| Summary – George Lin brings over twenty two years of pragmatic IT transformation and business enablement experience to his clients. George is a four-time CIO, recognized IT industry thought leader, successful executive coach, contributing author to two CIO leadership books, and a graduate school guest lecturer. He has been honored with three prestigious IT industry awards for outstanding IT leadership and achievements.
Expertise – Hands-on leadership in all aspects of business technology disciplines including people and organization development, client engagement and partnering, IT strategy and planning, IT/business alignment, IT governance and portfolio management, program/project management, global business process optimization, ERP & CRM implementation (on-premise, hosted, and cloud), custom application development, M&A integration, 24 x 7 production support, service desk, high availability infrastructure management (data center, network, voice, video, mobile), process and technology outsourcing, information security and privacy, Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance, and SAS-70 certified external customer-facing application hosting operation.
Transformative – An expert of rapid and effective IT turnarounds with scores of referenceable successes in transforming IT organizations, IT processes, and IT services. As a trusted business partner, empowers business performance through business process improvements and technology enablement.
Lean – Ran highly effective IT organizations yet maintained IT expense to revenue ratios consistently lower than industry benchmarks. Oversaw annual operating budgets of up to $33M, capital budgets of up to $12M, and up to 150 IT employees and contractors.
Industry Verticals – Software, Hardware, Semiconductor, Consumer Electronics, Financial Services Sectors
Past projects include:
- IT strategy, governance, roadmap creation and execution
- Project Management Office (PMO) implementations and operations
- IT process improvements, outsourcing, SOX remediation
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementations and upgrades
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM) implementations and upgrades
- Business Intelligence (BI) implementations and upgrades
- eCommerce system implementations and upgrades
- M&A process integrations and system integrations
- Data Center build-outs, expansions, relocations; server virtualizations
- LAN/WAN/telephony upgrades, cost optimizations, service provider changes
- Enterprise-wide desktop/laptop hardware refreshes and software/OS upgrades
- Consumerization of IT, BYOD
Recent clients: Rambus, MPG Office Trust (formerly Maguire Properties)
Past employers: Dolby, Advent, EMC, Documentum
Honors and Affiliations – Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leader, 2003; CIO Decisions Midmarket Leadership Award, 2006; CIO Magazine CIO 100 Award, 2008; Three-term Board Member, CIO Advisory Board, Fisher IT Center, Haas Business School, U.C. Berkeley; Council Member, The Technology Council, Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc.; Former Council Member, Strategic Advisory Council, Tablus, Inc. (acquired by EMC); Former Board Member, SearchCIO.com Editorial Advisory Board, TechTarget Media Group
Education - B.A., Interdisciplinary Studies; University of California, Berkeley, California |