Expertise - Thirty years of “hands on” experience solving problems in all aspects of Information Systems, Manufacturing Operations, and Procurement, including; contract negotiations, process improvements, client relations, and solution delivery. A leader of global magnitude, having worked and consulted in Europe, Asia and the middle east.

His extensive experience includes responsibilities as a Chief Information Officer practitioner, four times, for both large and small companies.  He continues to serve in CIO roles as a consultant.  He has also had profit and loss responsibility as the Program Manager for large programs such as the F-18 Aircraft, the AH-64 Helicopter, and the Advanced Cruise missile. He has also been responsible for monthly quotas and the project leader for seven ERP system implementations. 

Subject Areas – Business Alignment, Global Sourcing, IT Strategy and Implementation, Program Office, Process Improvement and elimination, Information Technology and associated M&A activities, IT Governance, ERP and Supply Chain Implementation, Production Control and efficiency, Inventory Optimization

Business Acumen – C-Level relationships and communications, Strategy and planning, Team building, performance improvement, simplification or elimination of processes, project rescue, strategy to tactics translation, gets things done!

Industry Verticals – High Tech, Software, Retail, Manufacturing, Aerospace, Defense.

Representative experiences

Transformational Leader - Led efforts at Allied-Signal, Plantronics and Symantec to bring all business units and Information Technology into alignment.  This began with organizing and standardizing the way in which executives would look at initiatives.  These efforts were conducted at the corporate level and resulted in the adoption of a process on how to manage the initiatives, budgets and portfolio of projects.  All C-Level executives were involved and we were able to transform strategy into actions with results.

Interim IT Management – Consultant to Oracle and Sun on their 900 person Oracle implementation.  Transitional CIO (4 month) for an $8 Billion company while it replaced the current CIO.  Interim CIO for a variety of companies, examples include; a distance learning school, a manufacturing firm, a Hollywood film studio, a software development company and an engineering firm.  Currently serving as CIO for several Silicon Valley companies.

Global Sourcing – Referred to as an offshoring Guru on the internet, have led efforts for Hitachi, Symantec, Tibco, Adaptec, Flying J, Siperion, Proxim, Xylog and others.  These efforts cover every aspect of outsourcing/offshoring from inception to managing the service.  Call Center, Information Technology, Engineering, Customer Service and other disciplines were the objectives, depending on the client.  Dollar savings (with cost avoidance omitted) ranged from $1-5 Million in the first 9 months.

A sample list of recent clients includes: Foundation Capital, Driscoll’s Berries, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, Sun, NorCal Golf Association, Golden Gate University, Dolby Labs, Wales Investments, the country of Israel.

Past employers:  Honeywell Aerospace, Ernst & Young, ATK (Alliant Techsystems), AT&T, Plantronics, Masters Institute of Technology, Gartner Group and Symantec.

Education – BA from UCLA, MBA from National University, certified in Governance and Project Management

Certified by ISACA in Governance of Enterprise Wide IT. Authored “CIO Wisdom”, published by Prentice Hall, and “CIO Perspectives”, published by Kendall-Hunt and “CIO Body of Knowledge” published by Wiley and Sons. A highly decorated US Naval Officer.