Extensive experience in leading complex Corporate Finance, Shared Services, Operational and Technology implementation strategies, organizational design, process analysis, and financial management. Responsibilities have included building teams, financial oversight and addressing change management on an international basis. |
Executive Summary
Information Technology executive with over 20 years of quantifiable achievements.
Ability to galvanize both IT and business teams to bridge the gap between competing department’s respective goals and objectives.
Ability to quickly identify cost take-out initiatives.
Adept at providing ‘C’ Level presentations and communications.
Extensive experience in providing strategic/practical solutions that generate a clear return on investments for back-office and front-office technical operations.
Experience transcends Fortune 100 companies to privately-held mid-sized companies.
Career responsibilities include IT Strategies to ERP architecture design to application development & infrastructure build-outs.
Cross-processes experience in sales, business unit development and implementation.
Drove simultaneous initiatives working side-by-side with the business to create shared service centers, best practice procurement operations, quote to cash and human resource application process build-outs operating seamlessly on a single platform and product notably with Oracle, but also with other solutions i.e. SAP, Solomon, Platinum. Solid experience with integrating and divesting businesses.
Areas of Knowledge and Expertise
Sales/New Business Development
ERP Processes & Architecture
•Financial Reporting
•Consolidations
•Supply Chain/Procurement
•Customer Relationship Management
•Human Resources
•Self-Service
Profit & Loss
Capital Budgeting and Forecasting
Shared Service Environments
Managed Services
Business/IT Strategy
Global Considerations
Acquisitions/ Mergers
Franchise Systems
Turnarounds
Vendor Management
Internet/Intranet/Extranet
Team Building
Security/Disaster Planning
Training/Mentoring
Organizational Design
Career Profile
Experienced business & technologist, vice-president and consultant– Led a $50m+ global ERP to integrate 30+ countries into regional world-wide shared service centers for 5 divisions noted as leaders in their industries; Transportation, Real Estate, Relocation, Hospitality & Travel. Required C level interaction and presentations during project formation and delivery. Responsible for overall global governance of the initiative.
Offer cross-functional financial and technology management skills - Understand complex global business processes. Worked to stream line and improve processes across the globe. Oversaw change management and return on investment achieving $20million in year-over-year bottom-line process improvement & technology savings. Managed vendor negotiations across multiple product streams, ultimately concluding in a global Enterprise License Agreement achieving $100+million savings by obtaining an 85% implied worldwide discount.
Former consultant for 15 years with sales and business development experience in multiple industries both large and small – Responsible for both sales and delivery of finance and operational technology solutions for small to mid-sized to fortune 100 companies spanning insurance, pharmaceutical, financial service, manufacturing, retail and transportation industries. Responsible for $3million in annual sales, and an internal multi-year effort of $50million.
Career Development - 2006 – Present
Travelport (former division of Cendant sold in July 2006)
Vice President Finance/IT
Spearhead the integration of business processes and technologies. Provided leadership direction and oversight for the financial systems integration of Worldspan, a $1.4 billion acquired global business unit. Responsible for the identifying organizational structures and cost take out by leveraging unifying technologies. Helped drive cost take out for finance, shared services utilizing enabling technologies not limited to finance, e-commerce, procurement, hr and operational solutions. Oversee all aspects of Change Management Life Cycle including internal and external communications, and position changes.
Cendant- 2000 – 2006
Vice President – Strategic Information Technology
Results based individual. Drove one of the top five corporate strategic/business unit initiatives to standardize across Cendant a common ERP. (Cendant was an $18 billion leader in real estate, travel, hospitality, transportation and mortgage industries). Successfully oversaw the strategy, architecture and deployment of a global integrated financial, procurement and customer centric solution. The Firm became one of a select group of Corporations to operate its financials, shared service centers, procurement and customer processes running on a world-class single-installation Oracle Financials Application Suite. Shared service centers were located in the United States, UK and Australia.
