SUMMARY:

• Senior IT leader with a 20+ year career in managing IT department and operations including managing mission - critical and global IT assets in the Treasury, Expense Management, Credit and Collection, and Internal Audit spaces.
• Hands-on strength for building and effectively implementing complex solutions within the Finance, Treasury, PC manufacturing, Healthcare, Oil and Gas, and IT consulting service industries.
• Successful experience in managing high-performing global PMO and IT organizations
• Successfully program managed and migrated 500+ legacy bank accounts worldwide to the Confidential model.
• Strategic and operational technology leader credited with successfully heading and executing multiple projects in 46 countries and delivering 13 projects totaling $30M budget.
• Hands on experience in cost management and vendor management. Participated in vendor product reviews and contract negotiation.

KEY AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Business & IT Strategy Development

Build Effective Global Teams

Project & Delivery Oversight

Strategic Technology Visioning

PMO Leadership

System Implementation & Integration

CAREER PROGRESSION AND PERFORMANCE:

Confidential

Construction Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple Real Estate construction projects in parallel to ensure on-time task completion, budget control, audit subcontractor invoices, and risk mitigation.
• Resolved conflicts between contractors and subcontractors spurred from scope changes, weather delays, or vendor personalities.
• Created weekly dashboards and reports to senior management on status of each project.

Confidential

SAP Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for implementing new SAP Fieldglass Finance functionalities into 15 countries.
• Coordinate implementation of SAP Fieldglass financial processes including:
• Partnering with vendor management team to ensure implementation of global financial processes align with overall project timeline.
• Gathering inputs from global business units and leadership on specific department modification and convert these into finance requirements.
• Assist in driving resolutions on decision points with key sponsors.
• Establish and drive timeline for required milestones.
• Drive required enhancements such as global sales tax calculation and posting to proper general ledger accounts.

Program Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Hands on experience in SAP greenfield implementation.
• Successfully retired legacy Credit and Collection from Java applications into SAP S4 HANA FSCM.
• Managed a global team of 3 people managers and 20+ contributors within Finance IT focusing on Employee Expense, Credit and Collection, Internal Audit, and Treasury spaces.
• Program managed the global SAP Concur implementation to replace a homegrown expense application across 26 countries while leading a global team of 20+ with $2.1MM budget.
• Recruited, mentored, trained, and supervised junior Project Managers and individual contributors in the Oracle, SQL, C#, Java, and SAP S4 HANA spaces.

Program Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Administered Data Center separation (RE-IP) for 600+ Global Function IT applications with 1800+ servers.
• Prepared and presented RE-IP weekly progress reports to business unit VPs, IT Directors, Managers, and PMs that resulted in businesses’ improved reliability, enhanced efficiency, and established scalability for future growth.
• Successfully managed Credit and Collection, Employee Expense, Treasury, and Internal Audit workstreams during HPE and DXC divestiture in 2016.
• Successfully program managed 3 Finance work-streams enabling HPE and HPI divestiture in 2015 by duplicated all infrastructure, software, and data separation.
• Managed cross-functional teams to modify 30+ global applications in 12 countries.

Senior Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Received CIO Excellence s in 2014 for Risk Taking by implementing Puerto Rico BUT project. Accelerated delivery through Agile-fall (hybrid of Agile and waterfall) methodology. Reduced project timeline by 3 months.
• Received CIO Excellence in 2013 for Canada project for reducing project timeline by 40% and reducing project resource demand by 25%. Modified 20+ IT assets (SAP, vendor owned, and homegrown).

IT Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• DevelopedIT strategic visionfor the bank and drove key departmental objectives including improved client engagement and applications support.
• Spearheaded and insourced of an IT organization from scratch in a bridge-gap manager capacity.
• Implemented a structured IT governance model and re-built trust with vendors (Pitney Bows).
• Recruited, directed, trained, and mentored cross-functional IT infrastructure/operations team on projects to cost-effectively increase growth, performance and capacity in existing environments.

IT Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Governed multiple multimillion-dollar mission-critical ODM integration projects (Motegi, Pictaflex, OFS) including hosting kickoff summit, writing BRD, creating disaster recovery plans, customer support teams, interlocking and improving process flows.
• Spearheaded deployment of OFS into China factories by significantly re-designing the order download process.
• Reduced factory down time by 20% through improving order process flow for Malaysia, China, and India factories via streamlined disaster recovery procedures.

Senior Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Key liaison between the IT and business teams that helped identify business process flow issues. Solve them with customized IT software.
• Mentored and supervised team of 15 junior developers in coding standards, code review, and problem solving.
• Monitored, risk mitigated and kept projects within financial scope.

Senior .NET Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Served as co-architect and senior .NET developer on consulting project to design various customized applications for Lyondell-Citgo Refinery (LCR).
• Created a mission critical application, using ASP.NET (C#), SQL2000, stored procedures, and triggers, that assists operation managers to monitor work activities. It automatically notifies designated users when deviations or potential issues had occurred.
• Developed an internal application, using ASP.NET, VB.NET, and Oracle 8i, that integrated vender’s system to provide LCR specified features and security. This application exceeded LCR expectation and company executives decided to package and sell it.
• Created an internal ASP.NET (C#) application that integrates 3 systems with 3 different databases in order to eliminate redundant data and functionality. This internal application also served as security verification system where it provided real-time employee information. Accurate active employee and be determined within seconds, thus, denying reentry of terminated or potential disgruntled employees. This was a major security risk for the refinery prior to the release of this application.
• Created upgrades to an internal oil and gas trading application created in VB.NET. This application was designed by an outside vender and end users experienced various issues since it went live. It was necessary to modify some of the core functionalities in order to perform daily functions.

Senior .NET Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for replacing the legacy system that Stewart Title uses to generate over $9million dollars in annual sales.
• Designed open system utilizing frameworks to achieve a scalable plug-in architecture to allow for new business rules to be implemented utilizing data-driven .NET reflection.
• System architected solely on the .NET platform, utilizing ASP.NET/VB.Net as presentation layers, VB.NET for application servers and middle-tier, and SQL Server. Scalability achieved via asynchronous messaging design utilizing XML and MSMQ to communicate between sub-systems.
• Developed middle-tier application server responsible for delivering all products/services to integrated clients.
• Architecture was loosely coupled to allow for multiplexing between various plug-in communication protocols and delivery formats.
• In-depth knowledge of .NET framework and use it to dynamically load assemblies, create socket connections, create multi-thread objects as well as mutex objects, and writes directly to the print driver.
• Created web services to process messages from outside the DMZ and provide information to communicate between internal sub-systems.
• Wrote low level printer code to dynamically create PDF and PCL files.
• Created secured desktop applications using VB.NET that allowed authenticated India employee to process United States web orders. Company’s first step towards offshore workforce.
• Reduced product size by 66% using the new system and architecture. Increased customer’s satisfaction by providing a faster and more stable product delivery.