SENIOR BUSINESS & IT EXECUTIVE

Technology | Strategy | Planning | Operations

Corporate strategist and implementation expert with extensive experience in Fortune 500 technology environments, distinguished by fresh viewpoints on operations, business strategy, and technology innovation to help push goals into reality.

Transformational change driver who thrives in organizations where innovation is championed and continuous evolution of business strategy is expected. Recognized for an ability to move a business forward and shape productive organizational cultures.

Global business leader with experience in the US, France, Africa, and the Middle East. Contributed to a true global perspective balanced with sophisticated country-specific strategies.

Executive Management: Strategic Planning & Execution – Team Leadership – Breakthrough Change – Global Program & Project Management – Mergers & Acquisitions/Integration – Competitive Analysis – Marketing & Communications

IT Leadership: IT Strategy – Architecture – Internet & Intranet Technology – Business Intelligence & Analytics – Procurement – Cost Control – Strong Technical Knowledge

Professional Experience

Confidential — Houston, TX 2002–Present
World’s largest technology company with $126B in revenue and #11 Fortune 500 ranking.
Director, IT Business & Communications Operations (2005–Present)
Lead the team that enables the Global IT organization to run as a business. Create, champion, and align the IT strategy. Manage CIO reporting, dashboard, and benchmarks. Coordinate CIO executive presentation to CEO, Executive Council, and Board of Directors. Lead all internal IT communication operations including all IT websites. Envisioned and executed marketing and communications campaigns that enabled HP IT transformation. Led team to communicate global IT initiatives to all stakeholders through multiple vehicles including strategic plan, reports, broadcasts, presentations, quarterly newsletters, and leadership programs.

• Strengthened enormous success of business turnaround by establishing goals, monitoring progress, and communicating changes in HP’s approaches to technology and operations:
• 85 data centers consolidated to 6; 700 data marts decreased to 55; 6,000 applications to 1,500; 19,000 IT professionals to 10,000.
• IT spending cut from 4% of revenue to under 2% today, generating $1B in annual savings.
• 70% of employee time spent on new development with just 30% on IT support.
• Ignited sales opportunities valued at $10B by targeting 30,000+ customers with IT showcase and by supporting hundreds of customer engagements.
• Built a high-performance organization by centralizing all resources, resulting in five-fold productivity increases.
• Achieved 90% decrease in video production costs through in-house production.
• Directed numerous leadership development programs

Director, Strategy & Planning – Confidential (2002–2005)
Set business direction for Operations and IT functions following HP-Compaq merger, encompassing supply chain, logistics, distribution, procurement, manufacturing, and all technology activities. Formulated IT organizational design as key component to regaining market leadership. Directed top-level marketing activities for IT products and services, including managing customer engagements, presenting keynotes, and attending industry and security analyst meetings. Managed $2M-$5M budgets, 10-20 staff members, and virtual teams with up to 100 members.

• Saved $1B in annual costs by creating a functional horizontal plan addressing a $50B spend.
• Designed plan that drove HP-Compaq IT merger, building a focused leadership team, strategy, culture, and business model that positioned company as industry leader.

Confidential — Houston, TX 1998–2002
Leading provider of enterprise technology and solutions; acquired by HP in 2002.
Director, Strategy and Communications, IT (2000–2002)

• Created company e-business strategy leveraging “Net-Ready” Cisco model, the company solution strategy (ERPs, SAP, Oracle PeopleSoft), and directed the audit of online e-commerce platform.
• Designed strategy and plan to consolidate entire $1.3B IT organization, reducing application portfolio from 3,500 applications to fewer than 1,800.
• Instrumental in securing #3 ranking for Compaq IT among InformationWeek’s list of 500 most innovative IT organizations.
• Directed executive communications. Managed $2M-$5M budgets, 10-20 staff members, and virtual teams with up to 100 members. Managed IT application portfolio.

Confidential (1998–2000)

• Directed Office of the Future and Workplace 2000 initiatives, developing IT roadmap that emphasized collaboration and standardization in the workplace. Consulted with entire IT organization including CIO.
• Propelled productivity by standardizing end-user environments and introducing new technology.

Confidential 1989–1998
Pioneering American Computer Company; acquired by Compaq in 1998.
Corporate Program Manager Confidential Maynard, MA (1995–1998)
Led program team with up to 200 project managers, architects, and developers to create company’s first enterprise data warehouse with first large-scale implementation of SQL server. Provided technology consulting on variety of technologies and applications to all IT teams.

• Achieved 30% reduction of IT costs through data warehouse implementation while increasing quality of information with real time response.
• Reduced number of ESSBASE servers by 70% through network transformation.
• Consulted on all aspect of business intelligence
• Led successful migration to NT in 18 months, resulting in 20% saving on all infrastructure costs.

Corporate Reengineering Architect — Maynard, MA
Software Engineering Manager — Paris, France

Additional Experience

Software Engineering Manager — Confidential Paris, France
Director, Project Control, Confidential — Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Financial Engineering Manager — Paris, France
Invoicing Manager& IT Manager — Confidential, Gabon 
Civil Engineering Professor — Confidential, Ethiopia and Paris, France

Qualifications

EDUCATION

Degree in Economics

Degree in Civil Engineering (Master of Science level), Ecole Spéciales des Travaux Publics (Minor: Management
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Wharton, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

• Executive Development Program - Wharton, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
• Creating Value through Financial Management

Tuck Business School, Dartmouth, NH
Tuck Marketing Analysis & Planning (Business Bridge Program online version)
Center for Creative Leadership - Leadership at the Peak
SIM- Society of Information Management, Regional Leadership Forum - Babson College, Wellesley, MA
Microsoft front and back office, Adobe, Linux, network, web 
LANGUAGES
Fluent: English and French • Conversational: German • Basic: Korean, Japanese, Hebrew, Spanish