ROBERT M. HAZLE

Holly Springs, NC 252-***-**** adyde9@r.postjobfree.com

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

New Era Technology (Professional Services & Consulting Firm) Director, IT Mergers, Acquisitions, & Divestitures IT LATAM Operational Strategy 2022 – Present Results-oriented technology leader with a strong focus on driving digital transformation initiatives resulting in a positive profit margin (>%30) and pipeline of new business (>$1M).

• Established and led the Global IT Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestitures Practice, delivering a new line of capabilities and revenue stream for the enterprise.

• Established, developed, led, and cultivated global strategic partnerships with STARLIMS (a Laboratory Information Management System software company) creating a new line of capabilities and revenue stream for the enterprise resulting in over 50 new clients in Latin America.

• Lead and executed multiple concurrent complex integration projects, delivering a 30% increase in operational efficiencies through seamless end-to-end IT delivery and driving transformative outcomes across the enterprise.

• Developed IT strategies aligned with business objectives setting clear objectives that fostered innovation in the rapidly evolving digital landscape resulting in a 50% increase in operational efficiency and 20% reduction in digital transformation timelines.

• Collaborated with, and became the trusted advisor to, c-suite executives to spearhead strategic initiatives for digital transformations providing scalable results and reducing IT costs by 20%.

• Pioneered cutting-edge IT capabilities, playbooks, and strategies, optimizing outcomes for successful digital transformations resulting in successful implementations and migrations that were on time and on budget.

• Accountable for end-to-end management of IT P&L portfolio, achieving consistent margin goals over 30% and covering all team costs.

• Led development of compelling quotes, proposals, and RFI/RFP responses, securing new business opportunities with an acceptance rate of over 90%. Gilead Sciences (Pharmaceuticals)

Associate Director, IT 2021 – 2022

Accomplished IT leader with a proven track record in defining and delivering end-to-end IT lifecycle, driving successful integration initiatives, and shaping the strategic vision for the enterprise aligned with regulatory requirements.

• Developed the IT organization’s strategy, in collaboration with the CIO, to emphasize digital transformation providing direct relationship between IT roles and the corporate strategic vision, driving innovation and sustainable growth, and ensuring regulatory compliance.

• Conducted a full assessment of the IT organizations automation footprint covering robotic process automation (RPA), intelligent automation (IA), testing automation, process orchestration, and intelligent document processing producing a detailed report showcasing Gilead’s IT automation maturity and roadmap to increase automation use.

• Provided strategic consultation and guidance leading the way for a $20M significant divestiture, focusing on IT digital transformation.

• Developed and conducted an IT personnel engagement strategy to align IT leadership with employees leading to a 50% increase in employee engagement.

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TATA Consultancy Services (Professional Services & Consulting Firm) Global Engagement Manager, IT 2015 – 2021

Results-driven IT strategist with expertise in impactful digital transformation strategies. Enables operational excellence, innovation, and navigates complexities. Aligns IT initiatives with business objectives for continuous improvement.

Private Equity Digital Transformation

• Work directly with the CIO c-suite executives to provide IT strategy, risk mitigation, and program status.

• Liaison between c-suite and IT teams, translating executive and business requirements into coordinated IT action plans managing onshore (10) and offshore (30) resources.

• Streamlined, harmonized, and led core IT functions including infrastructure services, end user computing, service management, networking, email and collaboration, security, and identity access management resulting in a 25% program duration reduction.

Fortune 50 IT Merger and Digital Transformation

• Spearheaded the Deployment Management horizontal across 14 concurrent work streams in a historic $130 billion-dollar merger assigning tasks, managing workloads, and coordinating communications.

• Responsible for the successful deployment of over 125 applications, data migrations, and data extracts, paving the way to secure a $49 million project extension.

• Effectively maintained team cohesion and improved staff performance while serving as executive council. Pharmaceutical Divestiture

• Led the IT validation effort of a $2.65B divestiture of a manufacturing facility, ensuring regulations and CFR Part 11 were maintained.

• Provided leadership and consultation to c-suite executives for program management, regulatory requirements, and team management of onshore (5) and offshore (25) resources conducting CSV.

• Became a trusted advisor to c-suite executives driving “day one audit ready” IT initiatives in infrastructure, systems and data validation, and security.

Medical Device Digital Transformation

• Developed the IT strategy of a $2.2B acquisition integrating a Class 3 medical device company into existing global IT operations.

• Managed a c-suite focused strategic team (10) of culturally diverse and globally located resources to develop an enterprise IT framework and workable set of IT policies and procedures.

• Orchestrated a comprehensive IT effort to streamline multiple change management procedures into a single cohesive process reducing complexity (by 66%) and increasing efficiency (increasing change throughput by 30%).

Nutrition and Health Digital Transformation

• Successfully led a strategic team of onshore (10) and offshore (5) resources to incorporate the IT infrastructure of global manufacturing sites into existing IT operations.

• Headed the P&L and program developing contracts, statements of work, and change orders

• Effectively coordinated a matrixed environment of third party and client teams, acting as a liaison between c-suite executives and IT.

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Crop Protection Divestiture and Acquisition

• Effectively managed IT commercial agreements to facilitate the transfer of a business unit between seller and buyer.

• Led multi-disciplinary IT teams (20 resources) to expedite the transition from TSA to normal operations.

• Managed the delivery of migrated applications (35), data, and installation of new assets (5). Advanced Manufacturing Assessment

• Steward interaction between executive leadership, IT teams, and third-party vendors to provide IT strategic direction for manufacturing processes.

• Collaborated with senior leadership providing IT and fully integrated roadmaps for process improvements and business alignment.

• Led the PMO conducting manufacturing and IT maturity assessments for globally located sites. Sequence Inc. (Professional Services & Consulting Firm) Principal Consultant, IT Validation Practice 2002 - 2015 Managed IT computer system validation efforts in the life science industry for multiple clients providing system, infrastructure, data and analytics, as well as program management.

• Coordinated a data analytics project utilizing Agile methodologies to configure Discoverant as their main analytical system.

• Led a pilot program to engineer a validation and monitoring process to ensure compliance for the transport of product samples.

• Organized both internal and client personnel for multiple CSV projects and managed client relationships. EDUCATION

East Carolina University

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

AFFILIATIONS

Founder of HS Atoms Youth Athletics (nonprofit)

Coach, South Wake Storm Youth Athletics

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