•Building new business-facing IT PMO and Enterprise Applications teams from scratch to consolidate “shadow IT” from business into IT to manage and support production systems and integrations.•Restructured current IT resources into global IT Support and IT Systems teams to support employees across 20+ countries with on-boarding, desktop, conferencing, network infrastructure, and security needs.•Partner with CISO/Infosec to secure the enterprise via delivery of MFA and WorkSpaceOne endpoint mgmt.•Vendor Management: Partner with IT software and service providers to scope, negotiate, and manage IT investments in partnership with Procurement, InfoSec and FP&A to confirm viability, TCO, and funding.

Medidata is a public technology company with 2,700 global employees that develops and markets software as a service (SaaS) for clinical trials for 1,000+ pharma, biotech, med device, and research organizations. I lead the Enterprise Technology IT org of 70+ global resources in PMO, Applications & Integration Engineering, Systems, Data & Analytics, Enterprise Support, and Training teams. I set the direction of the PMO’s project roadmap to drive revenue, scale, and optimize processes across Sales, Marketing, Finance, Pro Services, Customer Success, Product. I grew IT's “Big Data” initiative into a mature Business Intelligence & Analytics program of 7 FTEs providing critical business insights and centralized reporting to all depts. My 25-person global Support team supports remote and on-site employees across 17 sites with on-boarding, hardware, desktop, application, systems, network infrastructure, and security issues. I manage 4 cost center budgets of ~$30M. And I strategically increased ET headcount by 10% YoY with 95% retention rate due to growing business demand for services.

Promoted to lead 4 Enterprise Technology teams, comprised of 60+ resources in PMO, Applications & Integration Engineering, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Support, and Training/Enablement. Led teams with Plan-Build-Run IT approach: Roadmap and project implementation (Plan); Development, integration and data migration (Build); and Support and enablement (Run). Fostered relationships with Medidata execs to address challenges in running their lines of business. Implemented optimization and game changer innovations to improve and scale the enterprise. Partnered with SaaS and third-party vendors to improve ROI and optimize total cost of ownership. Oversaw $25M IT budget, resource planning, and prioritization of roadmap for maximum value realization.

Asked by CTO to take over 20-person global Enterprise Support team spanning U.S., EMEA, and APAC. Enabled 4 global ES Managers to re-build teams and drive performance. Successfully turned around morale, efficiency, and employee satisfaction scores within 6 months. Formalized IT alignment with Info Security, Finance, Legal, and Global Regulatory Compliance leads.

Led PMO to drive 25+ concurrent transformation and innovation projects with cross-functional business partners. Guided IT projects to ensure the enterprise achieved scale, productivity, and ROI/savings. Managed IT Roadmap with formal Governance, Release Management, and Change Control Review processes to ensure all depts aligned on priority, and timing. Guided Project Managers to govern projects against stated goals, defined scope, and requirements. Ensured quality deliverables and milestones achieved within prescribed budget and timeline. Coached teams in Change Management as IT projects introduced process change, new policies, and organization changes. Managed $20+MM budget and tracked project and vendor spend on behalf of business partners. Partnered with Procurement to drive RFPs and negotiate $20M in vendor contracts. Led vendor management to drive adoption and ROI on IT investments. About Medidata:We know that creativity doesn't happen on-demand. Developing cutting-edge cloud technology takes great minds and talented people working together in a collaborative environment. We are committed to fostering an innovative, agile company culture; we encourage our teams to come together and experiment with new concepts, research new approaches and test out new technologies. We put innovative technology and insightful data into researchers’ hands to help them safely get new treatments to market faster with lower risk and cost. With the current transformation in the life sciences industry, we are at the forefront of providing an advanced clinical development platform for our clients to further improve the accuracy, timeliness and ease of the data collection process. That means better treatments can reach waiting patients sooner. We are publicly traded (MDSO) with over 450 customers, customer retention rates above 98%, support more than 9,500 clinical trials, and have global operations in the US, Europe and Asia.

• Acting CIO at fast-paced Private Equity start-up. Took on dual-role for 12 months between the NY P.E. firm and $2B single-family home (SFH) entity. • Directed IT department across 19 sites whose user base scaled from 50 to 400 employees in 2 years. • Built SFH’s IT org, staff, and PMO from scratch to run local operations in Scottsdale, AZ. Decreased 3rd-party consultant spend by 40%. • Defined two-year $20M IT roadmap budget and led Technology Committee prioritization decisions. • Managed rigorous Ratings Agencies’ reviews. Touted by CEO and Agencies as most professional review across the industry, which led to $500M SFH asset securitization within 3 months followed by 3 more $400-700M securitizations within a year.• Led due diligence for $460M acquisition of Mortgage Origination firm. Then led IT integration of apps/tools, resources, and processes.• Devised strategy to move to AWS cloud. Cut costs by 40% and enhanced user productivity by 50%. Improved IPO-readiness by de-coupling SFH fund’s IT infrastructure from the Asset Manager. • Negotiated all IT vendor contracts for SaaS, communications, infrastructure, websites, and consulting services with ~20% cost reduction from prior year. • Led creation of two new websites, one being SFH fund’s consumer-facing site to market 20,000 homes for rent and accept rent payments online.• Coordinated IT plan to open 15 new property management offices that replaced 23 third-parties and reduced cost by 60%. • Instituted IT policies to protect data/assets (e.g., mobile BYOD, MDM, on-boarding, asset management) and built PMO governance model, project methodology (Agile, SDLC), and reporting metrics from scratch.• Created first Business Continuity/DR Plan, built incident response plan, facilitated Vulnerability assessments, and sponsored Security Awareness training to reduce liability and protect data assets.

• Reported to Head of Global IT at major law firm with eight global offices and 1,500+ users. • Improved performance and credibility of Global IT as an influential leader and business partner for application delivery, change management, and PMO governance.• Led executive sessions to develop strategic IT roadmap for $20M+ spend over 2-year program.• Drove vendor selection, negotiations, and contract renewals for ~$5M in IT spend annually.• Program Manager: Led IT transformation strategy and implementations of Document Management System, Records Management System, OS upgrades, eSupport system, Exchange migrations, and high-touch mobile device upgrades. Managed teams of 5-30 resources.• Successfully strengthened relationship and services to Finance/CFO by establishing communication protocols, improving support, and prioritizing major system upgrades and self-service projects.• Coached other Project Managers and Business Analysts in the PMO.• Appointed by Executive Director to build Business Continuity Program and Executive Crisis Response Team. Facilitated failover decisions and managed communications during 4 firm outages.• Directed IT Disaster Recovery co-lo site selection, RFP negotiations, and migration for 40+ critical systems.• Managed regulatory IT audits and led HIPPA, PCI, and EU data security and risk assessments. Prioritized initiatives to close security gaps.

• • Program Lead for $275M business transformation at Walt Disney World. Facilitated C-level to redesign sales, marketing, and data management strategy. Resulted in my leading 6 innovation projects over 4+ years ranging from 2 Disney CRM transformations valued at $30M in pro services, reservation system replacement, and 300+ systems integrations.• Client Service Delivery: Consolidated 38 Comcast markets (6.3M subscribers) onto a unified platform, merged 65 global telecom units into shared service center, led Marketing Campaign/Segmentation studies.

Supervised multiple, concurrent audits of Fortune 1000 clients in manufacturing, health care, long-term care, utility and not-for-profit sectors. Supervised 10-20 resources and budgets of 3,000+ hours. Delivered industry analyst reports, financial statements, government regulatory compliance, and internal business controls and risk management reviews.