Resume of:

DAVID GREENSPAN

Information Technology Leader

Email: acyabi@r.postjobfree.com

Mobile: 972-***-****

SUMMARY:

Senior IT leader with 25+ years of experience and with sound understanding that the strength of an organization is a reflection of its people, partnerships, technical competency and the ability to anticipate and plan for strategic marketplace and technology shifts. An IT organization’s strength is ensured through the development of strong teams and by providing a culture of professionalism, competence, accountability and empowerment. Enterprise success is enabled through strategic internal collaboration and industry partnerships, coupled with the ability to identify disruptive technology shifts, by which competitive advantage within the marketplace may be obtained.

Strengths include IT Organization Leadership, Application Development and Delivery Organization Leadership (Custom, Business Intelligence and Analytics, BPM, Saas, Cloud, ERP, Packaged Applications), Large Scale Application Delivery, Corporate Application Development, Commercial Application Development, IT Portfolio Management, Enterprise Stakeholder Collaboration, Management and Communication, IT Organization and Project Budget Management, Enterprise Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence, organization development and operations excellence, strategy development and tactical delivery, strategic collaboration, contracting and vendor management.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Vizient, Inc. – Irving, TX (formerly VHA, UHC, Novation) Oct. 2013 – Dec. 2016

(Healthcare Performance Company)

VP, Information and Data Services – Systems Operations, Software Engineering and Development (Novation, Inc.) Oct. 2013 – Sept. 2015

VP, Supply Chain Applications Development (Vizient, Inc.) Sept. 2015 – present

Recruited by Novation to lead and mature the Information and Data Services IT organization and transform its commercial and internal application delivery and operations capability into a predictable, governed and financially disciplined practice serving the needs of VHA and UHC alliance member hospital systems and internal business system stakeholders.

Collaborative Business and Technology Leadership: Developed and executed the commercial product delivery and internal business systems development strategies as a core member of the Information and Data Services Leadership team consisting of Product Strategy, Sales, Marketing, IT, and Business Systems Operations leaders. Provided oversight and governance of technology investments as a core member of the CFO chaired IT Steering Committee consisting of cross-alliance business, technology, and financial leaders

Mergers and Acquisitions Leadership: Drove the IT organization design and its successful implementation upon the merging of the legacy companies (VHA, UHC, Novation) to the newly formed Vizient, inc. as a core member of the IT merger team. Drove the development and successful execution of the commercial and internal product rationalization associated with the acquisition of the MedAssets SCM practice as a core member of the cross-functional product and application strategy team.

IT Organization Leadership: Led practice redesigns associated with the org structure, PMO/project and portfolio governance, vendor and contract management, application architecture, and insourcing optimization resulting in financial stability, investments governance, delivery predictability, and transparent reporting. Successes included $3 Million operational savings in the first year.

Commercial and Business Applications Delivery Leadership: Examples include…

Delivery of Vizient’s next generation flagship commercial application that is expected to achieve $49.1 Million in revenue over the next 5 years.

Delivery of Vizient’s Business Process Management (BPM) for B2B implementation. Re-architecture and implementation of 2 core legacy member platforms. These platforms manage 80,000 contracting transactions and drive $45 Billion in member purchases annually for over 15,000 member, supplier, and internal users. They additionally drive savings programs responsible for $136 Million in supplier rebate value to members annually.

Reduction of technical debt via migration of custom legacy applications to modern business rules engines such as SAP_Vistex.

Essilor of America, Inc. – Dallas, TX June 2008 – Oct 2013

(Eyeglass Manufacturing and Distribution Company)

VP, IT Solutions Center of Excellence and Application Projects

Recruited by Essilor to lead the IT departmental re-engineering effort to strengthen core IT competence, implement best practices, mature stakeholder collaboration models and position IT to be a strategic enabler to the business with regards to emerging technologies.

Re-engineering effort included heavy collaboration with the Enterprise IT Governance Committee (comprised of the President, CFO, CMO, COO and CIO) for the strategic planning, prioritization and funding. Formal team meetings were on a monthly basis in addition to meeting with individual members as required. Steering Committee level memberships and collaboration at the business unit/department head level was critical to the success of key initiatives.

Best Practices Implementations: formulated and led the implementation of a Center of Excellence (COE) delivery model, personally implemented platform and program delivery COE’s, and provided strategic guidance/oversight for the formulation of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Quality Assurance COE’s. Introduced/implemented standard system development life cycle (SDLC) and total cost of ownership (TCO) estimation models into the IT delivery model. Conceptualized/implemented IT services demand planning model. Organizational strengthening resulted in a 16% increase in software development productivity, a 20% reduction in labor expense and a 40+% improvement in on-time/on-schedule project delivery within the first year.

Led the Applications Development Organization consisting of Program/Project Management (PMO), Oracle eBusiness Suite Development, Business Intelligence and Master Data Management, and Custom Application Development Teams in the successful delivery of approximately $10-15 Million of capital application development annually.

Responsible for strategic technical leadership. Emerging technology assessments resulted in delivery of the first IT developed mobile applications targeted for iPad and Android devices, and the initiation of Social Network Analytics review through the use of strategic partnerships delivering Cloud (SaaS) solutions. System of record and enterprise reporting strategy review resulted in approval of a $15 Million / 4-year program to re-engineer the enterprise Master Data Management (MDM) and Business Intelligence / Reporting platforms, targeted to achieve a 3-year ROI and $35 Million improvement to sales revenue (the first release of which was delivered in 2012).

