Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area
A C-Suite level executive with 20+ years working across different sectors, including but not limited to finance, education, philanthropy, and information technology. Well-versed in strategic leadership, organizational modernization, public policy development, and budget management. Possesses a strong desire to bring about a transformational evolution within the public sector by leveraging information management to forecast the elasticity of demand to identify future scalability needs. Historically has overseen or managed portfolios that have comprised over 500 million dollars in Public School and City/County budgets. Capable of working under pressure to coordinate continuity of operation business plans while defending against cyber threats to minimize disruptions to the community and staff. An advocate for the adoption of innovation that increases the effectiveness and efficiency of an organization for both internal and external stakeholders.
▪ Chief Data Officer that oversees all of the City of Durham’s data management and application support divisions which accounts for City and City/County funded divisions ▪ Project Executive for the Next Generation Project Oversight Management responsible for the success of the Next Generation ERP and the Next Generation Inspections / Planning solutions ▪ Co-chair of the Solution Development Committee governing the implementation of all technologies across the enterprise (Administration, Community Building, Operations, and Public Safety) ▪ Manages the IT Governance & Portfolio Management division which is responsible for the Technology Solutions departmental budget operations of $10M, the enterprise IT CIP budget of $17M, and final review oversight of all IT procurement across the enterprise
▪ Managing over 160+ different types of IT asset maintenance plans in addition to 50+ capital IT projects, with a track record of all IT projects staying within budget. Oversight of incoming Enterprise IT assets with continuous portfolio management (status, projections, resource planning, new request monitoring), ongoing budget reviews (actual vs. budget analysis, forecasts, periodic reporting), and cost projections in the future across the portfolio ▪ Managing the development of business cases and feasibility studies that highlights business needs, sought-after enhancements, and process realignments which can bring the necessary business, performance, and compliance values needed by each city department ▪ Managing the budgetary development and financial oversight of over 9 million dollars of recurring operating funding. Additionally, managing the Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) /IT Governance fund, which cumulatively has accounted for over 10 million dollars during the past five fiscal years for one-time expenditures
▪ Supported the efforts of the development of business cases which were aligned to the strategic plan and provided business, performance, and compliance values on an ad-hoc basis ▪ Liaise between Technology Solutions departments and all enterprise business units looking to design functional specifications for new development projects ▪ Oversight of incoming Enterprise IT assets with continuous portfolio management (status, projections, resource planning, new request monitoring)
As a founding partner of the A.C.T. Productions LLC, which is a digital marketing company. My duties involve but are not limited to the preparation of all business proposals, digital campaign creations, and all strategic fiscal management task .
As the Managing Director I focus on designing cost effective marketing strategies. I also advise on techniques to increase operational efficiencies for small companies. The company itself is based on aiding companies and organizations on how to create synergy by working with comparable entities, analyzing organizational structuring, and establishing a standardized set of financial policies and procedures.
Working with our community to improve student achievement throughout the district, while ensuring that we remain in compliance with all state and federal laws. This is done by establishing policies and regulations by which all schools within our district are governed and subsequently lead by our Superintendent.
▪ Senior reviewer of loan applications that are to be reviewed for rates based on credit worthiness and financial stability in order to determine the debt-to-asset ratios and check for financial liquidity. ▪ Enhanced the business to customer process internally by training co-workers on how to use its information management and financial database effectively. This contributed to the 8% increase in the branch office’s annual operating profit in the fiscal year of 2007. ▪ Coordinated the branch office’s daily cash summaries, reviewed and provided recommendations on how best to remain solvent while expanding an office loan lending base which exceeded $10,000,000. ▪ Supervised two loan officers with their loan closings, documentation support, and review of all financials for closings per our branch manager.