James Fields

ad497j@r.postjobfree.com / 954-***-****

Education -

MS in Computer Science (System Engineering)

Colorado Technology University

BS in Business Admin (Management)

Missouri Southern State University

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Core Leadership Specialties –

Transformative Executive. Leader well versed in Mobilizing large Global teams, defining, delivering corporate initiatives and solutions. Manage large strategy, develop highly skilled teams to deliver impeccable services SaaS, PaaS, DbaaS, IaaS. Ensure efficient and cost-effective solutions with scalability, flexibility and maintainability in mind.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

Core Management Specialties -

●20 Years IT Shared Service Management (ITIL/ITSM)

●20 years CAPX & EXP

●18 Years Software Development Management

●12 years Project, Program and Portfolio Mgmt.

●20 years Data Transformation, strategy, and integration

●10 years Digital Transformation

●12 years of Executive Management

● 9 years Network Infrastructure Engineering management

●10 Vendor Relationships Sourcing & Management

●24 Years Merger & Acquisition / M&A (FedEx, JNJ, Bed Bath & Beyond, T-Mobile, Tyson Foods) 16 M&A Completed

Career Highlights

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SARS Solution Group (Remote/Travel) Sept. 2022- Current

Title: Sr. Principal Partner Enterprise Transformation Strategic Enterprise Roadmap

(Application, Data Digitization, Database, Infrastructure, Networks, CCoE)

Managed Executives Stakeholders Initiatives turning them into a Roadmap. Development Executive plan and reviews. Develop from initial definition to production implementation. Manage technology development group, D\develop Roadmap, define new methodology, organization roles and responsibilities for IT product users. Redefine the technology landscape, integrate data, security systems, change management, contract, to enable accuracy in management and communication. of Greenfield efforts. Work with SAP lead to define project step and interface point for SAP S/4 HANA Cloud.

●Develop & Present - Multi-year Transformation Roadmap (Data/Application/Support team (ITSM/ITIL) Framework//AI/ML and Agile, SDLC/ App. Methodology)

●Leverage cutting-edge AI technology - LLMs, carry out complex analysis, build proofs-of-concept and prototypes, create insights, and build models and products that serve the business.

●Advised Executive Management on - Data/Database/Cybersecurity/Development Digitized Transformation lead groups of cross functional team members to define long term ERP/CRM strategy, Supply Chain and transformation, integration specialist.

●Define, Implement - drive an application development and data transformation strategy that supports the company’s vision and strategic priorities. Ensure compliance with SAP Partners, data policies, standards. Follow the SAP Roadmap.

●Design and configure - perimeter security (firewall, IPS/IDS, VPN, web filtering, malware/botnet protection) for data centers, POPs, remote sites, and cloud connectivity ensuring a high degree of performance and service availability for the business.

●Identify and prioritize - data opportunities and challenges and propose innovative and scalable solutions.

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Tyson Food Inc. (Hybrid - 1 day a week in office) Mar. 2022 – Sept. 2022

Title: Sr. Application Development Manager / Data Bases (IBP-Enterprise Applications)

●Manage Tyson owned (IPB corporation) International Pork & Beef and multi brands applications through a digital evolution, migrating system support to vendors, SAP integration (CRM/ERP) and other system into Tyson base system,

●Define integration of like application into single Customer Order/ Fulfillment and Product Replenishment., Product Clearing, Manufacturing, Warehousing, Financial Forecasting, Accounting, Web presentation customer, pricing and vendor interfaces, tracking and improved advanced business intelligence and analytics.

●Prepared and delivered Executive Management weekly program reviews and Quarterly reports to PMO Enterprise Executive team.

●Manage Front end web-based application development and support team for multiply Lines of Business Jimmy Dean/Tyson/Sara Lee/Hillshire/Hillshire Farms each at different phases of integration support user experience (UX) functionality. required C Net and Java, Power Skills.

●Lead by weekly Integration and planning definition activities, schedule applications reviews user acceptance, Project estimated timelines.

●Design and configure perimeter security (firewall, IPS/IDS, VPN, web filtering, malware/botnet protection) for data centers, POPs, remote sites, and cloud connectivity ensuring a high degree of performance and service availability for the business. Identify and prioritize - data opportunities and challenges and propose innovative and scalable solutions.

●Develop Greenfield Applications and team strategy for undefined application and platform. (ERP/CRM) data strategy design and usage of technology for IBP~SAP environment.

