Experience

Valent Partners

• United States
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Partner

  • Jan 2022 - Present

  Senior executive leading and growing organizations that deliver technology strategy and innovative solutions to complex problems. Skilled at assembling, motivating and guiding high caliber teams to deliver solutions at global companies as well as smaller, dynamic and rapidly growing firms. Analytical and results-oriented, with the perspective and expertise to engage and succeed in dynamic environments, aligning systems strategies to achieve business objectives. Executive advisor and partner with experience in the telecommunications, IT infrastructure services, transportation and logistics, and consulting industries. Specialties: Corporate and product strategy, modeling and forecasting, corporate structure and governance, leadership development, technology strategy development, systems planning and road-mapping, enterprise architecture, systems design and development, program & project management, development sourcing strategies, enterprise portfolio management, process design, organization design, talent development, M&A IT due diligence and integration. Show less



Pariveda

• United States
• Business Consulting and Services
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Chief Strategy & Process Officer

  • 2013 - 2021

  Responsible for ensuring Pariveda’s processes, both client-facing and internal, align with and effectively execute its business strategy. Drives the transition from the development of Pariveda’s business strategy to its effective execution, determining the best process disciplines to utilize in order to maximize the collective value of the firm’s strategic functions. Leads the development and use of the roadmaps and governance frameworks for process excellence within Pariveda.

• Managing Vice President - Dallas

  • 2008 - 2013

  Responsible for the sales, delivery and quality of Pariveda's consulting services delivered to its clients from the Dallas Office, Also responsible for the continued growth and profitability ofthe office, as well as the professional development of the Dallas consultants.



SIBRIDGE Consulting

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• President

  • 2005 - 2008

  Responsible for all aspects of the firm’s strategy, service offerings, solutions delivery, financial management and personnel management. As head of the firm’s IT Strategy consulting service, worked with CIOs and CEOs to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their IT organizations. Responsible for all aspects of the firm’s strategy, service offerings, solutions delivery, financial management and personnel management. As head of the firm’s IT Strategy consulting service, worked with CIOs and CEOs to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their IT organizations.



Level 3 Communications

• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Vice President - Network & IT Systems Development

  • 2002 - 2005

  Led the organizations responsible for all aspects of systems design, development, testing and operations to enable the Network Engineering and Voice/SoftSwitch business units. Directed the efforts of 250+ employees and contractors and managed $45MM OPEX and $8MM CAPEX budgets.

• Vice President - Network & IT Systems and Operations

  • 1998 - 2002

  Led several IT organizations including those responsible for Network Systems Development, Architecture Strategy and Planning, and IT Operations. Directed the efforts of up to 275 employees and contractors in the US and EU and managed OPEX and CAPEX budgets of up to $25MM and $40MM respectively.



Sprint

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Director - Distributed Systems Development

  • 1995 - 1998

  Responsible for establishing and driving the strategic technical and application architecture directions for Sprint’s Long Distance Division (LDD), including the division's adoption of object-oriented and distributed systems technologies. Directed the efforts of 60 BTA personnel and managed a $7MM OPEX budget.

• Senior Manager

  • 1993 - 1995

  Led a team of 24 employees and contractors responsible for the design and implementation of the technical architecture components used by strategic applications within the company's Long Distance Division.



Accenture

• Ireland
• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Manager - Advanced Technology Group

  • 1991 - 1993

  Manager of 10-20 person technical teams on client engagements in the energy and telecommunications industries. Teams were responsible for completing software development, data conversion, software configuration management, architecture design/build and deployment projects in the Windows, OS/2, Sun/IBM/HP UNIX and IBM mainframe environments.

• Senior Consultant

  • 1987 - 1991

  Worked as software engineer and technical team lead on client engagements in the energy, government, manufacturing and financial services industries. Primary responsibilities included software development, systems testing, environment setup/support, and performance tuning in IBM mainframe and VAX/VMS environments.