Experience

Callan Associates, Ltd.

• United States
• Staffing and Recruiting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Vice President

  • Nov 2019 - Present

  Callan Associates is a retained Executive Search firm focused on serving P/E-backed, private, and public companies ranging in size from startups to Fortune 100. My Executive Search experience includes senior-level leaders from Director to "C-Suite" across multiple functions including Operations, Supply Chain, Product, Finance, Technology, and Human Resources. Callan Associates is a retained Executive Search firm focused on serving P/E-backed, private, and public companies ranging in size from startups to Fortune 100. My Executive Search experience includes senior-level leaders from Director to "C-Suite" across multiple functions including Operations, Supply Chain, Product, Finance, Technology, and Human Resources.



SPR

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Vice President, Project Services

  • 2008 - Oct 2019

  Chicago based Digital Transformation Agency (Joined through MPS Partners)Vice President Delivery for Project Services; Field Consultant• Business/Practice Leader with P/L responsibilities: Agility and Project Management, Quality and Risk Management, Quality Assurance, Engagement Management, Managed Services, and Experience, Strategy & Design• Leadership responsibilities include: Recruiting and Talent Development, Staffing, Sales, Marketing, Methods, Budgeting, and P/L ($10MM).• Responsible for Risk Identification and Mitigation for all projects.• Project, Program and Engagement Manager successfully serving over 25 clients with engagements: Strategy, Cloud/Infrastructure, Product Selection and Implementation, Assessments, Custom Development, Data and BI, Performance and Load Testing, Operations, SharePoint• Responsible for creating three new operating practices.• Responsible for leading multiple strategic initiatives including: Client Satisfaction, Risk Management, Training and Development, and Operational Efficiency.• Project Highlights: > Led team’s first Azure Implementation.> Engaged by product company to manage their client relationships and initiatives; drove sales pursuits and was promoted by the client to lead operations.> Led initiative to get handheld Point of Sale devices certified by credit card processors (PCI).> Engaged by startup to manage strategic growth and development.• Presenter: Various Microsoft and Chicago Quality Assurance Association events.SPR was named to Crain’s Largest Private Companies in Chicago in 2017 and is listed as a leading IoT company by the Illinois Technology Association’s 2017 Midwest IoT Inventory Report.Prior to working with SPR Consulting, I was a Vice President at MPS Partners, a leading Microsoft partner in the Central Region. In January, 2015, MPS Partners was acquired by SPR Consulting.



Prompte

• Chief Technology Officer

  • 2005 - 2008

  Healthcare Software Firm focused specifically on optimizing the Pre-Operative process. Participated in the company startup through exit with the completion and sale of the business.PreOpPlanner includes a web-based questionnaire for patients and decision support for standardized pre-operative preparation of the patient. The focus is to provide hospitals with the ability to save money through reduced cancellation and delays, as well as unnecessary laboratory studies.Chief Technology Officer and Product Manager • Primary responsibilities include setting and managing all product functionality as well as responsibility for setting technology direction for the product suite. • Specific responsibilities include: All aspects of managing the product functionality, quality of deliverables, software development team, product roadmap, requirements management, partner management, and meeting with customers and others to gather input to set future direction for the product suite.• Established initial framework for delivery methodology now in use by Client Services Group.• Sales and Marketing: Participated in the development of the Sales and Marketing framework including the materials and process. Also lead and participated in sales and marketing activities.



WHITTMANHART

• Vice President - Technology Consulting

  • 1997 - 2005

  Vice President: Business Applications, Advanced Web Technologies (National Practice Leader), e-Commerce / CRM• Solution Delivery, Practice Development, Team Leadership and Growth, Business Development, Demand Generation, Solution Development, and Alliance Partnership Management.• Managed $50MM P/L, Staff Management and Web-Oriented Solutions development and delivery for 17 offices nationwide.• Responsible for 300 delivery staff ranging in skills from Solution Architecture/Strategy, Technical Architecture, Networking and Security, Engineering, Enterprise Application Integration, specializing in Content Management, Document Management, Custom Web Development, Business Intelligence, Quality Assurance, Testing, and Learning services.• Participated on four Acquisition/Integration teams, with responsibilities focused on integrating teams, best practices, policies and procedures, methodology and quality into core organization. • Responsible for consistently delivering profitable contribution margins (>30%) even during “down” economy. • Created and developed programs to work directly with sales teams to work across practices and geographies.• Solution Delivery includes managing multi-million-dollar programs and projects, creating solutions, and managing client relationships.• Quality Review Board, with responsibilities including the development and deployment of Project Management Methodology (Executive Sponsor), Delivery Best Practices (Executive Sponsor), Quality Review Methodology (Advisor), Project Recovery Processes and Proposal Review Process (Lead).• Quality Intervention Team, with primary responsibilities for the early detection of quality issues, the determination of corrective actions and the recovery of projects and client relationships.• Executive sponsor for multiple Special Interest Groups to generate sales, create technical growth and career growth, and affinity within the organization.



Arthur Andersen (1885 -> 2002) Official

• Accounting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Experienced Manager

  • 1988 - 1997