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1984 – 2002 Accenture, Ltd. El Segundo, CA
Associate Partner
Executive in the technology consulting practice of this leading
professional services organization. Demonstrated capabilities in:
- Program/Project Management. Recognized expert in program
management, with ability to lead organizations through the complete
project management lifecycle. Maintained client relationships at a
variety of executive levels, identifying, targeting, contracting and
managing project opportunities. Experience in a wide variety of
application technologies, from custom application development to
advanced network deployment and operations. Experienced in
traditional waterfall and rapid development methodologies, serving
as a key participant in extending Accenture methodologies to support
advanced technologies and quality management.
- Industry Applications. Experienced in a broad variety of
application areas, including order management, engineering, billing
and customer care in entertainment, telecommunications,
manufacturing and electronics industries. Improved effectiveness in
information technology operations through deployment of operations
and project management processes.
- Advanced Technology. Led teams in applying a wide variety of
technologies to solve business problems, including object-oriented
programming, custom system development, packaged system installation
and network deployment. Recent experience in voice, data and video
networking.
- Training. Supported ongoing professional skill development in
technology, project management and methodology. Served as training
lead and presenter at internal courses and seminars.
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2003-present 20th Century Fox Century City, CA
Executive Director 2006-present
Director 2004-2005
Associate Director 2003-2004Executive in the Fox Filmed Entertainment
division of 20th Century Fox, delivering application and infrastructure
capabilities to improve operational efficiency and expand market reach.
Selected accomplishments include:
- Windows Exchange Program. Delivered Microsoft Exchange, Outlook
and Microsoft File & Print server capabilities to over 5,000 users
internationally, in 20+ territories. Delivered project under budget
in projected timeframes. Included successful migration to SAN based
windows servers supporting 2,000 users on studio’s Los Angeles lot.
- Int’l Program Office. Initiated program office for international
theatrical and home entertainment initiatives to replace financial
and sales support (theatrical distribution systems). Delivered
infrastructure for new home entertainment category management
client, including remote data center implementation.
- International Theatrical IT. Directed turn around of
international theatrical distribution system implementation.
1984 - 2002 Accenture, Ltd. El Segundo, CA
Associate Partner 1997-present
Manager 1992-1997
Executive in the Southern California consulting practice of
Accenture, providing leadership in opportunity identification,
application development, packaged system installation, technology
infrastructure deployment, and operations improvement. Led ongoing
skill development activities for consulting personnel in technology
and project management. Demonstrated ability to provide outstanding
program management support in a wide variety of industries and
technologies. Selected engagement experiences include:
- Led ATM Backbone Network deployment for a major media &
entertainment company to support global data, voice and broadcast
video applications, including deployment of operations support
infrastructure and organization. Responsibilities included
requirements definition, release planning, budgeting, scheduling,
procurement, delivery management, operations process definition and
deployment, test planning and execution. Led this joint team of 40+
client, vendor and consulting personnel in an initial deployment
phase, interim operations and an enhancement phase, to provide
additional application infrastructure and security support for the
network. Delivered $700k+ in documented annual data communications
savings, with increased ability to support corporate communications
objectives.
- Led release planning, requirements and application
testing/deployment activities to provide billing, customer care and
provisioning systems for a new market launch of this major wireless
communications provider. Program Management responsibilities
included resource planning, contracting, budgeting, scheduling, and
quality management. Led a team of 25-40 client and consulting
personnel, enabling successful market launch of services in a major
metropolitan area.
- Led data management team for major customer care and billing
application development effort. Directed requirements and data
modeling support, data maintenance application development, as well
as 7x24 database operations support for application development and
production applications. Led a team of 50+ client, contractor and
consulting personnel.
- Led project to deliver advanced configuration & order management
capabilities for a custom semi-conductor manufacturer.
Responsibilities included architecture, design, test planning and
quality management. Supervised a team of 10+ client, contractor and
consulting personnel.
Consultant-Manager 1984-1992
- Member of world headquarters Knowledge-Based Systems group, where
responsibilities included monitoring, applying and fostering the use
of related technologies throughout the systems integration practice.
- Served as architect and project lead on a variety of engagements
applying knowledge-based systems, object-oriented programming and
client/server technologies to industrial products, electronics,
finance and government applications.
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"The Next Evolution in Methodology: A Knowledge-Modeling Approach to
the Development of Commercial l KBS Applications", presented at the 1989
Workshop on Business Applications of AI, International Joint Conference
on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '89)
"Integrating Knowledge-Based Systems in the Manufacturing Environment",
in The Handbook of Expert Systems in Manufacturing. Addison-Wesley,
1991.
Landreth, Chris, Rob Phillips, and Janina Skorus. “User Interactive
Computer/Hardware System to Conduct Automated Fracture Toughness Testing
on Charpy Specimens”. University of Illinois, Department of General
Engineering 1983. 1st prize Created Design Display - Student Engineering
Projects, Engineering Design Graphics Division of the American Society
for Engineering Education.
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