SUMMARY:

• Versatile IT and Business Leader with more than 25+ years of experience with companies like Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential driving and enabling enterprise - wide transformations and continuous improvements. Extensive experience in state of the art Applications, Data, Technology, Business Intelligence, and Processes especially in a supply chain environment. Delighted (internal and external customers) by designing and deploying innovative operational and customer facing roadmaps / programs / platforms / metrics (realizing over billion $ in business value).
• Self-starter with proven track record in creating and managing agile and high performing Global Project Management & Business Analyst Competency Centers.
• Visionary, Analytical and Strategic thinker with hands-on leadership and ‘get it done’ philosophy, with strong ethics and integrity. Managed strategic planning, governance, and portfolio / program / project management in high tech and other companies. End to end supply chain business acumen and hands on leadership. General Manager experience with accountability and operational aspects of a global logistics company with 90+ employees.
• Leader with the passion for developing, coaching, and mentoring high performing teams and making organizations a great place to work. Leader and a team player with exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, influencing CxOs and stakeholders in large, matrixed global companies.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Managing Partner

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Leadership Services in Contract Management and IT Portfolio Management

Global Project/Portfolio Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As the Chief of Staff for the CIO and managing a team of senior managers, accountable for IT Budgeting, IT Strategic Planning, IT Performance Management including Business Intelligence (BI), IT Recruiting & Onboarding, IT Resource Management, IT Communications, IT Audits, and Knowledge Management. Developed CIO Scorecard which includes the Guest Experience Metric and managed this for the CIO as part of the IT Performance Management.
• Successfully completed the annual strategic plan for the CIO/President in 3 months and mid-year update in 1 month.
• Successfully recovered from a major cyber incident in 3 months while establishing the foundation for the IT Transformation. Aggressively managed the strategic and tactical activities including a daily BI dashboard for the CIO and business. Aggressively reduced the number of contractors (involved during the recovery) from 150 to 70 in 3 months.
• Utilizing agile concepts, designed, developed, and deployed resource strategies, demand/capacity planning process and tool in Las Vegas and Macau in 3 months. Recruited and onboarded 15+ full time employees and contractors for the IT transformation in less than 3 months.
• Lead the IT Portfolio and Capital Budget working with the senior execs and key stakeholders from Business and IT. Aggressively reduced the funnel from 180+ requests to 44 projects through effective/efficient portfolio management strategies and tactics. Established and facilitated the Business/IT Governance, providing key decision enabling metrics and reports.

Business Planning Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead the $1 billion Supply Chain IT strategic / portfolio planning for 3 years which resulted in the funding and delivery of Confidential ’s Supply Chain Transformation initiative. Aggressively reduced the funnel of IT requests by 75% within 3 months. Reduced the planning overhead by 20%.
• Developed the Application Transformation operating model and plan for the Supply Chain IT in 3 months. Accelerated robust “Disciplined Agile Development” methodology.
• Lead various strategic and tactical improvements in architecture, applications, business intelligence, and infrastructure planning processes and tools. Tracked and reported project portfolio performance through weekly and monthly dashboards. Reduced 18 estimation engagement models to 1 standardized model across Confidential IT working with the global matrixed organizations.

Portfolio Process Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Saved $30 million+ in Sales and Marketing IT by designing and standardizing three-year strategic capability roadmaps for five lines of businesses.
• Utilizing Lean Six Sigma and Agile methodologies, reduced the project estimation cycle time from 18 days to less than 1 day. This project was designed, developed, and deployed in 3 months.
• Optimized release and project roadmaps, balanced resource demand/supply, and improved project delivery metrics.

People Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Propelled, coached, and mentored the global PM/BA team to deliver industry-leading end to end supply chain capabilities (including SAP deployments), slashing $10.4M in costs, enhancing significant revenues/margins, and establishing best in class standards.
• Established standards for Item, BOM, and Route in 1 year and for the first time built a robust master data infrastructure for Confidential .
• Saved $6.1M in data quality in the areas of sales status code, product hierarchy, minimum order quantity, common item master.
• Sponsored and managed other Supply Chain IT innovation and optimization projects (SAP and non-SAP).
• Coached/Mentored team on project management (PLC, SDLC, Agile) and business analysis methodologies, processes, and tools from theoretical and practical perspectives.
• Designed and deployed the Global Skills/Competency Center in USA and Asia which elevated the team’s performance, skills, and team dynamics.
• Managed Supply Chain IT portfolio for the IT General Manager, delivering $1B in business value. This was the largest IT group which supported 24 sites, 200 projects (Waterfall and Agile), and 14K end users. Deployed a brand new quarterly planning process on time within 4 months. Improved planning productivity by 40-50%. Prepared and presented strategic and tactical packages to enable quick and effective decision making by the steering committees.
• Lead the global planning team for the Fuse to Order initiative. Implemented Fuse to Order in multiple sites globally and saved $1.8M.
• Designed, developed, and deployed Supply Line Management / Inventory Replenishment programs with Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, and Confidential . Reduced Confidential total days of inventory by 20-30% with no stock outs.
• Co-lead the Supply Network Productivity team and saved $6.8M. Implemented the new operating structure, process, incentives, and indicators.
• As the Operations Leader on the Core Team, contributed to the due diligence and successful acquisition of an $800M company.
• Beat the material cost goals by aggressively managing the materials planning and execution for the first 64-bit prototype.

Product Supply Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Reported to the CEO/Exec Team. Primary focus was to identify and resolve worldwide demand and supply issues for PowerPC based Servers and Monitors.
• Propelled the fastest server product launch for the government contract in 2.5 months.
• Accelerated the transition of server business to Confidential in less than 60 days.
• Developed a supply chain reengineering proposal (including benchmarking) in 4 months.

General Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible ($40M) and operational aspects of a global supply chain logistics company with over 90 employees in 13 distribution centers. Shipped 25-30 million units per month and consistently met the aggressive operational metrics and delighted the 40+ Confidential 100 Customers. Received the “Worldwide Supplier of the year” award two years in a row.
• Managed supplier and carrier (union) negotiations and contracts. No major compliance issues from audits by regulatory agencies .
• Achieved $1M cost reductions by working collaboratively with employees, stakeholders, suppliers, and customers.
• Proposed and orchestrated the start-up of a creative Telemarketing program with Confidential enhancing the revenue for Confidential and Confidential .

VP of Operations

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Reported to the Chairman/CEO.
• Responsible for appraising the financial and operational performance of five manufacturing plants.
• Divested two plants and slashed costs by $2.8M.