Chief Information Officer with a career of architecting, designing, implementing, and operationally managing effective worldwide IT solutions across a wide continuum of industries leveraging both on- and off-shore knowledge teams to drive metric-based business outcomes. A hands-on leader with executive presence who transforms IT organizations to optimize delivery capabilities and operational service performance via continuous improvement initiatives. Strong communicator and passionate about aligning business and technology strategies and improving capital investment selection, program management, and operational service disciplines to maximize business results. Experienced negotiator adept at tipping the balance of operating expense (OpEx) over capital (CapEx) in favor of variability over fixed costs. International leadership that is culturally sensitive and multilingual.