Provide consulting to senior level clients in areas of Information Technology Strategy, Enterprise Architecture, and IT Planning and Implementation. Areas of special interest include: * Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Planning (DR/BCP) * Analytics / Data Visualization / Big Data * Mergers & Acquisitions / Post-Merger Integration (M&A and PMI)

McGrady Consulting Group (MCG) is a management consulting practice that enables business clients to improve performance through the intelligent use of information technologies. The "Group" in MCG is a network of IT consulting professionals that I have worked in the past and trust to work on consulting engagements (and vice versa).Engagement Highlights:As Acting Director of Technology Strategy & Architecture for Altisource, a global provider of technology-enabled, knowledge-based solutions for real estate and mortgage portfolio management, asset recovery, and customer relationship management. Also chartered and delivered projects to improve data center virtualization, SAN storage performance, disaster recovery / business continuity, IT project portfolio management, etc.Worked with WW Sales Operations at VMware, the leader in business infrastructure virtualization, to support the roll-out of Salesforce.com to over 2,000 employees worldwide. In 2010 - 2012, managed over a dozen acquisitions & integration projects for VMware, with a focus on sales & services organization, GTM strategy, revenue forecasting, etc.Reporting to the CFO of Nurserymen’s Exchange, one of America’s leading wholesale home and garden companies, an industry leader in horticulture, McGrady was responsible for strategic initiatives in enterprise architecture, business intelligence, ERP system selection and implementation, as well as a POS system implementation project "rescue."As the consultant to the CFO and the Board of Directors of PGP Corporation, a global security software company recognized as the leader in email and data encryption, identified shortcomings in handling customer and partner data, inhibiting the company’s strategic shift from desktop to enterprise-class product; successfully leveraged use of Salesforce.com to create a master customer database. Also conducted RFP to select ERP system in anticipation of IPO or acquisition.

Managed M&A pre- and post-LOI due diligence and post-merger integration, with emphasis on GTM strategy and customer operations: field sales, systems / sales engineering (SE), technical account management (TAM), education (EDU), and consulting / professional services (PS).

Developed consulting practice and portfolio of professional service offerings in support of NetApp storage solutions and its product line (NAS, SAN, iSCSI, Cache, and near-line storage). Managed NetApp's key professional services partner relationships.

Managed the analytic applications line-of-business, and built enterprise-wide as well as business intelligence applications. Helped build LOB from $0 to over $20M in 2 years. Originally with Ithena, Business Objects was a wholly-owned analytics subsidiary of BOBJ. Built Ithena services (consulting, support, education) from scratch.

Executive consultant responsible for strategic IT planning and improving operations effectiveness for clients in the communications and e-commerce industries.

Led regular and evening MBA programs; taught an “IT Strategy: Theory and Practice” course (using the case method).

Reporting to the CTO/CIO, responsible for all IT functions, except data center operations. Responsible for planning and systems development and support for CRM, billing, finance, HR, group and personal productivity systems.

Telecom operations executive for the South Los Angeles market. Responsible for IT strategic planning, Bellcore portfolio management, data center and data/voice network management.