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El Segundo, CA, US

El Segundo, CA, US

Dallas, TX, US

• During my time here, I interfaced with leaders and promoted the use of new cost metrics across the IT organization, becoming a best practice when the organization began to rationalize the excessive application.
• Devised, developed, and executed a process to allocate the $5B+ annual budget for corporate profit and loss reporting, covering more than 7K applications and 20,000 IT professionals across ∼35 product families.
• Spearheaded the creation of an activity-based Total Cost of Ownership model in Apptio to assist IT leaders to better understand the productivity and performance of their teams and applications.
• Produced analysis used by Engineering, Operations, Marketing, Legal, and Finance teams for the development of strategic projects.

Dallas, TX, US

• In this tenure, I created a process improvement team and led long-term improvement efforts based on blending ITIL & COBIT process and control models.In addition to this, I drove adoption of the new operating model to.
• Executed initiatives to improve all areas of the IT Operations group and leveraged the ITIL framework to maintain the organizational architecture through several M&A transactions.
• Saved $10M+ annually by leading automation and architecture teams through rationalization efforts toward a target state.
• Managed and directed a team of analysts to interface between internal audit and the 5,000+ IT professionals who made up the operations group to facilitate the execution of audits and driving corrective actions based on.

Lindstrom, Minnesota, US

• Here, I established, guided, and supported a team of business continuity professionals to manage more than 20,000 IT professionals and >5,000 applications. One of my main tasks was to create new controls to monitor.
• Oversaw the build-out of a $25M internal recovery center for mission-critical midrange applications.
• Contributed to achieving 20%+ cost reduction over prior agreement by directing contract negotiations for mainframe recovery services.

• In this position, I led and managed a team of over 60 employees and contractors to execute an application architecture and provide infrastructure planning & support; applications serviced more than 4,000 customer.
• Devised and executed an enterprise data warehouse and reporting strategy and oversaw evaluation of software products related to data warehouse and business intelligence solutions.
• Transitioned the Architecture & Infrastructure team from contractors only to one staffed more appropriately by employees for such a strategic function.Additional Experience includes:Developer / Manager – Automation &.