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Candidate Profile

RON WAGNER

Los Angeles

213-***-**** Mobile

******.***@*****.***

http://www.linkedin.com/in/ronwagner

Experienced IT Leader with focus on delivering results through IT/Business alignment. Highly skilled in the consolidation and integration of processes and systems, and the developing and implementing of enterprise solutions.

Specialties

Product Management, Rights Management, Agile, Waterfall, eCommerce, Strategic Management, Vendor Negotiations, Mergers and Acquisitions, Project Management(PMO), ITIL, ITSM, Technology Operations, Technical Architecture, Data Architecture, Program/Scheduling Systems, Ad Sales/Traffic Systems, Digital Asset Management, Database Systems, ERP – Oracle, Peoplesoft, and Microsoft Dynamics(HR, Finance and Quote to Cash)

Education

MBA, University California Irvine, Irvine, CA (2006) B.S. Management Information Systems, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA (1997) Awards and Publications

Guidance Software, Employee of the Quarter - Q1, 2013 for launch of store.encase.com. Network World – Promise in Storage Architecture (2008) E! Networks Spotlight Award (2003)

Computer World Honors Program - 21st Century Achievement Award in the category, Media, Arts, and Entertainment for the D.A.I.SY. Application – Judged Best I.T. application in the World. http://www.cwheroes.org (2003)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

WaveSeven January 2015 – Present

WaveSeven is a consulting firm focusing on media and entertainment. Specifically, Advisory Services, Staff Augmentation and Project Delivery consultation

Co-Founder (01/2015 – Present)

Scope: Responsible for Client Staffing, Advisory and Project Delivery Running the day to day operation of the consulting firm and consulting on various client projects Client Projects:

● PM and SME - Title and Rights Management system(s) implementation for large cable network group

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● PM and Technical Leader - Deployment of VOD scheduling and metadata management platform for large broadcast network in the U.S.

● PM and Technical leader - Global deployment of a VOD scheduling and metadata management platform across five business units

● Cost Benefit Analysis for custom Digital Asset Management solution - Project Approved

● Cost Benefit Analysis for VOD scheduling solution - Project Approved Studio City, CA

FilmTrack.com February 2014 – January 2015

FilmTrack is a leader in Media Rights and Contract Management and the only solution delivered in a SaaS model.

SVP, Product Management (05/2014 – Present)

Scope: Responsible for product direction of all current and future products Responsible for managing product management team that is gathering requirements from clients and drafting specifications for product enhancements. Product management leads four development teams using the scrum methodology. Also, responsible for managing team of software engineers that handle all integration or data import requests.

● Created first multi-year product road map for all products at the company

● Support sales processes with SOWs, RFI/RFP responses, project plans, demos

● During my first quarter in the role, we closed $2 million in Total Contract Value and had a Year over Year increase of 2000 percent

● Work with CTO to define SaaS architecture and R&D Sr. Director, Client Success (02/2014 – 5/2014)

Scope: Professional services responsible for client implementations. Responsible for responding to client RFP/RFI requests and client implementations

● Leader for implementation of our product suite for a major animation studio in Los Angeles o Project entailed managing client staff located in LA, NYC and London o Project successfully went live 120 days after start date Pasadena, CA

Guidance Software July 2012 – December 2013

Guidance Software is recognized globally as a world leader in Digital Forensics, Cyber Security, and E- Discovery solutions. Publicly traded, with annual revenues in excess of 100 million. Sr. Director, Business Systems and Software Development (07/2012 – 12/2013) Scope: Entire Enterprise, 30+ module Oracle ERP platform, external facing web-site, e-commerce and numerous custom developed solutions for product licensing and distribution. Responsible for application maintenance of all packaged applications and software development needs in the company, as well as external facing web-site and eCommerce.

● Brought into the organization to resurrect failed website rebrand and eCommerce project and to develop new systems strategy. eCommerce/AppStore successfully launched on 2/2013.

(store.encase.com). Website rebuilt and relaunched on 9/2013. (www.encase.com)

● Managed the development/implementation of a new CMS(Sharepoint), customer SSO platform(Okta), eCommerce solution(Commerce Server) and integration platform(Biztalk). 3

● Implemented SaaS Based BI Platform(Birst.com) – Aggregated data from Eloqua and Salesforce to provide insights into Marketing Campaign effectiveness. BI platform enabled analysis of data from Initial lead, to deal closure.

● Developed new systems strategy for Quote to Cash, Professional Services Project Management, Business Intelligence, Customer Portal, Partner/Resellers Portal and Customer Training solution. Univision NYC, NY

Multiple Roles March 2011-December 2011

Number one Spanish broadcaster in the United States, operating two broadcast networks, nine cable networks, forty+ TV stations and seventy radio stations, 6000+ employees, 1 billion+ in annual revenue Vice President, Enterprise Systems and Program Manager (5/2011 – 12/2011) Scope: Entire Enterprise, 100+ applications, 6000+ users, 65 staff Responsible for application maintenance of all applications and software development in the company, as well as Business Intelligence Services and Database Management.

