Mike Davis

Current

Consultant at StratITsphere Solutions

Past

Chief Information Officer at Consolidated Graphics
Chief Executive Officer at Stewart Transaction Solutions
Chief Information Officer at Stewart Information Services Corp

President at Landata Systems, Inc.
Director of Technical Services at Landata Systems, Inc.
Systems Architect at Tenneco
Supervisor Help Desk at M W Kellogg
Computer Support/Analyst at Gemcraft Homes
Account Manager at Gulf Coast Systems

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Education

University of Houston

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Mike Davis’s Summary

Ability to bridge gaps between business & technology resulting in process improvement, increased productivity & overall corporate alignment & IT visibility.

• 23 years of information technology experience dedicated to delivering business value through technology strategy, operations, organization, customer relations, customer service, sales, marketing and the financial management of high-tech businesses & corporate IT.
• Successful in delivering highly available & secure computer systems and developing & selling off-the-shelf software for clients.
• A proven track record for building teams that stay highly motivated and productive.
• Created competitive business advantages through cutting-edge technologies, innovative software engineering and effective IT management.

Mike Davis’s Specialties:

• Strategy / Goals / Objectives / Budgets / Project Planning
• Technical Architecture & Design / Green Computing
• Consultative Sales Process
• Optimizing Business Processes
• Data Center Management, Optimization & Virtualization
• IT Governance / Compliance / Board Level Communication
• Turnaround & Centralization of Teams & Processes
• Records Management & Contract Administration

Mike Davis’s Experience

Consultant

StratITsphere Solutions

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2009 — Present (4 months)

StratITsphere Solutions is a focused consulting and services firm with the capabilities to build a business enabling IT infrastructure. With over 40 years of industry expertise, highly skilled staff, and industry partnerships, StratITsphere is uniquely positioned to help your business achieve its goals by maximizing the amount of value and agility attained from your current infrastructure. Whether implementing, designing, or architecting a greener footprint, reducing costs, or building a dynamic infrastructure to support your businesses’ ever changing needs, we have the expertise and tools to assist you.

StratITsphere has concentrated expertise around 6 core Infrastructure disciplines:
- Infrastructure Strategy
- Infrastructure Delivery
- Cloud Computing
- Outsourcing Advisory
- Managed Services
- Hosting

These disciplines are intertwined, allowing StratITsphere to uniquely position and deliver the right solutions for you and your business.
Chief Information Officer

Consolidated Graphics

(Public Company; CGX; Printing industry)

September 2007 — September 2009 (2 years 1 month)

As CIO of a 5,500+ employee, $1.1B corporation, I was successful in delivering technical services to internal & external customers. Developing a long term IT strategy, stabilizing IT infrastructure and gaining overall cost control of IT expenditures was achieved.
• Challenged with no business alignment or IT visibility – (1) established an IT Steering Committee creating visibility into IT and creating Business Unit accountability; (2) established a Technology Advisory Council creating communication with C-level leaders; (3) established charge back mechanisms for business unit participation
• Challenged with no formal IT SOX framework or operational controls – (1) established a very lean and manageable SOX framework that was easily implemented and maintained; (2) created policies and procedures that enabled IT to address customer needs and raise customer satisfaction levels
• Challenged with heavy data center costs – (1) outsourced to new data center; (2) used green IT initiatives (i.e. virtualization) to save money on power consumption, space requirements and HVAC
• Challenged with the lack of a long range IT strategy - Created a multi-year strategy including IT Service Management, IT Delivery Management, using an ITIL framework and Customer Service Principles
Chief Executive Officer

Stewart Transaction Solutions

(Public Company; STC; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2006 — March 2007 (1 year 3 months)

Key Leadership Accomplishments:
• Successfully merged $5M subsidiary into a $70M subsidiary and became CEO
• Acquired two online forms companies in 2006 that allowed entrance into a new market & enhanced another
• Initiated the integration of the new forms technology into the transaction management system
• Spoke at industry events representing technical innovations
• Directly involved in maintaining high customer satisfaction and compliance standards
Chief Information Officer

Stewart Information Services Corp

(Insurance industry)

January 2001 — March 2007 (6 years 3 months)

As CIO of a 10,000 employee, $2.5B corporation, I successfully delivered technical services to internal customers. Technology strategy, thought leadership, organization and execution have been a few of my contributions in this position.

• Challenged with no business alignment or IT visibility – (1) established an IT Guidance Council creating visibility into IT and creating business unit accountability; (2) guided the overall IT strategy, the planning and budgeting processes and the overall IT organization effectiveness; (3) a key participant of the corporation’s Leadership Team providing guidance on technology initiatives
• Challenged with a decentralized IT organization – (1) aligned the IT organization to achieve overall business goals; (2) established a Federated IT Model & created an IT Leadership Team to foster regional communications; (3) centralized enterprise systems administration (i.e. Email, WAN, VoIP and SAN)
• Challenged with slow adoption of technology – (1) established Technology Acceptance team to drive adoption of technology; (2) increased the ROI of the technology developed throughout the affiliate operations
• Challenged with lack of IT governance – (1) gained the company’s 1st SAS70 Type II favorable opinion; (2) lead company’s SOX IT compliance program, utilizing COBIT framework and ITIL control objectives; (3) established a PMO to track and show value of IT and ensure alignment of IT and Business; (4) created a program management process used by regional CTO’s to gain further visibility into a 900+ far-flung IT staff; (5) created Balanced Score Cards to track & improve operational IT efficiencies
• Challenged with large enterprise projects – (1) led enterprise CRM project; (2) led data warehouse project; (3) lead enterprise application integration project; (4) led project to design & build a 3500sf SAS70 data center from the ground up
President

Landata Systems, Inc.

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

September 2000 — December 2005 (5 years 4 months)

As President & CEO of a technology company with 400+ employees & a $75M budget, I was successful at developing, marketing, selling & delivering technology services to external customers across the real estate industry.

• Challenged with fiscal responsibility – (1) ran IT like a business for 7 years; (2) maintained profitability while selling to sizable corporate user base; (3) managed a $20M budget into over $70M to keep up with a growing corporation’s technology needs; (4) established a sales team to sell custom software to outside customers; (5) developed a new business line, Titlelogix.com, a SasS model; (6) a positive track record for budgets, project schedules and product performance
• Challenged with driving new business – (1) drove higher revenues and increased profits; (2) introduced new software dev methodology to enhance overall effectiveness of 100+ member dev staff
Director of Technical Services

Landata Systems, Inc.

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; STC; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 1996 — December 2000 (4 years 4 months)

- Lead the design and construction of corporate data center that opened in August 2000
- Lead the expansion of a 900 sq ft computer room into 1400 sq ft in 1998
- Led the decentralized management of the wide area network which has grown to more than 1200 sites
Systems Architect

Tenneco

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Oil & Energy industry)

1994 — 1996 (2 years )

- Responsibilities: researching, designing, testing and implementing technology initiatives for corporate wide use.
- Worked heavily in deploying Microsoft’s System Management Server software nation wide
Supervisor Help Desk

M W Kellogg

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1990 — 1994 (4 years )
Computer Support/Analyst

Gemcraft Homes

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1988 — 1989 (1 year )
Account Manager

Gulf Coast Systems

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1986 — 1988 (2 years )

Mike Davis’s Education

University of Houston

1982 — 1987

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Mike Davis’s Groups:

- Society of Information Management, Houston Chapter

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CIO/CTO Leadership Council
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Title Insurance and Settlement Service Network
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CIO Exchange
TechExecs Network :: Senior IT Executives Network
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