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Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Global Technology

A global company that provides information, software, and services to professionals in four main areas: healthcare, tax, law and finance, that allows them to make decisions with confidence.

Technology Executive with a comprehensive set of disciplines, leading a Global Technology organization to establish and enforce architectural standards, best practices with respect to automated scalability testing, data center operations and high availability solutions, technology and product re-use across multiple geographies, agile development practices, contextual design principles, outsourcing/offshoring strategies, and innovation processes. Led visioning, planning, and delivery of many large technology projects, often using new technologies. Led several projects which were recognized with technology and/or innovation awards within the tax & accounting industry. Also, possess rich skill set around financial modeling and forecasting, capitalizing development costs, and large project and program management. Attended executive business programs at the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University and Ashridge Business School in England. Have authored technology updates for technology magazines, contributed to Gartner reserach papers on agile development, and served as a member of Microsoft's Advisory Board for ISVs.