SUMMARY:

• I have a unique management experience base grounded in a confluence of leadership experiences from military, corporate, start up and enterprise level technology consulting.
• I have led many organizations through digital transformations and proliferated strategic enablers of business performance all along the value stream to digitize the enterprise and realize multiple based process performance improvements. Served as a member of a digital disruption 25 person think tank for a Confidential 50 company.
• Solutions disruptive technologies such as Cloud, Big Data, Advanced Analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Block Chain, Machine Learning, Internet of Things utilizing Lean Digital processes and Agile Lean Principles with Human Centered Designs.
• Guides organizations to embrace disruptive technologies and obtain not just the “best in class” but the best possible outcome by focusing not just on digital technology on the front end, but also the processes that drive the data and advanced analytics, I’ve helped many organizations and proliferated strategic enablers of business performance.
• I’ve led the delivery of cost - effective and flexible service and operational excellence across finance and accounting, information technology (IT), strategic sourcing and procurement, human resources and other functions across the value stream.
• I have considerable experience commercializing technology in the US and abroad. Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year.
• Experienced Program Manager and business executive and technology leader: Offers 20 years of success leading all phases of diverse technology programs. Broad base business skills in executive management, finance, operations management, start-ups, sales management. . Able to manage large project teams and known for high-quality deliverables that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary targets, PMI-ACP and PMP. PMP, Agile Coach, Scrum Master, SAFe, Continuous Improvement and Lean Six Sigma
• Digital Transformation Leader. Have served as Release Train Engineer, Agile Coach, Scrum Master and Product Owner. Have successfully used agile tools like Rally, JIRA and VersionOne. Implemented Hybrid Agile models for non-traditional Agile targets such as Infrastructure Groups and large ERP Implementations. I have implemented and coached Agile for organizations from the ground up as well as have been called in to take over an implementation that wasn’t going as planned. Designed, Implemented and conducted large PI Events. Coached both new and existing teams. Experienced in both training and facilitating training for teams and individuals, trained and collaborated with C-Levels on Agile implementations. Successfully coached teams in online learning firm, Health Care Firm, Manufacturing Firm and also large technology firm and large Confidential corp. Extensive experience as Agile Architect, Agile Coach and Scrum Master and SAFe Certified. in designing frameworks and establishing enterprise-wide program governance capabilities.
• Business/Technology Strategist and Communicator: plan and manage multimillion-dollar projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains. Leverage technical, business and financial acumen to communicate effectively with C-Level executives and their teams. Trained facilitator and experienced corporate trainer and Org. Change Management.
• Led revenue, P&L, ROI and cash flow improvement. Financial Analysis, Department Budgets, P&L Optimization, forecasting and analysis and extensive experience managing departmental budgets.
• Systems Engineering/Application Development/Solution Architect:
• Drove the high-quality completion of systems engineering, software development and enterprise-wide implementation projects for Confidential clients.
• White board idea leader: Cultivates a creative team culture that leverages business drivers into practical results like profitable revenue, margin improvement and satisfied customers.
• Strong Technologist: Significant bias for action and results. Hands on professional with a complete focus on customers, driving up revenue and driving down costs. Considered to be a strong technologist with C-Level skills.
• Multi-skilled Senior Program Manager: Strong experience base in IT Project Management; Operations Management; Sales Project Management, ERP Systems. Specializes in enterprise level implementations
• International Business Acumen: Significant international business experience in Europe and Asia. Lived and worked 10 years in Europe and is fluent in German. Managed off shore development projects and teams all over the world.
• Agile Professional: Agile implementations. Successfully coached teams in online learning firm, Health Care Firm, Manufacturing Firm and also large technology firm and large Confidential
• Extensive experience as Agile Architect, Agile Coach and Scrum Master and SAFe Certified.
• Experience in designing frameworks and establishing enterprise-wide program governance capabilities.

