Director, It Business Operations And Vendor Management
CurrentResponsible for developing budgets and optimizing ongoing costs for 30 different cost centers. To help effectively contain cost, I manage the vendor relationships including the contracts, licenses, and negotiations. In support of these efforts, my team performs extensive analysis of cloud and licensing data while also aligning strategy with over 50 group companies. Last year, I reviewed over 500 contracts for the full range of IT services including cloud services, consulting, telecom, hardware, and licenses. Negotiated over $280M of industry-leading contracts in the last 12 months including global contracts for Microsoft, Adobe, Salesforce, PTC, Palintir and SAP. As a result of the above success, was the awarded the FY21 President’s Award within global Komatsu. Optimizing departmental costs involves the ongoing optimization of hardware, telecom, software and services. I work with a number of cost optimization tools and apply my own proven approaches to keep costs contained even with the challenging dynamics of Cloud services and subscriptions. I work with key stakeholders to develop roadmaps including cost impact and structure leading contracts to minimize cost impact and escalation. Roadmaps will include cloud services, PC standards, hardware and software procurement, upgrades and related services.Lastly, I am responsible for compliance including license alignment and audit responses.