Strategic business/technology alignments resulted in initiatives designed to drive down enterprise costs and/or increase production and sales. Examples include a Lens Distribution Center Consolidation plan targeted to achieve a $5 Million operational expense savings in reaction to rising distribution costs due to transportation increases, a strategic partnership with a well-known health care provider to increase sales by over one million units per year, and enablement of 3rd party billing for managed care vendors targeted to increase revenue in the first year by $4 Million.

7-Eleven, Inc. – Dallas, TX July 2001 – May 2008

(Convenience Store Retail Company)

Director of Store Systems Applications Oct. 2006 – May 2008

Responsible for all facets of the on-site Retail Information Systems supporting each of the 5,500 7-Eleven Convenience stores in the U.S. and Canada. Led 5 organization functions / teams inclusive of Software Development and Deployment, Hardware Deployment, Quality Control Testing, Software Support and Enterprise Business Intelligence Analytics/Reporting. Platforms included: .NET based In Store Processor (ISP), NCR Point of Sales (POS) Registers, CE Based Wireless Mobile Ordering Terminal (MOT).

Key leader of the development and implementation of Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) based outsourcing application management contract and service catalog that provided $12 Million dollars in bottom line savings compared to previous application management cost structure.

Implemented best practices and enabled operations excellence via organizational restructure and implementing full system life-cycle best practices across internal teams and a multitude of vendor partners (both outsource, staff augmentation and off-shore). Best practices include ITIL based functions such as problem management, release management, change management, systems development life-cycle management, managed testing services and stakeholder management.

Managed a 40+ member internal team plus outsource teams of 50-100. Responsible for over $40 Million in Capital Development activity and $15 Million P&L budget annually.

Strategic business/technology alignments with Merchandising and Store Operations business units resulted in initiatives designed to drive down enterprise costs and/or increase sales and profit. Examples include: Implementation of base PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Security Data Standard) compliance in store and network infrastructure thus avoiding million dollar losses in fines and missed sales; Deployment of Wireless Mobile Ordering units to 600 Canada stores, allowing dynamic on-the-floor implementation of inventory based ordering; Integrating Tidel Safes with Store POS systems saving 1 hour per shift close-out for store associates and 2 hours per day performing cash management; Reduction in number of store code bases from 6 to 2, saving $500,000 / year in maintenance costs; Support of corporate growth strategy with the deployment of 100+ new Retail Information System POS systems.

Enterprise Business Intelligence Manager July 2001 – Oct. 2006

Successful leadership of the implementation, continued growth, on-going management and strategic road-mapping of the Enterprise Business Intelligence Platform, which was a $30 million BI & reporting platform supporting the information and analytical needs of 13 business units and functions across the enterprise. The user base consisted of 1800 web-based standard report consumers and 450 direct connect ad-hoc query users – which was a 10x increase in the number of users having access to organizational analytic information.

Key analytic deliveries included the implementation of an Invoices Analytics Data Mart saving the company $100K per year in processing expenses, savings of $250K per year through consolidation and retirement of individually supported data mart platforms, deployment of Price Optimizing analytics targeted to achieve $6.5 million per year Gross Profit improvement, and many others.

Led 75 member organization comprised of 6 inter-disciplinary teams made up of employees, staff augmentation consulting services, matrix resources, outsource solution vendors, and off-shore staffing solutions, and accountable for $9 Million expense budget and $10 Million (avg) development budget annually.

Invited to speak at the 2004 Ascential World Business Intelligence Conference on the delivery of an Enterprise Level Business Intelligence Solution.

Metromedia Restaurant Group – Dallas, TX Jan. 2001 – July 2001

(Restaurant and Hospitality Company)

Enterprise Business Intelligence Manager

Responsible for leadership of Enterprise Business Intelligence. Led delivery of the corporate data warehouse vision for the start-up of the data warehouse corporate function from its early prototype and delivered a five-phased strategy for transition of current prototype to a fully operational model inclusive of the technology, staffing, funding and organizational stakeholder management plan. In addition, successfully led an implementation team in the delivery of an Executive Reporting Digital Dashboard to 150 field management web users and 500 restaurants.

The Associates / CitiGroup – Dallas, TX April 1997 – Jan. 2001

(Financial Company)

Business Intelligence / Data Warehouse Development Director

Responsible for team and technology leadership in the management and delivery of two data warehouse implementations. Responsible for leading two separate development teams and customer constituencies simultaneously through complete application development life cycle delivering two data warehouses in conjunction and integrated with the PeopleSoft General Ledger and Human Resources module deployments supporting 1100+ users across the U.S., Canada, and U.K. Responsible for the contract negotiation and purchase of the Cognos Suite of products used for the implementation of the Human Resources Data Warehouse resulting in a $250,000 savings to the Associates above the usual vendor discounts. Also participated in the delivery of the Customer Information Database and the CBTM transactional systems, responsible for delivering $650 million in additional revenue to The Associates.

PREVIOUS WORK EXPERIENCE:

PageNet Inc. – Senior Software Engineer Feb. 1996 – April 1997

Mobile Oil, Inc. – Senior Programmer Analyst Dec. 1989 – Feb. 1996

University of Texas at Arlington – Computer Operator Sept. 1988 – Dec. 1989

EDUCATION:

University of Texas at Arlington – Arlington, TX Dec. 1989

B.S., Information Systems Analysis

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