CHRIS BIANCO
Flemington, NJ ***** 908-***-**** ********.***@************.** www.linkedin.com/in/csbianco C-LEVEL EXECUTIVE, BUSINESS CONSULTANT, & VERSATILE LEADER Brings high financial acumen, emotional intelligence, and a front- to back-office command of operations. Tenured business owner, consultant, account manager, and team leader across industries. Dramatically improves cost savings and profitability with a commitment to process improvement, customer success, compliance, and business integrity. Skills & Qualifications
Leadership
Strategic Planning
Project Management
Cross-Functional Teams
Budgeting
Team Leadership
Change Management
Business Alignment
Collaboration
Stakeholder Relations
Training
Operations
Risk Reduction &
Management
Redundancy
Cost Control & Optimization
Process Improvement
Automation
Compliance
Contract & Vendor
Negotiation
Performance Metrics
Work Culture & Efficiency
Professional Development
IT Strategy & Infrastructure
Technology Roadmap
Systems Migration &
Integration
Data Warehousing
Dashboards
Executive Reporting
Data Security
Tools & Technology
Azure
Tableau
Windows
MS Office Suite
Professional Experience
TEAMLOGICIT, Myrtle Beach, SC
President & CIO, 02/2018 to Present
• As owner and operator of this MSP franchise, manage a ~five-member staff to service a book of business valued at $205K in annual MRR, with 16 cross- industry small and medium-sized business (SMB) clients.
• Provide a range of services that include VoIP, NOC, proactive support, project delivery, web and software development, asset management, strategic planning, and implementation.
• Fully source, qualify, contact, close, and manage client accounts, with a marketing and sales process that includes email, cold calling, mailers, discovery meetings, proposals, and contract negotiation. BLUE PANTHER BUSINESS PARTNERS LLC, Whitehouse Station, NJ Principal & Owner, 10/2007 to Present
• Provide management technology consulting, strategic planning, and on-site support for SMBs as a business improvement specialist, focusing on IT quality, sales, marketing, cash flow, and production.
• Maintain a $175K book of business with 11 clients.
• Conduct forensic discovery, staff and process observation, interviews, process and procedural changes, documentation, and reporting.
• Secure new business through referrals, the chamber of commerce, and in partnership with loan officers and CPAs.
BIG C’s HOLDINGS, INC. (a C-corp DBA Gray Man Spirits), Myrtle Beach, SC President & CEO, 12/2017 to Present
• Established and serves as 100% shareholder of this C-corp, which opened three boutique locations along the Myrtle Beach Southern Grand Strand in less than a year.
• Manage an eight-member staff with $1M gross revenue, providing retail coaching, implementation and oversight of operating procedures, technology support, financials, taxes, licensing, marketing, and payroll. COMPASSION-FIRST PET HOSPITALS, Tinton Falls, NJ
Chief Information Officer, 03/2015 to 06/2017
• Led two IT infrastructure and application teams, comprising 14 systems administrators, computer technicians, developers, and database administrators to connect 30 specialty veterinary hospital locations with
$245M in combined revenue.
• Designed and implemented executive dashboards and a real-time data warehouse, which enabled timely daily and monthly financial KPI reporting by replacing manual reports that were based on six-week-old data. Continued on next page
Executive Leadership
Acquisitions & Consolidation
As CIO of Compassion-First Pet
Hospitals, facilitated 24 hospital
acquisitions and data conversions.
After each purchase, implemented
an M&A playbook to onboard IT
support and financial systems.
Later, designed and executed a
strategic technology plan to
migrate and consolidate legacy
and newly acquired locations on a
single platform.
Configured two separate but
redundant colocations as
part of a two-year, $2.2M
project.
Created a bioinformatics
database to simplify and
standardize complex
diagnostic coding.
Led planning and design of a
$2M big data capture to
support forecasting, in
partnership with a virtual
third-party team.
Community Outreach
(Greater Myrtle Beach, SC)
President & Board Member
Oystercatcher Island HOA
Marketing Vice-Chair,
Board Member, &
Certified Mentor
SCORE Grand Stand District
Leadership Hunterdon
Alumni Board
Hunterdon County
Chamber of Commerce
General Manager
Hunterdon Chamber Radio
Secretary of the Board
Hunterdon Harmonizers
Board Member-at-Large
& Music Team Member
Low Country Chorus
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Professional Experience, cont.
COMPASSION-FIRST PET HOSPITALS
Chief Information Officer, cont.
• Completed an ETL process to integrate data from proprietary hospital systems, using an executive dashboard and a new accounting system.
• Centralized data and fortified disaster recovery capabilities with the installation of two data centers and Verizon MPLS WAN. CIT, Livingston, NJ
Vice President – Information Technology, 07/2000 to 03/2007 Operations
• Increased the division’s annual profitability by $3M and reduced production errors by 45% with a new asset management business process for leasing operations, a protocol that became an enterprise-wide model.
• Improved productivity by 20% with the instatement of quality assurance processes.
• Raised productivity by 20%, using rational products to conduct client / server architecture planning and software configuration.
• Reduced annual expenses by $100K with merged processes for acquisitions.
• Implemented Sarbanes-Oxley and Patriot Act controls and documentation to reduce financial risk, retain shareholder value, and ensure compliance.
• Negotiated contracts for software licensing and third-party services. Revenue & Client Account Management
• Managed a $12M budget and application teams in the end-to-end software development lifecycle for a joint-venture leasing system, which contributed 40% of revenue to the division’s $1.2B bottom line.
• Served as the only one of 16 IT vice presidents assigned to all IT functions; regularly sought to diffuse and manage tenuous client relationships. Marketing & Business Development
• Supported attainment of multiple new clients, incorporating detailed IT systems background in a CD-demo marketing initiative, to promote the full- service product leasing lifecycle across other phone system brands.
• Oversaw development and rollout of a lease origination website, which drove more than 50% of the division’s business based on its ability to provide fast credit decisions, real-time document generation, and online assistance. Education
Doctor of Business Administration (DBA ABD)
University of Phoenix
Master of Science (MS) in Computer Information Systems University of Phoenix
Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Computer Studies
Bachelor of Music (BM) in Music Education
Bachelor of Music (BM) in Applied Trumpet
Northwestern University
Diploma in Computer Programming
The Chubb Institute