SUMMARY

A senior level IT Professional with over 20 years of experience in Project Management, Strategic Sourcing, Application Development and Management. Extensive experience in implementing PMO best practices, governance processes, and contract negotiation. I have 10 years of serving as a Director level in large and midsize organizations, and have created PMO teams and processes from concept to best in class. I have directly managed hundreds of projects, mergers and acquisitions, and led and mentored other PM's for years. I have been fortunate to become a recognized expert in this area, even serving as a PMO of the Year judge for the last 3 years. After taking the summer off to sail the Great Lakes with my son, I am eager to jump back into working again and join a growing organization to help deliver the significant business benefits that can be achieved through PMO practices and Portfolio Management.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

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Director, Project Delivery and PMO

• Served as PMO Director for a Public Retirement Systems Software Company.
• Mentored other PM's on assignment throughout the U.S. and was personally responsible for more than a dozen strategic projects and programs to deliver business process and technology for large public and private retirement companies.
• Recognized by a client CEO in 2011 for leading the largest projects ever undertaken for a 5B pension fund.
• Successfully delivered projects and programs on time and within budget including:
• CRM MS Dynamics , Great Plains, SharePoint.
• Defined Benefit Retirement systems, Web Self Service, Employer Reporting Modules.
• Launching a Defined Contribution Program Health Care Savings Product.
• Led Requirements Sessions, Process Design, and selection of vendor partners.
• Implementation of proprietary enterprise systems for Defined Benefit, 401K, 457.

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Senior Manager, Global Information Systems - Strategic Outsourcing

• Led the Whirlpool Enterprise Core Team to implement a 250M Global IT Outsourcing program for Whirlpool Corporation.
• This program consisted of Infrastructure and Application outsourcing for the largest appliance manufacturer in the world
• Sourcing and contract negotiation
• Strategy Definition and Benefits Realization
• Global IT Governance Processes
• Travelled extensively across five continents implementing a global outsourcing agreement between the world's largest global appliance manufacturer and the world's two largest global IT service providers.
• Responsible for strategic sourcing, contract negotiations, SLA coordination, vendor audit, and performance issue resolution activities with all key strategic vendors across the enterprise.

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Director, Innovation and Planning Department

• Responsible for developing and directing the activities of both the PMO and VMO teams within the department.
• o The Vendor Management Office VMO team leads the strategic sourcing, contract negotiations, SLA coordination, vendor audit, and performance issue resolution activities with all key strategic vendors across the enterprise. Nearly 200M in contractual relationships are managed under the VMO team, and the team is directly responsible for the creation, negotiation, and successful results of all large sourcing contracts.
• o The Project Management Office PMO team leads the creation and implementation of the strategic plan for the entire enterprise. The strategic plan is defined or refined annually, and once approved by the Board the PMO team continues to work directly with the executive staff sponsors to successfully deliver the broad range of projects and programs which comprise the Enterprise Strategic Plan.
• My team was recognized nationally for innovation and best practices as 2008 PMO of the Year across US companies for their structure, processes, and results.
• Created and led contracting programs and outsourcing initiatives that reduced millions in costs for the company
• Implemented the Project Portfolio Management and Governance frameworks for the entire enterprise
• Led mergers and acquisitions activities and received the Presidents Award from the CEO

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Director of Contracts and Planning

• Recognized by Gartner Group as the organizations Most Valuable Player , and also as a pioneer in creating a Vendor Management Office VMO in a Government IT organization.
• Identified, negotiated and led initiatives that successfully reduced more than 50 million annually in IT related costs across State government.
• Directly negotiated and served as the ongoing contract administrator for hundreds of multi-million dollar contracts with Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, EDS, Deloitte, Accenture, Unisys, Novell, Dell, HP, Verizon, AT T, Nextel, and more than 400 other local and global suppliers.
• Selected to be part of the new department's Executive Staff that led a statewide re-organization affecting 1700 employees, and more than 1300 contracted IT staff.
• Served as a change leader for the development and created programs, policies, organization structures, and provided direct leadership to other State Managers in the organization.
• Led the development of several Business Process Re-engineering BPR efforts that streamlined 20 different government procurement and contracting processes into a single, integrated model across all State Government agencies.
• Was recognized and inducted into the ComputerWorld Honor's Laureate Program for creating and implementing an electronic purchasing program that reduced costs and eliminated non-value added work for employees, suppliers, counties, cities, and other government staff.
• Managed a department of more than 50 staff persons including lawyers, subordinate managers, specialists, contract administrators, technical administrative staff.
• Personally reviewed negotiated dozens of complex multi-million dollar IT contracts, RFP's, bids and proposals for one of the largest IT organizations in the United States.
• In addition to the roles above, I began my career as an engineer and project manager in the early 1990's working for General Motors and EDS. I was promoted very quickly throughout my career and have been fortunate to be part of some excellent and high performing project teams.