built SAP global template.• Structured cutover team to build, refine, and drive execution of initial SAP cutover plan; managed critical path tasks over 14-day window to ensure a successful, on-time, go-live.• Led virtual cutover team of 250 resources across all SAP disciplines; executed 200+ data conversion objects including load/error rates and validation results, ensured business continuity across 75+ legacy applications during first SAP go-live.• Managed delivery of production support capabilities; developed the support metrics, management, and reporting. Set up service desk for SAP program.• Provided leadership in the identification, assessment, and execution of new and ongoing process improvement opportunities in terms of user experience, quality, and productivity.

Greater New York City Area

Managed and organized resources to ensure projects were completed within defined scope, schedule, quality, and cost constraints. Identified and escalated scope creep. Identified issues and took proactive action to keep projects out of trouble. Created and executed project work plans and revised plans as appropriate to meet the ever-changing project needs and requirements. Identified and managed project risk factors and mitigation strategies.• Coordinated structured ERP software selection process (SAP vs. Oracle) by establishing an objective evaluation scorecard for the ERP Investment Committee.• Partnered with distributors to deliver full project lifecycle to implement electronic invoices (EDI) integrated with financial system; reduced errors, increased efficiency, and increased information integrity by eliminating manual data-entry errors.

Greater New York City Area

Partnered with department leaders to reengineer business processes and validate requirements. Completed design, configuration, and testing using project methodology. Managed people and other resources indirectly as part of a cross-functional team.• Reengineered procurement processes and implemented electronic procurement system; eliminated 100% paper-based purchase orders across North America within 6 weeks.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.)

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