SUMMARY:

A highly - experienced leader who has a passion for achieving results, exceptional motivational qualities, proven ability to establish, lead and participate in successful departments, programs and cross-functional and diverse teams, and has excellent problem-solving and organizational skills. Experience with developing strategic plans for Global implementation and operation of services and products across multiple business sectors. Career highlights with oversight into revenues of $3.1 billion, managing spends ranging to $750 million and delivering annual saving of up to $60 million. Up to 27 direct reports and 125 indirect reports.

SKILL HIGHLIGHTS:

• Strategic Leadership
• Communications
• Operational Leadership
• Vendor Management
• Profit & Loss/Budgeting
• Continuous Improvement
• Governance
• Operational Leadership
• Process Improvement
• Team Building
• Coaching & Mentoring
• Mediation
• Industry Sectors
• Automotive e-commerce Government Insurance Medical Real Estate Retail Technology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Transition / Asset Manager Consultant

Confidential, Plano, TX

Responsibilities:

• Developed, implemented and managed Business case, Project charter, effort and cost estimation, contractual agreements, production solutions, exit criteria, stepdown methodology, financial stepdown calculations, calculation method and governance cadence, project plan, scheduling and tracking.
• Developed Risk Management Plan, Risk prioritization, mitigation and communication management.
• Enforced adherence to quality norms, and provided metrics reporting, project status reports and executive dashboard.
• As the client Interface, developed client reporting, planning in line with client milestone roadmap, issue resolution, invoicing and credit management.

Sr. Merger and Acquisition / Asset Manager Consultant

Confidential, Kirkland, WA

Responsibilities:

• Developed and implement reports that pull data from various M&A sources with vendor, contracts, license entitlements, users, installations, usage, renewal, procurement status, and data gaps and research and develop standardized SAM processes, determine proper course of action for each respect vendor and product and proceed with processing.
• Manage and interpret software agreements, determine use rights, and provide key terms and conditions summaries to stakeholders; working with legal as needed.
• Implemented SAM compliance and governance guidelines ensuring compliance by comparing current and future usage plans with use right, migrating and resolving noncompliance issues and ensuring ongoing continual greenlight operations.
• Developed SAM M&A Playbook, vendor process playbook for transferring contracts, divestitures and terminations.

Global SAM, Merger and Acquisition Consultant

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Develop reports that pull data from various sources showing license entitlements, installations, usage, renewal, procurement status, and data gaps and research and develop standardized SAM processes.
• Manage and interpret software agreements, determine use rights, and provide key terms and conditions summaries to stakeholders; working with legal as needed.
• Implement SAM compliance and governance guidelines ensuring compliance by comparing current and future usage plans with use right, migrating and resolving noncompliance issues and ensuring continual operations.
• Develop and implement roadmap for IT Asset Management capability and Continual Improvement Plan for Asset Management & Configuration Management as a strategic approach to hybrid service model.
• Research, developed business case, procured and implanted Service Now with CMDB and 3rd party discovery.

Sr Negotiator

Confidential, Boston, MA

Responsibilities:

• Design and developed comprehensive analysis of investment to date, future investment, break-even analysis of licenses, processors, application users, cache, and hosting.
• Review and interpret contract use rights of the number of licenses calculated with ULA, evaluate results against actual use to create contract models of ULA vs exit options.
• Design and manage contract true - up, certification process, audit, and license management services to accept the counted numbers at the end of the contract.
• Recommend end of agreement option based on various in scope consideration, summary report, financial models to support the recommendation and secondary option.

Global Enterprise IT Procurement / Asset Manager Consultant

Confidential, Beaverton, OR

Responsibilities:

• Managed Enterprise portfolio of strategic and key vendors by providing the strategy and building the framework for strategic vendor management to add additional value to the partnerships with Confidential .
• Established strategic sourcing processes and related disciplines (e.g., RFx development and execution, targeted negotiations, budget, business case, financial model, risk analysis, appropriations request)
• Collaborated with internal and external stakeholders, providing expertise and decisions for technology expenditures for purchases, lease, ELA, source to pay, outsource products and services.
• Developed, managed and maintain SAM program procurement, licensing, compliance, distribution, divestitures, strategic roadmap of technology landscape: current, future, like to have, divestiture, new ask, growth, short term, and long-term hardware/software technology requirements.
• Implemented Service Now with phased departmental transition for North America enterprise use.

Global Procurement, Asset Manager and Governance Consultant

Confidential, Mahwah, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Implemented strategic approach to gather and analyze contracting market trends and align the right contract structure to project requirements, competitive pricing, and service models.
• Managed enterprise vendors with respect to Contract Renewal, Invoice Review, Performance Management, vendor dashboard reporting on service level agreements (SLAs) on an Operational level and Vendor level producing accurate status, potential interruption of agreements and generating documented vendor accountability, and adherence to defined processes needed to support IT Services.
• Develop sourcing solutions and perform pricing and solution analysis for tactical outsourcing with selected vendor establishing vendor governance framework including SLAs, escalation policy, procedure and security assessment controls, budgeted expense targets through effective strategy implementation.

Global Transition and Implementation / Asset Manager Consultant

Confidential, Collierville, TN

Responsibilities:

• Created the strategic approach to align seven Confidential Global Operating Companies to a harmonized IT Infrastructure and Operations foundational IT Services platform creating a globally managed uniform platform.
• Collaborated globally with each Confidential operating company creating a structure of program implementation driving IT Operations and Management teams to produce results for discovery, as-is and to-be, analysis IT infrastructure and major impact Vendor Services.
• Identify areas of inefficiencies and establish strategic solutions to reduce cost, streamline vendors and renegotiate major financial impact consolidated services resulting immediate impact $2 million savings with projected $8 million global cost savings next fiscal year.
• Established Global standardization and transition of enterprise platform from HP, define scope, framework, transition plan, resources and develop business process: design, definition, development handbooks for Standard Operating Procedures with Roles & Responsibilities, KPIs & metrics for Service Now.

Sr Merger and Acquisition SAM Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed Program implantation within budget of $2 Million, negotiated agreements with aggregated spends totaling $10 Million, brought in resources within designated total package cap.
• Evaluates, select, transition and monitoring of contractual agreements for the organization's strategic vendors to the ITAM Program model renegotiating, consolidating, and reducing redundant supplier agreements with total saving $1.5 million.
• Review IT resource expenditure and volume purchase agreements (hardware and software for strategic analysis and reconstruction of agreements to meet operational business needs through ITAM Program implementation.
• Oversee business aspects of project by providing senior guidance in the constructing of project teams, charters, project plans, resourcing, contingencies, success metrics and ROI measurements