Accomplishments include:
•Led the business case development, analysis for an enterprise-wide license agreement with Oracle Corporation that provided the ability to achieve over $100 million in license savings
•Developed repeatable implementations on aggressive timelines proving out our best practice approach
•Established consistent financial close processes for 12 financial organizations that allows superior close times and visibility into its strategic business information.
•Identified and managed an organizational model which helped to establish an effective implementation and support model across the global organization.
•Facilitated the establishment of managed services/outsourcing process for back-office processing
•Responsible for establishing architecture standards across applications, database and hardware.
•Established Best Practice business processes for consolidations, closes, capital planning and payables and receivable shared service operating units across the global organization.
•Implemented an end to end procurement process leveraging the Oracle suite including a supplier portal, catalogue management, requisition and purchase order processes and technology.
•Implemented an end to end customer process leveraging the Oracle suite including quote to cash capabilities, and cash application/lockbox capabilities.
•Conducted a global procurement strategy including supplier auctioning and provisioning
•Responsible for configuration and development activities related to the enterprise initiative
KPMG Peat Marwick LLP 1992 - 2000
Senior Manager – Management Consulting/Strategic Services
Responsible for the development of new business and final delivery across various businesses including insurance, pharmaceutical, financial service, manufacturing, retail and transportation industries. Had responsibility for $3million in annual sales.
Representative KPMG projects:
Financial Services Industries
NatWest – Responsible for the development effort to improve the quality and timeliness of US and UK regulatory and internal reporting for this organization’s investment banking line of business. This effort required the evaluation of the existing business processes and the development of a custom application to support these business requirements and processes.
Cityscape Financials – mid-sized company - Oversaw the implementation of the Oracle suite and process study impacting their processing of application fees. Identified and provided recommendations for improvement related to significant process anomalies in the areas of application process.
ChaseMellon –mid-size company - Led an assessment to increase user productivity and enhance controls for this financial organization’s dividend disbursement operations. The study covered eight key business areas of the organization. Uncovered multiple process irregularities ultimately requiring a forensic investigation.
Manufacturing & Distribution
Kaneka – small/mid-size company - Initiated and drove an SAP R/3 requirements study and implementation study for a Japanese process manufacturer. The engagement required an in-depth process flow analysis for all areas of the company’s business, presenting re-engineering recommendations leading up to a U.S. wide implementation.
Schenectady International - small/mid-size company - Conducted a financial process transformation and ERP study.
Sumitomo Wiring Systems - - small/mid-size company – Responsible for a company-wide transformation study
Daewoo – Implemented network remote communications capabilities. At the time Citrix was a leading edge solution. Led their MAS90 deployment for their Atlanta, GA heavy equipment startup division.
Ricoh – Had responsibility for a team to conduct a North American Process and IT Strategy across all its product lines and supply chain distribution channel.
Transportation
K-Line – Sold and led a business process re-engineering study to improve their US based intermodal process supporting the movement of containerized shipments across vessel, rail and truck modes of transportation.
COSCO – Led a initiative to improve their US based financial and operational processes.
Federal Express – Provided oversight of the Y2K initiative accounting for and remediating their global systems.
AMERICAN MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - Prior 1992
Consultant
Provide delivery for (at the time) leading edge technology solutions including SQL Server, PowerBuilder, Network Operating Systems (NetWare, LAN Manager). Platinum/Real World accounting systems.
DELOITTE & TOUCHE - Prior 1992
Auditor (1989-91)
Provided auditing related services for a number of businesses for both the balance sheet and income statements. Also provided EDP audits during this time. Provided consulting work at Touch Ross prior to the 1989 merger with Deloitte.
Education & Certificates
Bachelor of Arts, Baruch College – major Accountancy, NYS CPA, Six Sigma
•Referenced in 2006 on Oracle’s Home Web Page as a case study for successful implementations of Oracle ERP Application Suite
•Conducted multiple conferences addressing the best practices for achieving a firms goals and objectives for financial transformation & ERP deployments |