● Managed effort to re-envision technology organization throughout the enterprise and consolidate two existing technology organizations. Managed definition of new processes and procedures based upon ITIL/COBIT for each department. Project successfully completed with pilot launch of all new departments with documented processes and procedures in November 2011.

● Worked with internal management team to develop processes and procedures for Application Maintenance and Development and launched my own department under the new model, based upon ITIL and Agile development.

Vice President, Sales and Research Systems (3/2011 – 5/2011) Scope: All sales and research systems, 20+ applications, 1000+ users, 25 staff Responsible for application maintenance for all packaged applications and software development in the company related to Sales and Research.

● Turned around stalled Salesforce.com project that went live the day I started. Project went live with 10% of intended functionality and only in one division. I assessed the solution fit, development approach, development partner and internal team. I terminated the contract with our Salesforce VAR, trained the internal team on Agile development, and conducted RFP bidding for multiple VARs to identify a new solution partner. Picked new partner and development platform for sales pipeline and budgeting solution, negotiated contract and started project, prior to my departure in December 2012.

● Assessed present environment and identified redundancy in two traffic/scheduling systems between cable networks and broadcast networks. Data was mastered between the two systems and systems consolidated.

Comcast Programming Group Los Angeles, CA

Multiple Roles September 1997-March 2011

Division of Comcast, which contains over 100+ related programming entities and/or cable networks, such as, Golf Channel, Versus, G4TV, style network, E! Entertainment, Golfnow.com, and Regional Sports Networks. 5,000 employees, global, 1+ billion in annual revenue Vice President, IT Operations (CIO Role) (6/2006 – 3/2011) Scope: Global, 100+ applications, 500+ servers, four data centers, 1+ PBs of storage, 5000+ users, 70 staff 4

Full scope of responsibilities related to IT Operations, (vendor management, budgeting, forecasting, strategic planning, compliance, client services, application management and development, infrastructure management, web hosting, business intelligence, and database management)

● IT Asset Integration Leader for 30+ billion dollar acquisition of NBCUniversal

● Defined new quarterly project management planning process based upon PMI standard. o Enabled significant increases in on-time/on-budget delivery of projects and detailed visibility to upper management to departmental resource constraints.

● Led acquisition effort to consolidation G4TV technology infrastructure and applications. o Target of 60 days was given by senior management to reduce risk to business operation due to substantial downsizing of operation. Project was completed on-time and on- budget. Resulted in 1 million dollar reduction in G4TV’s annual IT Operations expense.

● Led financial systems consolidation of 100+ legal entities/25+ operating companies. Nine different source financial systems were converted into a common chart of accounts. Project was completed on-time and on-budget.

o Project enabled centralized reporting and roll-up of monthly and quarterly reporting in less than 40 minutes. Process use to require weeks of manual work to produce division level financial reports.

● Justified and managed virtualization strategy to allow extended capacity of existing Los Angeles data center. Over 200 servers were deployed or redeployed utilizing VM Ware ESX. Although our data center power utilization had reached capacity in CY 2006, we were able to continue supporting business growth through virtualization and finally had to look for external data center capacity in CY 2008.

● Defined new process models for IT Operations group utilizing ITIL v2 and led implementation of service-now.com for incident, problem, change management and SLA reporting. o New processes led to same day closure of all critical incidents and increased customer satisfaction.

● Consolidated all IT Operations departments globally across E!, Golf Channel, and Versus resulting in an annual operating expense reduction of 2+ million.

● Managed department with highest morale as determined by corporate survey. Director, IT Operations (8/2005 – 6/2006)

Scope: Global, 100+ applications, 500+ servers, four data centers, 1+ PBs of storage, 5000+ users, 30 staff Responsibilities related to IT Operations, (vendor management, budgeting, forecasting, strategic planning, compliance, application management and development, infrastructure management, business intelligence, and database management, client services was out of my scope)

● Technical lead for ad sales/traffic systems consolidation for all cable network entities o Project completed on-time and on-budget and resulted in 500k in net annual operating expense reduction

o Project allowed business to seamlessly cross-sell and package-sell among the various networks, which resulted in substantial revenue increases to the company.

● Technical lead and project manager for affiliate sales system consolidation for all cable networks o Project completed on-time and on-budget. Project enabled greater selling efficiencies across the various networks and enabled significant sales team staff reductions to cover the same territories. 30+ staff sales positions eliminated due to efficiencies gained. 5

● Technical lead and project manager for Global International sales/traffic system for all international cable networks

o Project completed on-time and on-budget. Project enabled greater selling efficiencies across the various networks.

o Project completed in coordination with the broadcast engineering group for roll out of new playout facility in Amsterdam

Various roles at Comcast – Manager, DB Engineering, Database Engineer, Technical support (September 1997 – August 2005)

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