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New York, Ny, Us

Senior Vice President - Chief Information Officer and Marketing Technology Officer for American Management Association. Responsible for all aspects of technology services and operations, corporate governance, security as well as digital marketing technology management. • Implemented global systems and teams supporting 15% YoY growth while reducing IT Operating expenses over 80% by implementing a series of cloud based solutions including SalesForce.com, eLoqua, Office365, VoIP, VDI and outsourcing partnerships. • Achieved a 5x return-on-investment from digital marketing programs by launching a content marketing program (playbook.amanet.org), pioneering digital advertising programs (banner ads, FB ads, IP retargeting etc), search engine marketing, email marketing, and focusing efforts on search engine optimization resulting in a 125% increase in web visits.• Achieved overall client satisfaction score of 4.84 out of 5.0 through dedicated focus on customer experience and ensuring robust technology in the customer experience including an LMS to manage the customer journey and off/online mobile application support.• Implemented an IT Project Steering Committee and PMO responsible for reviewing, approving and monitoring corporate initiatives and KPI’s across all departments resulting in a highly engaged, aligned and productive culture. Identified/leveraged employee talents, hired/trained candidates to fill key positions, set an expectation of excellence, and recognized and mentored high performers.

White Plains, New York, Us

MBO team member that originally purchased MMS International from Standard and Poor’s. Responsible for North America P/L of $20mm and global IT operations. Managed transition agreement with S&P to solidify ongoing relationship, operations, coordination, and migration of technology services. • Collaborated with management team to purchase business from Standard and Poor’s through securing of funding from investment banks and venture capital funds, ensured revenue retention, cost collapse, and transition plan. • Implemented redundant, scalable hosting services and global technical architectures to enable 24x7 global market commentary services and custom e-commerce solutions supporting over $40mm in annual revenue and 20% YoY revenue growth.• Managed $20mm P/L for North America division including sales, marketing and product design and support. Completed a product and project development cycle using SOA and web-services platform designed to meet a five-year Internet growth strategy. • Successfully sold MMS International to Informa Financial in September of 2003. Managed the integration of sales and technology capabilities of the combined operations with revenue exceeding $80mm. Customer revenue retention exceeded 96% after 1 year of integrating the companies.

New York, Ny, Us

Technology Vice President in Standard and Poor's - Financial Information Services division. Responsibilities included the development and operational management of common technical platforms in real-time authoring and publishing services, Sales Force Automation, CRM, OM and ERP for use across the division. Worked with Global Managing Directors in developing new products, business strategies, and systems architectures to support web and market data services products and sales management strategies.

New York, Ny, Us

Responsible for all aspects of global technology support, platform development and services used in the energy markets served by Platts Energy services. I was assigned by the CIO of McGraw-Hill to stabilize and assess the technology platforms and create a vision and strategy for revamping the technology architecture supporting the company. Efforts included assessing staff and technology and executing quickly while working with business managers to support revenue goals.The success of this assignment lead to other assessment and turn around assignments in McGraw-Hill.

Bs, Computer Engineering

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