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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Tampa, Florida, United States

Global Systems Integrators Ecosystem, IBM Cloud and Cognitive• Coordinated contracting/agreement activities across IBM’s top GSI partners, applying best practices and new and innovative relationships to drive IBM Cloud consumption and revenue.• SME for business partner agreement related activities, developing executable contractual terms and negotiating agreements to closure to the benefit of both IBM and its business partners.

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Cognit - IBM Watson Partnership, IBM Watson & Cloud Platform• Managed IBM's responsibilities to establish and support a new Watson joint venture in Middle East / Northern Africa region.• Provided oversight of all assigned resources and departments and associated projects including new data center, finance and contracting, and Arabic enablement of the existing Watson products.

Dallas, Texas, United States

SoftLayer, An IBM Company• Provided Project Management oversight for the expansion of SoftLayer’s cloud data centers to new countries / markets, including Europe (3), South America (1), North America (2), Asia (1), and US Federal (2).• Established legal entities, banking, staffing/payroll for new operations, and resources to establish and support new data centers.

Various

IBM Global Business Solutions (GBS) Public Sector / Federal• Led global teams in delivery of packaged and custom software development implementations and consulting engagements. • Example Projects included: Led 17 PMs in support of systems migration for a pharmaceutical company merger; Agile project developing custom pricing tool with integration to SAP; Implementation of a banking trust package solution; Managed PMO activities for $70M US Army logistics system.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

IBM Application Management Services • Managed outsourced IT software support and development for Heinz North America / Heinz Global operations, overseeing a 38-person global team supporting all time zones

Various

Supply Chain Management / eProcurement Practice• Successfully implemented three Ariba Buyer and two Ariba Travel &Expense projects, an Oracle iProcurement, and a custom DoD/Navy procurement system for commercial and federal clients.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

As a Colonel with the U.S. Army, served as the division chief responsible for personnel, budget, security, operations, and logistics activities operating in a joint, inter-agency environment in support of the US strategic partnership with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Coordinated directly with Department of State, Defense Security Cooperation Agency, and US Central Command, and acted as program liaison to the supported Saudi Ministry. Managed the foreign military sales (FMS) activities for program.

Balad, Iraq

As a Lieutenant Colonel with the U.S. Army, division chief in the support operations organization of the Expeditionary Sustainment Command responsible for logistics operations in Iraq. Responsible for the following sections: Container Management, Deploy/Redeploy, Property Reset/Redistribution, and Transportation Plans and Analysis sections.

Panama City, Florida Area

As a Lieutenant Colonel with the U.S. Army, responsible for the oversight of systems engineering activities for the Joint Program Office of the Deployable Joint Command and Control (DJC2) System, a Joint ACAT IAM program. This weapon system provides a rapidly deployable command & control (C2) and collaboration capabilities to the Joint Task Force commander and their headquarters. Provided program and technical direction to the government integrator staff and contractors, and represented the program in systems engineering areas for Joint Forces Command, GCCS-J program office, and the JC2 program office.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Provided oversight of EDI operations and corporate eProcurement initiatives. Consulted in eBusiness strategy development and the management of external services and equipment providers. Also provided project management for Intranet and Extranet application development, as well as the management of Alcoa's North American EDI Gateway team. In this role, developed new eCommerce services, managed operating expenses, and marketed services to Business Unit/Resource Unit customers.

Carnegie, Pa

Provided consulting services to clients in data analysis and design and Oracle applications development. Researched and prepared project proposals and developed and published company standards for analysis, CASE design, Graphical User Interface, documentation format and IP standards. Marketed the company with local, state and federal government agencies, as well as pursued subcontracting opportunities.

D.Sc., Information Systems And Communications

Activities and Societies: RMU Veterans OrganizationThe Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) in Information Systems and Communications degree program.

Ms, Computer Information Systems

Bs, Management

Activities and Societies: Acacia Fraternity, Army ROTC, IFC Dance Marathon