EXPERTISE IN:

Custom Software Development

Data Center Migrations

Systems Engineering

System Migrations/Integrations

Enterprise Wide Implementations

ERP/CRM Systems

Agile/SCRUM/Waterfall

Health Care IT

Training and Development

Quality Systems & Process Mapping

Off-shore Projects

Requirements Analysis

Customer Focus Groups

Technology Leadership:

Data warehousing Big Data and Data Fabric

Advanced Analytics

Artificial Intelligence

Internet of Things and Mobile

Infrastructure and Tech Operations

Costing & Budgeting Project Scheduling

Testing/QA/Rollout/Support

Application Development

Customer Focus Groups

SDLC PLC WMS

IT governance standards and compliance ITIL

Digital Marketing

Process Improvement

Value-Added Leadership:

Ten years’ experience: CEO/CIO

Disruptive Technologies

Cross-Functional Leadership

Team Building & Mentoring

Client Facing Relations

Mergers and Acquisitions

Vendor & Sales Management

Continuous Improvement

International Business & Finance

Training and Development

Steering Committee Facilitation

P&L Leadership

It Strategy/Roadmaps

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Managing Partner/Sr Program Leader

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Organizational Leadership through consultation and thoughtful guidance via digital transformation and proliferated strategic enablers of business performance all along the value stream to digitize the enterprise and realize multiple based process performance improvements.
• Performance driven decision making through smart processes, smart systems, smart development and smart data.
• Digital business transformation and product development experience at Confidential 50-500 level including management of multi-million dollar innovation portfolios and led global teams and initiative to deliver breakthrough solutions in practically every business domain and region of the world.
• These interventions have delivered hundreds of millions of dollars of impact in sales growth, cash flow productivity, cost savings, risk avoidance, and employee productivity.
• Focus areas include:
• Establishment and going leadership of disruptive innovation organizations - including strategy development, portfolio governance, operating model design & deployment, organizational capacity & capability building, culture hacking, and measurement & incentive system design Creation of new business models and transformation of existing operations through application of emerging technologies, outcome-based work processes, and open platforms Curation of open networks to foster co-innovation - including partnerships with strategic suppliers, venture capitalists, accelerators, startups, academic institutions, research labs, and non-compete peer companies Practical application of Design Thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile methodologies by coaching, training, and facilitating intrapreneurs to generate breakthrough ideas and tangible business impact as quickly as possible; similar practical application of Theory of Constraints and Six Sigma to optimize existing business processes.
• Enterprise level program management either in the turnaround phase or in the early conception stage

COO/CIO (Interim)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Enterprise level turnaround of both the operations and technology for this company (online vintage marketplace) purchased out of receivership.
• Doubled the size of the company while returning the company to profitability. Doubled the output of the operations while decreasing costs and increasing quality.
• Rebuilt the entire technology team and data team and e-commerce platform while deploying agile development best practices to ensure both reliability and scalability.
• Designed built and implemented support organizations PMO, T&D, Performance Appraisal System, QA and Process Engineering.

