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Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Develop both the platform and expertise needed to help companies achieve their sustainability goals. Deliver corporate board and executive advisory services to plan sustainability strategies for clients and drive those strategies into digital transformation programs. Lead SCERTIFY platform development to enable first-to-last mile sustainability in global supply chains and bring together a very fragmented technology marketplace where solutions only address small segments of supply chain abuses. Evolve SCERTIFY blockchain agnostic Artificial Intelligence platform to continue to leverage emerging technology from mobile and edge/IoT computing to blockchain and drones to ensure ethical supply chains and track sustainable development goals in terms of social justice, environment, and ethics abuses.

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Engage with clients to design and execute relevant business technology and data strategy, turning data into insights and monetizable assets and using data, analytics, and AI to accelerate their digital transformation and drive revenue growth. Utilize proven methods to help discover, enrich and prioritize use cases based on market value and map these use cases to the right technology platforms and capability patterns to accelerate achieving desired outcomes.Help companies establish the core building blocks needed for digital transformation through data management, governance and enterprise architecture services that address complexity inhibiting modernization.Lead Athena Advisory business operations and development of thought leadership, methods, service offerings and solutions, delivery processes, and go-to-market planning and drive business development and sales activities.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Responsible for leading a consulting team of technology strategists and business and data architects charged with supporting and enabling both internal and client-facing functions by facilitating the development of technology vision and strategy, business service and process design, target architecture and transition planning and the discovery, structuring and enrichment of business data.A few recent examples of successful engagements at KPMG include digital transformation of Global Legal Services, CRM target state and vendor analysis, technology and data strategy for HR, Finance and other business support functions, data strategy for the Australian member firm, Private Enterprise managed services marketplace and Global Transfer Pricing Services data and technology strategy.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Specialization in Business and Information Architecture focused on Service Lines, Global Markets, and cross-enterprise capabilities. Collaborate with business stakeholders to translate strategy into capabilities and identify and roadmap required enablers (people, processes, information and technology) to address gaps and improvement opportunities to drive revenue growth. Team leader driving EA maturity including methods, services, deliverables and stakeholder engagement.Developed a target architecture and initiative roadmap for Divestiture Advisory Services by conducting executive interviews and working sessions with SMRs and developing process flows, aggregation of required capabilities and content as pre-work for visioning workshop with executives. Target architecture and roadmap accepted and actioned.Created standard portfolio analysis approach and deliverables; provided guidance and leadership to ensure the consistent execution of portfolio analysis and road mapping processes; resulted in over 1/3 reduction of application inventory with additional 41% reduction opportunity identified.Created application cost analysis approach and framework and led current state analysis and development of target state recommendations (process, data and architecture) for tracking and reporting total cost of ownership as part of maturing the IT Financial Management process.EA lead on CRM vendor analysis and selection including development of user stories, integration architecture and information flows used in the RFP, vendor technical evaluation criteria, conceptual architecture views and an architecture assessment summary. Deliverables accepted by key stakeholders and used in the vendor decision.Brought best practice and thought leadership to complete key elements of Tax IT Strategy (strategic enablement initiatives mapped to business capabilities and desired value) which formed the foundation for future investment planning and road mapping.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Oversaw cross-portfolio initiatives and processes including Global Core Loadset, application measurement, and user experience; developed strategic vision for the overall portfolio and how technology best enabled business and coordinating input and synthesizing the Assurance and Advisory Business Services (AABS) perspective on requirements for enterprise-wide capabilities.Facilitated the development of business capability model for Assurance and Advisory with results being incorporated into new release of the EY Process Classification Framework. Created approach and obtained key stakeholder buy-in for developing a strategic vision for Assurance and Advisory portfolios.Co-developed with Global IT a Framework for Managing IT Investments which integrates Enterprise Portfolio Management and the strategic vision for technology enablement.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Responsible for entire audit service delivery suite including requirements, design, development cycles, implementation, quality assurance and user acceptance test plans, maintenance, product documentation, support and vendor management. Researched and analyzed alternative architectures for second generation service delivery platform by developing concepts and requirements and analyzing strategic fit with enterprise-wide capabilities and strategic vendors.Significantly raised the quality and usability of the application suite through major release cycles which in turn lowered barriers to global adoption (first truly global service line application widely deployed by 1999)Major release in 2001 supporting new global audit documentation approach served as a catalyst for driving global consistency in audit documentationNegotiated new license/maintenance agreement with main technology vendor providing cost savings of $24.5M over 4 yearsDeveloped future state vision and key concepts for evolution of service delivery technology enablementDrove successful replatform of audit service delivery application subsequently utilized by engagement teams for over 10 years

Mba, Quantitative Marketing Research

Business Administration, Marketing