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Dallas, Texas, United States

Ex-officio member of the Board of Directors of Catholic Charities of Dallas ("CCD"), which provides charitable services to 9 counties around Dallas. CCD acquired the Community Health Clinic in April 2023.

Collin County, Texas

Appointed to fill an opening in the Court. The five Commissioners exercise broad policy making authority and are responsible for the operations and finance for Collin County, Texas, which has a population of almost 1 million and a budget of $378 million. The Court adopts the county’s budget and tax rate; approves county expenditures; fills vacancies in elective and appointive offices; sets all salaries and benefits; has exclusive authority to authorize contracts; and represents the county in state and regional matters. • Elected officials reporting to the Commissioners include the Sheriff, District and County Courts, District Attorney, District and County Clerks, Justice of the Peace, Constables, and Tax Assessor. • Departments reporting to the Commissioners include Construction & Projects; Engineering; Facilities Management, Finance, Healthcare, Human Resources, Information Technology, Medical Examiner, Public Information, and Roads and Bridges.• We created and approved the County budget for 2019, implementing the Effective Tax Rate and reducing the budget to maintain the lowest County tax rate in the State.• Approved $750 million in bonds for new freeways, arterial roads and parks. This was done without increasing the tax rate. The bonds were approved by the voters by 69% to 70%.• Member of the County Investment Committee. Recommended changes to the low risk portfolio to create even more diversity and less risk without materially impacting return.• Recommended advancements to finance and information technology, which were well-run departments. The advancements will result in greater efficiency, quality, cost savings and controls. Presented to the Court and appropriate department heads. Some of the advancements had been implemented before the end of my term.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Developed a shared services organization for this engineering firm with operations in 80 countries and all fifty States. • Responsible for global information systems, real estate, procurement and other services for the corporation in over 175 offices world-wide. • Exceeded target implementing strategic business plan to reduce the corporate cost structure, achieving over $48 million in ongoing annual savings at the end of 2015. • In-sourced Information Systems to create a broader shared services organization and sell IT services to our customers generating over $150 million in profitable IT revenue in 2015 while maintaining high levels of operational excellence. • Developed a Cyber business to the commercial markets, exceeding $25 million in revenue in the first 18 months, while supporting the Cyber business in the government markets. • Received various awards including annual selection to the InformationWeek Elite 100 as one of the top corporations in IT innovation. • Asked by the Board to address a major ERP implementation that was well over schedule and budget. Made new Go Live date and budget. Negotiated a favorable settlement with the vendor's CEO.• Reported to the CEO. Member of the Executive Committee.

California/Texas/North Carolina/Canada

Responsible for real estate acquisition and development. Focus was on office buildings, parking, and other.• Achieved record revenues and profits from ParPark, Inc. parking business. • Managed a dozen owned office buildings in several States and Canada. Improved revenues and profits while achieving and maintaining high occupancy. Tenant satisfaction scores in annual surveys were consistently positive.• Sold all owned real estate for approximately $400 million. Sales included the sale/leaseback of the Parsons Corporate headquarters, which was the largest sale in Pasadena that year. Sales targets were achieved for each sale.• Reported to the CEO.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Managed a global staff of over 3,000 delivering over half of Perot Systems revenue, responsible for all of Perot Systems’ and its customers’ world-wide information technology infrastructure including data centers, networks, mainframe and distributed computing, deskside support, vendor relationships, and so on. • Provided business development support for deals involving these services. • In addition to operational support, provided strategic direction for these technologies, evaluated emerging technologies and provided strategic technology guidance to customers. • Improved profitability by $25 million while improving quality through off shoring, Best Practices rollout, leadership training, project portfolio management, compute utility offerings and a new Services Based Delivery Model. • Created an innovation process, which resulted in five new offerings generating profitable revenue. Gartner recognized three of our Technology Towers as “Leaders” in their “Magic Quadrant” evaluation of the Industry in 2004-05. • Reported to the CEO.

Pasadena, Ca

IS staff in locations throughout the United States, UK, Latin America, Middle East, Europe, and Philippines, support a distributed systems environment including all applications and development, WAN/LANs, voice, servers, data centers, email, deskside support, call center, CAD, engineering systems, and internet. • Reported to the CEO for Parsons, who awarded Perot Systems a discretionary bonus for our work in each of our six years of the contract. The CEO praised our work for strategically improving Parsons competitive position, improving the reliability of Parsons’ systems, developing new web-enabled systems, and controlling IS costs. • We were also selected to the prestigious InformationWeek 500 each of the last five years for our innovative use of information technology, achieving the top ranking among all global firms in our industry in 2001 and 2002. • Parsons extended Perot Systems’ five-year contract after our first 18 months. Recognized by the Outsourcing Center, an Everest Group Company, as a finalist for the “Best Relationship Outsourcing Excellence Award”. • Quadrupled the revenues of this business during my tenure, with increases in revenue and profits every year. We were annually one of the top 3 accounts for profitability in absolute dollars and as a percentage of revenue. • Member of the Executive Committee of Parsons.

Greater New York City Area

• Managed an IS organization in five states supporting a New York P&C Insurance company. • By focusing on enhancing technology, business processes, win-win solutions, communications and services, improved customer satisfaction ratings from ‘Poor’ to ‘Good’. • Through cost control and new procedures achieved record performance.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Strategy FormulationWorked with senior management to develop and write the corporate Vision, “Values and Styles”, and strategy for Perot Systems. • Created business plans for several new businesses within Perot Systems in the banking, financial services, consulting, and government industries (Mortgage Servicing, Municipalities business, Financial Asset Management, Strategic Consulting, and others). • Helped refine strategies for new industry groups.Sales and MarketingDeveloped marketing strategies for new markets. • Sold the initial major healthcare deal (Tenet Healthcare). • Sold and negotiated a major Commercial deal (Parsons Corporation). • Was on sales team for 41 deals in various roles (salesman, negotiator, business development support, and coster). Controller for a new Medical Center: UT Southwestern Zale Lipshy University Hospital• Conducted operational reviews to define and refine financial policies and procedures.• Developed its pricing strategy.• Set up G/L and financial systems.• High financial revenue and profit targets were met.

Rancho Encino, Ca

Managed the day-to-day operations and finances of this business. • Through cost control and leadership, tripled net income from previous fiscal year. • By developing and motivating the staff, increased the business’ quality rating, as determined by an independent auditing firm, from the bottom half of the region to the top 20 percent. • Installed financial controls to decrease salary, supply, and contract costs, moving the business from 87th in the company (out of 91) to the top third on a cost ratio basis.

Fort Bliss, Tx

Duties included field command and staff positions. • Single spokesman for the U.S. Army Air Defense School. • Prepared the first Air Defense School mobilization plan. • Units won many awards including Best Support Platoon in the Fourth Infantry Division in 1981 and Best Platoon in the Brigade in 1979 and 1980. • Airborne and Ranger qualified. • Awarded Meritorious Service Medal and Army Commendation Medal.• 4th Infantry Division Wrestling Champion at 156 lbs

Mba, General Management

Activities and Societies: General Affairs Committee

Education record

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Economics

Cadet Captain

Cefr Level B 2, Spanish