Steve Abbanat

Current

• Director, at KPMG Global Services Center at KPMG

Past

• Director, West Region IT Strategy and Governance Practice Leader at KPMG
• VP, Business Development at Droplets, Inc.
• CEO at Object Exchange, Inc.

• Director, Systems Integration at EBS (Broadband Communications)
• Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company
• U.S. National Practice Leader, Data Warehousing at MCI Systemhouse
• Associate/Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company
• Member of the Professional Staff at American Management Systems

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Education

• University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
• University of Pennsylvania - Moore School of Electrical Engineering

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Steve Abbanat’s Summary

Stephen has over twenty years experience helping companies and government organizations improve their business performance through the effective use of technology.

Focus areas include helping clients: develop enterprise-wide information technology (IT) strategies, implement IT performance and/or governance improvement programs; manage transformational business change programs; integrate new technologies with business processes, develop and execute post-merger IT integration; establish enterprise-wide risk management and/or corporate governance programs; managed process improvement efforts; manage IT operations, and interpret/analyze complex data using data warehouse/data mining tools.

In his free time Stephen enjoys travel, hiking, cooking and winemaking with his wife, Susan. You can read about their cooking exploits at the link below (SF Chronicle photos by Craig Lee). http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/12/FDH3RNIGU.DTL

Steve Abbanat’s Specialties:

Areas of technical expertise include technology strategy, organization design, systems architecture, software portfolio management, data warehousing, project management, customer relationship management (CRM), project risk management, and change management. ISACA certified in Governance of IT.

Steve Abbanat’s Experience

• Director, at KPMG Global Services Center

  KPMG

  (Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; Accounting industry)

  October 2008 — Present (10 months)

  Managing Global deployment of Technology Agenda Initiative for KPMG's Global Services Center. The Technology Agenda initiative expands KPMG's IT cost reduction, value creation, portfolio management and sourcing related advisory services.

• Director, West Region IT Strategy and Governance Practice Leader

  KPMG

  (Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; Accounting industry)

  March 2004 — October 2008 (4 years 8 months)

  Served as a Director within KPMG's IT Advisory Practice. Responsible for development of West Region's IT Strategy, Governance and Performance Improvement service line. KPMG's IT Advisory Practice offers services such as: IT strategy development, IT organization design, IT performance measurement, IT process maturity assessments, business process improvement, operational support, and compliance assistance. Helped lead development of KPMG's IT Strategy, IT Governance, and Business Process Improvment methodologies, including their integration with related industry standards such as ITIL, COBIT, ISO 9000, LEAN, Six Sigma etc.

• VP, Business Development

  Droplets, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2001 — March 2004 (2 years 9 months)

  Managed Western Region for startup software firm, including partnerships with Sun, Oracle, IBM and Object Exchange. Activities primarily focused on developing technology alliances and sales channels, as well as direct sales.

• CEO

  Object Exchange, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 2001 — March 2004 (2 years 7 months)

  Object Exchange is a software start-up venture with 3 founders and 2 product lines: 1) A dynamic thin-client community event calendar application, featured at www.i680.com and 2) Patented "object routing" technology, currently in beta form. Introduced OE technology to EBS, while serving as a Director at EBS. EBS did not acquire the OE technology. Upon leaving EBS, the OE founders asked me to serve as Interrim CEO and help find initial applications for the object router technology. OE used Droplets UI Server Technology in their calendar solution, so I was able to serve in this capacity, part time, while working as a VP for Droplets.

• Director, Systems Integration

  EBS (Broadband Communications)

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

  August 1999 — July 2001 (2 years)

  Director, Technology Integration for Technology Channels Group based in San Ramon, CA. Negotiated agreements with technology partners to build new products and sales channels. Conducted sales and planning activities to market broadband-enabled solutions. Managed effort to market back-office trading and scheduling systems as an ASP solution to smaller companies.

• Engagement Manager

  McKinsey & Company

  (Partnership; 5001-10,000 employees; Management Consulting industry)

  January 1998 — August 1999 (1 year 8 months)

  Engagement Manager with Business Technology Office of McKinsey in Palo Alto,CA. Member of IT strategy and CRM practice groups. Managed CRM and IT transformation engagements for energy trading, insurance and retail clients.

• U.S. National Practice Leader, Data Warehousing

  MCI Systemhouse

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 1995 — January 1998 (3 years)

  Responsible for building U.S. data warehousing practice within U.S. geographic delivery units with revenue target of $20M. Coordinated 3 regional practices with appx. 30 staff. Oversaw data warehousing strategy, marketing, alliances and service delivery for South Region. Directly managed data warehousing strategy and implementation projects in entertainment, software, retail, telecommunications and manufacturing industries.

• Associate/Engagement Manager

  McKinsey & Company

  (Partnership; 5001-10,000 employees; Management Consulting industry)

  July 1989 — February 1995 (5 years 8 months)

  Consultant serving on primarily technology strategy and planning engagments. Worked in Dallas, Tokyo, and Washington DC Offices. Work included: administrative cost reduction project ($5M saved) for electric utility; five year business strategy and implementation plan for regional HMO; real estate strategy and cost savings plan for telecommunications utility (achieved over $100 million in savings); many other engagements.

• Member of the Professional Staff

  American Management Systems

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 1986 — June 1989 (3 years 2 months)

  Consultant focused on IT strategy. Managed project to design and implement meta-data repository at EPA. Developed systems strategy and technology architecture for large federal government agency. Designed and implemented real estate information system used at multiple federal agencies. Developed data quality component of systems development methodology.

Steve Abbanat’s Education

• University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School

  BSE , Entrepreneurial Management , 1982 — 1986

  Activities and Societies:

  Entrepreneurial Management Club
  Lightweight Crew

• University of Pennsylvania - Moore School of Electrical Engineering

  BAS , Computer Science Hardware Design , 1982 — 1986

  Activities and Societies:

  Jerome Fischer Management and Technology Program
  Benjamin Franklin Scholar General Honors Program

Additional Information

Steve Abbanat’s Interests:

Award winning wine maker.