Experience

National Storage Affiliates

• United States
• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• SVP - Head of Technology

  • Aug 2018 - Present

  National Storage Affiliates (NYSE:NSA) is a self-administered, self-managed real estate investment trust of self-storage facilities. NSA’s portfolio comprises 1150 self-storage wholly owned properties throughout the United States. NSA is one of the largest owners and operators of self-storage facilities among public and private companies in the U.S. As the head of technology, I’m responsible for defining the vision, roadmap, and strategy for technology. Manage IT organization and day to day IT operational activities such as managing infrastructure, network, telecom, ERP, all business critical applications including CRM, sales and marketing, revenue management, EDW/BI analytics, SaaS and IaaS vendors, etc. Develop short and long-term strategy for using technological tools that are aligned with business requirements. Develop and improve the existing control framework to ensure business continuity and data integrity/security expectations are met for the Cyber Security risk standpoint. Ensure adherence to government regulations and guidelines for technological operating systems like SOX, NYDFS, and CCPA etc. Show less



QWEST INC., Ernst & Young LLP

• SVP - Global IT

  • Aug 2012 - Jul 2018

  •Worked with few largest US REITs like UDR, and AIMCO to build global IT team, discovery and business case analysis for SaaS and IaaS etc. as a management consultant. •Direct and coordinate activities while working closely with the CEO, CFO, and COO to strategically formulate organizational processes while developing best practices for continued success and growth within the IT department. •Manage and oversee SaaS (NetSuite, Salesforce.com, Sitecore, and Oracle SPM Cloud etc.), large ERP implementations, post go-live operations, PMO, and IaaS. •Implemented NetSuite (Financials and HRMS) for a large REIT. •Implemented Salseforce.com sales and marketing and CRM modules for Fortune 1000 companies. •Build and manage IT application, solution, operations, and service delivery teams. •Manage and lead Oracle, JDE, SAP ERP applications HR, Finance, Accounting, EDW/BI, and FP&A software vendor selection and implementations. •Managed Health Care Data Repository (HDR) implementations and have extensive knowledge around Health Care Data Architect, HIPAA, and the HITECH Act. •Manage systems implementation projects for small, medium, and large fortune 500 companies globally. •Managing software, hardware, and off-shore vendors. •Managed SOX, COBIT, NIST, etc. framework and processes. •Implement on-shore, off-shore, and near-shore sourcing strategy. •Program Management and Product Development. •Business process transformation and M&As. Industries: Real Estate, Health Care, Financial and Consumer products. Specialties: Highly creative in managing and helping companies in finance and accounting, HR, SCM and CRM cloud, SaaS, on-demand systems life cycle, implementations projects, IT operations and execution, leadership and staff development, team building, people development and coaching, and problem solving. Systems: Salesforce CRM, Oracle SPM Cloud, Workday, Yardi, Oracle EBS, JDE, PeopleSoft, SAP, Hyperion FP&A, HSF, OBIEE, Tableau, and Big Data. Show less



Prologis

• United States
• Real Estate
• 700 & Above Employee

• FVP/ SVP - Global IT

  • Jan 2007 - Jul 2012

  •Prologis is one of the largest REIT owner, operator, developer of industrial real estate, and logistical service provider focused on global and regional markets across the Americas, Europe and Asia with 800 Million Sqft space owned and under management.•M&A activities: One of the integration leads, responsible for integrating AMB and Prologis financial, HRM, Real Estate and other mission critical business systems.•Completed M&A systems integration activities in record time.•Established integrated systems, improved processes, forward looking forecasting, and advanced management techniques during difficult times.•Defined IT and applications strategy; business and IT strategy alignment. Provide strategic insight into the business ensuring optimized infrastructure, processes, systems, and team construct.•Led the multi-staged business transformation initiative enabled by a new Integrated Global Platform (IGP), approximately $70M in budget. To accomplish these business transformation objectives the IGP Project Team designed future state business processes, realigned the organization, and implemented the in-scope IGP applications. Part of the project was the implementation of single global systems for Finance, Real Estate, HRM and EDW/BI solutions using tools such as Oracle ERP system, Workday HRM cloud solution, Yardi Real Estate, Hyperion FPA and Strategic Finance and Oracle OBIEE, etc. •Responsible for all aspects of technology business process and implementation of the IGP across all four global regions (NA, Europe, Asia, and Middle East).•Responsible for and managed the department’s financial budgets and plans (Capex and Opex).•Responsible for and directed the performance and availability of the enterprise applications information technology infrastructure to include capacity planning, performance and tuning, problem determination and resolution, downtime analysis, and communications management. Show less

• Manager / Sr. Manager / VP - Global IT, Enterprise Applications

  • 2001 - 2007

  •Responsible for evaluating vendor proposals for purchases of hardware, software, and technical services to assure adherence to technical specifications.•Responsible for internal and external audit requirements and ensured compliance with all applicable regulatory guidelines such as Sarbanes Oxley and HIPAA.•Defined IT and applications strategy as well as business and IT strategy alignment. Provided strategic insight into the business, ensuring optimized infrastructure, process, systems, team construct, software, and data tools.•Integrated and provided IT applications support four international locations in order to support the growth of the organization and optimize the stewardship and quality of the services provided with the goal of excellent customer support in mission critical business applications.•Reduced cost of enterprise applications G&A by 22% in first year, 6% in every year since 2008.•Implemented enterprise applications like PeopleSoft Fin & HRIS, Yardi RE, etc. in Financials, HR, and Property Management divisions to support business growth in Europe, Asia, and Americas.•Implemented PeopleSoft Applications in record time, under budget, and ahead of schedule in Japan, Korea and China. •SAP business case analysis.•Negotiated maintenance contract agreements with major software and hardware vendors; saved more than $5M.•Developed and managed the disaster recovery plan for information technology to include business impact analysis, architecture, planning and management of testing and fail-over of all mission critical business applications with SLAs within 99.95 up time.•Worked closely with business leaders and executive leadership to understand service level and disaster recovery requirements to align with the Company’s objectives on information technology. •Communication to executive management for the projects status, reports and presentation as needed. Show less



KPMG

• Brazil
• Construction

• Management Consulting

  • 2000 - 2001

  Management consulting and enterprise applications implementations for high tech manufacturing based Fortune 500 companies. Led the design, development, and execution of the project for HRMS, Financial, and Manufacturing systems implementation. Was also responsible for the implementation of SAP, Oracle, and PeopleSoft applications for various clients, managing and supervising the development group, reviewing project deliverables, configuring the applications, and executive requirement definition and solution design sessions. Show less