SUMMARY

Exceptional Senior Information Technology Leader with proven twenty-six year record of success. Complete understanding of IT and business areas. Motivating Executive who people like working with due to respect, commitment, leadership, judgment, follow-through, excellence, personality and communication style. Successfully implemented strategies to enhance revenue growth and produce cost savings. Corporate Board Member. Received the prestigious CCS/CIO-CTO Circle of Excellence Award at AT T, Spot award at HBO and commendations from Sirius XM. Skilled in business operations and financial systems. Strong communicator and business liaison with multiple business areas. Managed staff to 30. Masters in Technology Management MBA for technologists .

Areas of Expertise

• Project Management Implementation of Sirius XM's Next Gen Marketing Database. Integration of Sirius and XM's Marketing Databases Java-XML projects such as introduction of web forms and automated email confirmations creation of templates for PMO use conversion of mainframe applications to Java-XML launch of HBO On Demand and selection of ERP. Directed and Managed projects to 28MM that came in on time, budget, quality and wowed the client. Director over the PMO. Go-to person for Project Managers and Managers.
• Business Knowledge understanding of general business processes and specific business models, e.g. B2B relationships at HBO AT T's efforts with both Local Telephony and DirecTV. Work closely with business units. Ability to create and execute strategies for the business. Projects to align Business Intelligence goals with future strategies.
• Turn Around Examples include turning around an Application Development department in disarray, implementing processes such as a Software Development Life Cycle SDLC , which improved quality, consistency, manageability and relations with Infrastructure.
• IT Governance and Portfolio Management Directed Project Office, Compliance Office, created first Software Development Life Cycle SDLC at HBO, created and monitored Sarbanes-Oxley controls for Application Security and Software Change Control. Directed creation of data privacy policy. Created Capacity Plan for organization at Sirius XM. Managed several projects around Personally Identifiable Information PII .
• Vendor Management Planning, initiation and management outsourcing initiative. Vendor selection, including off-shore vendors in China, India, Brazil and on-shore vendors. First person to represent HBO to Time Warner on outsourcing. Contract negotiation and execution.

Work History

Confidential

• Manager, PMO, promoted twice, focused on application development, marketing business intelligence and web projects. Started as contractor, promoted and then hired full time and promoted to Manager.
• Marketing Database Next Gen: In process of bringing Marketing operations in-house from a Marketing Services Provider. This 28MM program includes new hardware, software, processes and is time bound. Managing several projects and PMs to successfully complete this program.
• Marketing Database Integration Due to the merger of Sirius and XM the 4 disparate Marketing Databases needed to be integrated into 1 very large SQL Server database. Managed project and relationships with vendors to complete this project on time substantially improving reliability over any of the predecessors. Now working on moving this to the next generation.
• Created Capacity Plan to give transparency of portfolio priorities to client areas. Reviewed results with clients weekly as a communication tool.
• Web Forms Automation projects to add ease-of-use features and dynamic offer management from an email campaign.
• Email Notification to send transactional based emails as confirmations to the users in a fast paced automated environment.
• Directly involved in management of vendors including off Brazil and on-shore and including vendor selection.
• Oracle Financials R12 Upgrade Successfully managed the cutover to Oracle R12 Financials, working with Finance departments, IT and Internal Audit.

Confidential

Director, Applications Development

• Contracts
• Direct the Project Office Ask me about the algorithm we created
• Turned around the Business Intelligence group, including data warehousing and a suite of support products including Business Objects, Hyperion and Actuate. Some successes in this area included:
• Directed project to assess the entire set of financial data for future revenue streams.
• As the Business Liaison from IT to Finance, worked closely with both External and Internal Audit. There were never any issues, exceptions or deficiencies identified on my watch.
• Directed several large Java projects. These range from technical operations to finance applications, Swing to Web architectures.
• Created original Software Development Life Cycle SDLC at HBO.
• Directed project staffs from small to 30 people. Created sustainable processes. Business Liaison to several departments. Turned around areas within IT. Built strong, motivated teams for projects. Assigned key responsibilities due to Sr. Management's confidence in commitment to accomplish goals.
• Studied existing documentation including RUP and Gartner to determine standards. Collaborated with development, BI, database, Security and Infrastructure to establish practices that would be universal. Includes inception, kickoff, development, testing and deployment.
• SDLC was not just put on a shelf but lived and tested. Became key control and made the design and implementation of other controls for SOX easier to accomplish and the staff to accept. Created sustainable processes to communicate with clients, staff and Senior Management.
• Managed a team of 30, including development, reporting, database, data migration, jr. level project manager and tech lead for the re-write of our Accounts Receivable system. The project truly delighted the customers. This project saved HBO 1.5 million dollars.
• Other Java projects directed include creating an autoslotter used by the scheduling department for certain channels, which is still used today saving HBO over 200,000 annually. Another example is an application for managing content for HBO/Max on Demand generating revenue.
• Selected because of Senior Management's confidence and comfort in strong execution, client relations and teamwork.
• Identified the need for an IT Compliance Office. Successfully sold this to Senior Management. Hired a Manager for the role. Mentored that person for success, which reported to me.
• Successfully established and documented the controls, negotiating with both Internal and External Audit to pass the first Applications Security Sarbanes-Oxley Audit and followed up in 4 years with no deficiencies. Rewarded SPOT award for compliance work.
• Directly responsible for IT application finance audits.
• There were many different financial applications. The flow was referred to as a DNA diagram. Led effort. Worked with Gartner and Finance to evaluate ERPs and select the best fit. Created RFP and negotiated with vendors, recommended Oracle , which was the tool chosen.
• Creation of a process to establish a realistic estimation process for size, time and cost
• Project Portfolio Management, project reviews, mentoring of Project Managers and monitoring of status. Reports from this office are visible to all areas that have IT projects as well as Sr. Mgt.
• Responsible for initiating, negotiating, finalizing and maintaining the compliance during execution of contracts in the Application Development area. This included outsourcing, software licensing and staff supplementation. Worked closely with the Legal department.

Confidential

• Significant accomplishments rewarded with multiple, fast-track promotions to positions of increasing scope and responsibility:
• District Manager Data Management Staff Manager AppDev, DBA Group, CGI
• Project Manager Business Analyst/Project Manager
• Architecture Analyst/Programmer
• Beginning Programmer, Initial Designer Training Class
• Technical Background