●Develop SLA’s, Resilience/ Failover/ High Availability policies, Governance by which the SaaS, PaaS, DBaaS are developed and managed by Shared Services on Prim/Offsite in an ITSM environment.

●Manage application activities and Incident Issues using (Agile Kanban Board) work with Tyson application development and support teams and Infosec support teams executives to develop internal system support efforts to exceed up historical Service Levels Agreements (SLA), Resulting in incident reduction of %50 after 2 months identifying and levering ITSM management technique.

●Manage cross functional data Global Hr. development teams, data security, governance policies and models. Develop targeted Cloud platform, migration, transformation and integration strategy and project plan.

Dish Wireless Network Denver Co. April-2020 – August 2021

Title: Sr. Program Manager 5G Cloud Network Data Lead (Metro Integration)

Managed Executives Stakeholders Initiatives turning them into a Roadmap. Develop Executive plan and reviews. Developed from initial definition to production implementation. Manage technology development group, methodology, organization roles and responsibilities for IT developers. Redefine the technology landscape, integrate data, security systems, change management, contract, to enable accuracy in management and communication. of Greenfield efforts

●Manage Dish Wireless Network, 5G Data Lake Cloud, Wireless PMO and vendor teams, Data Lake Program data strategy in the Merger.

●Develop Data Advisors Board group of cross functional team members to define long term data strategy for 5G Network, Supply Chain Management, Billing, Operations, the process by which the data is retrieved from towers into local data centers, regional data centers, national data centers into the Data Lake managed by a public cloud provider (PCP).

●Developed Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) and Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) through the usage of training and vendor guidance expertise until staff ability to focus in this area of technology.

●Develop Data Directors Board group of cross functional team members to develop data governance, data policies models and long-term strategy transformation and integration.

●Prepared and delivered Executive Management weekly (PMO) program reviews and monthly program status meeting reviews of the Orchestration project.

●Develop Greenfield data strategy design and usage of technology work with SME to develop system design and competence for the design, deployment, and management of 4G & 5G networks with both legacy and virtualized core.

●Work closely with vendor community to ensure a strong understanding of their products and products direction to define how they integrate into Dish Network environment planned environment, Schedule bimonthly vendor product discussion and reviews.

●Define a multi-vendor/multi-technology network systems integration service for 5G wireless networks (RAN/CORE/IMS-CORE/CONNTECT/INTERCONNECT/INFRASTRUCTURE)

●Managed solution internal system process and security design problems to eliminate audit issues, develop program, used to process network data (RAN/CORE/IMS-CORE/ Connect/ Interconnect/ ) in cloud environment for network analytics, billing support and operation support Systems, Develop Greenfield application strategy design and usage of technology work with SME to develop system design and competence for the design, deployment, and management of 4G & 5G networks with both legacy and virtualized core

T-Mobile Seattle WA. May 2018 – JAN 2020

Titles: Sr. Principal Consultant - CCoE Technology Strategy Cloud Center of Excellence (Technology Transformation Business Process Management (BPM)Engagement Lead)

●Develop management Service Delivery transition plan, new billing environment to provide a path for integration with Sprint and T-Mobile Merger, Compare and contrast incident management, problem management, desk Infrastructure, network. managed systems, Service management to meet industry standards and developed transition programs. Managed approach, of adhoc reporting analysis, data driven by customer business partners, Billing (AMDOCS) Customer Order/ Fulfillment and Product Replenishment., Product Clearing, Manufacturing, Warehousing, Financial Forecasting, Accounting, Web presentation customer, pricing and vendor interfaces and user experience.

●Prepared and delivered organization and technology strategy, technology automation and procedures and information flow diagram presentation for executive review and implementation schedule. / Changes.

●Developed Secure Data and Governance strategy, Cybersecurity solution, Site, Staff Security, related to cyber digital threats, DR strategy, recovery management, compliance, using a wide range of cyber technologies.

●Lead stakeholders’ meetings in transition process redefining organization, technology, to efficiencies across the business and role responsibility change and creation.

●Manage project managers, develop technology solutions from definition to inception through delivery, manage project performance, identification project execution, optimization opportunities and drive the continual improvement process methodology.

●Work with executive team to define Digital transformation structure integrate and transition of application licenses, define infrastructure, network, software stacks in support of Merger and acquisition M&A, Reduced the time spent on making decisions on the acquisition and synergizing based on comparison of information provided by analytics and performance.

