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Texas, United States

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

• Lead the IT Services practice at HFS Research, overseeing research agenda, mentoring analysts, and driving impactful insights for clients.• Pivotal in client engagements and business development efforts, focusing on business operations, IT services, and evolving technology landscape.

Providing technology, business, and jurisdictional regulatory coaching and mentoring to Managing Member of an innovation development incubator with operations on three continents.

Worldwide, Oo

Recruited to lead technology and industry initiatives for US M&A practice, collaborating with C-suite clients to enhance value via technical evaluations, architectural framework solutions, and addressing multi-country data regulatory issues. • Navigated complex stakeholder environments to deliver budget-conscious and risk-compliant technology solutions for companies in the Fortune Top 20 in retail and industrial sectors.• Designed technology solutions to meet multi-jurisdictional data privacy requirements across US, Europe, and China.

Teaneck, New Jersey, Us

Recruited to lead modernization and simplification of sixteen separate technology focused organizations. Provided strategic leadership to enhance asset management, budget and financial transparency, accountability, and skills identification, while bolstering Cognizant’s diverse technology consulting capabilities.• Led project teams to clarify services and tools for Private Equity Due Diligence, Technology M&A, Modernization Roadmaps, Organizational Change, and Unified Cloud Optionality with AWS, Azure, Google, and IBM Cloud.• Identified 120% capability improvement and $48M financial improvement.• Designed data-driven solutions to boost consulting revenue by 30%.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Developed P&L, growth strategy, talent development and operations for $250M global technology business, providing unified capabilities and offerings across 400+ consulting staff. Sponsored projects focusing on Hybrid Multi-Cloud adoption and conducted strategic assessments to develop agile and future-ready solutions, positioning for significant downstream opportunities. Provided CIO-level guidance, coaching, and consulting to align business and IT strategies as executive leader of Global Cloud/CIO Advisory Center of Competence and M&A IT capabilities. Spearheaded improvement initiatives for both internal and external organizations, resulting in enhanced engagement value and results delivery for clients and internal teams.• Directed global teams in assessing, designing, and implementing IT solutions for multinational merger, acquisition, and divestiture projects spanning several industries within Global 100 companies.• Owned and championed global training initiative for full offering portfolio development of Cloud Advisory services.• Unified Go-To-Market strategy and offerings for Cloud Advisory across three primary IBM divisions within 10 months.• Specialized in leveraging Cloud technologies to accelerate business modernization, simplification, and agility.• Surpassed targets by over 200% for last four years.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Industries: Pharmaceutical/Healthcare, Agricultural Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), Oil and Gas, Insurance, Banking, Transportation, High-Tech Manufacturing.• Conducted IT maturity assessment for global $2B agricultural company and implemented future state Transition Services Agreement (TSA) model encompassing multi-year services and technology modernization initiatives.• Led teams in designing disposition strategies, managing assets and licenses, overseeing hyper-care activities, planning and executing cut-over, and establishing post-Day 1 TSA support structures and transition project portfolios.• Led design of structured transformational plan for $700M five-year program, consolidating and modernizing global IT infrastructure and organizations of two transportation company divisions into unified XaaS model.• Executed business-aligned IT integration of assets acquired by Chilean resource company, from global oil and gas major across Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador.• Managed IT M&A Transition Service Agreement (TSA) and Project Management Office (PMO) activities for five concurrent transactions valued at $30B for Swiss pharmaceutical company, encompassing divestitures and acquisitions in challenging environment.• Directed implementation of modernization strategies and milestone-driven roadmaps for $2.4B divestiture of global lighting manufacturer.• Orchestrated successful modernization design through post-merger integration of $7B dual acquisition and integration for two Asia Pacific insurance companies into Australian insurance leader.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Directed multiple teams in identifying transformative IT solutions for M&A triggered modernization scenarios. Pioneered development of innovative tools and IT frameworks to enhance service delivery, including technology readiness assessments, aligning technology solutions with business objectives, and accelerating modernization through Cloud methodologies. Played pivotal role in IBM's Digital Reinvention strategy core team, while crafting combined solutions leveraging IoT, Cloud, Mobility, and Big Data. Spearheaded redesign of Cloud migration, IT modernization, and IT DevOps processes into integrated framework.• Led overhaul of IBM's IT frameworks, playbooks, tools, and methodologies to embrace Cloud-centric approach, expediting business value realization via XaaS models.• Owned relationships and M&A carveout, transforming $120K assessment into value-focused $42M 5-year deal.• Exceeded budgeted improvement targets, achieving $6.1M in 2014 and $12.5M in 2015.

