Executive Manager

Anita Griffith

abh139@r.postjobfree.com

**** *** ** ***** ************, Georgia 30215

770-***-****-Home - 678-***-****-Cell

Strategic executive with CIO-level successes in global planning, capacity/cost projections, IT

governance and BI solutions. Logical thinker and a strong communicator noted for transforming

IT organizations with support to global enterprise-wide infrastructures. Quality-driven leader with

international expertise.

CAREER PATH and PERFORMANCE

AT&T (NYSE:T) Executive Consultant 2008-Present

Executive Technology Consultant Managed the Network Service Delivery with AT&T, supporting the

State of Georgia (GAIT2010) transformation and transition. This project will convert the State into an

outsourced managed services organization over the next 5 years for LAN, WAN and telephony. This will

include: Call and Data Centers, and consolidated Service Desks.

Achievements Include:

• Reduced the risk of late penalties by $675k and allowed recovery of $1M in unaccountable

assets.

• Initiated and chaired the transition program to align voice and network assets with billing cycles.

• Developed Transitional Processes and Procedures for State and AT&T Life Cycle Management

Teams.

• Completed State of Georgia’s ITIL Assessment and provided path forward for transformation /

transition for MNS Delivery

• Led the Asset Inventory Management Program for KSU/PBX discovery and recovery.

Time Warner (NYSE-TWX $47B) 2005-2007

VP Infrastructure and Internet Operations

As VP of Internet Operations, provided Executive Leadership, for all Time Warner properties, had

responsibility for all support of applications and implementation, of strategic, network, data centers,

network operations, databases, ad services and security compliance for credit card transactions and the

130 .com sites, notably, NASCAR, HBO, Tine Inc., CNN, TBS, CARTOON Network, GameTap, etc.

Achievements Include:

• Implemented Blade Technology to save $2M in HVAC, footprint and processing funding.

• Implement SAN Technology to utilize storage across the enterprise. Decreased the footprint by

half.

• Defined and recommended enterprise architecture to reduce financial burdens from internal

customers

Develop and implement a plan for PCI compliance to secure credit card data for online

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subscriptions. Turner is a tier 1 service provider.

• Implement DR for CNN.com to ensure failover and recovery.

• Create a lasting roadmap strategy for next generation technology.

Home Depot ((NYSE-HDI $70B) 2002-2005

Director, Corporate Enterprise Systems

Director, Store Technology

Responsible for strategic, and tactical, implementation in support of global distribution for HR, Staffing,

Time Keeping, Payroll, Financials, Legal and Distant Learning Systems. S.T.E.P, ( Store Technology This

$300M project included the front-end store technology upgrade, Point of Sale, self checkout, electrical

and deployment of Fault Tolerant Networks. FTN is an upgrade to Cisco technology replacing Nortel and

3Com for both WAN and LAN. Implementation Leader on the S.T.E.P, ( Store Technology Enhancement Plan).

STEP was touted as the largest project within Home Depot and the first phase of technology upgrades for

more than 2000 stores across US, Canada and Mexico.

Achievements Include:

• Defined and recommend enterprise architecture to reduce financial burdens of internal customer.

Demonstrated ability to manage $365M capital budget and deliver project $9M under budget with

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an on time schedule

Strong leadership skills and delivery of large PeopleSoft, Kronos WFC, SAP R3 ERP

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implementations

Establish and manage large offshore support relationships

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Experience building and maintaining strong relationships with senior management and field

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leaders.

Proven ability to deliver high profile projects containing costs and increasing revenue

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Acuity Specialty Products (NYSE-AYI $2.5 B) 1999-2002

Chief Information Officer

Provide executive leadership as technology leader and business partner to engineering, distribution, and

division technology interface. Define and oversee technical architecture and deployment of global

networks, corporate ecommerce business/web architecture and recovery.

Achievements Include:

• Designed and implemented a 400k sq. ft. Call Center utilizing Cisco, Nortel and Symposium

• Developed technology strategies for mergers and acquisitions within ASP.

• Managed the deployment of disaster recovery in hot standby mode for Data Center Operations.

• Redesigned logistic system’s to interface with new ERP functionality to create a total business solution.

Strong collaborative relationships with executive and senior management, both home office and

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field.

• Work with executive peers to develop a SOX compliant plan for legacy financial systems.

Yokogawa Industrial Automation/Johnson Controls ($3B) 1995-1999

Chief Information Officer

Executive technology leader and business partner to engineering, distribution, and division technology

interface for US. Define and oversee technical architecture and deployment of global networks, corporate

ecommerce business/web architecture and recovery. Develop and maintain the IT mission, objective and

strategic plans to assist t in meeting US financial obligations.

Develop and maintain a strong relationship with Japanese executive team

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Develop corporate governance plan to ensure 6Sigma alignment with manufacturing

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Demonstrated leadership and delivery of large ORACLE 8i ERP. Included Mfg, Purchasing, and

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Financials.

Developed long range planning and metrics to allow smooth integration from Japanese systems in

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Tokyo

Federal Express (NYSE-FDX $30B) 1992-1995

Managing Director, Revenue Infrastructure

Manager Corporate Systems Development

Manager Server Development, Telecommunications

Development and support of Domestic/international revenue systems

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Ability to design and architect high volume data capture systems for AR warehouse

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Development and implementation of Distribution and Inventory Control bar coding for U.S. rating

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and routing tables

Development and migration of FEDEX Ship products

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Designed and delivered multi level security from IIS to IMS tiered levels for invoicing and tracking

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of packages. Front end architecture was MS with URSA memory loads, mid tier was UNIX with

RDBMS and mainframe as the third level

Led the development team to enable FEDEX to obtain SEI/CMM level 3

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Demonstrated ability to lead large application teams for Legal, Risk management, Financials,

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Treasury, Claims and Executive Offices.

Managed large team to deliver several ERP implementations including SAP/R2, R3, PeopleSoft

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and ORACLE.

Proven delivery of large development efforts for global rollout of FEDEX shipping and logistics

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desktop package.

Education and Skills Technology Tools and Platforms

Simmons School of Management - Advanced Leadership Training - 2007

Certified ITIL V3 Service Management - 2006

6 Sigma- Certified Black Belt -2002

Cleveland State University BA Business Administration

Cleveland State University BS Mechanical Engineering

Leading Edge Software Development/ERP Global IT Delivery

Technical Architecture/integration Budget and Cost Control

Logistics/Supply Chain/Call Center Program Management

Process Implementation /6Sigma/ITIL Acquisition & Migration

Organization and Staff Development Internet Operations and Deployment

PCI Tier-1 Experience Data/Call Center Operations

SAP/R2/R3, ORACLE 7i-10G and RAC, ORACLE Manufacturing and Financials, Seibel, VMWARE ESX

3.0, DB2, Informix, Informix 4GL, Access, Exchange, IBM OS/390, AS/400, Lotus Notes, Shell Script,

HTML, C++, C, SQL, Cisco, TCP/IP, .NET, RFID, Websphere, LAMP, ITIL, SOA,System Design, Network

Design, User Interfaces, Process Modeling, Work Flow Analysis, WAN, LAN, PeopleSoft 8.9.

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