Expert Profile
A proven leader in both the corporate and the entrepreneurial world, I have enjoyed and continue to enjoy a wide variety of technical, business, and industry experiences. While the majority of my career has been focused on technology and the design, support and maintenance of large scale corporate applications, I have also enjoyed career roles on the Vendor side, leading a professional services team, consulting, running my own management and software consulting company as well as running a small US based import sales and operations firm. As a consultant I have worked in and have had exposure to the operations of Software Development, Retail, Manufacturing, Banking, Finance, Government, Health Services, Insurance and more. Have managed a very diverse work force and have built teams from the ground up including onshore, offshore and near shore. I have managed budgets up to $50m in Capital Spend and total portfolio of $400m. I am a passionate leader who believes in working with emotional intelligence, while leveraging individual and team strengths.
My key industry strengths are in the areas of:
· IT senior management
· Strategic Planning
· Software and Application Development Expertise
· Product, Program and Project management
· Account Management, Relationship Management, PMO
· Consultant background with management consulting and IT experience in: Retail, Manufacturing, Software Development, Health services, Finance, Banking, HR, Data Warehouse, BPM an more
· Have lead a number of IT organizations through changes including outsourcing and building teams from the ground up
· Have managed projects greater that 50 million in capital dollars and have overseen portfolios greater than 400 million in a fortune 50 corporation
· Have managed large teams in multiple locations through out US, Canada, Philippines and India
· Supply Chain expertise (Awarded 2008 top 25 Supply Chain Executive by the Global Supply Chain Leadership Group) – Recently working with Sustainability Consortium.
· Recently led Safeway through A Supply Chain Transformation including; organizational accountabilities, Business process engineering, Systems innovation, Skills and Training, and Performance Metrics.
· Have also run smaller teams including running 2 small businesses