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Managing the GCP Practice for Perficient which includes platform, data, and APIs. Responsibilities include building practice go-to-market capabilities, delivery team, and managing practice P&L; sales and enablement; leading service deliveries for strategic clients; owning and managing client relationships; cultivating high functioning global service delivery teams; consulting on future state solution architectures; and participating on client steering committees.

Managed service execution for strategic enterprise clients. Responsibilities included: owning and managing client relationships; managing financials and tracking service metrics; managing service delivery professionals; maintaining service level agreements; identifying and leading quality of service improvements; and influencing organic growth.

Emerald Isle, Nc

Led Digital IT shared service strategy and delivery. Responsibilities included: owning, managing, and leading Corporate IT initiatives for GE Aviation and GE Energy Connections; leading communications with C-level business executives and their teams; establishing Corporate product and service release roadmaps; managing Digital IT transformation programs; defining Corporate Cloud product offerings; defining Corporate IT demand management methodology; and developing customer relationship management processes and Salesforce.com tooling.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Established Cognizant’s Cloud practice. Responsibilities included: defining sales strategy; leading North America business development; managing global service delivery professionals; defining, developing, and delivering the Cloud strategic planning service; leading Cloud and enterprise architecture strategic planning engagements; and evangelizing Cloud capabilities with customers, business partners, and internal staff.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Managed the end-to-end execution of strategic database conversion engagements. Responsibilities included: managing global service delivery professionals; owning and managing customer relationships; establishing program management guidelines; leading business development; and owning and negotiating statements of work.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Engineered the first production private Cloud within IBM SWG providing on-demand software demonstration environments for customers, business partners, and IBMers worldwide. Responsibilities included: envisioning solution design; procuring funding; architecting, implementing, and deploying the platform; and managing global operations.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Provided global leadership for the IBM WebSphere and SOA portfolios. The role involved: developing technical sales collateral and IBM intellectual capital; developing and delivering technical sales enablement; leading product quality assurance initiatives; and defining, implementing, and executing customer Proof of Concepts (POC).

Cincinnati, Ohio Area

Orchestrated multiple enterprise initiatives. Responsibilities included: architecting, developing, and supporting mission critical (24x7) network engineering applications; establishing SDLC process guidelines and tooling; leading platform selection for development environments, middleware, and workflow technologies; and defining AT&T and OMG enterprise architecture standards and guidelines.