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