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Plano, Tx, Us

Plano, Tx, United States

Program Manager/Agile Project Manager for a global Automobile Manufacturing CompanyManaging the multi-year planning and upgrade for wired and wireless infrastructure across all facilities in North America

Plano, Texas, United States

Overseeing IT Infrastructure security and compliance.Implementing Agile framework to document, fix and report on identified infrastructure vulnerabilities and cyber security.Designed an ongoing OS patching plan for over 1500 servers on a regular basisManaging multiple projects including progress budgeting and forecasting monitoring and reporting to CIOs office

Irving, Texas, United States

Managing the launch multiple digital initiatives for a luxury retailerProduct Development working with business stakeholder for product road mapEnabled a digital interactive shopping experience across multiple devices for the customer and the Sales AssociatesManaging the launch of a Digital Luxury Experience across multiple devices for special customers and the stylist.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Cognitive Business Solutions leader for the Energy & Resources Unit for the Americas, responsible for meeting unit revenue targets for both new as well as existing business. Ensuring client satisfaction and smooth delivery.Major deal prospecting and closing a 350 person 5 year deal for an oil services company

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Leading Organizational Change Management and Transition Program Management for Business Process Services (BPS) for Americas along with actively supporting for sales pursuits to close deals.

Dallas, Texas

Client Relationship Director for a retail company managing the F&A and HR BPO onsite/offshore.Responsibility included client delivery satisfaction, P&L as well looking for growth opportunities.

Tysons Corner, Virginia, United States

Responsible for a large business process/IT transformation program for a leading global hotel chain

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

CIO Advisory Services, Client Relationship Management and Engagement Management in the Oil & Gas, Retail and ManufacturingResponsible for service delivery as well as up sell/cross sell to global billion dollar clientsManaging onshore/offshore for large global clients using the Global Delivery ModelAssist with LATAM Business Case and launchIndustry SME for Airline, Retail and Oil & Gas

Houston, Texas, United States

IT SolutionsManaged client engagement of approx annual $2 mil. for a global Oil & Gas construction company within multiple geographies.Managed client engagement of approx annual $3 mil. for one of the largest global cement company. Responsible for a global team on 25 - 30 team members, and delivering value to the client utilizing the global delivery model.Worked to create two vertical consulting practices Retail & Oil & Gas.Increased market penetration and gross margins by aligning the consulting business around verticals

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Assist in defining and execution of corporate IT Strategy.Implementing corporate intitiatives leveraging technology.Day to day management of all Enterprise IT applications(e-commerce, WMS, BI, ERP) for the company.(A privately held- $1 bil. Direct Selling Company)IT Director - Enterprise Solutions reporting to the CIO (2000 - 2007)Implemented a 100 person call center to support the CRM initiatives and delivered on time and within budget.. Managed the day to day IT applications support as well as assist in aligning the future strategic IT goals to the business vision supporting over 120K customers.Integrating the offshore team with the in-house IT team to achieve substantial efficiencies and cost savings of $250KMaintained a team with less than 1% turnover for the past 7 years.Successfully implemented all IT initiatives including the automated warehousing project worth over $30 mil. resulting in reduced replenishment time and costs by consolidating 5 distribution centers into 1.Converted legacy ERP to Oracle Enterprise One (formerly J. D. Edwards) on time and within budget.Implemented extensive new technologies with the past 2 years to support the business objectives while keeping the overall budget increase to levels approx. 20% below the industry average.Created an digital online reporting tool for the field sales team and resulting in about $1M in overnight mailing costs.

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

Promoted to Director after the successful implementation of the warehouse management system as designed.Improved the day to day IT interaction with the business to anticipate and implement changes on time.Launched one of the first Direct Selling industry's revolutionary ecommerce sites offering subscription based personalized website and generation over $500K in net annual revenue.Developed the B2B order and payments website enabling to reduce the cost for the sales team for mailing the order forms resulting in almost $200K weekly savings for the sales team and reduced all manual errors for the company.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

BaaN/ERP Practice Leadassist in the set up ERP Solutions Practice for Japan OfficeEngagement lead for the implementation of PeopleSoft Application Suite.Implemented PeopleSoft Financials for Oil & Gas Corporation as well as Peoplesoft Higher Education suite for universities.ERP Practice Based out of Dallas, participated in pre-sales as well as full cycle implementation engagements for the ERP Practice (PeopleSoft and Oracle) on a global basis. Led the financial team as financial functional SME for Dynegy (formely NGC) Oil & Gas for the conversion to PeopleSoft, Coached the newly established Japan office team for the project assesment effort in Tokyo for an Oracle EBS implementation as well as training the local team on the methodology for managing the ERP engangements.Contributed as a Sr. Consultant on the implementation of all the Public Sector ERP modules for Texas Christian University and University of Texas at Galveston. Led 5 person team to scope and design PeopleSoft Project Costing and Asset Management modules for Fox Studios.

New Jersey & Texas

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