Ed Diver

Current

• Vice President Technology Solutions at Safeway

Past

• SVP Operations (COO) at IVT, Inc.
• Vice President & CIO at PeopleSoft
• Vice President Information Services at Novell

• Director Application Services at Central and South West Services

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Education

• Harvard Business School
• University of Texas

Connections

63 connections

Industry

Retail

Ed Diver’s Summary

• Senior level technology executive with over 25 years of experience leading large cross functional teams of business and technology professionals
• Collaborative leadership style with an extensive background in product development, business application solutions development, infrastructure, and networking technologies
• Strong technical and business management skills with the experience to quickly drive business units to profitability while reducing costs and streamlining business operations
• Executive management problem solving, change management, and auditing/compliance skills coupled with the ability to quickly and effectively resolve complex business issues and problems under adverse conditions

Ed Diver’s Experience

• Vice President Technology Solutions

  Safeway

  (Public Company; SWY; Supermarkets industry)

  2005 — Present (4 years)

  Technology executive responsible for leading and managing a global architecture, engineering, and infrastructure team that designs, develops, and supports the corporation’s information strategy, technical infrastructures, network, and telecommunications technologies and services.

• SVP Operations (COO)

  IVT, Inc.

  (Computer Software industry)

  2003 — 2005 (2 years)

  Managed and led the teams responsible for the daily business operations of this webcasting enterprise software and services company. Responsible for Product Engineering, Quality Assurance, Customer Support, Information Technology, Production Video Services, and the company’s MSP.

• Vice President & CIO

  PeopleSoft

  (Public Company; SWY; Supermarkets industry)

  2000 — 2002 (2 years)

  Managed and drove the external application hosting business that was comprised of technical, marketing, and sales professionals.
  
  • Responsible for driving the team that grew annual revenues from less than $5 million to in excess of $25 million within 9 months
  • Implemented a new technical architecture and pricing model resulting in a more simplified applications hosting service offering. This resulted in a gross margin increase in excess of 40%
  • Implemented and supported 50+ global customers on PeopleSoft enterprise application systems
  • Spearheaded a strategic partnership with HP, which allowed for a lower cost structure and greater profit potential and business alignment within the organization

• Vice President Information Services

  Novell

  (Public Company; NOVL; Computer Software industry)

  1996 — 2000 (4 years)

  Cross functional management of an international staff of 150+ employees that were responsible for applications development, support, operations, and data services.
  
  • Implemented the “Novell on Novell” program, one of the first such programs within the technology industry where IT functions drove the usage of the company’s own products and services internally before making these products available for general release
  • Established an integrated corporate business process, data, and systems architecture function
  • Lead cross functional teams that redesigned business processes, implemented, and supported the company's global, enterprise wide application systems. These solutions included ERP, CRM, and HRM solutions from major enterprise providers (Oracle, Seibel, and PeopleSoft). Application systems implementations and related business process changes resulted in savings to the company in excess of $100 million over a 4 year period
  • Streamlined the Data Services and Operations functions resulting in annual savings in excess of 30% while maintaining 99.9% availability of all production systems
  • Internal Audit compliance executive sponsor with responsibility for interfacing to the Audit Committee/Board of Directors for the Information Systems function

• Director Application Services

  Central and South West Services

  (Public Company; NOVL; Computer Software industry)

  1980 — 1996 (16 years)

  During 17 year career with this large energy services holding company held numerous leadership positions and completed the following major accomplishments:
  
  • Managed large technical teams in excess of 250 employees
  • Lead the centralization of the IT function resulting in over $25 million in savings
  • Lead the effort to implement the corporation’s 5 year Information Technology Plan, resulting in over $500 million in savings
  • Project manager on a $50 million project to construct the corporate headquarters facility which included construction of a 50,000 square foot data center and the relocation of over 800 employees
  • Lead the efforts to relocate 1500 employees to a new facility in Tulsa, OK
  • Spearheaded an Application System Software Sales function which produced $5 million in annual sales revenue during the first year