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Houston, Texas, Us

Providing Board Level Executive Advisory, Cybersecurity, Federal Compliance Standards, M&A, and Artificial Intelligence services primarily to the Utility sector.

Johnson City, Texas, Us

Sugar Land, Texas, Us

Sugar Land, Texas, Us

Wyckoff, New Jersey, Us

Wyckoff, New Jersey, Us

Partner with client executive and IT leadership to create vision, strategies, and plans delivering digital transformations across organizations. Lead efforts, direct internal and consulting teams, managed business process change, and deliver customer-centric solutions.

Houston, Texas, Us

Took charge of Houston office to create self-sustaining US P&L center. Led project deployments/servicing in U.S. Grew direct employees and partner consultants from 18 to 100+ across the US. Supported/guided/led account executives to win 8 new US logos. Reported to VP Service Operations (Canada).CORPORATE LEADERSHIP TEAM: Served on Compugen Service Leadership Team defining service growth across Managed, Professional, Technical, and Recruiting services within the US and Canada. Collaborated with Canadian CEO, CFO, CIO, and VP of Sales to develop vision, strategies, and detailed plans to transition Houston sales office to self-sustained US operation.ANNUAL SERVICES REVENUE: Communicated to Sales and customer stakeholders value of service component to existing/future product sales contracts. Increased annual services revenues 12% in 2 ½ years.STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS: Launched strategic partnerships with IT Services delivery companies that worked strictly with Value Added Resellers, simplifying internal processes and enabling consistent quality project delivery in every major US zip code.INTERNAL EXECUTIVE SPONSOR FOR HIGH-PROFILE CUSTOMER PROJECTS: Took direct role to monitor/oversee/guide critical customer projects, including multiple laptop rollouts across 20+ states and 80+ cities.CUSTOMER SATISFACTION MEASUREMENT: Highlighted 12 critical metrics and led team to develop corporate dashboard measuring Customer Experience (CX) beyond current projects, providing US/Canada management view of overall customer satisfaction.CORPORATE QUOTE TO CASH PROCESS: Deployed tools decreasing time to generate quotes from 4 days down to 1 hour and invoices from 6 business days to 1 day - improving corporate quote to cash process by ~90%. Tools adopted companywide.

Advised executive and IT management teams to create technology vision and outline strategic technical solutions. Guided stakeholders to define business objectives and set direction for infrastructure and systems.Principal Technology Consultant, Mergers & Acquisition (M&A) IT IntegrationsClient: C&J ENERGY SERVICESTrusted advisor to CIO and Director of IT. Built interdisciplinary team of 10 internal and acquired IT team members to move/integrate Nabors Completion and Production voice and data services, systems, desktop, and security services (2K employees).Global Project Manager, Americas ZoneClient: AIR LIQUIDELed up to 45 direct and matrix US/Brazil reports to implement hybrid WAN supporting global Cloud initiatives. Coordinated across 5 internal global departments and 6 global outsource partners to deliver secondary network for 400 locations in the Americas.Senior Technology ConsultantClient: RALPH LAUREN GLOBAL RETAIL OPERATIONSPartnered with infrastructure management to enable real-time monitoring of individual stores. Generated requirements, defined best practices, and created global definition of Steady State supporting IT governance and security for retail operations across the US.Virtual CIOClient: DIAMOND MCCARTHYAdvised executive team, developed technology roadmap, and oversaw technology transformation, including cloud architecture, for applications, processes, and financial planning for Houston HQ, 6 additional US offices, and global operations.

Fort Worth, Texas, Us

Supervised 25 IT resources to support 12 operating companies in 38 locations for power and pipeline construction/ management company supporting operations in 48 states. Established strategic technology direction with flexible and scalable IT process supporting aggressive corporate organic and M&A strategies. Developed/managed OpEx and CapEx budget of $10M. Reported to CFO. Nominated to receive Computerworld “100 IT Leaders Award” for digital transformation.IT FUNCTION LAUNCH: Led, designed, and created IT department from ground up. Grew IT team from 2 to 25 members as company grew from 1200 to 3500 employees. Within 24 months, deployed 43 IT projects and increased security posture by 90%.PAYROLL OPERATING COSTS REDUCTION: Leveraged secure ACH payroll process cutting payroll costs by $150K – 50% reduction.

Pearl River, Ny, Us

Consulted to US National Power Grid entities (AEP, Entergy, Georgia Transmission, Midwest ISO, others) about NERC Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) compliance. Assessed/recommended security solutions. Remediation advice regularly achieved plant compliance.EXTERNAL PORT MONITORING PLATFORM: Co-developed multi-platform application to detect open ports and services on critical IT, OT, and SCADA systems allowing documentation and monitoring of critical assets for security threats.