BACKGROUND:

• Twenty-nine years of diverse experience in the Information Technology sector. Twenty four years of demonstrated management skills in an array of areas including Healthcare, Human Resources, Banking, Finance, Engineering, Energy, State, and Government on multiple platforms that include Web, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Java, Mainframe, Client Server and Network Infrastructure.
• Very strong organizational, planning, and global leadership skills in multi-national and geographical environments. Excellent written, oral, facilitation, executive level presentation, and negotiation skills. Proven ability to develop vision and multi-generational plans. Unique ability to collaborate and coordinate. Strong problem solving skills with the ability to detect underlying trends, identify root causes, and design optimal process solutions.
• Self-motivated, very dependable, can do attitude that knows how to think outside the box. Strong passion for customer service. Very disciplined work ethic with keen attention to detail. A team player driven by quality managing across organizational boundaries both internally and externally. Six Sigma certified bringing quality to every project. Consummate professionalism accompanied with excellent business etiquette and a reliable leadership presence.

SKILL SET:

WORK EXPERIENCE:

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Leadership role responsible for incorporating and managing 24 different Energy sector businesses acquired by GE onto the GE network. The acquisitions totaling 11 billion were spread across the globe and incorporated the transition of the business' existing network onto the GE network infrastructure. Work directly with the newly acquired business leaders, network engineers, project managers, and network teams overseeing the vision, design, costing, procurement, administration, deployment, monitoring, backups, security, policies, decommissioning, and support of all servers and networks. Create real time Dashboards for management and teams to view the status of all projects at any time utilizing Support Central software. Strong emphasis on project management, organization, communication, executive level presentations, reporting, and documentation. Responsible for executing all phases of the project from analysis to post implementation support of a team in excess of 100 people.

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Acquisition and Divestiture server team. Directly responsible for bringing newly acquired businesses onto the GE infrastructure. Also responsible for removing divested businesses from the network. Work directly with the business leaders, client, server, and network teams coordinating the design, budgeting, procurement, administration, deployment, and support of all servers and networks. Additional responsibilities include setting up new procedures, guidelines, coordination, documentation and formal approval processes at the program level for multiple acquisitions. Strong emphasis on virtualization, project management, organization, communication, reporting, and execution.

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Leadership role responsible for GE's Export Control compliance policies within their global Energy division. Work with their IT team's around the world executing policy audits. Oversee the analysis, remediations, and process improvements of all policy defects. Design and create automated processes to monitor policies and eliminate all manual human intervention. Additional responsibilities include creating, organizing, and managing the Export Control PMO to monitor Export Control compliance. Work directly with system engineer architects, database analysts, application owners, and CIO's overseeing all aspects of the project. Strong emphasis on project management, organization, communication, reporting, and documentation. Responsible for executing all phases of the project from analysis to post implementation support.

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Leadership role responsible for the analysis, coordination, and execution of upgrading GE's 1,450 servers from Windows 2000 to Windows 2003. Supervise a team of 21 project managers identifying W2k servers around the world and then executing and monitoring the upgrade process to Windows 2003. Direct responsibilities include, creating and maintaining the project plan, issue log, weekly status reporting to all CIO's, Support Central documentation repository, dashboard metric reporting, training, mentoring, manage project mitigations, manage escalation process, and manage the project's database. Additionally, the project saved the company 7MM over 5 years by decommissioning legacy servers and virtualizing 15 of their physical servers.

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Leadership role responsible for converting GE's existing in-house 401K plan to Fidelity Investments. Directly responsible for leading the analysis and design of over 160,000 employee accounts and 19 billion in assets for conversion to the new system. Work directly with the vendor organizing the logistics, approach, and execution of the project. Work directly with GE Systems and Functional subject matter experts overseeing the requirements gathering, data analysis, design, approach, timelines, documentation, and scheduling of certain processes. Also led the Web team overseeing the Single Sign On user authentication/integration and website changes required to link to the new vendor's site. Responsible for executing all phases of the project from analysis to post implementation support.

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Leadership role directly responsible for the management, new development, and production support of the NYISO Billing Simulator web application. Specific duties include direct interface with the customers, creating and maintaining the project plan, oversee functional and technical specification development, as well as Java coding and testing. Create test plans, quality assurance, executive level presentations, training, and ongoing maintenance of the system. Directly responsible for the overall implementation, coordination, and execution of the project.

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The new Fuel Flex workflow system provides technical support to GE's Sales and Commercial Operations teams in selecting, implementing and developing competitive turbine product applications and power generation solutions requiring the use of non-standard flexible fuels. Work directly with GE engineers around the world defining, building, testing, and implementing the new system. Directly responsible for the overall implementation, coordination, and execution of the project.

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Leadership role responsible for implementing a new web based Global Employee Rewards and Recognition system that would allow GE management the opportunity to recognize and reward their employees via an online automated web application. Work directly with GE's functional liaisons around the world assisting in the design, construction, testing, implementation, budgeting, staffing, security, and communications of the project. Mentored the overall implementation, coordination, and execution of the project from an IT perspective.