Successfully implemented a new LMS

I recently led a technology team in the deployment of Saba 5.3 LMS to 240,000 learners and administrators, located worldwide. As part of this effort, 12 million transcript records were converted from the legacy system. Lastly, I led the effort to decommission the legacy system. 

About me

Summary:

I am an accomplished IT Leader with over 20 years of experience working with business and technology partners, defining requirements, and delivering systems solutions that support business and financial objectives.

I am a respected leader, able to build highly motivated technology teams that are driven to succeed.  I keep up-to-date with changes in the industry through continuing professional development.

Specialties:

* Partnering with the Business
* Project Management
* Application Management
* Solution Delivery
* Talent Management
* Vendor Management

Achievements:

Over my career, I have worked on some very exciting and challenging application projects.  Some of my proudest achievements include:

* Leading a $2.5 million Sales Force Automation (SFA) project resulting in improved sales force productivity for 300 sales reps worldwide

* Implementing a new order management system for a $500 million computer manufacturer

* Managing the creation of an Oracle star schema end user computing environment utilized by a Finance organization.
 
* Leading the development of a new Defined Contribution (401k) Client Billing System, which reduced cycle time from 60 days to 3 days
 
* Leveraging the Billing application across  Defined Benefits, Health and Welfare, and HR Payroll businesses

* Managing an integrated application delivery team, serving up millions of web service transactions per month to consuming web applications 
 
* Helping to determine the strategic direction for the next generation web services platform
 
* Implementing the Saba Learning Management System package to support 240,000 worldwide end users for a large client in the Banking industry.  

* Fully decommissioned the TEDS Learning Management System application, removing 38 servers from the systems  infrastructure and attaining $3.2 million in annual cost savings 

My Website is:  www.georgegarabedian.com