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emerging enterprise in need to grow to the next level - with a desire for European Expansion

Multi-industry/multi-disciplinary Senior Manager with 20 years of broad-based management consulting experiences in IT Management and Strategic Planning complemented with a solid background in Finance/Accounting and a working knowledge of international business.

Core Strengths

IT Management and Strategy
- 15 years experience in IT Management - Full Cycle Program/Project Management, IT Process Engineering, Change Management, Risk/Issue Management, Quality Assurance, and UAT.

- Solid working knowledge of hardware/software Architecture, and information security.

- Managed/participated in medium to large cross enterprise projects ranging from simple to highly complex, $500K to $400MM in size, and involving legacy, client-server, e-commerce, and web technologies.

- Directed up to 60 in direct/matrixed staff, and including all functional aspects including business case, planning and scheduling, costing and budget, scope control, change/risk control, and resource hiring, leveling, and on boarding.

- Solid understanding of structured IT Governance, Quality Assurance, and Project Management methodologies such as PMI (PMBOK), Waterfall, SDLC, ADM (Accenture), and RUP as well as JAD and RAD development methodologies.

- Positions held: CIO, Program Director, Program Manager, Sr. Project Manager, and Sr. Testing Manager.

- Solid people manager with demonstrated success in building quality project teams.

- Highly skilled in positioning IT as a strategic value-add partner in addition to being a delivery partner.

- Demonstrated success in partnering with business units in exploring alternative strategies and solutions to design enterprise/cross organizational applications, and to bring projects in on time and on budget.
Finance & Operations

- Formulation of internal productivity strategies through Business Transformation and Business/Process (re)-Engineering, Risk Management, Change Control, Mergers & Acquisitions, Start-up & Turnaround.

- Positions held: CEO, CFO, and COO, Non-Profit Board Member, Accounting Manager, and Sr. Financial Analyst.

International
Business/Government exposure to the Netherlands, and Executive Cultural Consulting for international executives

Bi-lingual - fluent in Dutch, conversational in French/German....

Mergers & Acquisitions failing Banks, Savings & Loans, Asset/Liability Re-structuring, Compliance

Mergers & Acquisition Feasibility Studies, Asset Acquisition Due Diligence, Asset Restructuring

It is all about character, Integrity, vision, and courage

Building a solid sustainable team, and coaching it to achieve perfection

Senior Corporate Accountant

Senior Management position in IT/Software Development.
Preferably in small to mid-size company
Preferably with a company eyeing international expansion to Europe

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