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Tempe, Arizona, Us

- Leading process improvement- Strengthening project management- Enhancing decision making frameworks- Clarifying services- Aligning IT engineering & development efforts- Guiding enterprise platform solutions

Chandler, Arizona, Us

IT Director with a proven track record of effectively overseeing technology initiatives within charter school environments. As a Department Head, successfully led an Information Technology team in delivering comprehensive solutions encompassing Information Security, Network Operations, Device Deployment and Support, Application Integrations and Support, and Asset Management. Managed a vast infrastructure supporting 30,000 students, 2,500+ employees spread across 30 locations in 3 states. Adept at optimizing technological resources to enhance educational experiences and organizational efficiency while ensuring utmost data security and operational excellence.

Chandler, Arizona, Us

PMO Director responsible for business & IT platform transformation across all functional and supporting areas. Vertex Education services Arizona and Nevada's highest ranked and largest K-8 charter school network, Legacy Traditional Schools, with additional new locations in Texas.

Chandler, Arizona, Us

Senior Manager of the PMO responsible for business transformation & IT platform transformation across all functional and supporting areas.Accomplishments: Workday implementation for core HCM, payroll, accounting, financials, recruiting, benefits, talent, procurement, LMS, and advanced reporting. Zendesk Implementation, providing 24 locations with a centralized customer support experience, a global self-service knowledge-base and issues/ticketing platform. Leading construction and operational expansion teams for new school campuses, developing regional financial models and integrating services with new customers in new territories and states.

Chandler, Arizona, Us

Project Manager working across matrixed teams to deploy enterprise IT solutions, lead new campus location openings and facilitate the development of an ePMO.

New York, Ny, Us

Project manager on core database team, servicing over 200 customer facing applications, ensuring the highest database uptime possible. Part of the Enterprise Cloud Platform team (primarily an infrastructure team), we are an end to end shop that includes database development projects, architecture and design services, production data query services, RFC execution, and production support. # Project Planning and Execution# Technology Planning and Deployment# Business Process Optimization# Enterprise Information Management

A cross-platform, cloud-based, freemium app developed to establish accountable online relationships with a user community exceeding 250,000 members. Sr. Product Manager at X3watch with full P&L responsibility. Starting in 2013, successfully drove a complete rebuild (start-up) for an established cross-platform, cloud-based, freemium app. Built strong and sustainable relationships with business partners and project team members, while identifying and hiring a culturally and geographically diverse team for software development, customer support, marketing and online sales. Charted and led an ultra-lean software development and operations budget over a 4-year period, returning nearly 45% net-profits to the parent company. Seamlessly migrated all existing customer data and memberships to a new platform built in-house, then grew and supported a premium user community.Spearheaded operations and strategic direction with full responsibility for bottom-line factors including long range business planning and global software development processes. Gathered requirements, developed stories, and interfaced with developers to design and create innovative solutions to address complex online accountability software demands. Coordinated projects with Agile development approach, through scheduling, tracking progress and arranging support services while delivering software solutions consistent with the product roadmap and release-plan milestones.

A mid-sized non-profit developing awareness, prevention and recovery tools to strengthen families and assist individuals in overcoming addictions.Responsible for talent acquisition and building a strong, unique, remote company culture that drove the business from start-up to sustainability. Served as day-to-day Director of Operations; duties also included Project Manager for major initiatives. Developed and delivered financial planning, reporting and analysis.Designed, developed and delivered a first-of-its-kind online counseling service to enable recovery for addicts, growing the program from startup to over 1,000 active monthly subscribers in just 3 years.

Mesa, Arizona, Us

A Phoenix Metropolitan multi-site church with a reach exceeding 15,000 members.Excelled at educational program development, marketing and management. Specialized in public speaking to audiences over 2,000 in attendance and community event planning and execution with over 15,000 in attendance. Led a staff team of 60+ employees including functions of hiring, HR, payroll, leadership development, plus performance & quality standards. Leadership involved developing, controlling and reporting on department budget, collaborating with Sr. Executive and Board of Directors.