United Bank of Switzerland UBS Chicago IL. Jul. 2016 – MAY 2018

Titles: Sr. Program Manager (AMDW & PFAM Transformation)

● Managed development Program and Managed application, Data Warehouse Asset Management Data

Warehouse (AMDW), Fire (Informatica), AM/GAIN Data Warehouse, ASG Data Warehouse, using.

. tools MicroStrategy, Business Objects, Tableau.

● I developed and led the development and design of the (Personal Financial, Asset Management) PFAM

application solution transforming it to a Web based application in Java, C## .Net SQL Server

environment using Informatica to transform the data to a single target file.

● Worked with UBS CTO Team to define organizational and technology processing changes for the

Digital transformation, Cyber Security and Disaster resilience. Strategy andtransformation.to SimCorp

Dimension managed the Disaster Resilience (DR) strategy with integrators of SimCorp Dimension to

design system function and test strategy.

● Create cost, schedule, manage cost to plan, partner with finance to create budget schedule, develop

cost review schedule with finance.

● Work with integrators of SimCorp Dimension (SCD). Work with defined UBS’s corporation Global.

Information Technology Value Supply Chain. Develop plan from gap analysis across the current

technology support teams and business platform Manage Cyber Security delivering system.

● Delivered upgrade of the Network, manage infrastructure BOM order process, schedule of installation

burn in and implementation of software cutover, overall delivery process.

●Data/Database/Cybersecurity/Development Digitized Transformation lead groups of cross functional team members to define long term ERP/CRM strategy, Supply Chain and transformation, integration specialist.

COARE BIOSCIENCE TECHNOLOGY E. Orange NJ Mar 2012 – June 2019

Titles: Chief Technology Officer / Forward strategist (CTO)

Titles: COARE BIOSCIENCE TECHNOLOGY (Advisor) June 2019 – Dec. 2023

Managed Executives Stakeholders Initiatives turning them into a Roadmap. Development Executive plan and reviews. Develop from initial definition to production implementation. Manage technology development group, methodology, organization roles and responsibilities for IT developers. Redefine the technology landscape, integrate data, security systems, change management, contract, to enable accuracy in management and communication. of Greenfield efforts.

●Lead executive stakeholders’ meetings in migration process redefining technology organization process role and responsibilities for technology strategy. groups, integrate LBMS data, Security systems, Change Management, contract, and enablement management.

●Develop the data defined to be implemented into the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW/BI) for Business intelligence concept, using data derived from LBMS and, enhanced data from peer trial systems, define data flow for the EDW engineered platform, audit current systems as a source of Data to feed into the BI Platform.

●Develop data privacy plan, policy and compliance of Governance based on policy and industry leading standards, research up and coming technologies in the Bioscience field. Define communication and data management discipline with a focus on Data Privacy science,

●Define Management Shared Services delivery transition plan to new environment, perform reviews, audits as they relate to incident management, problem management, desk Infrastructure, network. managed systems, managed platforms, ServiceNow, Active Directory, Office 365, Evault and Commvault, Firewall, CISCO switches, meeting industry standards (NIST, IOS27001) and developed a process of continual improvement.

●Managed developers, shared services, vendors for multiple development streams for CORE BIO. Cloud and on Prem efforts.

●I managed the application architecture business solution, integration effort using Infromatica as the Extract, Transformation and Load (ETL), tool from multiple source system into BI / Analytics target.

●Led and directing matrix teams, successfully measuring, Driving progress to completion. responsible for driving activities across the organization, consulting with technical staff, Global WAN/LAN/RFI/Cellular Network, vendor technical staff and area experts, leadership.

JOHNSON & JOHNSON Raritan NJ Jul 2014 – Jun 2015

Titles: Sr. Manager Service Delivery (Ops-Infrastructure /Network Delivery) Sept 2011 – Mar 2012

Led team of the IT Global Infrastructure engineers in the development of a migration and integration of next generation Cloud Infrastructure migration process developing the plan and schedule for design build source to target environments infrastructure (Crossroads).

●Migration Medical Device Division of Johnson & Johnson, onto a single platform, 66 variants of SAP/ 15 JDEE providing one customer view of the applications, network infrastructure to support fall of Johnson & Johnson business and practices.

●Have operations management experience, perform reviews, audits as they relate to incident management, problem management, desk top support, Infrastructure, network. managed systems, managed platforms, ServiceNow, Active Directory, Office 365, Evault and Commvault, Firewall, CISCO switches, meeting industry standards (NIST, IOS27001) and developed a process of continual improvement.

