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Executive Vice President, Integrated Strategy

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I lead IT infrastructure project teams as we plan for the future, deploy technology changes before they are required and continuously develop team members to be prepared for what comes next. Near-Term Planning•Technology Roadmaps – Established process to collect technical details, financial figures and resource expectations within a framework for peers, leadership and customers to consume and clearly understand.•Multi-year Capital Budgets - Leveraging technology roadmaps, multi-year technology funding needs are highly visible – my teams significantly reduced preparation time for annual budgeting.•Technology Advisors– Established infrastructure advisory board to make seasoned engineers available to application teams and improving the quality of conceptual designs, reducing the frequency and impact of last-minute request while increasing team productivity and morale.Optimized Project Execution•Clarity and Visibility – By implementing project management standards, infrastructure project managers delivered resource efficiencies, quicker escalations and increased visibility into costs.•Program Optimization – To optimize capitalize labor dollars and reduce waste, I looked for opportunities to combine segmented work and resources across the IT portfolio – delivering savings as much as $10,000 per external resource and $250,000 annually.•IT Expense Optimization – Project sponsor to review and optimize IT recurring expenses which identified and delivered over $10M in recurring expense savings over 2-year project duration.On-going Team Development•Vacation Teamwork – To balance time off and project delivery timelines, I required project managers to support each other and facilitate meetings/calls for each other during PTO. Not only did this program improve the quality of time off, but it also established technical cross training.