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Engagement Description
Identify run rate and budget reduction opportunities, often after the internal staff cannot.
Representative Delivery Summaries with Benefits Achieved
Identify run rate and budget reduction opportunities, often after the internal staff cannot.
Representative Delivery Summaries with Benefits Achieved
 | $1B Business Intelligence Software firm (Canada) -- IT Organization & Asset Merger |
 | 55% run rate savings of $12.5MM+. Successfully lead the following initiatives | |
| culminating in 55% budget savings of minimally $12.5MM after the merger of two $500MM companies. |
- Data Center Consolidations. Also, through re-architecture, virtualization, and
global Data Center Consolidations (from 9 to 2), avoided the need to acquire
over 7200 square feet of new data center space (incremental savings).
- Led the competitive bidding and re-architecture of all voice/data/cellular
services. Rebid existing contracts on US and Canadian voice (60%+
savings) and US and Canada cellular (30% savings).
- Outsourced the WAN. With the full support of the staff, outsourced the WAN
for 55% budget savings, while dramatically improving service.
- Avoided $3.2 MM in termination fees
| Application software rationalization & selection of core strategic applications suite | |
| and elimination of duplicate applications. Eliminated 100 applications. |
| $1.6B Electronic Design Automation firm: Applications assessment and rationalization -- | |
| needed as a result of several corporate mergers. |
| Application Assessment. Engagement lead of the team that assessed over 100 IT | |
| applications. Recommended a new enterprise architecture leveraging the existing enterprise suite. |
| Application Consolidation & Retirement. The application assessment found over | |
| two-thirds of the applications assessed could be consolidated onto existing applications, restructured, or replaced. This migration of applications to a common set of existing platforms, typically results in a 10% to 15% savings in applications and infrastructure budgets which in this case was approximately $500K. |
| Roadmap of Initiatives. Delivered a combined road map of improvements to | |
| accomplish the new "desired state". Also made improvement recommendations in IT Governance, IT staffing and organization, IT strategy, and other areas of IT where observed. |
| $7B Semiconductor Equipment Manufacturer -- Identified 20% budget savings in excess | |
| of $2.2MM after internal staff could find no more money to cut. In addition, secured multi- million dollar refund on botched delivery of a Professional Services engagement. |
| $6B PC Manufacturer |
| Successful in cutting the $60 million Server and Network budget 10% to 20% | |
| every quarter for a year. |
| In addition, achieved $9.4MM in savings through contract re-negotiation and by | |
| “reigning in” spending on consultants. In addition, recommended staff consolidation & reorganization, spending freezes, and reduction of capital spending. |
| $20MM Marketing Data Base firm; B2B SCM .com |
| Recovered 25% of web hosting costs by competitively bidding and hiring a new | |
| vendor with a sliding scale of services fixed on a not to exceed “cost plus single digit” profit margin basis. |
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