Occupation:Manager |
Location:Astoria, NY |
Education Level:Some College Units Completed |
Will Relocate:YES |
Description
Summary: A successful Global Procurement Manager & Information Technology professional with experience in all major technology infrastructures. Currently, Senior Vice President of a major global organization responsible for global technology contract negotiations focusing on infrastructure support services, outsourcing, leasing and purchasing of technology and implementing cost management models. Responsible for meeting corporate cost reduction mandates and attaining the most aggressive pricing models to meet business budgets and requirements. Ability to develop strategies, analyze, plan and implement cost effective business solutions in a multi platform environment. Emphasis in identification and implementation of automated efficiency tools that streamline production systems and improve end user services. Manage business relationships with hardware/software vendors, including major responsibility for ensuring system service levels, performance objectives and meeting multi million dollar technology budgets. Extensive technical background in implementing systems, networks, telecommunications, PC client/server architecture, mainframe and distributed server computing. Have built and lead teams of staff to support technology and business applications. A proven professional with excellent results and references. Accomplishments Negotiated and organized all aspects of relocation of an entire banking organization. Met budget restrictions set by general management for all construction and subcontractor costs. Received #1 rating from O.C.C. auditors in the area of Information Technology. Created own disaster recovery site for systems and trading room business resumption. Project manager for new hardware and software implementations (system conversion from mainframe application to AS400 system). Created library maintenance and security procedures for all software releases into production. Streamlined end of day and report creation by automating processing and implementing storage solution. Head of IT Steering Committee & IT Compliance Committee.