SUMMARY:

• For over 25 years, I have spent my career working to help companies understand that technology should be seen as a way to transform a company than as just a department and cost center that keeps the computers working. I work to drive technology solutions that help a company achieve its business objectives by Developing, Supporting, Designing and Engineering technology strategies.
• Manufacturing infrastructure and systems (Implemented and integrated SAP, Oracle Financials and Salsforce.com for a $1.5B company and supported the M&A)
• Financial Infrastructure and support (During VISA’s hyper growth period in the 1990’s along with the 1996 Atlanta Olympics effort)
• Big Data warehouse and platform development (Ran platform development and Product Strategy departments utilizing Hybrid Cloud w/ AWS leveraging Hadoop, Oracle & Solr transaction database)
• Working with and running my own start - ups have given me the ability to drive diverse teams toward goals tailored to the market, board and investor deliverables with self-funded, Series A and Series B objectives as well. Large companies instill a process and large team mindset that has provided me with the ability to transition small projects to operational support, as well as help large companies deliver project and development programs with a nimbler start-up mentality.
• I am a goal-oriented, highly motivated information technology leader experienced in delivering high-value solutions that align to an organization’s strategic objectives. Additionally, I am an experienced leader in diverse and dynamic environments revolving around complex business process changes and strategies. With demonstrated strengths managing personnel, business and technology settings, communicating complex technologies to the less technical, along with a career enhanced by a diverse background from having held positions in, Strategy, Operations, Quality, IT, Sourcing, Project Management, Engineering, Application Development, Product Development, Security, Executive Management, and Business Ownership with Board experience.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Interim CISO, Global Healthcare & HIPAA privacy consultant for Cepheid’s development of Cepheid Cloud Control (RemoteXpert) cloud analytics and reporting platform. Which included a global search for hosting and Cloud computing partners along with a strong understanding of the privacy rules & laws in over 60 counties to ensure a compliant deployment on all Continents
• Program Director for Blue Shield of California’s Portal Re-build program - a complete retooling of the BSC Member, Provider, Payer, Groups and government portals on the IBM PureApp/PureData/Netezza platform
• Interim CIO for BCCI Builders while conducting an audit or IT and creating a 5-year technology strategy
• Interim CIO for Washington Hospital during a CIO transition

Confidential

CIO & Vice-President of Product Strategy & Development

Responsibilities:

• Initially hired as a technology consultant to provide a strategic technology plan that would allow the company to pursue an A Series of funding,
• In one month, hired as the CIO, to take on the IT Operations Department and build out a scalable, reliable systems infrastructure for collecting 80 million records per day.
• Four months later, I was asked to take over responsibility for the ShoppingScout.com “app” and Brand as the VP of Product Strategy. The company had created a “Shoppers App” web site, which would allow consumers to build shopping lists and get pricing at national retailers in their area. My team and I distilled the functions and business objectives into components and redesigned the Home Page along with the entire site. Within two months we had increased Registered Users by 400% (15% monthly), increased Active Users by 800% (19.2% monthly) and reduced CAC as well as marketing spend by 22% monthly from $35 per user to $6.50.
• I implemented a technology plan to immediately create redundancy of all consumer-facing systems, without additional cost impact to the budget. Additionally, I implemented a plan to leverage the existing budget to replace our aging systems and storage technologies with a reduced foot print in our data center, significantly reduced power consumption and 4x the scalable technology with better management.
• With ownership of the ShoppingScout Brand and virtual no recognition, I created a “community” site that was hosted to promote the brand with stories and content related to our Value Proposition. Additionally, I hired someone to re-launch and manage our non-existent Social Media presence and manage our brand communications strategy. Together we re-launch our Twitter and Facebook presence, added Pinterest, Instagram, Google+ and a WordPress blogging site, which has grown 28 to 40% month over month.
• Upon the departure of our CTO, I was asked to take over Web development, giving me end-to-end control of the product and all of ShoppingScout.com’s business units as the CIO, CTO & VP of Product Strategy.

Confidential

CIO & Senior Vice-President of Information Technology

Responsibilities:

• Hired after Series A funding with only 12 full time IT staff and one location. Developed a technology plan with all of the stakeholders that ensures the lowest cost of IT while delivering highly available, efficient technology solutions.
• Created a Project Office and managed the implementation of major business systems including SAP R6 ERP with just-in-time delivery of raw materials, Oracle 11g with Oracle Fusion Financials and HCM (Human Capital Management), HP Service Manager Enterprise all running on HP Non-stop 11i DC-OE (Data Center Operating Environment) Virtualization systems, CRM (Salesforce.com) and business apps (Google Apps of docs, email and calendaring). As well as, Software Development Methodology (Agile/SCRUM), Software Repository and Data Warehouse.
• Implemented real-time backup and replication of production (Amazon.com EC2 cloud services) systems and client data, setting up a chargeback service for our clients delivering web and mobile apps via iPhone, iPad, Android and recently Blackberry (as free apps), with our SaaS product offering, a first in our industry
• Responsible for all internal IT Operations, systems and personnel as well as Product Development (Software), Project Management and Technology Engineering divisions. Designed the entire IT architecture and infrastructure, its systems and applications.
• Managed the Budget for my 5 departments and oversaw the hiring, and integration of all personnel and systems.
• Alligned the company with suppliers and vendors to allow for a more fluid integration of our best-of-breed systems and software in a more compressed time frame than any previous proposal or estimate.

Confidential

Strategic Executive Technology Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Grew the company from 3 to 135 employees, 25 contractors with three multi-year service contracts and $23 million in annual revenues, with over 100 of those employees and contractors under my direct supervision.
• Designed and implemented a massive Delta Dental Project to replace the entire aging infrastructure of the San Francisco tower/headquarters with Y2K compliant systems and technology during the ongoing building of a new three building 400,000 sq ft. campus and data center in Rancho Cordova. Completed on time and on budget.
• Created and managed Caspian’s (97-02) and Delta Dental of California’s (97-01) Technology Master Plan (TMP as the CTO for both companies) to ensure that the services of IT were providing for the business requirements of each department.
• Established a HIPAA consulting practice for Delta Dental of CA that expanded to 7 other Delta Dental affiliates and Blue Cross/Blue Shield in Seattle and the Delta National Association.
• Specialized in Healthcare and Financial sectors with notable experience in claims based transactions and Security infrastructure development; enabling organizations to cost effectively deploy secure and compliant web applications to partners, customers, brokers, agents and members.
• Presented or sat on numerous forums from on the subjects of Security, SAN’s, SAN Management and Outsourcing.
• Successfully established substantial value and sold shares of Caspian in October 2002.