Experience

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  Aerospike, Inc.

  • Technical Account Manager

    • Apr 2021 - Jun 2023

    Provided large enterprise customers with business consulting, program management and technical assistance in resolving the challenges of operating database infrastructures at extreme scale (hundreds of terabytes at tens of millions of transactions per second). Activities included:• Customer prog...

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  Battelle

  • Columbus, Ohio Area

  • Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager

    • May 2017 - Mar 2021
    • Columbus, Ohio Area

    Value-driven IT procurement leadership, and process and supply chain improvements for a major federal contractor.• Negotiated $50M+ in multi-year enterprise IT agreements for Infrastructure, Consulting, and SaaS services. Representative vendors included Microsoft, ServiceNow, Oracle, Cisco, Palo...

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  FocusCFO

  • Columbus, Ohio Area

  • Area President

    • Nov 2016 - Apr 2017
    • Columbus, Ohio Area

    FocusCFO is passionate about helping small businesses with 10-50+ employees to improve cash flow, analyze and improve profitability, streamline operations, and manage expenses. Their CFO's typically work with 4 companies and all possess at least 20 years of financial management experience. ...

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  Ohio University

  • United States
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Director of Planning and Special Projects

    • Mar 2006 - Nov 2016

    Led IT planning, financial planning, and special projects. Activities focused on ROI optimization, quality improvement, and achieving new efficiencies, reliability, and savings: Planning, Finance, and Management• Managed $30M per year in annual spend.• Led efforts to develop new service delivery efficiencies (outsourcing, service normalization, process improvements), license and infrastructure cost optimization (e.g., sizing, licensing, staging upgrades over time), and maintenance renewals.• Implemented a new accounting structure to track and manage costs.• Negotiated enterprise agreements with strategic vendors (Oracle, Cisco, Microsoft, Aruba, EMC, Juniper, IBM, and others).Projects• Led operations for a $10M document management program and microtransactions for 1000+ devices.• Implemented a new telephone operations system.• Developed a project portfolio management, approval and funding approach based on stakeholder consensus, financial projection and ROI, and resource availability.

  • Senior Budget Analyst

    • Nov 2002 - Mar 2006

    Managed budget operations, performed analyses, and delivered special projects.• Designed and implemented a new University budgeting process and submission system. • Developed a responsibility center model of college revenue and expenditures.• Analyzed a $35M debt refinancing and identified $700,000 in interest rate arbitrage savings across alternative financing proposals.

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  Oracle Corporation

  • East Industrials Consulting

  • Practice Manager

    • Jan 1999 - Aug 2001
    • East Industrials Consulting

    Business development and consulting services with a team using value-based selling methods to sell $35M in consulting projects annually to General Electric:• Business development, business process consulting, and requirements definition.• Project management of Oracle Applications implementations....

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  PricewaterhouseCoopers

  • Moscow, Russian Federation

  • Manager, Management Consulting

    • Mar 1994 - Jan 1999
    • Moscow, Russian Federation

    Managed projects and drove to customer value through the delivery of customer business solutions: • Developed quick start delivery templates for public sector projects throughout Eastern Europe.• Developed a strategic information systems plan for the Ukraine Ministry of Statistics.• Business solu...