JOHN GAWLINSKI
Boca Raton, FL 33432
954-***-**** (c)
*********@***.***
GENERAL PROFILE
Information Technology Executive with broad experience in Corporate Systems
Management, Enterprise Portfolio Management and Global Technology Support
in both the financial and automotive industries with tangible results in
quality improvements & expense reduction. Experience includes:
. Corporate Systems Development
. Production Technology Support
. Enterprise PMO & Governance
. IT Financial Management, Analysis & Forecasting
. Large-Scale Package Implementation & Data Integration
. Vendor Relationship, Contract & SLA Management
. Onshore & Offshore Resource Management
. Database & Data Management
. Audits of Internal & External Compliance
. Oversight of Competency Centers of Excellence
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Citigroup Inc., Jacksonville, FL 2010 - 2012
SVP, Head of Solutions Development Technology Support
. Responsible for Production Support, Change Management, Incident
Management and Database Infrastructure Support for an application
portfolio of 135+ infrastructure, architecture, business management
tools and global applications.
. Developed and implemented the framework, governance, SLA's and
performance metrics reporting for on-boarding and consolidating
support from five development domains, managing a team 86 FTEs
and contractors.
. Defined the support requirements and staffing to create and deploy
global production support teams across locations including India,
Chile, Ireland, Great Britain, Hungary and the USA while identifing
opportunities for improved support efficiency.
. Collaborated with Infrastructure, Client, and Development groups on
the implementation processes to ensure smooth transition of technology
based business solutions from development into production and
operational support.
. Implemented a "Follow the Sun" support service model that followed
ITIL best practices servicing all Citigroup employees across 140
countries.
. Drove the selection and management of offshore resource vendors; work
with six vendors to source a pool of 44 support analysts and engineer
contractors.
. Overseen the Emergency Case Management role for 16 Solutions
Development teams to ensure timely response to Severity 1 and 2
outages, root cause analysis and the tracking of remediation efforts.
. Provided the oversight of Solution Development's Change and Release
Management process and approvals; conducted the review of two
disparate Release and Change Management processes to identify and
implement opportunities for standardization and consolidation.
JM FAMILY ENTERPRISES, Deerfield Beach, FL 1996 - 2009
VP, Corporate Systems & Enterprise Technology Development, Support & PMO
(2006 - 2009)
. Provided business analysis, design versus build technology
decisions, management of development projects and data
integration requirements for 46 Corporate departments across 6
business divisions.
. Managed production applications, infrastructure and technology support
for a client portfolio of 132 systems, 43 technologies delivering
system enhancements, and improving system availability with a Service
Oriented Architecture strategy.
. Drove the monthly spend analysis, IT annual financial budgeting and
forecasts for a $27 million client IT project and $8 million support
budget, $13 million Enterprise IT project budget and a $14 million
department operating budget.
. Developed and managed an Enterprise PMO which included governance,
reporting for project status, accounting and performance metrics.
. Responsible for presenting capital projects greater than 1$ million
dollars to Executive Capital Committee for funding approval.
. Developed and facilitated "Center of Excellence" programs enhancing
the effectiveness of the PMO Project Managers, Client Advocates,
Business Analysts and Development/Support.
. Collaborated with key business and IT leaders to develop and lead IT
strategies, build strong relationships with partners and vendors to
ensure long-term success.
. Provided direction, coaching and mentoring to direct reports and
staffs, identifying Technical vs. Management career progressions
across all IT competencies creating a culture of continuous
improvement.
AVP, Technology Support Services (2003 - 2005)
. Developed and implemented the framework, processes, SLA's and
performance reporting for an enterprise-wide technology shared
support service for four companies, directing 120 associates and
contractors in the five southeast states.
. Identified, tracked and reported on support quality and
efficiency opportunities to reduce support expense and increase
the delivery of system enhancements and to improved the
throughput of system changes requests.
. Managed a client IT support budget of $8 million providing health
& wellbeing support, incident management and introducing
innovations to reduce overall support expenses.
. Supported the implementation of an ITIL Service Management
Process, Configuration Management and Performance Reporting to
achieve a display of best practices maturity level.
. Provided senior leadership and direction in supporting the
consolidation of two data centers; complete the 96 test plans
within a four-hour window of opportunity for 58 applications
across five technology platforms.
Director, Data Resource Management (2001 - 2002)
. Developed and implement the organizational framework to centralize all
Data Resource Management services for development and support;
directed 42 associates in the implementation.
. Completed the initial installation of an enterprise Operation Data
Store implementing the first Customer Campaign Management data-mart.
. Provided centralized ongoing development resources and support for CRM
needs and Campaign Management.
Director, Database Administration & Year 2000 Readiness PMO (1996
- 2000)
. As Senior Project Director for the year 2000 millennium transition
project, estimated and managed a 12 million dollar project budget
leading an enterprise-wide Y2K project steering committee with
representation from every major IT service group, Business Unit, Legal
and Internal Auditing with responsibility for validation to all
external and downstream partners.
. Managed a team of DBAs for the development and support all databases
models for DB2 and SQL Server relational databases and drove the long-
term RDBMS strategy.
SMITH BARNEY, New York, NY 1991 - 1996
VP, Information Technology
. Held three senior management positions during this time; Y2K PMO,
Technology Planning and Online Services.
. As VP Y2K PMO, managed the Year 2000 Readiness Project, defined
and coordinated Y2K impact analysis, built an enterprise
inventory of application source code, transmission feeds and
electronic interfaces, distributed and third-party vendors and
products.
. As VP Technology Planning, managed four departments; Technology
Research & Planning, Corporate Mail Technology, Technology
Training and Publications with a combined staff of 29 and a
budget of $4.5 million. Defined technology standards for
commercially available software, pc's, servers and o/s software
providing enterprise-wide technology training. Developed
handbooks, published technology papers, constructed and managed
an internal evaluation lab; selected as member of PC Week's User
council.
. As VP Online Services, managed three departments: Corporate Data
Modeling, Database Administration and CICS Support, directing a
technical staff of 22 associates. Managed all logical and physical
designs of DB2, IDMS, VSAM and SYBASE databases, 200 CICS regions,
implementing a corporate data repository, and Database Data
Development Life Cycle.
SHEARSON LEHMAN BROTHERS, New York, NY 1986 - 1991
VP, Data Access Systems
. Managed a team of database administrators responsible for the logical
and physical designs of all IDMS and DB2 relational databases
providing administration functions, enforcement of naming standards,
support of the data dictionary and implemented databases.
. Defined and implemented a strategy to convert IDMS databases to DB2;
negotiated the selection of a DBA DB2 toolkit for both administration
and performance monitoring products.
. Authored "IBM DB2 Benchmark Results" performance white paper at the
request of IBM for demonstrating high volume throughput capabilities
of DB2.
EDUCATION
Pace University
BBA Management Information Systems
Certificate of Achievement in Computer Science
New York University
Certificate Program in Communication Skills
Member of South Florida Chapter of the Project Management
Institute
Member of South Florida Technology Alliance