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Areas of Expertise include:* Aligning IT and business strategies* Mentoring/Coaching IT management* Large IT project advisory/quality assurance* Process Improvement

Hired as their CIO and soon after promoted to CFO, retaining IT responsibilities. Highlights include:* Created a PMO structure and team* Introduced a strategic planning function, including annual goal setting* Developed an on-line ABC University for store operations - moved all field training on-line* Replaced several custom legacy applications with cloud.

• Retail consumer tax preparation service franchisor generating $300+ million in annual revenue.CIO / SVP (2011 – 2014)Promoted to lead all IT related functions for franchisor (corporate) and systems related activities.
• Managed $15 million capital expenditure approved for seven major projects which included planning and coordinating formal enterprise business and technology transformation project that touched all corporate functions.
• Saved $500,000+ annually by migrating 300+ physical servers to VMWare and implementing Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager software to manage virtual environment remotely across four data centers.
• Reduced hosting costs by 40% and saved $100,000 per year by implementing secure check disbursement application in public cloud environment integrated with on premise cloud environment.
• Implemented Enterprise Project Management Office function and structure that includes executive steering committees / business sponsorship, formal project charters, and functional requirement sign-off processes.
• Formed and chaired cross-functional committee to oversee development of corporate data security policies, ISO certification process, SOX compliance, partner security survey responses and requests, and employee training.

• $2.6 billion North American subsidiary of U.K. based publicly traded firm providing homebuilder / construction services.Led IT functions supporting North America operations covering systems, databases, servers.
• $2 million in cost savings realized by planning and coordinating efforts to deploy leading homebuilder ERP system (Newstar) across all US and Canadian divisions for a $2.6 billion North American homebuilder and land.
• $1.5 million saved by engineering and developing single North America IT organization from three separate organizations that included negotiated service-level agreement that transformed IT into strategic business.
• Designed and deployed Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO) function and structure.
• Designed and implemented standard North America GL chart of accounts and related set of accounting standards.
• 50% reduction in management reporting effort achieved by designing and rolling out automated management reporting system that included construction project/lot profitability and executive dashboards covering NA.

• 9th largest less-than-truckload carrier in US, with nearly $1 billion in annual revenue and 150+ freight terminals.Led up to 190 full-time staff and 25 contractors, representing all IT functional areas, including.
• Improved P&L performance by 10%-12% by leading 18-month, $2.5 million project to replace 12+ disparate single-function custom developed applications with real-time mainframe freight management system.
• Saved millions of dollars by integrating two dimensional barcode technology (PDF417) within company's freight management system and several major customers' systems.
• Drove implementation of web-based technology, frame relay wide area network (WAN), several significant websites and major ecommerce initiatives, including data warehousing (Websphere and Microstrategy).
• Spearheaded implementation of PeopleSoft ERP system supporting high invoice transaction volumes, weekly payroll for approximately 8,000 employees, and real-time operational / management reporting.

Regional retail Do-It-Yourself (DIY) chain with annual sales of up to $600 million and over 130 stores.

Mba, Management

Bachelor'S Degree, Accounting/Minor Computer Science