A visionary and a trail blazer, Jonathan is not afraid to tackle the difficult projects that transform businesses. His management style empowers people and positions them for success. Jonathan is also very personable and willing to share his professional experiences to assist a fellow colleague.
Multi-talented and proven senior level technology executive with a successful background delivering highly valuable and innovative technology solutions to financial services, manufacturing, telecom, healthcare, and higher education organizations. Uses transformational thought processes to eliminate business roadblocks before performance, productivity and quality are affected. Documented record of consistently improving operational, financial and administrative performance. Achieves strategic goals by using win-win, high performance team building skills. Effectively leads regionally and globally dispersed internal and external teams in complex organizations. Consistently drives overall enterprise improvements in highly competitive business environments. Strengths include:
• Overseeing key risk indicator programs successfully • Facilitating compliance and change management initiatives easily • Leading large cross-functional business team to productive results • Establishing governance processes to meet regulatory and customer information privacy standards • Delivering business improvements that lower risk, costs and labor inefficiencies • Manage vendor relationships offshore, nearshore, onshore, reducing costs and improving efficiencies
Timeline
-
Senior Director Enterprise Applications , Axiall
Managed IT services, manufacturing organization solutions, and support for the US and Canada. Led 40+ associates servicing 100+ locations and 6,000 employees. Hired, mentored, and led the IT team of developers, architects, business analysts, and project managers. Negotiated $5M+ in technology funding for projects. Enhanced portfolio of 600+ applications and led IT change management and communications for $3B business merger.
-
Vice President Business Solutions, CRH Materials, Mining, Manufacturing & Construction
Provided executive leadership of IT business solutions and support to the decentralized organization that contained multiple divisions across the US and Canada. Led 40+ technology professionals responsible for 1,600+ locations, and 20,000+ employees. Managed portfolio of 500+ business and middleware applications that provided services to a team of 125+ technology professionals. Managed annual operations budget of $10M. Transformed enterprise data services. Improved efficiencies by 100%, delivery of Point of Sale (POS) & Telematics solutions to 1,000+ manufactures and distributors.
Vice President, Technology Solutions, Cortland, Multi-family Real Estate & Construction
Leads technology solutions function for a company with 2,000+ employees and 160+ properties under management or construction. Provides executive technology leadership across the US and UK. Developed cybersecurity roadmap and implemented awareness program, security policies, Next Gen AV (CrowdStrike), email filtering (Mimecast) and adaptive multi-factor authentications. Implemented SEC, PCI, GDPR, and ISO27001 compliance programs.
Experience Highlights
Implemented IT Service Management.
Implemented and led technology change management.
Lowered telecom outages due to payment issues to nearly zero.
Reduced outages and telecom spend by $25K monthly
Reduced provider support costs by 50%.
Implemented Solarwinds Service Management
Stabilized work from home infrastructure.
Convened a cross-functional team to find the root cause.
Eliminated security breaches that threatened company reputation.
Stopped all security breaches and kept company name clean
Education Highlights
CDPSE Certification
ISACA
CISM Certification
ISACA
Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Certification
state of GA
Bachelor of Business Administration , Accounting
STATE UNIVERSITY OF WEST GA
Master of Science in Finance
Georgia State university
Memberships
Information Systems Audit and Control Association
ISACA
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
AICPA
Association of Information Technology Professionals
