Christopher Thompson Email & Phone Number

Florida, United States

Greater Tampa Bay Area

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida

Managed Services engagements, focused on contract terms are applied correctly for compliance and alleviate risk while obtaining savings across client’s portfolios. Engaging with management team for governance and standardization of tools while meeting objectives. Enabled license deployment optimization using top Software asset management industry tools.Planned and performed software asset management, software license, and other reviews to ensure contract compliance with associated software licenses/other agreements.Reduce licensing costs and identified contractual hazardsProviding specialty software publisher knowledge and best practices to clients.Perform risk assessments and detailed analysis of complex software licensing agreements.Specialized Skills:IT Asset Management - SW Inventory IssuesContract Management – Enterprise IT Software & Hardware AgreementsClient Relationship ManagementMerger & Acquisition ExperienceCapital and Operating Budget Impacts and Cost ModelingProject Management / ImplementationKnowledge of accounting and invoice tax treatmentEracent IT Management CenterFlexera FlexNet Management SuiteSnow License Manager

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Determined Software License Positions, contract terms applied for compliance, license deployment optimization using top Software management tools in the industry (Eracent, Flexera & Snow). Primary focus to provide managed services via SAM tools, recently Eracent for Oracle. Team lead for multiple software vendors for client.Planned and performed software asset management, software license, and other reviews for Fortune 500 clients to ensure compliance with associated software licenses/other agreements, contractual terms, and general licensing policies.Perform risk assessments and analysis of complex licensing agreements.Worked together with partners and clients to complete Software Asset Management projects and initiatives.Pioneered the partnership with Flexera and established Siwel's (Livingstone) credibility with our partner.Enabled the partnership with Eracent and founded Livingstone's credibility with our partner.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Engaged for Software Contract Compliance for ITAM efforts related to Net License Position project which covered a core of 26 Desktop Software Vendors.Performed data extraction, mapping, analysis, and validation from their systemsProvided current state assessment/findings & analysis/future state roadmap to customersReviewed multi-vendor software agreements between Fortune 500 companies and major software publishers.Analyzed and reconciled historical data with contractual entitlements, to provide accurate baseline and contractual compliance.Analyzed and reported on compliancy issues and exposuresProvided customer with product deployment trending and license usage statistics

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Engaged in Vendor Management mission critical strategic vendor partnerships and contract negotiations to deliver and execute superior contract results and on-going business savings and cost avoidance to Verizon IT's bottom line,Strategy & Planning - Distinguished Member of Technical Staff 2008-2013 Negotiated IT agreements that provided savings of >$60M on an annual basis. Effectively combined agreements with mergers that reduced ongoing costs by >$250M. Data Center Operations - Senior Member of Technical Staff 2001-2008 Reduced costs by >$30M related to excess SW & HW that was no longer required when part of the land line business and a Data center were divested. Performed contract review that identified unused software that no longer required active support resulting in $10M annual maintenance reduction. Data Center Operations - Consultant – IT Infrastructure Provisioning 2000-2001Teamed with Operations on Cost Codes consolidation strategy and reduced or eliminated negative impacts from the ISV products ~$4M. Identified invoice software processing metrics including maintenance invoiced by number and dollar amount. Saved $1M annually and enable tax avoidance of $5M. IT Infrastructure Provisioning - Technical Staff Advisory Systems Engineer 1999-2000 Managed IT's embedded base asset portfolio through proactive analysis of capitalized hardware, thereby optimizing equipment planning lifecycle and providing ~$25M reduction.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Managed, developed, enhanced, and administered financial forecasting systems, enabling integrated IT budgets, results, tracking, data modeling, outlooks, and key management reporting to occur in real time reducing submission time by ~50%.Established financial data integrity using interfaced systems including SAP, RFACS (Resource Forecasting Cost System) Hyperion Enterprise/Pillar (Data Warehouse), and EMPIRE (Enterprise Measures Performance Information Repository) while managing a team of 4 analysts.Reduced time ~25% for data to be available for IT internal staff and Network clients, enabling identification of processing unit usage trends and corresponding cost reduction opportunities through optimization efforts resulting in ~15% reduction.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Managed financial and accounting activities for 6 Data Centers with ~$130M budget and managed a team of 8 analysts and team leads.Managed preparation, analysis, and presentation of consolidated financial package including strategic plan and operational results for IT Services, which allowed Senior Management to make timely decisions resulting in ~16% cost reduction. Led cost studies, developed cost statements, performed pricing analysis, and coordinated capacity planning to support data center cost structure optimization efforts, which produced lower unit processing costs ~15% while meeting processing demand that grew at ~20% annually.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Managed development and execution of a $130M integrated IT Capital Plan to facilitate acquisition of "just-in-time" processing capability, while managing a team of 2 financial analysts.Generated financial business case support including lease vs. buy analysis to provide operational recommendations to IT management (~$20M annually) resulting in >$8M in savings to the corporate bottom line.Provided financial support to Disaster Recovery Planning (~$6M) including Budget, Performance Measures, Operational Metrics, Cost Studies.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Finance IT Services Department1993 - Sr. Admin-Financial Analyst - Mini's Nat'l Tech Support – Budgeting, Business Cases & Cost StudiesFinance Customer Accounting1992 - Financial Administrator - Unix Distributed Computing - Budgeting and Cost StudiesBusiness Support Systems Development – Liaison to Finance & Accounting Departments1990 - Sr. Administrator - Systems Development – Budgeting, Results & Reporting, Policies & Procedures1988 - Sr. Staff Analyst - Systems Development – Budgeting, Results & ReportingAccounting Department1987 - General Accountant – Revenue – Corporate BillingFP&A Department1985 - Sr. Financial Analyst – Budgets - Budget Consolidation & Reporting1983 – Financial Analyst – Pricing - Revenue Costing, Pricing & Planning1983 – Assistant Financial Analyst– Pricing - Revenue Costing, Pricing & Planning