Sr Program Leader

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead turnaround for an inflight Program for an enterprise implementation of JDA for Confidential
• Senior Project/Program Manager/PMO Director/Interim CIO/Agile Coach/Scrum Master/Digital Transformation Leader:
• Assess present financial software application system and lead the design and implementation of the replacement system
• Assemble and facilitate cross functional team product owners from multiple business units for team
• Design new system, system architecture, feature functionality, database requirements and development platform requirements
• Design and lead quality testing, user acceptance testing
• Design, built and led data warehouse for $500 million dollar company
• Design entire software applications through all cycles of software development
• Migrate legacy database from AS400 to SQL Database
• Design and lead large infrastructure projects for 1.5 billion dollar firm
• Process flow mapping of entire work flow and also create system specifications
• Led Agile development processes and served as Scrum Master, Release Train Engineer and Agile Coach
• Estimate and plan budget for entire project & managed and led the development team.
• Manage and lead entire product team and operations
• Design and led hybrid Agile implementation for large Infrastructure Group
• Manage and lead development programs (Agile) of online software development projects
• Design and Implemented and directed a PMO operation for a 1 billion dollar firm
• Led design of next generation infrastructure for large payment processing company
• Served as Interim CIO for a 250 Million Dollar Firm during a private equity play
• ERP System Implementations for Oracle, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics and Infor, Netsuite, JD Edwards and new CRM Systems
• 10X returns for projects utilizing advanced analytics, Big Data; Data Fabric (lakes and hubs); Machine learning, I.A and block chain.
• Implemented Agile Development for all application development
• Developed and employed technologies and products to harvest data and relevant content from printed advertising and convert it to digital format for the newspaper industry serving the largest publishers in the world.
• Led end user application development in .Net and Java designing product applications via Agile Development
• Led back end application development in c#, Perl and Linux
• Managed all custom online software development, system architecture and networking, SDLC, Content Management System, Data Warehousing, analytics, data strategy, meta data management, DB design, enterprise data strategy, cloud management, online operation & SEO strategy and Social Media

CEO

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed team of over 65 people and P&L responsibility as CEO
• Developed sales and marketing plans and programs, which resulted in providing products and services to thousands of online sites in the United States, Europe and Canada.
• Built and managed over 1000 online marketplaces.
• Managed over 1000 internet marketplace application installations for some of the most well-travelled to websites in the world to include The Wall Street Journal; Washington Post; USA Today, Financial Times of London, Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung to name a few. Develop and executed an innovative online marketing strategy to grow traffic and customer acquisition via SEO. SEM, Social Media, Email Marketing and PPC.

General Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Identified and negotiated licensing agreements with publishers throughout Europe and Asia.
• Identified and managed offshore vendors for data conversion and off shore development. Managed international direct sales force plus third party distributors and agents.
• Recruited, hired and trained team for data center. Managed direct sales force and third party agents throughout Europe. Managed entire European product management function.
• Data center was fully functional and implemented under budget and ahead of schedule.
• Director PMO: Managed team of Project Managers and Process Engineers. Department’s role was the deployment of the internal Project Managers and Process Engineers throughout company to drive efficiencies throughout the company functional areas; development; finance; sales; product management; database design.
• Director, Quality Systems/Process Re-engineering
• Managed team of 30 quality auditors and process engineers responsible for the implementation and application of statistical process control measurements and statistical auditing procedures and re-engineering of production systems.
• Manager, Procurement/Purchasing/Off-shore Development
• Responsible for the management for vendors all over the world ensuring the delivery of quality service at the best rates.
• Manager, Training and Development/Continuous Improvement
• Designed and delivered company-wide continuous improvement training seminars. Delivered seminars to thousands of employees.
• Production Planner and Scheduler
• Responsible for scheduling of data builds requiring cross functional coordination across all departments utilizing MRP System

Project/Program Management:

Custom Software Development

Data Center Migrations

Systems Engineering

System Migrations/Integrations

Enterprise Wide Implementations

ERP/CRM Systems

Agile/SCRUM/Waterfall

Health Care IT

Training and Development

Quality Systems & Process Mapping

Off-shore Projects

Requirements Analysis

Customer Focus Groups

Technology Leadership:

Data warehousing Big Data and Data Fabric

Advanced Analytics

Artificial Intelligence

Internet of Things and Mobile

Infrastructure and Tech Operations

Costing & Budgeting Project Scheduling

Testing/QA/Rollout/Support

Application Development

Customer Focus Groups

SDLC PLC WMS

IT governance standards and compliance ITIL

Digital Marketing

Process Improvement

Value-Added Leadership:

Ten years’ experience: CEO/CIO

Disruptive Technologies

Cross-Functional Leadership

Team Building & Mentoring

Client Facing Relations

Mergers and Acquisitions

Vendor & Sales Management

Continuous Improvement

International Business & Finance

Training and Development

Steering Committee Facilitation

P&L Leadership

It Strategy/Roadmaps