Chief Information Officer Resume

Desired Industry: Executive	SpiderID: 13216
Desired Job Location: Dallas, Texas	Date Posted: 6/8/2007
Type of Position: Full-Time Permanent	Availability Date: TBD
Desired Wage: Open
	U.S. Work Authorization: Yes
Job Level: Executive (President, VP, CEO)	Willing to Travel: Yes, 25-50%
Highest Degree Attained: Bachelors	Willing to Relocate: Yes

Objective:
CIO • COO • IT • Financial Services • A builder of companies

Strong Strategic Information Technology Leader - Global CIO

Insurance, Financial Services, Information Technology, Accounting

Resourceful, team-oriented Senior Executive who is a highly motivated, self-starting business partner with extensive experience in the innovative application of technologies, operational leadership, and business process improvement. Global experience in business/technology partnership to improve and build offerings through applied computing technology: Change Management, Architecture, Enterprise Information, Systems Development, Enterprise Application Integration, Project Management, e-Business Strategy, Enterprise Resource Planning, Business Process Reengineering, and Enterprise Engineering. Highly effective in building organizations through open channels of communication and cooperative relationships between executive management team.

Experience:
• Over 15 years of outstanding service as a senior executive, CIO and COO with a reputation for opening markets, adding new lines of business and increasing market share
• High tech-savvy leader who assembled software with multiple implementations including SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle, Exchange, Lotus Notes, Lawson, JD Edwards and Cognos
• Acquired 12 companies and coalesced them into one cohesive unit, adding approximately $120 million in revenue
• Track record for selling IT services around the globe to high-echelon accounts including Citibank, ING Bank, BSP Partners, NASDAQ, JP Morgan/Chase, Pacific Stock Exchange, Bombay Commodity Exchange, Liberty Mutual, Nokia, GE, Bell, Merck and Microsoft
• Currently developing cutting-edge model for Australian operations, projected to generate $6 million in fresh revenue
• Assembled and directed team that developed all global applications used internally for processing as well as client-facing systems
• Customized data presentation to fit client’s requirements, introducing advanced systems to facilitate decision making, growing business by $20 million without increasing IT costs
• Saved $15 million by integrating 12 acquisitions into single strategic platform that was built to be the enterprise technology for Cambridge
• Built an infrastructure that maximized effective claim management for Fortune 500 accounts including American Express, IBM, Southwest Airlines, Microsoft, AIG, Enterprise Auto and Aon
• Created advanced financial applications, ensuring funding for time sensitive payments, adding $1 million annually
• Talent for combining technological vision with pragmatic business analysis to create new revenue streams
• Global bona fides established, successfully conducting business while maintaining strong contacts throughout Europe, South America, India and Australia
• Implemented processes and controls to ensure data security, privacy and protect intellectual property. These controls are audited externally by Independent auditors as well as clients including American Express and MasterCard. All controls implemented are SAS-70 compliant as well as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPPA and GLB compliant
• Utilized cost benefit analysis acumen and innovative IT solutions to successfully lead top margin driven business in Cambridge Solutions
• Skill set includes value enhancement, P& L responsibilities, high global business vision, creating potent sales and marketing strategies, directing companies, enhancing operations and introducing policies and competencies guaranteeing continual growth and improvement
• Developed strategy, documented proposals, created cost and organizational models, delivering multi-million dollar software development of corporate data warehouse and business intelligence suite
• Initiated and served as a member of the Cambridge corporate information technology steering group, setting strategic technical direction to facilitate Cambridge business initiatives
• Managed and delivered all software in an Oracle development environment for multiple application systems sold to top companies including Kmart, Nabisco, Kroger and the Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation
• Reputation for building and leading high-performance teams with low turnover
• Lengthy track record for implementing projects on time and under budget
• Expert at penetrating new markets, utilizing cutting-edge technologies to implement process improvements
• Excellent communicator up and down the organization with outstanding presentation skills honed to a board of directors level

Career Experience

Cambridge Solutions, Inc.
Dallas, TX

Chief Information Officer (1998 – Present)
• Maintained 88 international offices, delivering technology services to company and clients in Europe, Malaysia, Australia, South America and North America
• Utilized financial savvy, leading division to company high margins of 50%
• Directed RFP for Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation, a $60 million contract
• Facilitated assumption over 40 large clients representing $22 million in new business from Nationwide
• Currently creating innovative claims model for Australian group, projected to generate $6 million in fresh revenues while catapulting Cambridge to number one in New South Wales
• Designed, built and managed a state-of-the-art data center enabling Cambridge to successfully meld 12 new acquisitions into one powerhouse national company with global reach
• Smoothly coalesced 12 diverse entities into a single platform, constructing a new IT organization from the ground up
• Implemented IT governance model including controls, processes, and procedures and initiated audits on all controls
• Pioneered utilization of an Indian company to support remediation of 32 applications for Y2K readiness and maintained relationship with this company to reduce maintenance costs and provide non-strategic services
• Developed financial applications that ensure millions in funding for time-sensitive claims checks, producing millions in saved revenues potentially lost during system downtimes
• Designed, developed and implemented a client portal, granting the power to allow companies to analyze lost productivity leading to development of programs to drastically reduce accidents and absenteeism
• Allocated budget of $100 million for acquisitions, negotiated purchase of 12 entities, adding three networks, 4 data centers and a wide-range array of technologies
• Winner of the prestigious excellence award from the Governor of Ohio, received for leading startup business outsource and IT services business
• Built and trained staff, negotiated equipment purchases, grew network, built in redundancy and engaged auditors

TIG Insurance Company
Woodland Hills, CA (1991)
Irving, TX (1994)

Vice-President, Division Controller (1994 – 1998)
Assistant Vice-President, Director Audit (1991 – 1994)

• Developed a revolutionary claims-handling model that recovered $30 million in lost cost while dramatically altering actuarial perspectives on claims
• Directly responsible for $40 million ULAE budget for the claims division
• Reconstructed Premium Audit department, increasing competencies across the board with strategy, development, staff evaluation, centralized processing functions and focused training
• Relocated staff of 40 from San Francisco to Dallas to assist with IPO and a new self-sufficient center with additional auditors

Fireman’s Fund Insurance
New York, NY (1980)
Atlanta GA (1983)
San Francisco, CA (1986)

Regional Premium Audit Manager (1980– 1991)

• Audited borough of Manhattan as entertainment auditor with purview including movies, theaters, musicians and tours by big name performers including The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen and Harry Chapin
• Created and delivered comprehensive training programs to remote audiences in California, Missouri and New York
• Formulated training strategies that successfully developed leadership qualities in key staff members
• Winner of the Auditor of the year award
• Earned special award for service, quality and exemplary results in program development
• Developed first laptop program for nationwide audit program

Education:
B.B.A., Accounting – Pace University (Westchester, New York)
Associate in Premium Audit (APA)

Candidate Contact Information:

Name: Michael Mediterraneo
Street:	Phone: (817) 707-4330
City: Southlake	Fax:
State: Texas
Zip: 76092
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