Independent External Advisor Resume New York, NY - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

International transformation executive with the ability to drive C - level alignment around complex enterprise technology and operational solutions that deliver deep financial and organizational benefits to the business.
Strong technologist focused on identifying forward-looking strategy and managing high performing cross-tower teams to deliver solutions.
Seasoned mergers and acquisitions transformation lead with extensive operational separation and integration/consolidation experience.
Lived and traveled abroad developing a sensitivity to individuals with diverse cultural backgrounds.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

Independent External Advisor

Responsibilities:

Steered development of Day 1 integration plan and cutover approach.
Successfully established governance to provide transformational leader clear understanding of ongoing program status.

Confidential, Livingston, NJ

Senior Vice President

Responsibilities:

Established & led strategic road map which included infrastructure and application teams to migrate over 375 applications during more than 100 migration events; 38 Confidential country network upgrades; reduction of 775+ physical servers within region with introduction of virtualization; consolidation of European Data Centers and resources.
Successfully drove global negotiations for $164 million enterprise outsourcing of field services, asset management, and client engineering functions supporting 55,000 users in 72 countries with a total cost savings of $8+ million.
Proactively managed budget to deliver $5.5 million surplus while increasing quality and Service Levels to key Business Units facilitating delivery of increased functionality and revenue across the Confidential region.
Initiated rigorous change review processes to decrease Sev1 incidents by 39% and Sev2 incidents by 27%.
Globally managed Data Privacy and Data Residency effort to obtain legal, DPA & Regulatory approval for 101 legal entities to support data center migrations from 71 countries worldwide to the USA.
Negotiated Two-Way Commercial Service Level Agreements with all global Confidential legal entities which included MSA (Managed Service Agreements) and OLA (Operational Level Agreements) over a nine-month period; critical to the operations and management of the global transformation process and TOM (Target Operating Model).

Vice President

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Drove design of 150 complex global technology solutions to address unique technology separation challenges posed by need to divest 40 business units simultaneously across a two-year period - including extranet solution across 38 countries, mainframe logical separation, email conversions, active directory restructuring, and logical separation solutions across 300 applications.
Designated by CIO as Confidential ’s single point of accountability for technology component of deal execution, including advising leadership on technology divestitures decisions and issues, presenting options and recommending solutions.
Organized and led large technology teams with an average 100-200 global resources and $50- $100 million technology budget on each deal; set direction, established consistent structure, oversaw execution and focused on driving urgency and rapid decision making.

Confidential, Parsippany, NJ

Global Manager

Responsibilities:

Drove turnaround in customer satisfaction while dramatically reducing cost of delivery:
Increased from 70% to 92% in less than 3 years and then maintained high level for next 2 years; highest rating of any Confidential Worldwide Technology team.
Secured 65% cost reduction through systematic transformation of environment.
Directed integration alignment across Confidential & Pharmacia organizations resulting 15% synergy savings in less than one year.

Confidential, Parsippany, NJ and Rye Brook, NY

Senior Manager

Responsibilities:

Led organizational alignment from decentralized to centralized operating model to deliver communication and collaboration services.
Established common technology and operational platform to drive 30% staff reduction and 20% reduction delivery time.
Leveraged central operational model to effectively integrate Confidential ($14.9 billion acquisition), separate Miller Brewing ($5.6 billion divestiture) and support Kraft’s $8.7 billion IPO while driving synergy savings.
Implemented operational consolidation of decentralized collaboration infrastructure driving industry-leading trend in collaboration technology adoption.
Created and enforced centrally managed standards, policies, and protocols.
Wrote and published for CEO, detailing company’s IT usage and current industry trends in e-business world.
Defined scope and budget of projects based on business needs and strategic initiatives.
IT lead of Privacy Council - evaluated, recommended and implemented improvements to the CIO concerning the Confidential Privacy Principles.