Experience

ivision

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Principal Consultant

  • Dec 2022 - Present

  Principal consultant in iVision's digital strategy practice. Our team of former CIO's and consulting executives, focuses on executive partnership, benchmarking, cyber security, business alignment, application alignment, organizational alignment, and technology alignment. Principal consultant in iVision's digital strategy practice. Our team of former CIO's and consulting executives, focuses on executive partnership, benchmarking, cyber security, business alignment, application alignment, organizational alignment, and technology alignment.



Howmet Aerospace

• United States
• Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Chief Information Officer

  • Apr 2020 - Nov 2021

  Howmet Aerospace was created in April 2020 from the split of Arconic, Inc. into two separate publicly traded companies. Howmet is made up of four sub businesses - engine products, fastening systems, engineered structures, and forged wheels. The company serves the aerospace, commercial transportation and industrial markets. Pandemic normalized statistics: Revenue $7.0B. IT spend $140M. IT full time employee headcount 350. IT service level agreement headcount 150. Howmet Aerospace was created in April 2020 from the split of Arconic, Inc. into two separate publicly traded companies. Howmet is made up of four sub businesses - engine products, fastening systems, engineered structures, and forged wheels. The company serves the aerospace, commercial transportation and industrial markets. Pandemic normalized statistics: Revenue $7.0B. IT spend $140M. IT full time employee headcount 350. IT service level agreement headcount 150.



Arconic

• United States
• Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Chief Information Officer

  • Jan 2019 - Apr 2020

  Corporate executive in charge of leading information technology strategy and deployment.

• Director, Service Management Office (SMO)

  • Aug 2016 - Jan 2019

  The SMO defines and maintains the overall IT service strategy and support model for Arconic. This 200-person global team of employees and contractors provides information system services related to mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures; deskside support; service desk; mobile; compliance; and license management.



Alcoa

• United States
• Mining
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director of Information Systems

  • Jan 2007 - Aug 2016

  Responsible for driving business value through globally deployed information systems platforms and bringing technology solutions to solve key strategic business problems. Manage 25 person remote team located worldwide; oversee $12MM budget. • Defined information systems strategy; resulted in organization alignment with business goals, an improved security profile, and approval of a multi-year million dollar project to upgrade manufacturing systems across global business. • Developed and deployed commercial and manufacturing decision support systems; delivered one stop information portal and standardized reporting. • Led efforts to deploy multi-million dollar projects to improve thermal process control and monitoring; eliminated hundreds of thermal deviations saving $100,000 annually.. • Repurposed information systems spend; funded a variety of business projects that improved customer ratings, secured critical data, and improved operational efficiencies. • Implemented compliance process; met Sarbanes-Oxley requirements and drove understanding throughout the organization. Show less



Alcoa

• United States
• Mining
• 700 & Above Employee

• Business Process Manager

  • Jan 2000 - Jan 2006

  Managed all core operational business areas in design and deployment of Oracle Applications software and business related customizations. Led and facilitated matrixed location teams totaling 125 people involved in pilots, training, go-live and other deployment activities.• Deployed Oracle Application software across 25 locations in North America and Europe; consolidated ten legacy systems delivering improvements in productivity and overall business capability.• Managed cross functional team to facilitate IT related due diligence requirements in divestiture of 18 locations enabling joint venture between Alcoa and Sapa Extrusions.• Led Enterprise Business Value process to identify, scope, and quantify improvements and efficiencies to justify information systems capital expenditures and build organizational capability.• Transitioned the information systems organization from a project deployment group to an operational function, responsible for serving the global business. Show less

• Manufacturing Superintendent

  • Jan 1998 - Jan 2000

  Managed manufacturing organization of a union shop responsible for the safe production of high-quality aluminum extrusions. Major accomplishment was department redesign resulting in implementation of stream-lined work practices, productivity improvements and $1.5M in headcount reductions.

• Production Control Supervisor

  • Jan 1995 - Jan 1998

  Managed customer commitments to production center capacity to maximize financial contribution to the bottom line. Accomplishments included reducing inventory by $1.2MM and 20% flow time improvement by implementing lean manufacturing tools and processes.

• Divisional Product Accountant

  • Jan 1991 - Jan 1995

  Responsible for completing broad range of day to day financial and accounting functions including monthly closing activities, standard costing updates, business analysis, budgeting and yearly planning activities.