Management Manager
Resume:
Margaret “Peg” Talbott-Lane
**** ********* ******, ************ ** 19146 Mobile: 215-***-**** Email: acza84@r.postjobfree.com
Executive Profile
IT Financial and strategic procurement professional with 20 years’ experience in the effective management and consulting of full cycle enterprise level IT sourcing, purchasing, contract and vendor management. Driven to manage costs, eliminate duplication, and develop key strategic alliances with organization leaders and vendors to effectively align with and support key business initiatives.
Business Impact
Structured IT expense management policies for $1 billion organization, complete with budget templates, procurement process, rate cards, vendor management policies and vendor on-boarding processes.
Project lead for M&A license consolidation (merged software licensing for four companies into a single enterprise license vehicle), reducing costs by 35% across the merged enterprise.
Renegotiated contracts for printing services resulting in a 60% reduction of IT expense and total refresh of on-site printers hardware.
Led aggressive cost savings goal of $4M, 10% of budget in 12 months. Overall cost savings to clients during contract $9M.
Negotiated and finalized all company IT contracts with stakeholders, vendors and Legal – ie. Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, Equinix, Sungard, Nutanix, HP, EMC, VMWare, Pure Storage.
Envisioned and implemented contract restructuring for telecommunications and mobility contracts that saved clients over 40% to their wireline and wireless infrastructure.
Managed new client relationships that netted $1.2M in revenue in new business engagements for CTI.
Skill Highlights
IT budget and forecasting IT / Facilities procurement and contract management Vendor Management Strategic planning and project management Client account management Bidding processes - RFX and Quote Value driven cost reduction focus Excellent leadership and communication skills
Exemplary relationship development skills.
Professional Experience
President / Independent Consultant
MTLane Consulting LLC 2317 Christian Street Philadelphia, PA 19146
April 2007 to Present
Consulting services practice focused on IT / Facilities full cycle cost, project, and procurement management.
Technology Procurement – specializing in Oracle, EMC, Cisco, Microsoft, cloud services, and datacenter services.
Project management – Moves, adds, changes & disconnect/cancellation of services.
M&A consolidation – experienced with structuring the impact of merging organizations on licensing and compliance issues.
Audit and Compliance specialist – specializing in organizing license compliance for large enterprise to respond to vendor audits.
Telecommunication and mobility specialist – audit, contract restructure and significant cost savings. AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Century Link, Level3
Director, IT Strategic Procurement
Convergent Technologies, Inc. (CTI) Malvern, PA
February 2013 to August 2016
Consulted clients as a subject matter expert on best practices in IT Procurement, administrative management of assets and contract negotiations.
Structured IT expense management policies for $1 billion organization, complete with budget templates, procurement process, rate cards, vendor management policies and vendor on-boarding processes.
Project lead for M&A license consolidation (merged software licensing for four companies into a single enterprise license vehicle), reducing costs by 35% across the merged enterprise.
Renegotiated contracts for printing services resulting in a 60% reduction of IT expense and total refresh of on-site printers hardware.
Led aggressive cost savings goal of $4M, 10% of budget in 12 months, $9M during tenure.
Mentored Client Accounting and Finance teams on integration of budgeting and coding process best practices.
Directed RFX processes for Clients on major IT purchases - All major Telecom carriers, two co-location new contract and migration, hardware, software (included Microsoft EA, Oracle, Salesforce, Informatica Adobe).
Established and led IT contracting process and pipeline - Master Professional Service Agreements, Statement of Work standards and Non-Disclosure Agreements as standard IT contracting practice.
Led a team of junior consultants on client site for three years.
Business Manager
February 2009 to February 2013
Yetti, LLC Philadelphia, PA
Business Manager and Controller for four small businesses - two restaurant / craft beer bars, bakery and real estate/rentals operations. $8M in business revenue.
Director, Consultant Operations
May 2007 to January 2009
Convergent Solutions Group Plymouth Meeting, PA
Directed five consulting teams between Philadelphia, New Jersey and North Carolina. Inside operations.
Consulted with clients on new telecommunications contracts and best practices.
Drove contract consolidation and restructure for clients that resulted in $5M in cost savings to clients while driving $1M in revenue to my company in new sales and consulting statements of work.
Manager, IT Procurement
March 2002 to May 2007
Radian Group Inc. Philadelphia, PA
Managed and led a team of four buyers and one admin for all IT purchasing and AP Coding for $2 billion public company.
Managed procurement of $60M information technology budget.
Led the internal telecommunications contract consolidation effort resulting in completely updated telecommunications global services infrastructure at a cost savings to budget of 25% ($2M per year)
Created and managed license and maintenance renewal schedule.
Prepared IT Finance yearly budget and monthly / quarterly forecasting.
Education
Business Administration - California State University Los Angeles, CA
Undergraduate studies towards degree
Associate of Applied Science: Accounting - Montgomery County Community College
Software and Certifications
Advanced level - Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Sharepoint, Word, SNOW
Accounting Packages: Oracle Financial, JD Edwards, Quickbooks Pro
ITIL Foundation Certification
Certified Purchasing Manager
Project Management Certification - Pre-course
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