SUMMARY

• An accomplished, motivated, resourceful and personable IT manager with experience in diverse industries with a history of successfully establishing and leading IT businesses.
• Strategic thinker, leveraging analytical skills with an in - depth understanding of management to develop business solutions. Skilled at building rapport with interdepartmental constituents.
• Skilled in strategic planning; able to prioritize effectively, multi-task, and achieve objectives within time and budget; adapt quickly to challenges.
• Able to identify and implement process improvements that increase accuracy, consistency, and efficiency. Professional career track with an outstanding thread of success.
• A hands-on entrepreneurial professional, skilled in growing and leading diverse, multi-cultural teams to success, providing coaching where necessary.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

HEAD OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Responsibilities:

• Established and developed organization’s brand new IT business unit from scratch.
• Contributed to business growth from $9MM to $40MM and 6 times manpower increase.
• Realized 60% improvement in operational efficiency from deploying automation tools.
• Implemented ITIL- and SLA-based service desk resulting in efficiency and 80% response time improvements.
• Led and completed implementation of major multimillion-dollar Oracle ERP implementation, complete with financials, HR, Payroll, SCM, self-service (ESS) and future PM, RM, MRO, PLM and EAM.
• Developed and rolled out IT strategic plans, policies, procedures and operational guidelines. Developed and tested IT disaster recovery and security plans.
• Successfully selected and hired staff; reduced expenses through skillful negotiation of long-term agreements.
• Instituted and chaired IT Steering Committee to converge and align business and technology directions.
• Selected vendors, negotiated agreements, established relations and managed contracts.
• Oversaw growth from 2 servers to multi-site, redundant networks, smart firewalls, security and virtualization.
• Negotiated with vendors and consolidated on the technologies and services, reducing operational costs.
• Spearheaded development of new joint venture (JV) IT BU in collaboration with European partner and directly managed a US$3M IT infrastructure.

Confidential

IT STRATEGY LEADER

Responsibilities:

• Developed strategic information technology plans for governance, security, data management and processes.
• Initiated enterprise Data Management and Data Warehousing project, covering all business divisions.
• Led the IT transformative exercise for proper alignment with businesses and technology functions.
• Managed project teams and executed multiple business programs/projects.
• Implemented enterprise Content Management solution.
• Led deployment of enterprise Oracle E-business Suite (HR and Payroll). Conducted business analysis, evaluated and selected solution and negotiated contract terms.
• Conducted research, delivered report on Human Capital Management (HCM) system that resulted in consolidating HR and HCM systems and cost savings.
• Led comprehensive study and analysis of organizational data management parameters to develop satisfactory new systems.
• Ensured synchronization of DM strategies and company business plans and prepared IT delivery framework.
• Successfully simplified vendor engagements and cut resource acquisition timeframe by 8 months.

Confidential

IMPLEMENTATION MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Led development and implementation of new Meditech Health Care Information System.
• Served on the high-level Information Management committee and advised on processes.
• Developed procedures for extending implementation of system further and formally trained users.
• Provided comprehensive round-the-clock technical support for the system.
• Formulated system implementation processes, hospital contingency plans and assisted with HCIS usage.
• Developed contingency plans for manual operations of the hospital.
• Managed implementation of critical FAS systems in US, Europe and the Pacific Rim.
• Successfully boosted implementation process by 25% by consolidating systems.
• Prepared and presented department reports at annual FAS conference.
• ADCO’s Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) award for Innovation.
• Outstanding Consulting Services award for Sales Force Automation System development.