SUMMARY:

• Strategic Solutions Planning, Organization Re - alignment, Business Transformation, Process & Change Management, Capital Planning & Investment Control, Acquisition Management, Human Capital Management, Performance Management, Program Management, Information Knowledge Management, Crisis Management, Risk Management & Compliance, Enterprise Architecture, Outsourcing/Offshoring, Six Sigma, ITIL, Agile/Scrum Methodology
• Slashed $12M maintenance costs by improving asset management and establishing financial controls.
• Saved $4M and eliminated co-employment risk by negotiating fixed price outsourcing contract.
• Reduced contract-catalog span from 3 months to 15 days, and reduced manual touch points by 80% by deploying enterprise wide catalog management system
• Formulated and executed Shared services organization strategy resulting in elimination of single point of failure, standardized SLAs and enabled scalability within the organization.
• Ensured timely opening of $8B Aria Resort & Casino by addressing resource and technical constraints in a timely manner.
• Led application, network segregation and IT vendor contract negotiations during $700M divestiture of Treasure Island resort and casino

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Coding for Machine learning in Python
• Random Forests
• Decision Trees
• Cross validations
• Numpy
• Matplotlib
• JavaScript
• SQL
• Protecting Industrial Control Systems
• Ethical Hacking using Kali Linux
• Debian
• Lubuntu

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Cyber Security Leader & IT Leader

Responsibilities:

• Led re-architecture of application and infrastructure tier for mission critical Tax application resulting in- 1) on time closure of month end/quarter close cycles, (2) reduced system SLA misses by over 60%, (3) integration simplification
• Led re-architecture of application and infrastructure tier for mission critical Account Reconciliation Tool (ART).
• On-boarded ~1500 Alstom users onto ART tool enabling Alstom finance community to use ART tool for Q2 16 close
• Led upgrade of Pega Tax platform
• Reduced contractor head count by 15%
• Accountable for IT Security compliance for the entire portfolio of finance and tax applications

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Vice President

Responsibilities:

• Transitioned the agency from heavily customized Oracle EBS and DDI ERP systems to Confidential Voyager ERP with no customizations, fully integrated with SharePoint 2010 ECM. Resulted in lower maintenance costs for the agency.
• Collaborated with the Records Retention Team to publish enterprise wide records retention schedule.
• Successfully digitized agency wide paper based documents in alignment with the retention schedule. As a result we have digitized over 5million documents into our SharePoint content repositories.
• Implemented Agile based software deployment methodology. Enabled the agency to perform ERP system upgrade while staying on track with upcoming major business go-live.
• Retained key Oracle EBS IT personnel with deep business expertise during the transformation and successfully transitioned them into new roles supporting a Microsoft .NET-based application architecture.
• Implemented agile data warehouse strategy enabling the agency to achieve speed to market with BI needs
• Led a cross-functional team in successfully opening AHA’s section 8 waitlist on time and under budget. This entailed developing business and technology strategy, RFP, vendor selection, infrastructure set up and successfully registering 110,000 applicants over a 1 week period. As a result, AHA has selected 10,000 of the 110,000 registrants to be on AHA’s waitlist for section-8 vouchers. This enables our agency to stay on track with meeting HUD requirements for housing certain threshold of low income families with an overall goal if family self-sufficiency.
• Successfully led multiple ERP version upgrades. Also led the upgrade from SharePoint 2010 to 2013.
• Developed and implemented strategy to migrate from crystal reports to SSRS reports

Confidential, Las Vegas, NV

Director IT Global Support, Director Business solutions

Responsibilities:

• Reduced maintenance costs by $12M by improving asset management, revising SLAs, contract renegotiations and establishing financial controls.
• Deployed multiple enterprise solutions and upgrades across front of the house (ex: Property management, gaming, POS, retail, marketing) and back of the house (ex: Finance, supply chain and content management systems).
• Reduced application deployment time and eliminated costly single points of failure through consolidation of five support teams into a Shared Service organization resulting in significant productivity increase.
• Streamlined Chart of Accounts across 16 properties to improve support tracking and issue resolution
• Reduced purchasing department operational costs through implementation of Ariba Enterprise Spend Management solution and consolidation of multiple purchasing databases into enterprise database.
• Successfully deployed all IT systems, specifically Server Based gaming and central in room technology deployment for our newest $8B property—City Center Resort and Casino
• Led divestiture of Treasure Island Resort and Casino for IT in 2008

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

IT Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Decreased IT costs by ~$4M over two years, reduced contract-catalog span from 3 months to 15 days, and reduced manual touch points by 80% by deploying CRM, Oracle ERP and enterprise catalog management solutions.
• Achieved $5M annual savings by negotiating telecommunication costs with wireless providers.
• Deployed electronic bill of material ( Confidential ) for Confidential Energy - Gas turbine division

Confidential

Senior Manager

Responsibilities:

• Designed, commissioned industrial and petrochemical plants in Dubai, Japan, and India.
• Deployed substations, switchgear equipment, and cabling for turnkey projects; managed bill of materials for all purchases; evaluated design phase RFPs and negotiated vendor contracts.