VP, IT Applications Resume

SUMMARY

Offering 20 years of vision - driven experience with career-long record of IT operations, business technology, and management successfully leading organizations
Dedicated professional with keen vision on enterprise roadmap, team development, budget management and data security, as well as policy development, information architecture and implementation expertise.
Proven talent for aligning business strategy and objectives with established technology client implementation and process optimization paradigms to achieve maximum operational impacts with minimum resource expenditures.
Growth-focused thought leader with a proven history of client solution implementations and secure Infrastructure strategy as well as the skillset to design IT services within a cloud environment as well as perform continuous and thorough client infrastructure analysis.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

VP, IT Applications

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Ascertain and evaluate untapped opportunities with collaboration with shareholders for suitable, cost-effective investments into pertinent IT systems, including staffing, purchasing, and hardware.
Authored all status communications to all sites and clients for technology and services.
Translated business objectives into measurable KPIs linked to innovative technology platforms, documented processes, and performance optimizations resulting in 22% reduced touch points.
Administered all aspects of the IT operational budget, ensuring expenditures remain within the financial plan while meeting business requirements.
Assessed IT systems and created roadmap and reference architecture for migration to public cloud.
Create and establish a detailed cyber-security roadmap with resilience, creation of policy and procedures to pass EY audits, OWASP test, HIPAA/GDPR compliance and PCI-DSS process.
Spearhead the transformation from waterfall processes to an agile DevOps culture, creating streamlined processes, B2B eCommerce engineering projects eradicating critical issues, and diminishing timeframes for user acceptance.
Mentor staff, manage reviews, performance tracking, consultants and offshore resources.
Define the overall annual audit structure, executed Business Impact Analysis while implementing continuous adjustments based on an ever-changing threats within the landscape.
Accountable for operational SLAs, enhanced RPO/RTO which ultimately secured 24/7 high availability.

DIRECTOR, BUSINESS APPLICATIONS

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Achieved measurable success in reforming complete secure enterprise architecture and implemented monitoring and response framework on-cloud (AWS and Azure)
Redesigned disaster recovery from on-prem to the cloud, simultaneously improving RTO/RPO and reducing annual cost by 25%
Migrated legacy systems and integrated EPR systems to support the mission and integrate client systems while reducing costs.
Presented financial forecasts, reporting expenditures for budgets and metrics, and measuring KPIs.
Presided over the software development team with accountability for performance and the creation of customized eCommerce solution, single sign-on APIs, integration data points to Dynamics and Salesforce CRMs, and multiple ERP platforms.
Expert at managing people and budgets effectively and achieving operational results within the enterprise, mentor staff, manage consultants, vendors and offshore resources.
Developed and implemented cyber security framework controls and governance (NIST) including SOC with incident response and launched HIPAA compliance intranet online employee training program.
Developed effective disaster recovery processes, data security with business continuity plan(BCP) and testing program.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Established and advanced the organization’s first WMS and eCommerce platform, development and IT operational systems, manufacturing, and deployment of ERP.
Navigated contracts, managed vendors, ensuring the most beneficial terms for the company.
Assimilated eCommerce platforms, barcode inventory data system and CRM integrations.
Originated and integrated the company disaster recovery strategy with for business continuity.
Outlined and conveyed IT service levels in alignment with business requirements and third-party service providers, established and managed vendors as partners.