VICE PRESIDENT, DIRECTOR, SENIOR MANAGER
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES ( PROJECT MANAGEMENT ( SUPPORT ( OPERATIONS
Start-Up / High-Growth / Turnaround Situations
I am a results driven, hand-on services delivery professional with a proven
record of achievement in consulting, implementation & support, data center
operations, business development, project and account management and
solution sales in the commercial, government and public sectors. This
experience is consistently focused on achieving exceptionally high levels
of customer satisfaction and retention through alignment of the right
people in the right roles and executing for the well being of the customer.
My entrepreneurial, technical and organizational skills have enabled my
success in Executive and Managerial roles for numerous start-up and high
growth organizations. I have an extraordinary aptitude for communicating,
negotiating and translating technology to business value, as well as
turning the most challenging and pessimistic situations around.
PROFESSIONAL QUALITIES AND STRENGTHS
. Excel at "Delivery" - Superb project management, resource planning and
visioning skills
. Superior proficiency at finding and improving operationally and
financially
. Expert at defining best practices for improving and sustaining "customer
focus" in the delivery of services
. Highly analytical with a keen eye for budgetary, expense and forecasting
. Robust strategic and tactical decision making and problem solving skills
. Innate risk management and risk mitigation skills
. Experienced in building and managing high performance matrixed and
virtual team environments, including managing large teams globally (US,
Europe, Asia and India)
. Honest, ethical, reliable and passionate about success of my team and
self
. Extensive experience with Contract & Vendor Management, RFP / Proposal /
Statement of Work (SOW), Pricing, Negotiations, Contracts/Legal, P&L,
Staffing, Resource (HW/SW/Services) Acquisition and Budgeting.
ROLES HELD
GLOBALSCHOLAR ( Bellevue, WA 2009 - 2010
Vice President Client Services
Managed a 50+ globally dispersed team providing implementation,
consulting and product support services for 70+ active implementations in
Schools and School districts globally.
< Identified gaps in service delivery and prepared 90 plan - delivery
methodologies, best practices, processes and procedures, revenue
forecasting, cost/resource alignment
< Established baseline of resources, cost and budget to support 2010
growth at 100%
< Turned several key accounts around toward higher customer satisfaction
levels in first 10 days
< Fully responsible for selling $10K migration project within first 15
days
< Hired 1 project management consultant within first 10 days, 1 data
migration specialist within 15 days
ADMITONE SECURITY ( Issaquah, WA 2008 - 2009
Director of Client Services
Built and managed a professional services and support team from the
ground up for a new Enterprise Security Solution using keystroke typing
rhythms and patterns.
< Achieved $300K in Professional Services Revenue in 1st Year
< Sold first professional services package to a major financial
institution ($60K)
< Key member of team responsible for largest sale to a Major Washington
State Agency ($500K)
< Consistently commended by customers for successful delivery and
implementations of AdmitOne solutions (12+ Implementations in 1st
Year)
MANAGED OBJECTS (Acquired by NOVELL, INC) ( McLean, VA (Seattle, WA)
2000 - 2008
Director of Professional Services
Built, grew and managed a 25+ Worldwide Professional Services
Organization in North American, Europe and Asia from the ground up for an
enterprise systems management and monitoring solution.
< Achieved over 30 % of the service and software revenue streams during
my tenure ($2M in 2001 to $10M in 2008)
< Responsible for the largest sale of professional services for an
outsourcing project for a major financial institution ($400K) in 2002,
which created the foundation for a follow on project in 2005 at
($400K).
< Key member of numerous sales teams responsible for consistently
selling $1M+ solutions
< Consistently commended by customers for successful delivery of
services toward the implementation of Managed Objects solutions
(Personally managed up to 12+ implementations in parallel)
< Repeatedly attained team utilization rates of 70%+
ADDITIONAL ROLES HELD
Manager Consulting Deloitte & Touche - Seattle, WA 1998 - 2000
Solutions Consulting
MIS Director Govt Consulting PricewaterhouseCoopers Fairfax, VA
1996 - 1998
Director of Technical Marketing Universal Systems Inc. Chantilly, VA
1994 - 1996
MIS Director Metrocall Alexandria, VA 1993 - 1994
Senior Consultant Deloitte & Touche - Washington, DC 1991 - 1993
National Tax Technology Group
Manager Engineering Support Advance, Inc. Arlington, VA 1990 - 1991
Manager Customer Support AFSCME Washington, DC 1988 - 1990
Systems Analyst Planning Research Corp McLean, VA 1986 - 1988
TECHNICAL AREAS OF EXPERTISE
. Enterprise Software, including End to End Education / Classroom
Management Solution, Enterprise Management & Monitoring, Business Service
Management (BSM), Identity and Security technologies, ERP (Financial &
HR) and CRM Applications, Point of Sale & Timekeeping Solutions, as well
as the MS Office suite of applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project,
Access, Visio)
. Data Center Management - Software As A Service (SAAS) / Software Plus
Services, Cloud Computing/Hosted
. Operating Systems & Databases - Windows, Unix, Linux, MS SQL Server,
MySQL, Oracle SQL
. Managed implementation and support for the following platforms and
technologies: .NET, Apache, Tomcat, IIS, HTML, JavaScript, JVM, XML,
C/C++
. Case Management/Help Desk Applications, Digital Records/Document
Management Solutions
. Data Center Operations - Event / Systems Monitoring, Disaster Recovery
. ITIL - Incident, Problem, Change, Release, Configuration Management Best
Practices
EDUCATION and CERTIFICATIONS
Pennsylvania State University, Bachelor of Science, Business
Administration/Marketing
Strayer University, MBA/MIS, Completed core MBA/MIS education requirements.
University of Washington, Completed various courses in General and
Technical Management.
ITIL Certified 2004.
Vendor Specific Certifications from Novell (CNE), Citrix Systems, Inc.,
Oracle and Onyx.