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Senior Information Technology Director

AECOM is a civil engineering company which provides designs, builds, finances and operates infrastructure assets in more than 150 countries.

Senior technology professional with broad experience in presenting and implementing innovative business solutions that exceed customer expectations. Proven ability in the fields of strategy development, organization design and change management, M&A, collaboration technologies, project management, process modeling, application development, infrastructure, architecture, governance, outsourcing and vendor management. Led several IT transformation initiatives in which led to stable and flexible IT environments capable of supporting business needs into the future. Personal career highlights include: - Defined organizations, built high performing teams, influenced, coached and mentored team members and peers - Able to communicate effectively with business leaders and IT professionals - Led one of the largest email migrations from an on-premise environment to the Microsoft cloud. Consolidating 8 email systems down to 1 while migrating ~ 80,000 mailboxes and saving the company over $1 million/year - Implemented Cisco Unified Communications (Jabber, WebEx) to 70,000 employees globally across 140 countries. Consolidated from 10+ conferencing tools down to 1 and saving the company $2.5 million over 3 years - Consolidated the video conferencing solution across over 350 sites onto a single platform while insourcing the support and saving the company ~ $2 million / year - Able to effectively develop and implement short and long range planning goals and to effect and lead change as required - ERP experience includes Oracle HR, Purchasing and Payroll and SAP Financials and CRM - Process Modeling – experience in Six Sigma, Lean methodologies and tools - Extensive procurement experience across multi-sourcing, outsourcing and offshoring - Part of the AECOM-URS merger, the largest M&A project in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction space. Led the consolidation and integration effort in the collaboration space