●Transform SAP and Oracle ERP applications for the business. Plan all phases of the application integration and deployment of SAP and Oracle, reducing code base, Support and maintenance improving maintainability of the system and business performance and management.

●Led and directing matrix teams, successfully measuring and driving progress to completion. responsible for driving activities across the organization, consulting with technical staff, Global WAN/LAN/RFI/Cellular Network, vendor technical staff and area experts, leadership.

●Responsible for Software integration across lines of business LOB and Infrastructure services. Delivered day-to-day application support and integration into leverage existing environment. Plan, directs, and coordinates the organizational/technical activities required for delivery of the services to ensure technical solution meets contracts specifications.

●Transform Plan all phases of the SAP application budget, build, integrate, test, and plan the deployment of SAP, improving code quality, performance and maintainability and business operation performance and management.

●Data/Database/Cybersecurity/Development Digitized Transformation lead groups of cross functional team members to define long term ERP/CRM strategy, Supply Chain and transformation, integration specialist.

●Planed and managing Network upgrades and support shared support for all Global Service Customer applications. Managed on/off/ shore members and services providing SAP ERP (FI//GL/AP/GL/ BPM/MM/SRM) system management for one of the three Lines of Business Vision Care (VISTAKON), Solar, Leap Live and SAP-ECC all assets entered, updated in MS SharePoint / Visio / Excel.

BED BATH & BEYOND Union NJ Sept 2012 – Jul 2014

Titles: Director Information Management (Digital Strategy & Transformation, Insights)

●Transformed the data usage and definition into a new Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW/BI) concept, offshore process and, enhancements of workflow processes for the EDW reengineered platform, audit current Data Privacy plan, policy and compliance of Governance based on policy and industry standards, define data management discipline with a focus on Data Privacy.

●I developed and led the architecture of the application solution transformation effort using Informatica as the Extract, Transformation and Load (ETL), tool from multiple source system into .Net and Oracle environment as the targeted System.

●Developed plans to improve service and repair process and procedures, matrix for all product process and procedures developing Project Key Performance Indicators KPI, Stakeholders, project schedule, Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), Statement of Work (SOW) development project schedule,

●Managed Agile development method of development using Jira as the project management tool. Communicated and developed process define roles & responsibilities, assignments, documentation.

●Used standard Agile steps to Scope/ create portfolio tracks/ EPICS or Features/ User Stories/ Daily standup/ Demo’s/ PIP and Celebrations/ in the SDLC.

●Developed and led the Executive PMO to project form, function, and governance. Plan enforcing definition accountability roles, responsibility, usage, process policies. Reduce the common recurring root cause across projects. Developed recommendation for software to be POC proof of concept on in BBYB environment.

T-SYSTEMS Scottsdale AZ Jul 2009 – Sept 2011

Title: Global Sr. Manager Service Delivery (Operations-Infrastructure /Delivery Manager)

●Developed and led the PMO Office managing projects manager and business analyst supporting, sales, business development, data engineering, platform definition.

●Led Sr. Consultant, managed services, vendors for multiple delivery streams for T-Systems implementation for cloud services. And developed and led the architecture of the application solution transformation effort using Informatic as the Extract, Transformation and Load (ETL), tool from multiple source system into .Net and Oracle environment as the targeted System.

●Provides consultancy to T-System Clients, Cloud transformation and Cyber Security Cloud tools.

●Manage and design web-based application development and support team for multiply companies in different phases and level of support required C##. Net and Java scripts

●Influence and transform undefined strategy into a well identified downstream strategy that impacts the changing to the business concept clients PaaS, IaaS, SAAS / SOA environment. I have operations management experience, perform reviews, audits as they relate to incident management, problem management, desk top support, Infrastructure, network. managed systems, managed platforms, ServiceNow, Active Directory, Office 365, Evault and Commvault, Firewall, CISCO switches, meeting industry standards (NIST, IOS27001) and developed a process of continual improvement.

●T-Systems a company of (Dutch Telekom) defined on/off-shore and application and infrastructure teams, lead product definition and support, solutions to meet client expectations. Perform as the single source of contact for new IT work requests for the infrastructure team. Led Managed Services efforts, setup and utilization of standardized work processes in Managed Services.

