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Vice President, Information Technology

Vixxo is a leading technology-enabled facility and asset management provider for many Fortune 500 clients in the restaurant, retail, convenience, and supermarket industries. Their solutions are designed to revolutionize and optimize clients' multisite portfolios by improving service delivery, reducing costs and providing strategic insights - all aimed at lowering total cost of ownership. Based in Scottsdale, Arizona, Vixxo maintains a national network of 150,000 service provider technicians and services over 65,000+ client locations.

Technology executive with expertise leading strategic enterprise IT initiatives, optimizing productivity and reducing cost. Change agent with skill influencing and motivating cross-business organizational and technology change in an atmosphere of rapid structural and competitive changes, mergers and acquisitions. “Go-to” IT leader frequently tapped by senior team to guide mission-critical programs / projects. Business planner, administrator, negotiator and project manager involved at executive levels of billion dollar companies. Academic credentials include MBA in Electronic Business. Broad experience in the following disciplines: • Financial/ Manufacturing systems• Human Resource Mgmt Systems (HRMS)• Customer Relationship Management (CRM)• Sales Force Automation (SFA)• Web applications and content management• Inventory Control applications• Configuration management• Full life-cycle development methodologies• Organizational and competency developmentExcel in executive-level IT leadership roles with progressive, expanding organizations.Specialties: Extensive experience deploying and supporting large-scale PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems; Siebel, SalesLogix and Clarify Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software; Web portals and custom integration between these and other external systems.Blend of IT, business, financial, and general management experience. Solid track record of successful IT start-ups, organizational development, and mergers and acquisitions support. Project Management Professional (PMP) Certified.