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Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Responsible for bid process, planning, implementation and delivery of a $10MM capital project to retrofit/rebuild the IT infrastructure at Sunset Las Palmas Studios. Partner with business units across three Hollywood studios to develop and implement a Business Applications Roadmap. Working to establish strategic partnerships with vendors providing services to the separate studios, with a focus on reducing vendor footprint and cost through volume discounting. Manage and develop IT team to provide first level operational support on technical issues as well as business applications. Provide regular status reporting to Studio Management team as well as Corporate Management, where appropriate. Create and manage annual operating and capital budgets as well as forecast spend throughout the year.

Established process around management, categorization and metadata attribution of Intellectual Property Rights in Consumer Products and Distribution software systems to better align with industry reporting standards.Hands-on leader of project to manage the re-imagination for use of Jaguar/FilmTrack, the cloud- based SaaS business intellectual property management solution and reporting systems.Created prototype Business Intelligence reporting tool to fulfill executive-level Intellectual Property Rights Contract reporting needs.Responsible for creation and execution of Strategic Applications Roadmap across all Saban companies.Manage business relationships and project load against strategic direction of all Saban entities.Financial Transformation Lead on IT and business process improvement related to ERP systems (Dynamics AX and NAV; Intacct) with a focus on industry best practices.Converted 26 years of disparately managed legacy charitable donations into a web-based SaaS software solution for the Foundation team.Implemented SaaS e-invoicing solution as phase one of a larger financial transformation effort to improve purchase to pay efficiencies.Directed effort to identify and select new Applicant Tracking and Talent Management elements of HRMS solution. Included RFI, RFP, Vendor demos, interviews, cost-benefit analysis and selection.Created annual operating and capital budgets and managed forecast and spend throughout the year.

Provide strategic direction and PMO skills to large-scale software application development projects in the entertainment and travel/leisure industries. Worked in conjunction with IT and Business Subject Matter Experts to define and develop best business practices to satisfy strategic vision of the company. Also responsible for the management and implementation of the ancillary project to rewrite the B2B and B2C web portals implemented in conjunction with SaaS rollout.Managed business and IT team during initiation, design and requirements phase of C- level sponsored, corporate-wide project to implement a new physical asset management system.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Key past projects:PMO leader on 3-year, $30M+ global SAP ERP implementation with distributed staff numbering up to 50 during busiest phases. Approximately 1500 global users were impacted in over 25 global offices. Successful on-time phased implementations without significant business disruption resulted in full payback by project’s end and an overall $1M annual overhead savings.Created and managed multi-million dollar overhead and capital budgets.Managed blended off-shore and on-shore Systems Engineering and Network Storage group responsible for the care and feeding of over 900 servers and network storage units with over 16TB storage.PMO for 9-month effort to retire Novell file systems and sign-on procedures at over 25 global Paramount offices impacting approximately 1500 users. Resulting savings at project end were approximately $250K annually.Planned strategic hardware purchases and software implementations to align with ROIC guidelines established by office of the CEO.Developed strategy and acted as PMO for migration of all systems from old Citrix farm to new Citrix farm: impacted over 100 software applications and approximately 1500 business users around the organization. Allowed for virtualization of servers resulting in reduced cost of ownership of $50K one-time and $25K annually.Managed scheduling and implementation of CISCO Unified Communications telephony solution and rollout of VoIP phones using two system integrators and existing Paramount Telecommunications staff.PMO for Chairman, COO and CIO-mandated 8-month project to retire legacy Lotus Notes email system in favor of Microsoft Outlook over a global user base totaling 1500+ users.Championed document management solution for the Story Department: the system tracks and protects all incoming potential intellectual property. Over 1000 in-the-pipeline scripts were scanned and catalogued resulting in an ongoing annual headcount savings of over $200K in the Story Department.

Monte-Carlo, Monaco, Mc

Managed/mentored 28 local and distributed staff members, including 5 contractors, both programming and operationsCreated and managed combined annual operations and capital budget of approximately $5.5M. Specific responsibilities included planning, budgeting/forecasting and fiscal managementDeveloped and implemented Crystal Cruises onboard guest email and technology enrichment programDesigned and implemented a $2.5M CRM project to convert all legacy mainframe guest relation systems to client server environmentConducted feasibility studies, and looked to leverage existing software solutions for new needs, where possible – CIO’s mandate was the delivery of dependable, flexible, extensible systemsCompleted $1.8M Crystal Serenity rollout – managed team of 12 which outfitted a new passenger cruise ship with all network equipment, servers, workstations, and software

Master Of Science (Ms), Communication, Technology, And Management Strategy

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Economics

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Computer Studies