Executive Profile

Experienced executive with proven success leading organizations through transformations and ongoing business changes. Decisive, action driven leader with intuitive ability to unite management, stakeholders and support staff to translate vision into cost-effective corporate strategy, goal alignment and execution. Provides leadership, management oversight, communications and coordination over programs and projects crossing organizational, functional and geographic boundaries. Strong technical qualifications with impressive performance in M A, Information Technology, Project Management Offices PMOs , and business process improvement across multiple industries. Capable coach and mentor who is deeply interested in colleague success and builds colleague capabilities, continuing to raise the talent level of an organization.

Professional Experience

Confidential

Founder Senior Operations and IT Consultant

specializes in helping organizations achieve and sustain business change throughout their organization. The company assists clients in developing and executing strategies to achieve corporate objectives by delivering services such as mergers and acquisition support, business operations and IT strategy development and planning, program execution and business process improvement. Additional services include establishing Project/Program Management Offices PMOs to ensure client projects and programs are aligned with company strategy and are delivered on time / on budget achieving the desired business results. Client examples include assisting a major Financial Services organization with a transformation effort and assisting an Information Management Consulting Services Company with Project Management delivery capabilities.

Confidential

• Key Challenge: Just prior to the economic downturn there was a desire by the business unit to improve operational efficiency to free up critical resources for other strategic projects. As head of BPR, I needed to develop, sell and execute a plan for achieving 25 productivity improvement.
• Selected Accomplishments:
• Conducted diagnostic operations review, base lined existing operations, provided recommendations on improvement areas, built consensus and gained management approval for three year Portfolio plan with associated projects, resources, costs and timelines
• Managed execution of BPR conceptual design through detailed design and development, achieving 30 operational productivity improvement expanded process improvement efforts with three Lean Value Stream projects, also achieving 30 operational productivity improvement
• Directed internal and external resources in successful implementation of operational change by establishing consistent, repeatable process for operational improvement
• Established management structure and processes for Senior Management Steering Committee oversight, leading to unified management approach for program prioritization and decision making

Confidential

SVP,

• Key Challenge: Company had grown through multiple acquisitions, were not operating efficiently or effectively, and the business was unhappy with the service.
• Selected Accomplishments:
• Developed and implemented vision and plan for Global IT Project Management Office PMO including organization structure, budget, staffing, methods, process and tools to support the vision
• Structured IT Project Portfolio planning process to align and prioritize IT project spending and resources which drove reductions of 30 29 million during first year, and 15 in subsequent years monitored progress against plan for executive management steering committee action and decision making developed quarterly re-forecast of annual plan to reflect changing business priorities
• Developed business case and implemented MS Project Server to support Portfolio Management and Resource Management efforts
• Led development, gained Senior Management approval and implemented Global IT standards that reduced risk and enabled efficient, effective global IT management including Portfolio and Resource Management , project delivery, operational and security processes
• Developed robust, top-down sustainable Sarbanes-Oxley SOX IT compliance process to successfully meet SEC rules worked with external auditors to modify initial process and institutionalize efforts resulting in annual savings of 1 million in consulting fees and internal resource efforts of 30

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• Manager Strategy Practice of the Management Consulting Services
• Key Challenge: Two Big 6 firms were merging and needed to integrate their operations.
• Selected Accomplishments:
• Provided decisive, action driven leadership of specially created Program Management Office PMO which monitored integration of Price Waterhouse and Coopers Lybrand business operations resulting in on time, on budget completion identified issues in IT architecture and IT application decisions that saved the firm millions of dollars and months of work
• Supported management consulting organization, working around issues of competitive intelligence, to develop and deploy unified PwC IT Strategy that minimized overlap between the two organizations
• Pioneered Knowledge Management practice collaborated with sales partners to close consulting engagements of up to 2 million for high tech and service based organizations
• Minimized disruption to client business operations by evaluating and mitigating business risks associated with a series of major business consolidations, outsourcing and systems conversion
• Improved operational efficiencies through business process reengineering BPR utilizing Key Performance Indicators KPI and metrics
• Built operational strategy and process models, defined IT strategy, architecture and action plans to support a major insurance carrier's transition from traditional indemnity to managed care