Seasoned information technology professional with extensive experience in strategic IT leadership, business process improvement, and operations optimization. Innovative thinker and problem solver in challenging situations across multiple industries.

Provided IT strategy and solution recommendations for a greenfield startup, identifying a full stack of solutions to support the company's Accounting, Human Resources, Sales, Operations, Marketing and Communications needs. Developed initial budgets with responsibility for $500K of spend, led vendor negotiations, and provided oversight for solution implementations, working closely with leadership peers across departments as each was onboarded.As part of establishing the company, engaged with vendors including Oracle NetSuite, Microsoft O365, Okta, ADP, and Zoom to support contract negotiations, project planning & coordination and successful implementation of each solution. Efforts include working with vendor implementations teams and European off-shore partners and staff to design, develop and test customizations supporting unique business requirements.

Responsible for management of IT operations and strategic direction of IT solutions within the corporate environment, budgetary planning for all IT solutions across all departments for a $3M budget, review and approval of strategic spend for affiliate companies reviewing all proposed spend over $50K, and process improvement efforts at the corporate office. Major accomplishments include migration from Sharepoint 2017 and Exchange on-prem to O365, upgrade/migration from Oracle HFM 9.1.2 to Oracle HFM 11.1.2, migration from ADP WFN to Workday HCM, and establishing a baseline cyber security policy and associated solutions. Other projects included successful implementation and administration of Mitratech eCounsel, Secretariat, Serengeti Law and Origami Risk in close collaboration with the Legal and Risk departments.Acted in an advisory role for 100+ affiliate companies with regard to technology selection, refined an in-house methodology for process improvement assessment through facilitated workshops, coordinated or assisted with contract review and negotiations, provided guidance in support of information security in conjunction with IT Auditing. Provided representation and contributions on behalf of the company at the annual Berkshire Hathaway CIO Conference, Cyber Security Summit, and IT Leveraging Spend Conference.

Involved managing resources and advising a client regarding standards and practices in ASP.NET 4.0 development with SQL Server 2012 and Azure, as well as establishing an application lifecycle management program within the client's IT department. In addition, supported maintenance of the client's Oracle HFM and HFR instance. Also participated in the implementation of Okta, ADP WFN and Bridgeway LMS. Clients include Fortune 500 companies.Working the Microsoft technologies, integrating TFS, Visual Studio 2013, and looking toward MVC-based solutions deployed as RESTful cloud applications. Involved migration of ASP.Net 1.1, 2.0 and 3.x solutions to current technologies and integration with a Sharepoint 2013 implementation.

A small venture focused on the planning, design and development of effective and elegant software solutions. Projects involve design and development of a large-scale, student portfolio web application for use in higher education, interface design for commercial machinery, requirements and UX design for a gated, personal social media solution. Technologies include Java, Javascript, Struts 1.x, Spring, Oracle SQL, Tomcat running on Red Hat Linux.

Worked with higher education faculty and students to define and develop solutions that enhanced the teaching and learning experience. Solutions included use of video and audio production software, integration third-party solutions and development of custom applications using ASP.NET, MS-SQL and LAMP platforms.

Gathered requirements and performed installation of Microsoft Dynamics SL: Project Management. This included training of staff in the configuration and use of the module.

Configuration and training for internal implementation of Microsoft Business Solutions: Project Management, for use within Scitor Enterprises. Management buyout formed Tectura Corp.

Developed and coordinated all aspects of a startup Internet-based store for an existing business. Responsibilities included graphic design and programming of web pages, coordination of financial functions, product selection, materials purchasing and customer support.

Lead efforts in developing internal procedures for a cohesive methodology designed to improve business effectiveness and led the implementation of an internal project accounting solution. Worked with clients to determine requirements for ERP implementation using Great Plains Accounting and to develop requirements for custom solution designs.Software Essentials was acquired by Scitor Enterprises.

Responsibilities include full life-cycle management of business requirements projects using Object Oriented techniques and tools, and providing education in Business Process Modeling and Object Modeling based on various methodologies. This includes the facilitation of workshops with business experts to identify business requirements, and managing system design and prototyping (ProVision, Visual Basic, PowerBuilder, VisualAge).Conducted facilitated workshops to develop business process maps and entity relationship maps that provide detailed requirements for business functions and transitioned the requirements into technology platforms. Worked with emerging frameworks including but not limited to the OMG BPM and UML modeling standards, Carnegie Mellon Institute's CMMI focused on Software Maturity, The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), and IBM LOVEM.Clients included Fortune 500 companies across a number of industries and large higher education organizations.