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Atlanta, GA, US

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Direct report to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) with full P&L ownership and emergency management process automation delivery responsibilities for both public and private sector clients. Accountable for accuracy of.
• Established scalable and sustainable service delivery operating model by implementing agile-based methodology, processes, and tooling. Enabled the team of Client Delivery Directors, Business Analysts, and Front-End.
• Created the organizational development strategy by defining and leading recruiting processes and partnerships as well as establishing both technical and non-technical career paths. Grew the leadership team with a mix.
• Executive sponsor of the employee lead Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Task Force, focused on education, awareness and building an inclusive culture. Mentored the task force on defining strategy, execution approach.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Member of pursuit team signing new $7B FinTech client, responsible for account management, client relationships and overall delivery. Led a team of Cloud Architects, DevOps Engineers and Cloud Security Architects.
• Grew Fortune 500 financial services client account from $650K to $8M in 12 months. Developed deliverable based proposals, including cloud factory structure for a data center to AWS public cloud migration program..
• Developed Candid Cloud Journey baseline, a proprietary framework for enterprise scale cloud initiatives. Leveraged framework to develop and deliver detailed 2-day table top session with 50+ client and 3rd party.
• Collaborated with the recruiting team and managing partners to recruit, retain and mentor client facing and back-offices employees. Provided career coaching to Project/Program Managers, Cloud Architects and DevOps.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Managed team of cloud consultants and client resources to complete the business evaluation of an enterprise cloud migration initiative with 1000+ applications, including application identification, rationalization and.
• Led IT planning and design phases of divestiture program redefining the supply chain business model and separating a shared system landscape. Partnered closely with client Chief Information Officer (CIO) and business.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Reset direction for team of 50+ software and analytics engineers to meet initial product launch, first industrial internet revenue generating product in the business portfolio.
• Member of executive leadership team forming a new organization and setting portfolio strategic direction. Actively working with customers on designing new products.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Led Chief Information Officer (CIO) team through all business planning cycles. Resolved $43M budget challenge through extensive program prioritization, resulting in $220M budget. Advised Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
• Managed quarterly IT close processes & pacing for $200M budget. Partnered with FP&A to manage $7M cost pressure. Overall controllable variance to op plan was less than 0.5%.
• Approved all contracted services spend engaging 1200 contractors costing $160M. Delivered $10M in annual cost reductions, driving productivity through contractor team structures and negotiations.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Contributed to the overall IT strategy for a new $8 billion organization, including the new global ERP landscape, deployment road map, budget and resource plan. 5 year program was approved for $100 million.
• Defined IT project organization, growing to 40+ IT professionals & $7M vendor contract to support a multi-country, global deployment strategy. Direct budget ownership for $20M program, managing employee, contractor and.
• Developed a robust IT program methodology incorporating the controls of waterfall and flexibility of agile principles. Defined strategies and tools for all phases of the program.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Managed team of 70+ employee and contractor resources through a full life-cycle Oracle 11i ERP implementation, a $20 million project, delivering wing-to-wing customer fulfillment and financial processes for an $800M.
• Led delivery of a new Oracle environment consisting of 20 modules, 96 business processes, 20 interfaces, and 16 conversions covering wing-to-wing customer fulfillment processes. Developed detailed cutover strategy and.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Managed 50+ resources through integration and cut-over testing for the Global Finance SAP R/3 CD, FI/CO and BW implementation, a $60 million project with rollout locations around the world. Required regular project.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Designed integration testing strategy and processes utilizing HP Quality Center to manage defects and position the project to reuse test scripts for later rollouts. Developed detailed wing-to-wing integration test.

• Led a team tasked with process development and strategic planning for order entry and customer service organizations. Completed Malcolm Baldrige organizational assessment, identifying strengths, weaknesses and.

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