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New York, NY, US

• Reporting to the CFO leading the management of all 3rd party spend globally including IT development, Infrastructure, Marketing, HR, Finance, Real Estate, Legal, Operations, and other Corporate functions.
• Established the global procurement function including process, policy and standard legal forms which has yielded a 15% or greater run rate cost reduction on an annualized basis.
• Introduced IT & Data Risk Mitigation strategy, as it relates to 3rd party vendors, to all business department leaders globally. Further established with Information Security a 3rd party Vendor Risk Assessment program.
• Supported Marketing teams by creating business cases for developing SEO and SEM strategies along with the selection and evaluation of automated tools for managing keyword bidding.
• Supported the deployment of Fareportal’s ERP platform leveraging Microsoft Dynamics and led the design of various accounting dimensions in addition to leading the development of the procure to pay function.
• Partner with CIO to closely manage and approve actual IT expenses and adhere to budget baselines for all IT expenses globally.

Zurich, Zurich, CH

• Executive leader reporting to the CFO of North America, managing in excess of $350 million in addressable spend. Focus is to drive savings through end to end evaluation of business processes, vendor relationships and.
• Supported CIO in managing key IT vendors including datacenter outsourcing vendors, software vendors and providing strategic guidance to the IT teams for evaluation and selection key vendor products and services.
• Responsible for tracking and reporting to IT Risk Management all IT and non-IT 3rd party services.
• Worked closely with IT Risk Management to ensure all vendors conform to IT risk standards which included reviewing and maintaining current SSAE16 reports on an annual basis.
• Implemented an Industry Standard procurement function embracing standardized policies, improved minimum standard contractual terms and conditions providing a comprehensive risk assessment & mitigation strategy and.
• Personally negotiated new agreements with suppliers worth over $200 million for: Social Media and Digital Advertising, HR Benefits, Risk Insurance Administration, Drug and Background Screening services, Job Boards.

New York, NY, US

• As a Group Vice President within the Strategic Sourcing and Technology department I managed a sourcing team supporting the information technology groups within JPMC’s Global Asset Management business. Accomplishments.
• Reducing annual expenses by $10 million by leading a right-shoring initiative for Global Asset Management including determining strategic location selection and sourcing of providers in support of resource deployment.
• Annualized contract spend negotiated each year was approximately $90 million with annualized hard dollar savings of $16 million.
• Negotiated a major infrastructure outsourcing agreement valued at $20 million annually.
• Established, in partnership with Group CIO’s, a Vendor Management Office providing dramatically improved oversight and management of offshore vendors.

• As the Director of Vendor Management I was responsible for the Program Management of IT preferred global vendors and domestic consultant staffing vendors at the Securities Industry Automation Corporation and the New.
• Established all sourcing policies, procedures, training, methodologies, models, templates and metrics to govern and monitor the relationships between internal stakeholders and preferred vendors.
• Established procedures for all projects to utilize templates for RFI’s, RFP’s, SOW’s and associated SLA’s. Each included methodologies and tools designed to enhance the management and improve the measurement of value.
• Established offshore facilities in four locations within India leveraging multiple vendors to deliver IT related services. Features included physical deterrents, logical network safeguards, contingency & disaster.
• Member of the Structural Cost Effectiveness team within the NYSE and SIAC to review costs related hardware, software and manpower to determine methods to generate savings. As the leader of the Vendor Management Office.

• At Orygen (a Level 3 Communications Company) I served as the Managing Director responsible for the offshore management of consulting and application outsourcing for major client engagements. This included business.
• Preparation of client proposals and cost models, the preparation and presenting of sales material, creating Statements of Work, P&L responsibilities, departmental budgeting, and extensive experience in headcount.
• Held operational responsibility for Pershing (financial services institution) over a 5-year period. This included the overall project planning, maintaining engagement objectives, project staffing, contract pricing.
• Overall management of staff including 2 Vice Presidents, 4 Directors, 10 Project Managers, 180+ technical employees and administrators across 40 concurrent development projects.
• Project management and development was located in 3 US (New Jersey, Nebraska and Arizona) and 2 offshore (Limerick, Ireland, Bangalore, India) facilities.

New York, NY, US

• As a member of the IT department I served as a Project Manager responsible for multiple IT projects for all Human Resource Information Systems which include PeopleSoft & Tesseract HRIS, CICS and COBOL batch systems..
• Direct support for 40 users located in 4 separate Human Resource Departments located in the US.
• Performed analysis to automate the Treasury department function. This included project plan development and the implementation of 8 software packages.
• Evaluated, selected and installed software to automate multiple Treasury functions including Resource Cash Management enabling automated wire transfers, ACH payments, unattended polling and posting of bank account.
• Direct supervision of staff that included preparing performance reviews, applicant hiring and employee terminations.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

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