Profile: Richard has spent the majority of his successful career employing business management best practices along with proven process improvement and project management methodologies within the Information Technology & Business Operations Management arenas promoting improved customer satisfaction, increased brand loyalty, and reduced cost to serve. ACHIEVEMENTS• Directed implementation and managed product lifecycle support of data collection and calculations systems for CMS program; generating $70M revenue ($10M annual revenue) • Implemented, tailored, and managed ILC process support for multiple CMS application releases • Designed, implemented, and managed technical support training program ($3M annual), improving customer satisfaction index and generating $9.2M annual revenue• Designed, implemented, and managed technical support quality performance program ($2M annual), improving customer satisfaction index and generating $4.6M annual revenue• Researched industry best practice, designed business process and requirements for new customer relationship management (CRM) implementation• Researched, designed and managed strategic plan for major technical support business process outsourcing (BPO) program including on-shore and off-shore internal and external business locations• Managed successful product lifecycle implementation of customer facing expert system, generating $1.5M annual revenue in first year of implementation • Implemented application development processes, improving accuracy of LOE estimations and development productivitySpecialties: • ILC System Lifecycle Framework Management • Customer Relationship Management• Business Process Re-engineering• Program / Project Management• Total Quality Management • Knowledge Management • Applications Development • System Development Life Cycle• Business Analytics• Business Process Outsourcing