MICHAEL L. DIGIACOMO

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Tolland, CT 06084 e9v74a@r.postjobfree.com

PROFILE

Senior Information Technology Executive with Fortune 500 domestic and international experience. Record of building and leading high performance teams, reducing costs, improving operating efficiencies and positioning information technology as a critical business partner. Management achievements demonstrate proficiencies in:

• Leadership

• IT Strategic Planning

• Team Building

• Project Management

• Vendor Management

• Analytical Skills

• Acquisition Integration

• Business Re-Engineering

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

TOMRA NA

Vice President CIO 2005- present

• Built and directed team of 20 internal and 8-10 external IT Professionals (including off-shore team)

• Developed and implemented three year Strategic plan in support of business initiatives. Plan focused on improving financial controls, reducing operating costs and improving efficiencies, re-engineering business processes and modernizing infrastructure.

• Overall efforts led to new corporate data warehouse, North American infrastructure modernization and over 30 application projects resulting in new corporate ‘ERP” environment.

• Participated as part of management team to determine business growth initiatives and strategic investment strategy.

NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT, NY, NY

IT Project Manager/Consultant 2004- 2005

• Supported creation of NYPD’s Real Time Crime Center to deliver data necessary to proactive crime prevention, case analysis, criminal tracking and reporting.

• Developed data mining analysis strategies and analytical models for the Crime Center that helped define a series of crime casual relationships.

THE STANLEY WORKS, New Britain, CT 1997-2004

IT Director, Finance, Human Resources and Payroll Systems 2000-2004

• Developed strategic direction and operational Information Technology support to CFO and direct reports.

• Designed three year strategic plan focused on improving financial controls, reducing operating costs and improving efficiencies, and re-engineering business processes.

• Reduced 100+ headcount globally by modernizing application portfolio based on SAP financials and Hyperion Consolidation software.

• Led global business task force to ensure full Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.

• Improved cash flow in excess of $40 million/year by leading implementation of Citibank Orbian accounts payable solution.

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Saved in excess of $300K/y by leading implementation of new Payroll system.

• Reduced operating cost and improved efficiency by implementing new time and attendance, tax and audit systems.

IT Director, Y2K Project 1997-2000

Led corporate global Y2K program. Built and led team of seven cross-functional resources in developing Y2K strategy, formulating projects and project teams, establishing vendor partnerships, and reporting and monitoring activity for weekly review with the CEO/CIO. Three-year budget exceeded $100 million covering all related remediation costs. Program activity exceeded over 200 individual projects with over 100 running concurrent. Completed full remediation to ensure deadline compliance as well as other significant systems enhancements prior to 12/31/2000 deadline.

KRAFT FOODS INTERNATIONAL (Corporate Offices, Rye Brook, NY) 1988-1997

Director, Subsidiary Support and Worldwide Vendor Management 1994-1997

• Led global management of IT strategic vendor partners including IBM, Marcam, JD Edwards and Microsoft.

• Saved in excess of $5 million by negotiating a series of tailored licensing agreements.

• Improved financial controls and provided real-time sales tracking information to international export business.

• Saved in excess of $2 million annually by negotiating a series of CPU upgrades in Korea, Philippines, Australia and Japan.

Associate Director, Business Consulting Support 1992-1994

• Saved over $5 million annually as key member of senior IT team responsible for consolidation of Pan-European mainframe data centers.

• Successfully integrated over 40 acquisitions that grew the company from $4.5 billion to almost $11 billion in revenue as part of senior IT team.

• Achieved $7-$10 million per year in purchasing savings by managing IT capital investments.

Manager, Headquarters Systems 1988-1992

• Provided IT support to Corporate staff of 120 employees

• Led implementation of corporate financial consolidation and reporting system for 35 international sites.

GENERAL FOODS (Corporate Offices, White Plains, NY) 1978-1988

Manager Information Systems, Birds Eye & Desserts Divisions 1985-1988

Management Science Consultant 1978-1985

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Six Sigma Training 2000

MS, Operations Research, Columbia University School of Engineering 1981

BS, Operations Research, Columbia University School of Engineering 1978

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