| Expertise – Business focused, high energy, proactive IT Executive. Excels at building, managing and motivating customer focused teams that are performance driven, accountable and aligned with the corporate goals. Experienced in managing rapid company growth, downsizing, turnarounds, acquisitions and outsourcing.
In her first CIO role in 1994 she played an integral role leading the company to become a four time INC. 500 company during her tenure
Subject Areas–IT Management, Portfolio Management, Program Management, Business Process Improvement, ERP, CRM, BI, EDI, B2C & B2B
Business Acumen – Strategy Planning and Execution, Project Portfolio Management, Building Performance Driven Teams, Business IT Alignment
Industry Verticals –Retail, Logistics, Financial Services, Software
Representative experience:
- IT Transformation- Excel at transforming under-performing IT departments to strategic high performance teams focused on aligning with the corporate goals. Implement enterprise level infrastructure and applications to support growth and significantly increase productivity, efficiency and analysis capabilities while at the same time reducing cost. At one company as revenue doubled was able to reduce IT expense by 50% at the same time.
- Business Intelligence and Enterprise Planning– At numerous companies implemented Business Intelligence providing a “single version of the truth” and significant improvement and efficiency in reporting and analysis. Implemented Enterprise Planning solutions delivering collaborative real-time planning, greatly streamlining and enhancing the planning, budgeting, and forecasting process
- ERP Selection, Implementation and Support– Experience developing ERP software as well as implementing and supporting SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft and Microsoft. Just completed very successful global SAP implementation for the largest Apparel & Footwear Equestrian company.
Past employers: Ariat International, THE SAK, American Century Investments, The Dialog Corporation, The Hub Group, Reliable Data Systems and Fairshares Software Education –Undergraduate degree and a postgraduate degree, in Applied Statistics and Computing, University of Wales
Other –Contributing author of “CIO Perspectives” book covering best practices from Silicon Valley's leading CIO’s. Chairperson of the Northern California IBM Cognos User Group. Active member of both the Office of the CIO and the Consortium of Information Systems Executives and former membership chair for the San Francisco Bay Area Society of Information Management |