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Growing a consulting practice involves leveraging expertise, building a strong client network, and consistently delivering high-quality solutions to drive business growth and client satisfaction.• Interim Chief Technology Officer (CTO), providing strategic guidance, overseeing development teams, managing budgets, evaluating vendor relationships, ensuring compliance with industry standards, driving change, innovation, and growth.• Led management consulting team, developing, and managing account relationships while accelerating benefits by pressure testing assumptions and exposing risk. • Developed multi-year portfolio investment business strategy for logistics/supply chain public company (£ 1.8B) to expand services into new sectors, create competitive advantages, and grow of revenue by $10M over the next 3 years.• Developed a portfolio of business growth strategies for a leading business intelligence firm operating in knowledge and information. Defined shared services and lines of business to increase operational efficiencies and drive service delivery with a 10x return on investment.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Recruited to operationalize an enterprise architecture capability globally within a Fintech company. I was subsequently laid off in a downsizing.• Led architecture coordination, communication, and support related to the execution of Corpay’s digital transformation projects. Led enterprise architecture transformation initiative establishing a unified customer experience platform for customer-touching websites, with MuleSoft RTF API cluster connecting backend legacy systems.• Led UX Design & Architecture team to drive consistent engaging experiences for customers based on research, atomic design, and micro frontend architecture. Leveraged expertise in developing talent to drive strategic initiatives, resulting in substantial business growth. Leveraged emerging technology including generative and machine learning AI to deliver 5-star customer facing web and mobile applications.• Led M&A technology due-diligence playbook development for a wide range of investment theses. Created a catalog of post-acquisition action plans to accelerate integration and benefit realization.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Recruited to transform the hospitality IT function by introducing technology excellence with accountability.• Transformed technology engineering team by implementing agile methodology, increasing accountability, and consistent delivery of promises.• Drove long-range strategic planning across cross-functional teams of marketing, product, sales, service, and engineering as a trusted advisor to introduce new technologies and competitive positioning.• Led $60M multi-year technology programs to deliver a portfolio of new products and SaaS services, reduce complexity, process improvement, and enable performance management. Driving resolution of all customer escalations, technology commitments, and executive presentations.• Implemented technology strategy and performance management with the agile teams of both onshore and offshore scrum teams improving the productivity and engineering excellence of a 600+ IT division providing technology leadership.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Promoted to accelerate deployment efficiency, reducing cost, and revenue growth, led multiple senior roles at Manheim over five years, facilitating communications while managing deployment of a $150M modernization portfolio, and establishing a revenue management service center yielding significant annual benefits and additional revenue.• Led multiple senior roles across these five years. Sr. Director Operational Strategy & Portfolio Management, at Manheim from 2014 to 2017. Sr. Director Operations Process Engineering Portfolio at Manheim from 2013 to 2014. Sr. Director Business Operations Leader at Manheim from 2012 to 2013• Accelerated deployment from one location per month to 10 locations per week with scarce resources by creating a Center of Excellence locations to pay forward a self-funded deployment approach to addition locations to achieve business goals. Full adoption delivered $16.4M of additional revenue per year in a global B2B environment. • Established and operated a revenue management service center across 127 business units and diverse digital channels to manage customer onboarding, inventory management, pricing and contract rates, enabling $26.5M per year in additional revenue. • Created the central management of client contracts, product configuration and pricing rate management.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Promoted to analyze and redesign operations and sales, discovered key customer behavior changes, implemented a disciplined strategy execution process, and created an investment management team, resulting in $62.5M additional annual revenue and effectively navigating the 2009 recession.• Analyzed and designed operations and sales organization leveraging business trends and customer behavior.• Leveraging prescriptive analytics, discovered key changes in customer purchase patterns enabling mathematical optimization and major improvement in sales operations by segmenting and targeting sales messages to grow key segments. Resulted in $62.5M in additional annual revenue.• Provided executive management to implement a disciplined process to execute strategy with cost controls. • Facilitated an investment management team consisting of CFO, COO, Chief of Staff, and SVP of Strategic Execution making strategic decisions that provided a formalized process, created a portfolio of projects, and a visibility mechanism that allowed the leadership team real-time information. When the recession hit in 2009 and the business was impacted, these capabilities allowed the leadership to be highly responsive in the reallocation of capital projects and successfully guided the organization through these tumultuous years.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Develop a Global Online Strategy with international operators and partners. Consulted leadership with online challenges and opportunities that exist in Manheim's international markets. Represented the brand in international markets to engaged current and potential international partnerships & customers. Prioritized Manheim's Online product investment to meet customer needs anywhere in the world.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Aligned and prioritized funding of all projects, allocation of resources, and initiative planning, initiative planning and execution via program management, and cross-initiative alignment.• Accountable for companywide Budget Management and Planning process along with Enterprise Metrics Reporting and Tracking.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Identified, investigated need, evaluated opportunities, and develop proposals for entry into international markets including conducting extensive in-market research with global consulting firms. • Executed due diligence analysis of potential partner / acquisition candidates including defining the integration approach to achieve return on investment. Negotiated agreements and represent AutoTrader.com with foreign government and business officials. Conducted worldwide automotive market analysis with deep drives in Asian markets.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Established Portfolio Management Office practices to manage a portfolio of enterprise initiatives to increase the company’s ability for strategic planning. Governed a portfolio of 300+ strategic enterprise initiatives totaling $48M in capital. Sponsored the establishment of an enterprise-wide project best practice standard. Consulted senior management on professional development, resource utilization, organizational readiness and risk management.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Managed a $10 million dollar capital and operating expense budget. Managed the IT Infrastructure and operations of an e-commerce platform spread across international markets. Pioneered a industry leading Internet enterprise architecture plan for e-commerce and cybersecurity. Sponsored and established a product planning and development process in a 100+ team. Leader of an industry wide information management platform.• Served as account manager for several of billion-dollar customers' accounts implementing data privacy procedures. Integrated a real-time communications network of 70 internationally located data centers. Directed the implementation of division-wide business performance measurement system. Directed the development and implementation of commercial financial loan systems

• Built and managed the technical direction and operations of a IBM Industry Remarketing company to $5M in annual revenue. Pitched and won over multi-million-dollar contracts for technology projects, service, software, and hardware systems.• Represented the company at domestic and international industry events demonstrating technology solutions. Analyzed and developed software industry solutions for the core products marketed by the company.

Mocksville, Us

• Proposed and secured a $3 million dollar technology operations center. Introduced IT leadership by centralizing a consistent approach to applying technology. Negotiated and managed multi-million-dollar capital projects and IT management including general construction.

Mba, Global Business

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science