HARRY V. BORN
5835 WEST ABRAHAM LANE
GLENDALE, ARIZONA 85308
PHONE: [Send email to request phone number] 61-4114
E-MAIL: HARRYVBORN@YAHOO.COM
SENIOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROFESSIONAL
Results-driven professional with extensive experience leading remote/virtual,
cross-functional project teams and administering multi-million dollar budgets
within a matrix organization. Quick study whose business, operational and
technical acumen improves competitive advantage. Strategist who creates
profitable relationships via consultative sales and balanced partnership
scorecard. Strong leader who builds top-performing teams. Open to travel and
relocation.
PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES
Strategy / corporate transformation - Vendor management - Migration
implementations
Business process improvement - Portfolio management - Outsourcing engagements
Business development - Account management - Technology integrations
Negotiating and contracts - Project Management Office - Financial planning and
analysis
EXECUTIVE HIGHLIGHTS
-Led operational turnaround resulting in world-class software consulting and
training organization utilizing balanced partnership scorecard approach
generating consulting and sales opportunities, orchestrating deployment of
corporate-wide resources to provide comprehensive product, services and
solutions.
-Drove $24+ million revenue increase and cut product defects by implementing
best practices, slashing delivery costs by over $1 million through labor savings
and productivity initiatives.
-Assumed control of consulting operations; in one year, led group to 102 %
revenue growth.
-Achieved ISO 9000, ISO 9002:1994 and ISO 9001:2000 on initial audit.
REVENUE GENERATION & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
*Grew consulting revenue from $9.9 million to $20 million year 1 by creating
strategic alliances.
*Propelled business unit from $20 million to $44 million consulting revenue year
2 (120% of goal).
*Drove services education sales attachment rate to product by an additional
$720,000 developing quick-start packages.
*Launched the Education Sales Extended Learning Loyalty Program that generated
100+ leads in first three months.
*Identified 13 new opportunities worth $9.6M using existing client knowledge and
access.
TECHNOLOGY PROJECT & PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
*Coordinated global outsourced data center migrations and implementations across
multiple vertical businesses: retail, travel, publishing, financial, banking,
insurance, government, healthcare, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing.
*Delivered international AO and IO projects using ETL tools and utilizing CMMI,
SDLC and RUP methodologies.
*Executed strategic delivery plan for Asia Pacific region that included
recruiting and training of staff in 10 countries.
*Restored several ‘at risk’ accounts to a very favorable standing.
*Increased product speed to market 40% by deploying a division wide new product
commercialization process.
OPERATIONAL & BOTTOM-LINE IMPROVEMENTS
*Enhanced profit by $672,000 implementing the use of Travel Approval Forms.
*Added $309,000 to bottom line, reducing consultants’ certification ramp-up time
30%, utilizing a training boot camp.
*Improved profit $216,000 by executing the consultant relocation program.
*A 90%+ decrease in client refunds due to initiating the ‘No Cancellation
Policy’ for training classes.
*Consultants’ quality ratings increased to 95.1% due to roll out of the Train
the Trainer initiative.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
ORACLE 04/2008 – 06/2009
Sales Consultant, Enterprise Taxation Management (ETM)
*Worked closely with the ETM Product Sales (business development and presales)
in the delivery aspect of large scale implementations.
*Estimated the professional services portion of each implementation, authored
responses to Requests for Proposals (RFP), Statements of Work (SOW) and
formalized estimates for submission to Risk and Contract review.
*Involved in choosing partners for the technology delivery portion of each
deal/contract.
CIBER 07/2007 – 11/2007
Delivery Manager, Professional Services
*Supported the company’s sales campaign in the capacity of assessing and
qualifying prospects; forming pursuit teams, closing and delivering. Managed
company staff, hourly contracted consultants and vendor partners.
*Responded to services’ RFPs/RFIs, prepared analysis of client requirements,
created presentations, pricing, proposals, contracts, SLAs, statements of work
and change orders for consulting services engagements.
IKON OFFICE SOLUTIONS 01/2007 – 06/2007
Project Manager, Professional Services
*Instrumental in designing order-tracking system, on time delivery increased by
over 50%.
*Conducted meetings with end users, vendor partners and account managers on
pre-sales/post sales activities to ensure on time, within budget, quality
delivery of projects.
*Single point of contact for delivery issues regarding document/content and
workflow management projects.
DESERT DOCUMENT SERVICES Acquired by Wolters Kluwer Financial Services
07/2005 – 09/2006
Director of Customer Service
*Managed Call Center, monitoring technical support calls and inbound and
outbound sales calls.
*Handled incident and problem management by enhancing automated CRM system and
help desk.
*Significant involvement in implementation of PMO, increased on time delivery of
projects from 76% to 99%.
*Generated metrics and procedures to monitor service level management and report
on SLA performance.
COMPUTER ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL, INC.
07/1999 – 07/2004
Delivery Director, Technical Services (2002 - 2004)
*Directed multi-million dollar P&L accountable for professional services
operations, business development, strategic planning/execution and solutions
delivery.
*Led virtual team of five managers, 46 consultants and 50+ 3rd party vendor and
channel partner relationships.
*Ensured through best practices and balanced scorecard that approved project
methodologies, processes, policies and tools were consistently used, including
change, configuration, release, issue, risk, and quality management.
*Developed strategic vendor alliances that rounded out product/service
offerings.
Delivery Director, Enterprise Resource Management (1999 - 2002)
*Responsible for business development, strategic planning, customer service and
program management.
*Motivated team to attain 75% utilization per employee (vs. 65% company
standard) achieved 82% utilization.
*Chaired weekly meetings with the Call Center to review procedures and sales
pipeline. Delivered ‘Lunch and Learn’ presentations on new service offerings.
*Collaborated with marketing to design and implement campaigns, programs,
product launches and promotions.
PLATINUM TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Acquired by Computer Associates in 1999
03/1997- 06/1999
Director, SEGUE Services (1998 - 1999)
*Trained and certified staff on the SEGUE QA testing product and developed
solution offerings.
*Developed and executed implementation of quality assurance procedures that
resulted in zero product defects.
Lead Architect/Program Manager (1997 – 1998)
*Identified best practices and directed business process re-engineering and
application development/implementation for Fortune 500 companies in the area of
Y2K.
*Performed pre-sales assessments on multi-platform systems that included
detailed analysis, executive summary, proposal and presentation.
*Selected to execute strategic delivery plan for the Asia Pacific region,
included set-up of offshore code factories.
CLERITY SOLUTIONS, INC. Formally UniKix Technologies, Inc.
04/1994 – 02/1997
Migration Specialist/Engagement Manager
*Managed Mainframe to UNIX migration engagements that provided solutions to
achieve strategic IT goals.
*Tasks included porting and conversion of all programs, scripts, files and
databases using proprietary ETL tools.
*Recruited to manage US/International implementations and integrations for
selected high-profile accounts.
EDUCATION
BS Business Management, University of Phoenix – Phoenix, AZ
AS Computer Science, Burlington County Community College - Pemberton, New Jersey
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
ITIL Foundation Certification for IT Service Management
ISO 9000, ISO 9002:1994 and ISO 9001:2000 Certification
SKILL SETS
Operating Systems/Data Access: Mainframe, UNIX, Windows, SQL, DB2, Oracle,
Informix and Sybase
MS: Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Word / Software Applications: COBOL,
Scripting, CRM/SalesLogix
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