Provided guidance and spearheaded transformative improvements through technology initiatives as interim senior technology leader for mid-market organizations. Delivered leadership in repositioning new offerings, expanding market penetration with enhanced features and capabilities, and optimizing solution delivery models for M&A integration, separation, and restructuring. Cultivated vendor relationships, managed contracts, negotiated outsourced professional services, procured assets, and devised IT modernization roadmaps aligned with business process outsourcing and business intelligence analytics Client Technology Executive:• Performed as interim CIO to replace underperforming VP of technology delivery in IT service solutions. Served as fractional Global CTO executive, overseeing implementation of new customer products in utilities, oil and gas, and chemicals sectors for research and business intelligence analytics products.• Facilitated partnerships with three technology advisory firms for integration services, established new product sales channels, and fostered strategic relationships with Fortune 150 companies.CIO/COO:• Orchestrated setup of operations, business intelligence, administrative, and finance processes as contract executive for Food Services Master Franchiser.• Led negotiations for leveraged M&A acquisitions and facilitated business/IT integration with two complementary brands. • Developed relationships in restaurant business, resulting in signing of development contracts for 36 countries.VP Technology Delivery:• Developed global community of practice for clients and revitalized US relationships with major players in oil and gas industry.• Revitalized relationships and secured renewed accounts with three Fortune 500 clients.

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

Developed strategies to enhance interaction and partnerships with services and strategy advisors, accelerating program value delivery. Selected to lead turnaround of global IT operations strategy and delivery, managing strategic relationships with C-suite and VPs across all geographies and business units.• Oversaw IT rationalization of systems acquired from ACS and fostered cooperative partnership between client’s IT team and Wipro. Improved CIO satisfaction by 25% within three months.• Led opportunity responses and delivery quality oversight for complex IT services deals exceeding $100M TCV with significant C-suite engagement.• Enabled strategic pre-sales and sales pursuit teams to increase deal sizes and win rates.• Directed teams to achieve $100M in annual revenue targets, surpassing goals by 20%.• Enhanced strategic value and delivery of programs for both delivery team and buyers.

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

Designed solutions for IT outsourcing and technology project delivery to global and regional corporations with annual revenues in excess of $5B. Developed relationships with C-level and Executive/Senior Vice President client leaders.• Mentored sales and business development teams in strategic relationship development methods, advisory engagement, and C-suite interactions.• Successfully developed relationships in new target accounts for which no work or relationships were pre-existing.

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, Texas, Us

Provided procurement advisory capabilities for optimization of IT and outsourcing/ offshoring providers to global corporations with annual revenues in excess of $2B. Developed contract, technology, and services rationalization, integration, and simplification. Primary interaction with client C-level and Executive Vice President leaders in the organizations.

Dublin 2, Ie

• Provided expertise and leadership across all Accenture geographic, market, and operating units in the areas of Application Outsourcing and the IT Optimization/Rationalization Suite of knowledge.• Promoted to implement Outsourced PMO and led IT Transformation for Quality and Deployment of a $300M ITO/BPO outsourcing arrangement with an $18B Telco. Led department of 160 supporting IT outsourcing activities across 7 departments within 2 divisions representing 1200 IT professionals. Provided strategic direction of all quality best practices for the organization. Owned training on IT development processes for 600 staff.• Promoted to lead the recovery and executive ownership of the Outsourced Offshore relationship for a rapid $75M, multi-year IT integration, software development, integration, hosting, and desktop support engagement. Developed and implemented unified business processes, tools, and standards to support systems development of the internet hosting subsidiary. Owned continuous improvement initiatives, security policies, and finance reporting and systems.• Led Outsourcing negotiation and implementation efforts for IT activities to an Onshore/Offshore model based in India and the US. Ensured financial compliance and variance analysis for 5 departments with $29M budget. Accountable for corporate releases, risk analysis, quality metrics. Led project teams involved with over 250 releases per year.• Built and led Quality and Configuration Management teams supporting a team of 185 developers. Managed Quality Outsourcing efforts on $80M CRM and Billing IT integration project with 6 separate vendors and 2 integrators. Led redesign of all Development processes to adhere with Agile best practices. Owned vendor RFP and selection to implement a world-class integrated Configuration Management and Quality Tracking system across 16 teams in 4 US locations. Owned and led 3 additional customization projects to support 4 teams in 2 Offshore locations.

Oslo, Oslo, No