Greg Burner

Enterprise IT Leader: Process and System Transformation, Rapid Growth, Change Management, Team Builder, Cost Containment, Strategic Sourcing

Leadership Focus

Strategic Technologies and Operational Improvement Leader. Ability to drive IT system and process improvement and change management initiatives focused on business goals: reduce business risk, increase service levels, and contain operational costs. Lead large-scale projects that have provided tens of millions of dollars in savings over his career. Build, develop, and retain top-performing talent. Extensive experience in public and private equity companies, aerospace, high tech, and healthcare/life sciences.

-IT Strategy -Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestitures -Cybersecurity

-P&L Management -Large IT Program Management

Selected Career Accomplishments

•Performance Improvement/Erie Street Private Equity

oLed and grew the due diligence practice in support of our Private Equity clients.

oStrategic advisory and client satisfaction leader for West Coast clients.

oLed and developed deliverables for business strategy and transformation projects.

•Boeing Defense and Space

oLead development of the WGS/Space Force program architecture and top-level plans.

oDetermine and manage major sub-contract supply strategy and manage suppliers.

•Deloitte Consulting

oDeveloped IT application integration plans, SaaS/IaaS strategies, application portfolio, and infrastructure rationalization plans as part of healthcare/life sciences transformation projects.

oOrganized and led the program IMO/PMO groups focused on developing and managing program cost, schedule, and resources for the successful delivery of customer requirements for a mid-market healthcare provider.

•Wyle Aerospace Inc/Court Square Private Equity

oAfter numerous acquisitions, developed the integration strategy, application and infrastructure integration, and organizational roadmap. Developed a “cloud first” strategy, migrating operations to ServiceNow, SalesForce, and TeamCenter.

oGrew and managed the IT organization with a yearly budget between $25M and $55M.

oProposal development and service delivery to DOD/SOCOM POTFF mental health-focused program.

oDeveloped and delivered innovative solutions to NASA’s terrestrial and space-based human health programs.

•KPMG Consulting/BearingPoint

oSuccessfully implemented SAP’s ERP system at Northrop Grumman Ship Systems. This project integrated the system’s support for engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and finance; reducing overall IT spending by over $100M per year.

oCompleted the Thuraya Satellite Constellation System Engineering Management Plan (SEMP).

•Hughes Space and Communications Group (HSC)

oAs Manager of Production Operations led the development and implementation of Product Design Management (PDM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) projects, saving millions of dollars per year in redesign and manufacturing activities for a large Classified Satellite constellation.

Career Inspiring High-Performance Teams to Exceed Customer Expectations

Performance Improvement Partners/Erie Street Partners

Senior Director, M&A Due Diligence Practice Leader

Lead and grow the due diligence practice creating and improving diligence content and artifacts. Recruited and managed a team of ~12 consulting professionals focused on due diligence, carveout, and integration planning for our Private Equity clients. Provide strategic advisory and transformation project oversight and delivery for West Coast clients. Responsible for growing our business, developing and delivering proposals, and managing the process through to kickoff.

Boeing Space and Intelligence

Program Management Lead – Antennas / Passive Microwave Devices

Drive daily program execution, coordinate, and communicate with functions from early program bidding through final flight delivery across multiple programs. Focus on software development, testing, and delivery, supporting critical space and terrestrial systems. Led the development of the program architecture and top-level plans, developing program organization, work structure, top-level program and execution plans. Identify key program-level horizontal and vertical integration interfaces between major activities, teams, suppliers, partners, and customers.

Deloitte Consulting Inc.

IT Strategy/Program Management Leader

Develop IT strategy and post-acquisition integration plans. The plans drive the quick identification of integration synergies and manage the execution of activities to leverage cloud solutions and quickly achieve savings. Set up and manage IMO/PMO operations to deliver program cost and schedule goals, utilizing EVMS systems/approach. Develop due diligence and program management best practice methodologies and toolsets. Private equity and public company leadership. Industry focus on aerospace, high technology, and healthcare/life sciences.

KBRWyle, Inc.

Chief Information Officer, Global Services Group

IT Executive Advisor to Global Service Leaders to identify emerging trends, work global issues, develop IT strategy, and integrate our service operations to drive costs out of our operating model, utilizing an ITIL approach. Led major SAP upgrades, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Team Center cloud migrations. Championed RPA and AI solutions to address common operational issues.

Completed the planning and integration of Wyle Laboratories, SGT, and Honeywell Technical Services organizations into KBR Services Group. Focus on team building, planning, and integration of the IT operations, application portfolios, and global infrastructure. Ensure that all regulations are met: SOX, HIPAA, GDPR, FAR, DFAR, NIST, ITAR, COBIT, EVMS, etc. Worked with diverse, global IT groups to maintain momentum to quickly integrate disparate operations into an efficient, process-based organization, leveraging ITIL methodologies.

Developed vision and long-term strategic plan, led creation and management of daily end-to-end operations of the Information Technology (IT) organization (100+ employees). Consistently managed the IT P&L ($55M), meeting budget goals while improving Service Levels.

Set overall strategy and technology targets. Developed a strategic approach to focus on the business value of IT, and how technologies will support the revenue-generating operations.

KPMG Consulting/BearingPoint

Technical Services Practice Director, Aerospace and Hi-Tech Markets

Led numerous projects including a very large SAP implementation at an Aerospace company, supporting engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, finance, and services operations.

Lean Service Delivery/Six Sigma project leader across Boeing’s aircraft manufacturing operations: 737, 767, C17.

Led large ERP/HRIS system requirements definition, system selection, and implementation projects. These projects spanned multiple technology providers: Microsoft GP/Dynamics, Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Deltek, Lawson, Infor, etc.

Led many diverse technical services and consumer projects including organizational strategy, IT strategy, data warehousing/analytics, ERP/PDM/MES, point of sale/retail end-user intelligence, merchandising, supply chain management, warehousing and distribution systems, fixed assets, human resources/recruiting, service desk, and world-class procurement.

Hughes Aircraft, Space and Communications (HSC, now Boeing Space and Intelligence)

Manager, Production Operations, Supply Chain and Quality

Led the development of optimized Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) and Product Data Management (PDM) processes at HSC. Worked with key business stakeholders, from “C” level to hands-on level, to identify key business processes and cost drivers.

Education and Affiliations

Bachelor of Sciences Degree from Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio

Manufacturing Engineering and Computer Science

Master of Business Administration from Pepperdine University, Malibu, California.

Emphasis - Economics

Master’s Certificate from the University of California, Los Angeles, John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management, Los Angeles, California

Materiel Management – Supply Chain and Contracts

MBA from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Finance

Member Associate of Corporate Growth (ACG) 2020-

APICS CPIM certified, PMP certified

Member of Microsoft CIO Advisory Board

United States Department of Defense, top secret, SSBI, and special access clearances

LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregburner 802 Maryland St.

Cell: 310-***-****, Personal email: ad3tb1@r.postjobfree.com El Segundo, CA 90245

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