As a Trusted Advisor of Technology Services, I work with IT Leaders as a valuable extension of their team to evaluate and provide "vendor neutral" analysis and recommendations around strategic IT Services and Solutions. By utilizing my extensive IT Leadership Experience, I advocate for our clients to find the best solutions; I help negotiate the best pricing & contractual terms; We then provide oversight to help manage the lifecycle of the agreement from successful implementation through ongoing support and changes to ensure proper delivery and ongoing satisfaction.

Engaging with IT and Business Executives to provide advice, support and guidance to their leadership teams specifically around efforts develop strategies and implement governance and structure to their organizations. Primary focuses around Enterprise IT Strategy, Information Security/Compliance, Cloud strategies, BOD engagement as well as Organizational modelling and aligning IT with business partners.

Providing consulting services to CIO’s, Executive Management Teams, or Board Members specific to Information Technology strategies, governance, and structure. Primary duties are to study the organizational goals and strategies of a business and develop plans to implement changes that can be made to better serve the company and its executive team.

Brought into leadership role to stabilize the organization, complete M&A integration activities, develop go forward strategy, drive projects to completion and implement new standards, tools, and processes to support a $20B building material company. Successfully crafted the organizational transformation and integration of a previously failed 500 person M&A integration effort.  Inspired the performance of over 130 employees and managed an annual budget of over $60m. Oversaw the Enterprise Infrastructure, Operations, Application Support, Program Management, Application Development functions for a $17B public building material company. Coordinated the design and transformation to a product-based application governance and operating model. Executive sponsor for the successful enterprise deployment of Salesforce.com CRM  Choreographed the successful transition and integration of 7 M&A targets over a 10-month period. Completed the consolidation and migration of multiple datacenters into a centralized colocation/MSP.  Helped lead the transformation from legacy “platform” application development structure to a product based agile/dev-ops model

I was responsible for overseeing Information Technology strategy to support long term business goals and anticipated growth. Manage operational budget of $17M and lead seven direct reports and 72 cross-matrixed staff members across seven locations and three strategic managed service partners enterprise wide for $280M secure card-manufacturing organization. Develop and implement overall technology strategy for product development, cloud computing, infrastructure, data centers, business applications, and disaster recovery.  Spearhead enterprise Information Security Program ensure alignment with PCI, SOX, and customer audit/compliance requirements. Increased security capabilities and achieved 100% consistency in compliance certifications. Develop innovative delivery model for banking “instant issuance” solutions increasing product revenue >35%. Establish enterprise AWS cloud governance model and strategic roadmap for application integration reducing overall number of cloud instances 18% and streamlining management and security of critical assets. Deliver data warehouse/business intelligence model to align strategic business unit requirements. Provide comprehensive analytics for business intelligence to internal partners.).  Reduce costs 30% by redesigning network infrastructure model to eliminate redundancy and increase reliability. Foster robust partnerships with cross-functional teams; sales/marketing, finance, HR, legal and compliance to achieve corporate goals.

• I executed valuable shared service strategy for $1B retail company and managed an operational budget of $52M across a global enterprise. I headed an organization of 82 staff members and 2 Managed Service Partners to drive innovative improvements across this global manufacturing / retail organization.  Delivered global application management model and ensured compliance, efficiency, and continuous operation of key business applications; SAP ERP, retail POS, warehouse management, data warehouse, HRIS, Fusion Middleware, BI, CRM, and workforce management.  Executed global IT Risk Management Program including PCI/SOX compliance, incident response, technology architecture, vulnerability monitoring, 3rd party risk, security operations, end user education, and awareness. Decreased network costs 35% by transforming core network architecture from legacy to SD WAN technology.  Reduced OPEX costs >$1.2M annually, increased SLAs for services >15% by restructuring global cloud service/outsourcing contract.  Developed policies, global vendor partnerships, technology standards, and processes for standardized/sustainable technology model across IT infrastructure environment. Streamlined overall operations supporting 800+ retail locations and 22 global business offices

Directed technology strategy and global staff of 65 technical specialists: engineering, telecommunications, server storage engineering, database administration, security operations, datacenter operations and NOC for $7B global corporation and ~24k employees. Executed technology road mapping, organizational structure, and process engineering to support mining, exploration, HR, finance, and legal operations divisions, oversaw annual budget of $34M. Championed IT “Global Shared Service” model which increased global end user satisfaction, reduced costs, “time to market” and streamlined efficiency/productivity  Achieved IT savings of $15M through global “insourcing” of IT organization within time and budgetary constraints.  Reduced costs >25% by consolidating key regional contracts into centralized “global” contracts solution.  Established infrastructure platform and deployed scalable, high performing global SAP ERP Mining solution.

Built and led team of 148 technical staff and eight direct reports for Global Infrastructure, Application Management, User Services, Database Administration, Security Operations, Datacenter Operations, and IT Asset Management/Procurement. Supported $1.3B global information company with 8000+ employees across 31 countries. Successfully managed an annual budget of $33M. Designed and implemented an innovative Dev/Ops model that improved SW Release timelines by 5 weeks and increased system availability by 28%.  Oversaw integration of 27 diverse M&A operations within 24 months, completed on time, and on budget.  Catalyst for global datacenter consolidation strategy and streamline of 30 datacenters into three strategic regional co-location centers; reduced annual costs by over $1.2M. Reduced IT Support spend by almost 50% in three years by developing global strategic support and services model. This combined top employee talent and tactical use of offshore resources.  Developed prioritization model and project plans for global consolidation focused on streamlining operations