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CIO or VP of Information Technology

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Work history

Cox Communications August 2001 to the present
Vice President of IT Operations

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How would you describe your time at Cox Communications?

Direct strategy, architecture and operations of all IT-related services and equipment supporting internal employees in eight key business areas including Regional Call Centers, Mobile Workforces, Finance, Marketing, Business Operations, Public Relations and Human Resources. Manage support and maintenance of equipment such as Video On Demand and the DAC. Oversee all development and implementation of telecommunications, applications, E-commerce Web sites, Regional Data Center operations, business methodology and process improvements. Prepare and control combined annual capital and operating expense budget.... read more
VARTECH August 1999 to August 2001
Chief Information Officer - CIO

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How would you describe your time at VARTECH?

Oversaw all IT functions for publicly traded CRT and LCD Display manufacturing company with offices in United States and Canada.
Led team of 20+ to develop and implement solutions for establishing, enhancing or maintaining business-critical IT areas including data center management, application
development, technical support, financial monitoring and disaster recovery planning. Developed customized CRM and ERP systems from ground up. Managed vendor relationships, and controlled costs through skillful budget planning and management.
Selected Contributions:
** Restructured IT department into revenue generating unit by establishing framework that enabled group to perform IT consulting tasks; created 24X7 call center and helpdesk for external customers.
** Saved $3.5M and expanded operational growth capacity by 31% with new ERP system; grew existing hardware capacity, enabling seamless delivery of services during extensive company growth cycle while avoiding high cost of major expansion.
** Created and implemented systems for managing sales commissions and billing, and formulated effective E-business strategy that increased revenue by 7.5%.
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IBM Globals Services August 1995 to August 1999
Project Manager / Consultant

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How would you describe your time at IBM Globals Services?

Managed global contracts and provided expertise on Fortune 500 consulting teams for technology powerhouse with 300,000 employees and $14B in annual revenue.
Traveled worldwide to provide project leadership and deliver pre-sales support, regularly meeting with C-level executives and Boards of
Directors to showcase IBM products and services. Completed broad range of high-visibility, high-dollar projects in enterprise services, architecture design, business continuity management, regulatory compliance, information risk management and disaster recovery.
Selected Contributions:
** Played active business development role supporting IBM Global Services Consulting in winning major e-business contracts with global companies; presented Web strategy to Nissan executives in Tokyo to win $12.1M contract.
** Led and managed proposal and prototype effort that captured $3M+ in internal business; prototype architecture comprised Lotus Notes client applications communicating through MQ Series to business logic in Java, running on OS390 Mainframe.
** Managed $16M World Bank contract to set up production environment on high-availability mini mainframe with IBM RS / 6000 multi-processor servers running Oracle on AIX. Set up, executed and analyzed results from stress test of Production environment simulating more than 1M dialog steps per hour, and leveraged results to adjust and tune SAP, Oracle and AIX configurations.
** Implemented and managed nation-wide Help Desk for Texaco, and completed migration from Novell NetWare servers, Bay Network routers and Microsoft Exchange to Microsoft Windows NT, Cisco routers and Lotus Notes.
** Led and managed Customized Collateral Project for Visa International; Phase I of $6M WebSphere project was successfully developed and delivered in test environment.
** Piloted and implemented $14M project for Blockbuster to test RFID, GPS, traditional bar codes and two-way radios, improving supply chain visibility.
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Education

MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology January 2006 to the present
Executive Management
Louisiana State University August 1993 to August 1995
Master of Business Admin (MBA), Finance and Marketing
Louisiana State University January 1989 to August 1993
Bachelor of Science in International Marketing and Finance
LOUISIANA TECHNICAL COLLEGE - BRSC January 1988 to January 1989
Computer Programming

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