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Vice President Technical Operations

Spigit is the global leader in Enterprise Innovation Management, helping organizations unleash the creativity of employees, customers and partners to find transformative ideas that drive growth. Leveraging crowdsourcing, game mechanics and big data analytics, Spigit's platform is helping the world's leading brands invent disruptive products, generate new revenue streams, build an innovation culture, reduce costs and significantly improve employee and customer engagement. Highly respected companies in the Retail, Healthcare, Financial, Technology, Government, Insurance, Utilities and Pharmaceutical industries use Spigit. Headquartered in San Francisco's Bay Area, Spigit is the innovation engine that drives growth and a key player in the social enterprise market. Spigit was recognized in the 2012 Inc. 500|5000 as the #1 fastest growing private software company in the California and the 4th fastest growing company in the software sector in the United States.

Accomplished IT leader recognized for: - Creating strong partnerships between executive leaders, customers, and IT groups - Building teams, managing across organizational and geographic boundaries - Leading business process re-engineering programs - Creating and implementing technology road maps - Leading organizational transformations - Leading business merger, and business divestiture IT programs - Leading Information Security programs - Communicating effectively and gaining executive sponsorship for key programs - Developing strategic vendor relationships - Building and operating Software as a Service (SaaS) products - Delivering SOX, SAS 70, SSAE 16 compliant business results - Managing annual budgets >$20M direct, >$40M indirect, including P&L responsibility - Managing personnel >130 direct, >300 indirect, both local and remote Specialties: Software development, application development, agile development, application support, PMO, technical operations, data center operations, technical support, information security, IT security, data privacy, risk analysis, risk management, disaster recovery, business continuity, SSAE 16, SOC 2, FedRAMP, SOX, GLBA, HIPAA, ISO 27000, GDPR, PCI, private cloud, SaaS operations, sales compensation, incentive compensation, CRM, on-demand, CISM, CIPT