SUMMARY

• Accomplished VP of IT (CTO) with over 20 years of experience providing Business & Technology Leadership and Partnership in multiple industries that has focused on the holistic enterprise solutions; aligning the organization’s needs, creativity for the confidence of the strategic direction, and tactical forecasts with the appropriate business processes and technology.
• Having a strong record of successfully executing the vision of the C - Level and senior business leaders by aligning the existing foundational technologies, with the right applications, and next generation innovations.
• Thought leader for enterprise business process and technology; both optimization and re-engineering.
• Executive Sponsor of medium and large global implementations providing the leadership and experience for different types of solutions, such as, new, optimized, rollout, acquisitions, and divestitures.
• Has run multiple teams: Application Development Operations (DevOps), Business and Technology Process, Enterprise Data Warehouse Innovation, Enterprise Architecture, Program Management Office (PMO) and Operational Center of Excellence (COE IT Operations).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

VP of Information Technology

Confidential

• Worked hands-on with highly competitive customer goals within multiple industries, such as Healthcare (HIPAA), Professional Services, Finance and Accounting, Federal Government, Retail Sales, Distribution, Supply Chain, Travel, Fashion, and Manufacturing.
• Proven leader with hands-on experience of highly technical Business Analytics, Enterprise Data Warehouse people with Strong Management, Communication skills, best practices, Security policies, Internal Controls, competitive forecasts to monitor the costs, opportunities, and objectives of emerging Technology, Contracts, Customer Relationship Management, Content Management, and Service Management.
• Utilizing both the SDLC and Agile productive methodologies for confidence with requirements reliable definitions, development, configuration, testing, release management, policies and procedures, system administration, web based software development, and presentation of innovation of production support and department communications
• Accountability to work across the organization to drive stakeholder consensus on the Strategic Direction of the business solution supported by the appropriate technology. Then facilitate effectively and proactive with the business ensuring their engagement through the program. Focusing on Financial Management, Capital Budgets, Business Management, and Data Management.

Sr Director II, ERP Architecture and Operations July 2015 to Sept 2016

Confidential

• Accountability for the strategic planning and investments for restructuring and coaching goals of the IT policies and Solutions Organization, the cloud, data and reporting technology goals (ERP, EDW, SAAS, and COTs application suites) utilizing a hybrid customer focused organizational structure, being the leader for the annual operating budget, and customer service policies
• Liaison with the executive sponsor opportunities to create the Strategic Direction opportunities for the technology services organization and then implementing and supporting the solution.
• Managed a global staff of over 42 with over 12 technology business knowledge consulting vendors and 8 directs. This managing people of this talented team was responsible for the proactively requirements gathering, designs/specifications, training, software development, testing, quality, data integrity, data integration, information security, and timely delivery. Then marketing and writing the positive department communications results to the business. Supporting project delivery with planning and analysis, forecasts, data collection, data and reporting, financial performance, regulatory Compliance, and operational budgets
• Established and then responsible to oversee the IT Controls team that is responsible provides feedback for IT, Partner strategic partnerships. Relationship Management opportunities, Resource Management, Workforce Planning, Revenue Growth and forecasts, Contract Negotiations, application services programs (standards and release management of code), writing Business Case and RFQ evaluation, writing contract negotiations, brand the IT workforce planning, developing people, issue resolution, support the international travel, and confidence with corporate finance and revenue growth for continuous improvement.

Sr Director Enterprise Program Architect

Confidential

• Provided the support for the creation, management, oversight, strategic plans, project delivery, and governance for the ERP Program's Comprehensive Roadmap(s) and "Fit for Purpose" IT Architecture Model. He accomplished this by utilizing his deep and broad expertise in policies and procedures for problem solving of the process modeling and design, SAP and 3rd party Application investigation and evaluation, data integration, information security, MDM, emerging technology, and implementation, SAP and non-SAP retail and travel technology (PeopleSoft, UltiPro, and Oracle) landscape, system integration, data collection and governance, web based software, process development, data and reporting, and data architecture,
• Enthusiasm to influence the SAP Solution rollouts and implementations, Project Management, Enterprise Information Management, Content Management, data warehouse, data science, reporting, networking, Digital Asset Management, Analytics, Big Data, and creation of the full lifecycle client base SAP Operational Support Center of Excellence procedures (COE).
• Re-engineered and writing the technical and non-technical solution integrity for the hardware and software that aligned the processes, technology, and applications by proven enthusiasm and influence of strategic thought leadership, leading and mentoring others, technical problems, issue resolution, project delivery, and driving collaborative results across the program instances and teams.

Associate Partner

Confidential

• Proven long term Subject Matter Expertise (SME) for the customer with hands-on architecting, innovative and supporting for the transitions from implementation to operational support efforts at WalMart, AIG, and others
• Supported clients, with international travel, in multiple business sectors of Professional Services, Financial, Consumer Products, Oil & Gas, Automotive, Hospitality, Highly Technical, Travel, Finance, accounting, and Distribution initiatives that included supporting C-level driven business strategies by architecting the data integration of emerging Big Data Analytics, cloud, content management, information management, MDM, data warehouse management, CRM, with the business operational data to create business relevant analytical solutions; EXTRAprise Data.
• Responsible for managing and delivering medium to large-sized engagements by providing proactively the program leadership and procedures to include program planning, staffing, budgeting, test plans, product planning, Fraud, risk mitigation, security, risk, compliance, running the daily operations, and continuous improvement. ERP Applications such as, SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, PeopleSoft, and SuccessFactors)
• Works with the client and program executives to influence the competitive, talented, and creativity gathering and provides feedback with the business knowledge for the unique business requirements, build the profitability business cases to align with the strategic direction, and conducts client program technology reviews.

Sr Director SaaS Enterprise Architecture

Confidential

• Planned and directed the strategic direction planning, design and architecting all Global SAP HR BPO Services, which included providing direction to 110+ solution architects, developers, and project managers..
• Implemented the Global SAP HR BPO Services. Accountability for 10 teams (over 75 resources) globally gathering the strategic planning requirements and completing the highly technical design documented.
• Supervisory Experience with the design, service management, development (utilizing both the SDLC and Agile Methodologies), implementation, marketing, and maintenance of all Global SAP HR BPO Services. Current global applications being developed including, SAP ECC 6.0, Microsoft Dynamics, SAP NetWeaver, SAP BW, SAP CRM, SAP BI, SAP XI, PeopleSoft, Information architecture, web-based software, fraud, SAP Solution Manager, SAP HCM.

Partner, SAP Practice

Confidential

• Accountability for supporting the hardware and software of R/3, BW, BW-SEM, APO, APO Live Cache, CRM, Data Warehouse, Reporting, PeopleSoft, Microsoft Dynamics, EP, Innovation, and NetWeaver products.
• Managed large and complex federal government technology projects utilizing 40 plus SAP ERP professionals across all phases of the projects; focusing hands-on delivery of a quality solution by working closely and providing a positive liaison with the client management to drive the integrity of the project toward achieving the intended business results. .

Sr Lead Technical Architect

Confidential

• Reviewed and recommended all strategic direction of information architecture design and develop aspects
• Ensure the ability of maintaining the integrity of systems, provide for the necessary performance without the
• interference of conflicting priorities from the Core R/3 system

Confidential

Captain and Director of Information Management

• Served in First Gulf War and was responsible for the annual operating budget, management, mentor, and integrating the operations of multiple top secret Computer Information Centers, (3) International Telecommunication Systems, (3) Data Sensitive Transmission sites, a reporting & reproduction center, and the community record retention center. With Top Secret Clearance.