Sales Management
Resume:
TRACY KARAGIANIS
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Accomplished Senior Technology Executive leading transformational change efforts to elevate technological and operating performance for national and global organizations in the media and financial service industries. Demonstrated ability to drive revenue growth through leading-edge technologies and operating efficiencies, leveraging strong management skills and innovative leadership across people, processes and systems to align technology strategies with corporate goals.
Excellent communicator with superior interpersonal skills, visionary/strategic acumen and tactical execution using sound business and technology judgment. Skilled at influencing stakeholders, building and motivating teams to deliver results.
Strategic Planning Cloud Computing Financial Management Process Re-engineering Technical Transformation Application Development Security and Compliance Customer & Vendor Relationship Management
EXPERIENCE
AMC NETWORKS, New York, NY 2011 - Dec 2015
Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer
Public Cable Television Firm, 3,000+ employees, multiple U.S. and International locations. Transformed the company’s global IT organization within 24 months which included over 100 people responsible for the design, development, implementation and support of all business and technology systems across the enterprise.
• Led the technology divestiture from Cablevision which resulted in the development and implementation of the overall enterprise wide IT strategy and roadmap. Migrated 100+ applications, built team of 100+ technologists and worked with multiple cloud providers.
• Rebuilt entire corporate IT department within 24 months, implemented: a customer-focused IT organization, IT policy and controls, systems architecture and cloud-based infrastructure, Oracle ERP and Workday HR systems, Office 365, MPLS network, ITIL based service desk, Project Management Office and hybrid cloud data centers - delivered on-time and within budget.
• Led multi-stream M&A integration projects within existing IT structure. Centralized and optimized IT/Operations with very stringent 90 day timeline and budgets:
• Chello - integration:
• Integrated 1000 geographically diverse Chello employees spread out over three continents.
• Conducted extensive contract negotiations with suppliers, while resolving immediate connectivity and communications challenges.
• Developed and executed multi-year optimization strategy
• BBC America - acquisition:
• Physically relocated 100 employees into AMC offices, and completed cutover to all AMC back office applications including email, HR, Finance, Ad Sales, Rights Management, and Affiliate sales systems
• Directed a multi-year, 30 person cross-functional project team to re-engineer and replace the company’s critical Ad Sales and Traffic systems with an integrated and scalable architecture that allowed improved functionality, reporting, collaboration and insight to all Ad Sales data.
• Spearheaded the process reengineering effort to transform and enhance the production digital supply chain that improved efficiencies and reduced operating expenses. This resulted in a sustainable 25% yearly savings.
TRACY KARAGIANIS pg 2-516-***-**** m *****.**********@*****.*** GfK CUSTOM RESEARCH, New York, NY/ Germany 2008 - 2011 Chief Information Officer for North America
Public Global Market Research Firm, 10,000+ employees, multiple U.S. locations. Accomplished dramatic change across a geographically dispersed and matrixed organization with more than 100 business and technology professionals supporting internal and external customer requirements.
• Senior member of global team responsible for directing, developing and executing company’s shared service initiative for information technology infrastructure worldwide that consolidated 10+ data centers and IT organizations into 3 technology centers. This resulted in a sustainable yearly savings of 20 million dollars.
• Transformed a maligned, inefficient IT organization that had a reputation for poor quality deliverables that were not aligned to business or client needs into a strategic business partner. This improved overall reliability, quality and on-time delivery, while reducing headcount and overall expenditures by 25%.
• Developed and implemented an enterprise strategy and roadmap to leverage and standardize technology to improve operational efficiencies, reduce costs and improve quality. resulting in a sustainable 20% yearly savings. NEW LINE CINEMA, New York, NY 1997 - 2008
Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer 2006 - 2008 Various Senior Positions, Application Development 1997 - 2006 Film & entertainment studio, 700+ employees, multiple U.S. locations, division of Time Warner. Significantly enhanced the performance of a 75+ person business and technology teams by delivering operational efficiencies and cost savings.
• Spearheaded the implementation of New Line’s Enterprise Digital Asset Management System delivering a 20% reduction in operating costs.
• Headed 30 person cross-functional team for $5M multi year project for implementation of an Oracle ERP solution that reduced operational costs and improved business processes while allowing a 50% growth in volume.
• Led a 20-person cross functional team in implementing a new Theatrical Distribution System. The benefits achieved through the improved efficiencies and processes allowed New Line to increase the number of films it distributed by 25%, without increasing head count. LONG TERM CREDIT BANK OF JAPAN, New York, NY, Vice President 1992 - 1997 Full leadership and responsibility for North American Application Development SECURITY PACIFIC BANK, New York, NY - Project Manager 1991 - 1992 Responsible for all global income processing applications CITIBANK, New York, NY - Senior Systems Analyst 1990 - 1991 Responsible for Profitability, Billing and General Ledger applications DREXEL BURNHAM LAMBERT, New York, NY - Project Leader 1986 - 1990 Responsible for the Regulatory Reporting, Credit Surveillance and Tax applications PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC, New York, NY - Programmer/Analyst 1984 - 1986 Responsible for Energy Conservation Billing System EDUCATION
DEVRY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Chicago, IL
BS, Computer Science
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