Resume
Work
Experience
2017 - Present
Chief Executive Officer
Valor Technologies, LLC
Led operations and strategic direction with full responsibility for bottom-line elements, including long range planning for Global sales and Product management and business processes. Developed and implemented a strategic plan to advance the company’s mission and objectives and to promote revenue, profitability, investment and growth. Successfully executed a complete Pivot of the company in less than six month to support a capital raise to support accelerated growth by: Restructuring operations to insure production efficiency, quality, service, and cost-effective management of resources; Minimizing risk by creating contracts and agreements, and process controls; Achieving a 60% reduction in monthly operational expenditures by renegotiated vendor contracts and eliminating unnecessary expenses and payroll; Refining the product road map to be more competitive and promoting a culture of collaboration between organizations to ensure an efficient and effective work environment.
2013 - 2017
Chief Visionary Officer
DiGiApp Technologies
DiGiApp Technologies designs and builds reliable, connected secure on-demand XaaS services that range from DRaaS to IaaS as well as hybrid & privatized cloud services catered to a company’s individual needs. In addition, providing an advisory service to strategically prioritize, plan, coordinate, and drive various data and infrastructure transformation projects to ensure the successful execution of my customer’s business mission through development and deployment of the company’s IT presence and strategic needs.
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Developing high quality business strategies and plans ensuring their alignment with short-term and long-term objectives.
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Leading and motivating subordinates to advance employee engagement to develop a high performing managerial team.
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Enforce adherence to legal guidelines and in-house policies to maintain the company’s legality and business ethics.
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Build trust relations with key partners and stakeholders and act as a point of contact for important shareholders.
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Analyze problematic situations and occurrences and provide solutions to ensure company survival and growth.
2015 - 2017
Chief Technology Officer/Chief Financial Officer
Winning Red, Inc.
Provided financial leadership, management, and vision to develop and implement improved operational, administrative, and reporting controls while overseeing all product development activities. Developed internal procedures to effectively position Winning Red for organizational growth, operational efficiency, and financial strength.
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4.5 million dollar IoT development budget.
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Create annual IT operating plans that support strategic direction set by Board of Directors and Executive team.
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Evaluate and identify appropriate technology platforms (including web application frameworks, Infrastructure and Datacenter designs) for delivering the company’s services.
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Lead strategic planning to achieve business goals by identifying and prioritizing development initiatives and setting timetables for the evaluation, development, and deployment of all IT services.
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Share knowledge, mentor, and educate the organization’s investors, management, staff, partners, customers, and stakeholders with regard to the company’s financial, & technological vision, opportunities, and challenges.
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Provided financial modeling & oversight of budget planning activities
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Provided forecasting services for overall business operating budgets and prepared budgets and forecast of financial impacts of business conditions and trends for meetings with shareholders, regulators and investors.
Education
2015 - 2018
Masters of Business Administration, International Business
Concordia University
2005-2009
Bachelor of Science, Technical Management
DeVry University
*US Army Infantry (2002-2010) – Combat Veteran
Skills
& Expertise
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Business Leadership
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Strategic Alliances
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Business Value Alignment
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Cloud Solutions
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Cybersecurity Assurance
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Executive Relations
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Channel Management
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Sales Management
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Internet of Things
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Public Speaking
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Software development
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Technology Assessment
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Infrastructure Design
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Strategic Planning