SUMMARY:

More than 20 years of experience with a broad range of client delivery activities and experience covering Confidential, CRM, BI, Mobility and Cloud. Avid sponsor of the concept that IT is an enabler of business growth and transformation, a catalyst allowing leaders to be better informed for decision making, and partner in enabling service for customer delight.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Create business integrated technology vision & strategy
• Focused approach to User Experience for applications
• Global team formation and leadership
• PeopleSoft, SAP, Salesforce Confidential implementations/upgrades
• Respect for cultural differences & global teamwork
• Lead mergers / acquisitions to minimize impact
• Manage change and organizational development
• Vendor management and negotiations
• Setup Center of Excellences (Mobility, Testing, Agile)
• Manage global application implementations & upgrades

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Managing Partner

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Management consultancy focused on helping clients create a roadmap and deliver solutions to alleviate their key pain points around application mobility, rationalization, testing center of excellence and best shore practices for development.
• Created a multi - lingual Behavior Based Observation app (HTML5) for multiple industries with offline capabilities.
• Created “Future State oilfield worker” vision and strategy workshop. Lead asset magement using Confidential .

Project Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Platform (SMP), iOS devices and informatica integration services. Services included wireframes, development and mobile functional & security testing.
• Strategic vendor selection to staff the Confidential
• Selection of SAP Mobile Platform (SMP) by upgrading a mix of Confidential, Confidential licenses
• Developed a decision tree to help business customers make a buy vs. build decision thru guidance
• Acquired PerfectoMobile testing licenses to help augment Testing Center of Excellence services
• Selected Confidential Mobility Security Testing Platform to ensure all apps go thru a thorough 3rd party validation.
• Setup an onshore-offshore development program with strategic vendors to ensure maximum output
• Reviewed multiple platforms (Kony, SMP and others) to leverage the best approach for fast delivery.
• Decision Tree to help define a native vs. HTML5 approach based on user requirements
• Enabled standardization of business process across Bus.
• Streamlined sales process with a mobile proposal development and management system integrated with Confidential . The occasionally connected system read price books from the Confidential to ensure accurate pricing, discounts and contracts.
• Developed HTML5 based micro applications for the mobile field workers to capture critical data including drill bit performance, calculators, productive time, percentages etc.
• Reduced company capital outlay when a centralized scheduling system allowed managers to move idle assets and filled available slots. Implemented a mobile job monitoring system helping the business re-book upwards of 47% of cancelled job slots, capturing revenue previously not easily recognizable.
• Employed Market Based Reference Model to develop business case, evaluated software vendors, explored pros & cons for each selection in alignment with strategic corporate initiatives.

Director, PMO, Process Assurance & Continued Excellence

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Implemented award winning Testing Center of Excellence around Quality, Performance, Security, Mobility and Code Optimization. Embedded a culture of ensuring high quality deliverables in the Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC). Confidential awarded the Service Excellence plaque at Confidential Discover in 2012.
• Championed Secure Coding program and User Experience (UX) Center of Excellence and established processes, governance, and acquired industry leading toolsets while working with key suppliers.
• Led pilots and developed management and testing solutions to address the increased presence of “Cloud” based solutions. Develop new supplier relationships.
• SDLC improvements and the formation of the Confidential resulted in Confidential being recognized by SAP, CA, Confidential and Confidential .
• In each case, the work done at Confidential was significantly superior to almost all clients of the aforementioned companies.
• Particular strengths of the Confidential were Demand Management, Secure Coding testing, Agile testing, User Experience design and assessment, vendor management, Program Management and governance and sustaining Change Management.

Director, Systems Integration

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the integration and migration of systems to the new integrated post-merger systems landscape.
• Key was the successful migration from numerous Oracle environments to a single SAP instance of Confidential .
• Also led the staff integration activities of moving the legacy Confidential Application development teams into the new combined Confidential IT Application Development Organization.
• Managed the budget associated with the transitioning activities and customer relationships and communications during the transition.

Director, Enterprise & Business Applications

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led application rationalization efforts, standardization of work processes, most notably, incident and problem management which had been ad hoc.
• Launched the IT portfolio management process for establishing enterprise direction and IT organizational capabilities, moving to some degree away from a totally decentralized model.
• Led development initiatives for electronic invoicing ( Confidential compliant), job margin analysis, manufacturing execution systems, and inventory and asset management.
• Developed and implemented a plan to outsource the production support to large offshore organization on an onshore/offshore model.
• This allowed the internal IT team to transition to the new Confidential project.
• Developed multiple onshore/near-shore/offshore models for production support and maintenance.

Sr Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Established a new Confidential support team and took leadership over the application development group. Within 6 months, successfully established the group, implemented change management processes.
• Responsible for a highly integrated Confidential production and development setup for one of the largest retail corporations in the world with over $88 billion in revenue with more than 350,000 associates.
• Created an outsourced production support plan using on/offshore resource model.

Consultant & Program Manager (Peoplesoft/Oracle)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided pre and post-sales support to the teams, contract negotiations and client management.
• Transformed clients’ legacy systems and processes by implementing best practices and solutions.
• Engaged client leadership, project stakeholders and consulting teams to help reengineer processes.
• Challenged the status quo, and delivered corporate objectives by implementing innovative solutions.
• Tasks included scope & budget management, resource utilization and change management.
• Performed rapid application development, fit-gap analysis and proactive risk management.
• Conducted implementation workshops, business process re-engineering focus groups & best practice process improvements. Acted as liaison between internal project team, executive leadership and software vendors.
• Developed, published and executed project plans, work plans, schedules, budgets and deliverable matrices.