| PROFILE Information Technology Management professional with experience in manufacturing, insurance, and petroleum industries. Demonstrated leadership in project management, technology planning, vendor relationship management and day-to-day management of IT Operations , Data Administration, Application s Development, Networking , Infrastructure , Help Desk and Information Security personnel. Cost conscience leader focused on managing expectations and meeting commitments. SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS Project Management - Project Manager for multi-million dollar IT projects with project team sizes of 6 to 60. The projects varied from :
- ERP implementatio ns including financial modules
- Applications development for multiple business functions such as claims, pharmacy, order entry, invoicing, pricing, customer master, and product definition
- Data warehousing
- Infrastructure and tech nology deployments and upgrades
- Successfully completed projects in a matrixed environment with internal and external staff.
- Directed the development of Annual Technical plans that were aligned with business objectives. Successfully implemented over 100 projects per year.
IT and Vendor Management - Managed personnel from every discipline within IT. Team sizes ranged from 8 to 50.
- Developed and controlled IT budgets as large as 20M. Track record of staying under budget and pursuing cost savings.
- Authored numerous capital appropriation requests to justify hardware, software and services acquisitions with a focus on improving efficiency and reducing costs .
- Managed vendor relationships with outsourcing vendors including IBM, EDS, and MCI.
- Negotiated contracts with a variety of software and services providers including Oracle CA.
- Lead IT procurement activities for the purchase of software, hardware, data voice networks and services. Experience publishing Requests for Proposals RFP .
- Developed and enfor ced IT standards and procedures.
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