Head of technology for the organization, providing strategic leadership and driving technological advancements in the renewable energy sector.Leading the Project Management Office (PMO) and leveraging expertise in Smartsheet to build and optimize PMO frameworks that enhance organizational efficiency, automate processes, drive accountability, foster collaboration, increase transparency, and enable real-time reporting.Spearheading digital and artificial intelligence transformation initiatives, including enterprise and business applications, to drive efficiency, functionality, and alignment with business objectives, utilizing a combination of in-house resources and a managed service provider.Implementing robust network and cybersecurity measures to safeguard company data, systems, and infrastructure.Managing procurement processes and providing support for technology-related acquisitions and vendor relationships.

Scaling technologies that enable responsive cities across the globe

Building a responsive city at Hudson Yards

• Provided technology leadership for Starwood’s global CRM application, StarGuest. StarGuest is a guest profile and task management system that shares guest's needs, wants, and behaviors across all Starwood properties globally, allowing Starwood associates to customize each guest interaction, create unique branded experiences, and build loyalty. • Acted as a trusted advisor and single point of contact into IT for marketing stakeholders• Managed demand for system changes across multiple stakeholders• Influenced executive and C-level leaders to garner initiative support and manage execution with cross-functional team leads through relationships and influence • Created and published product roadmaps to unify pipeline activity for functional changes, defect fixes, and technical initiatives• Accountable for all initiative aspects from concept to launchKey Accomplishments: • Estimated, secured funding, planned, and delivered numerous multi-million dollar capital and expense projects. Implementations included employee-facing mobile apps, analytics, data visualization, application localization, global two-way text messaging, service enabling the application, test automation, and various application integrations. • Led analytics implementation resulting in a major shift in how features and UX improvements are prioritized and measured• Revamped UX by working with product owners to define tactical and strategic initiatives themed around cross-platform UX improvements resulting in increased application adoption and usage• Transitioned marketing and technology teams from semi-annual waterfall releases to monthly agile releases resulting in increased collaboration and more rapid access to needed features • Reduced manual test effort by 70% per release by automating core application testing resulting in increased feature/defect velocity

Provided leadership for development of all consumer-facing mobile and web products. From product and feature definition, to building in-house and outsourced development teams, to all facets of testing, to product launch, to post-production maintenance and consumer support.Select projects included: • SmartSource.com / SmartSource.ca / Utilisource.ca• SmartSource Samples • SmartSource Xpress

Built Digital Department from ground up and led mobile strategy and application development by managing in-house, nearshore, and offshore teams. Incorporated various aspects of digital marketing, digital publishing, and content management. Defined an API strategy, led wireframe and UX sessions, and integrated products with app analytics, push notification providers, and mobile ad solutions. • Supervised employees and consultants and manage activities of an offshore team • Managed development and delivery of industry-changing mobile technology• Identified business opportunities and define product vision and strategy• Managed multimillion dollar budget for application development and infrastructure• Managed development of dashboard reports

Application Development - Mobile Field Force Automation, Enterprise Applications• Supervised employees and consultants and managed activities of an offshore team • Developed project plans, specifications, and application prototypes• Managed document sign-offs: requirements, design, test plans, test scripts, performance • Managed application testing: test plan, scenarios, scripts, performance / load / stress testing, test automation• Managed application security vulnerability assessments

Application Development - Mobile Field Force Automation• Conducted business process and requirements analysis meetings with key stakeholders• Authored requirements documents, test scripts• Prioritized support and enhancement activities• Performed application testing and generated progress reports

• Negotiated contracts: offshore tier one support, asset management, application service providers, third party software solutions• Spearheaded user interface changes and development efforts• Managed asset life cycle – evaluation, acquisition, break / fix, recycling

Selected by the UConn School of Business faculty to participate in an exclusive team that researched and recommended to IBM new markets and use cases for visual analytics.

Managed contractor performance metrics including: cost, quality, safety, responsiveness, system compliance, and overall customer satisfaction• Performed field activities: project management, safety audits, quality inspections, site assessment, and contractor safety training• Promoted from Facility Concierge Specialist (December 2002)• Promoted from Team Leader (December 2001)• Promoted from Customer Service Representative (December 2000)