Recruited to provide critical business partnerships (payroll, time reporting, compensation, human resources, recruiting) and technical leadership while separating HR and payroll systems from AT&T. Accountable for entire HR IT roadmap and portfolio of systems at DIRECTV.* Elimination of ~$1.5m annual expense for AT&T legacy support of 20 applications replaced at DIRECTV by the implemented Workday and Infor SaaS solutions.* Implemented the SaaS Solutions of Workday and Infor for 10,000+ employees in 2022.* Enabled business teams to differentiate HR and Payroll business functions from AT&T due to the newlyimplemented DIRECTV SaaS platforms.* Actively implementing enterprise learning management, leave administration, contingent worker management, and project portfolio management systems in 2024.

Promoted to Principal System Engineer to facilitate wider leadership influence. Provided overall technical program leadership functions using the SAFe methodology. Led technical programs for on-shore and off-shore teams using multiple vendors and employees including managing teams through major political and technical challenges in addition to groundbreaking automation. Oversaw the creation of vendor contract terms that position the organization for long term success. Partnered with the business and technical teams to establish scope, identify improvement opportunities, plan resources, and establish release schedule/plans. Repaired organizational business relationships and progressed those relationships to become strong collaboration assets.Key Business Value Contributions:* Successfully managed an annual $14M+ program development resource budget providing $25M+ in program business case benefits by reviewing business priorities and resource allocations monthly and adjusting when needed.* Mobilized 8 transformational teams tasked with retooling design and inventory functions for a major segment of the company through a multi-year roadmap providing business case benefits across organizational boundaries every year in parallel with replacing legacy functions.* Rescued at-risk projects and programs by performing discovery and review of documented and undocumented issues, creating an improvement plan, and enabling the pivot to successful execution and completion.* Drove low value overhead activities and costs out of programs by ensuring all activities and costs being charged to the program were value add.* Served as the overall technical delivery lead for the successful AT&T outside plant conflation program which was a large, complex conflation (and migration) initiative that involved the technical conflation of the outside plant facilities for the Midwest, Southwest, and Southeast regions to an industry standard land base.

Led various technical teams through complex and integrated project and program deliveries. Inspired technical employees to achieve outstanding results through promotion of their strengths and by ensuring the employees understood how their work contributed to the success of the company. Partnered with the business by providing technical support of evaluation and execution of critical business process changes.Key Position Contributions:* Led the overall technical delivery for the West and Midwest region outside plant engineering design and inventory system re-platform. This initiative included a multi-year, large $40m+ complex development and re-platform program.* Drove the program through initiation (including estimation, etc.), vendor statement of work creation, vendor management, management of development and management of migration by being flexible, learning new skills as needed, and building trusted relationships.* Successfully managed the team through many significant issues and roadblocks (such as lack of quality converted data until late in the project) to enable successful delivery of the program.* Managed vendor relationships with the multiple vendors involved in the program.

Various IT management roles.