
President at Accelerated Business Consulting
Las Vegas, Nevada Area

President at Accelerated Business Consulting
Las Vegas, Nevada Area
Excel at leadership opportunities that will allow me to be a change agent, developing structure and rigor necessary to mobilize transformational strategies across organizations and at top executive levels within a company. Consistent proven track record and solid reputation for quality performance and on-time delivery within budget. Successfully and effectively managed $5-100M activities across world wide organizations.
Strategic Planning, Transformational Changes, IT Strategy, 501c3 Startups & Turn Arounds, IT Infrastructure Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Operations.
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(Management Consulting industry)
February 2009 — Present (6 months)
I am responsible for prospecting for new members, facilitating meetings and working directly with members in the Southern Nevada area.
The COO Forum is a professional development association of Second-in-Command Executives: Chief Operating Officers, Operating CFOs, General Managers, Divisional Presidents, Operating CIOs, and Executive Vice Presidents. We serve with integrity, providing value to our Members, to our Member’s companies, and to our overall business community.
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
January 2009 — Present (7 months)
The Kravenko Foundation is a non-profit 501c3 (status pending) organization that provides artistic dancing experiences to disabled children in conjunction with the support and sponsorship of local businesses, non-profits and private benefactors.
(Management Consulting industry)
March 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)
Accelerated Business Consulting is a management consulting company focused on providing the following services:
Technology business services to help clients manage their IT activities to be directly in support of business requirements.
Transformational change assistance to ensure successful navigation through organizational changes, such as mergers, acquisitions and strategic changes.
Strategic business planning services to help companies reach desired business outcomes.
Variety of Human Resource hands-on or virtual services to help you establish or upgrade your HR needs. As your business grows so will your needs for hiring and retaining top talent. We can assist with recruitment, selection, management and retention of key personnel.
Call us at 702-528-3235 or send an email for a consultation and more information.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Real Estate industry)
November 2006 — February 2008 (1 year 4 months)
Responsible for daily operations of a complex multiple entity organization with annual revenue in excess of $20M. Strengthened corporate leadership by executing healthy personnel changes and accountability. Implemented processes across entities to bolster effective project and employee management. Spearheaded new revenue streams while also reviving struggling entities to meet targeted financial and business performance. Partnered with outsourcing vendors in multiple business areas to ensure performance at an acceptable cost.
Responsible for day-to-day operations management of all company entities under Transwestern Investment Realty, including oversight of the following functions and their strategic as well as day to day activities:
• Marketing
• Legal
• Accounting
• Finance
• HR
• IT
• Neusport Football Club (501c3 non-profit)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; hpq; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2005 — October 2006 (1 year)
Director IT Infrastructure Workplace Services
Responsible for the service management, engineering and architecture of over 220,000 desktops, personal productivity applications, backup and restore services, printer management, employee remote access and PDA mobility services. Managed a global organization of over 30 employees with financial responsibility for approximately $25M as well as developing and maintaining internal (e.g.: Business IT organizations, various HP product & sales teams) and external (e.g.: Microsoft, Symantec, Iron Mountain, AT&T, iAnywhere, GOOD Technologies, etc,) partnerships required to be successful. (November 2005 – November 2006)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; hpq; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2004 — October 2005 (1 year 1 month)
Transformation Director, HP Customer Account Team
Directly accountable for developing and implementing a strategic multi-year plan that would reduce our annual run rate by over $270M or 22% within two years. Planning had to be balanced across service financials, quality of service, business continuity and business continuity. Provided the leadership across the organization to think “out of the box” to achieve such aggressive goals. Successfully implemented a plan that balanced across all of these areas by focusing on three key areas of work: service transformation; business fundamental transformation and POR process re-invention. To date we are on track to achieve these goals and use the POR re-invention processes to track work across the organization. (October 2004 – October 2005)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; hpq; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2002 — September 2004 (2 years 1 month)
Business Operations Director, HP Customer Account Team
Managed a team of over 35 employees in a global organization for an account that represented over $1,200,000,000 in IT Infrastructure Services. Direct responsibility for: ensuring that common business processed were used to manage the account; customer/service communications; plan of record management; service metric and performance reporting; SLA/SLO agreement management and “Chief of Staff” for the VP Executive Account Manager. (September 2002- September 2004)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2001 — August 2002 (1 year)
Responsible for ensuring that all IT Infrastructure services worked flawlessly internally and externally on the first day that HP & Compaq officially merged. This included ensuring that a vast array of IT infrastructure services could be connected within the days and hours leading up to Day 1 of the new company. Due to my leadership all IT Infrastructure services worked flawlessly including: connecting over 200,000 employee email accounts; HP.COM and COMPAQ.COM worked seamlessly together without issues; data networks were connected so that employees from either company could access the new HP network; help desk support was in place for employees no matter which company they originated from; as well as security, telecommunications, directory/authentication all worked with minimal impact to employees and customers.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1995 — August 2001 (6 years 8 months)
Accountable for strategic Data Network Architecture & R&D activities for both internal IT and our growing trade business. Provided leadership in the efforts to redesign HP’s data network to a more secure and compartmentalized environment. Coordinated activities across HP organizations, vendors, universities and external standard bodies to help build momentum in this critical area. Specifically, worked with MIT to capitalize on HP’s funding across several project areas that were relevant to Internet technologies and business models. Accountable for the transition of the Data/Voice networks, Security and Messaging across HP as HP spun off its Test & Measurement business which became Agilent Technologies. All IT Infrastructure transitions occurred as planned before the legal separation of Agilent Technologies from Hewlett Packard.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; INTC; Semiconductors industry)
June 1990 — January 1995 (4 years 8 months)
Held a variety of positions while quickly moving from an individual contributor to management roles within my first two years of working at Intel Corp. In my last position with Intel I was managing a team of 10 employees with financial responsibility of $1.5M with global accountability to implement Collaboration services across Intel Corp. Other positions within Intel Corp. before that included WW program management, strategy technology planning and executive technical support. During this time I learned first hand how to interact with executives through directly supporting Andy Grove (then CEO & President of Intel Corp.) During my work at Intel Corp. I received an Intel Division Recognition Award (1994) and an Intel Rookie of the Year Award (1991). Responsible for forming a cross industry consortium to better leverage work with a key IT vendor at the time.
Executive Development Program at Hewlett Packard (HP ADP) , 2001 — 2002
First time that this exclusive HP program kicked off at an International location. As such I was able to travel to Beijing, China for one week to attend. The remainder of the program was taught at the University of Michigan and various HP locations.
BA , Communications, Computer Science , 1984 — 1990
Cycling, Triathlons, Fishing, Backpacking, Hiking, Snowshoeing, Camping
Institute of Management Consultants USA,
Linked 2 Leadership Blogazine Contributor (http://linked2leadership.com),
USA Triathlon (USAT) member,
Las Vegas Triathlon Club,
Multisport Ministries (www.multisportministries.com)