Cendant CORPORATION, Miramar Fl. Mar 2000 – Jul 2009

Titles: Director (Enterprise IT Data/Infrastructure/Network)

●Transformed the data usage and definition into a new Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW/BI) concept, offshore process and, enhancements of workflow processes for the EDW reengineered platform, audit current Data Privacy plan, policy and compliance of Governance based on policy and industry standards, define data management discipline with a focus on Data Privacy regulations like

●Develop and groom, prioritization strategy, RoadMap and PaaS, SaaS, IaaS, models and CSaaS (Cloud Services as a Service), data service to support new Business Process Methodology (BPM) on a continual bases to delivery acquired new business as needed.

●Data/Database/Cybersecurity/Development Digitized Transformation lead groups of cross functional team members to define long term ERP/CRM strategy, Supply Chain and transformation, integration specialist.

●Manages day-to-day communication with end-users in both the business segments and in Information Technology.

●Define intake process and requests support services to support and Infrastructure Operations

●Standardizing the framework for time tracking, and overall reporting on staff allocation, utilization, and availability

●Single point of contact for services inquiries for Server and Cloud Infrastructure, and expected to remain up to date on services offerings and provide service level reports (SLA)

●Liaison with the Service Management Office for Server and Development and Infrastructure services (NOC Support)

FedEx (Shared SERVICE) Colorado Springs Mar 1983 – Jul 2000

Titles: Sr Manager Software Development / Sr Principal DBA /Sr. Programmer Analyst

●Developed Greenfields applications transformed the applications, model logical/physical data and databases, manage eEnterprise Data Warehouse (EDW/BI) offshore teams and process.

●Define enhancements of workflow processes for the enterprise applications reengineered platform, audit current Data Privacy plan, policy and compliance of Governance based on policy and industry standards, define data management discipline with a focus on Data Privacy regulations, database design for performance and data sanity.

●Define and develop Roadmap and PaaS, SaaS, IaaS, API models and CSaaS (Cloud Services as a Service), data service to support new Business Process Methodology (BPM) on a continual bases to delivery acquired new business as needed.

●Manages day-to-day develop activities, project staging, project activities, Charter communication with end-users in both the business segments and in Information Technology.

EDUCATION

Corporate Training Courses

Vendor Management/ Vendor negotiation skills, Contract management, PMBOK project management practices, Business Continuity, GDPR, CCPA. NIST, ISO, Agile Methodologies.

Cyber Security & Business Resilience Focus:

Business Continuity Plan (BCP), Change Management Process (CMP), Change Authority Board (CAB), Data Encryption Applications, Data loss Prevention (DLP), Data Protection, Network Encryption, Data Forensic tools, Design and configure IDS/IPS alerts.

Cyber Security Deployed

Endpoint Protection systems, Cylance, McAfee, Carbon Black, Trend Micro, Work with SIEM vendor QRadar, Splunk, Proofpoint Email Security vulnerability remediation.

EDUCATION

Database Systems: MS SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, DB2, IMS, CICS/TSO/ISPF/MVS, Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis, Postgress BMC Technologies, DBRC,

VERITAS, NetBackup, RMAN, ETL Data stage, Snap Logic, SAP S/4 Hana Cloud

Hardware: (IBM, z/Series, HP, SUN, EMC, Hitachi) SAN storage, VMS, Open View, UNIX, CISCO Switches/Router/Firewall Barracuda suite of hardware, Netware, Tivoli, Steelhead Riverbed F5 BigIP Load Balancer.

Enterprise PKG / Security Pkg:

SAP (ECC, EP- DB, GTS, HANA-DB, PI, SCM, SLT, SM, PM, SRM Console, WWI, Success Factor) SAS, Oracle JDE (Enterprise One), Order Management and Quality, Service Now, JDA, LIMS Book, CTM Solution) and associated site infrastructure, Peoplesoft. SimCorp Dimension, Software Languages: ACP, C, COBOL, C#, CSS, Power Bi .Net, Java Scripts, Visual Basic providing the customer with continued technology support initiatives removing the cost of support, security, large implementation cost of growth of the system. BI: COGNOS, Business Object, Crystal Reporting, Hyperion MicroStrategy, Tableau, Collibra, and MS-Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Access, Apache, Spark native

Project Methodologies: Program Management & Requirements, ITILv3, Embarcadero, Waterfall, Incremental improvement, Six Sigma trained.

Project Management Tools: MS Project Professional, Primavera, JIRA, SAP (PS) Visual Source Safe, Rational, IBM JAZZ Cloud, AgileCraft,

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