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Fortune 500 and Chief Information Officer and Chief Technology Officer and CISO

Caesars Entertainment is a hospitality company that offers entertainment,gaming dining and meetings.

As a senior executive, I provide expertise in business innovation through the use of technology to entities ranging from Fortune 500 companies to industry-disrupting startups. My professional passion lies in expanding the creative thought process and cultivating the business discipline required to develop billion dollar opportunities and change the competitive landscape.Having successfully deployed several industry changing technology platforms, I look for big challenges that leverage modern, scalable IT network and software infrastructure, and application architectures. My strengths and expertise lie in strategic planning, technology business management, IT realignment offshoring and outsourcing models, cyber security framework, IT governance/compliance, cloud and e-commerce solutions, and the ITIL framework. I have built two major enterprise IT departments and three companies from the ground up, and have had the pleasure of building and providing leadership to global, cross-functional teams of up to 1,000+ employees and outsourced professionals.I am humbled to have been described as "extraordinary" by the founder, chairman, and CEO of Las Vegas Sands at the 2014 annual shareholders' meeting. And with great appreciation to their understanding of my dedication, my family is a blessing I most fortunate to have and could not succeed without. Global CIO (North America, Asia, Europe) | Enterprise-wide IT | IT Transformation | Cyber Security | NIST | Big Data | Real Time CRM | Mobile Apps | Technology Innovation | Technology Executive | Innovation Leader; Enterprise IT Transformation – repeated success aligning IT function to business needs and creating transformative robust, scalable, and nimble enterprise-level programs where others fail. IT Innovation – built the largest cyber security platform in the gaming industry, the first search engine for the travel industry.