High energy, high impact business partner with proven record of driving business & technology excellence, quality, and results.
Brad Manning
Global Information Technology Executive
Executive Profile
High impact, strategic IT leader with a proven track record of delivering results and positive ROI. Savvy executive experienced in strategic planning, business and IT alignment and driving top line growth and cost savings through global, multi-cultural business process changes and leading edge technology.
Extensive experience and effective leadership in business process reengineering, IT modernization / turnaround, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and consolidations ensuring delivery of original business objectives.
Multiple industry experience including manufacturing, chemicals, telecommunications, healthcare and consulting. Exposure to consumer products and pharmaceuticals. Multiple company sizes including startup, small, mid-size, large and Fortune 500 with direct oversight of multi-site, international teams.
Portfolio Highlights
Direct globally all Information Technology functions, initiatives and programs for a $1/2 Billion company, leading a diverse department of IT professionals and executing a 5 year, aligned, global strategic plan.
Reduced IT expenditure by 20% during economic downturn, while delivering a global ERP implementation and business process redesign project on time and under budget.
Rebuilt and modernized IT organization including a complete overhaul of roles, skills, personnel and IT processes in order to deliver massive improvements to IT architecture and business processes.
Increased revenues $11.2M over 5 years by partnering with Sales, R&D and other commercial functions to redesign their business processes and implement a global Customer Relationship Management system.
Increased revenues $11.2M over 5 years by redesigning commercial business processes and implementing a global CRM system.
Brad Manning
Global Information Technology Executive
Selected Achievements
Strategic Planning and Business/IT Alignment
Built a 5-year, aligned, global strategic plan translated into department-wide goals and objectives addressing business alignment, technology needs, process improvement, and organizational redesign. Plan is on schedule.
Ensure business strategy alignment and objectives by establishing an IT governance / portfolio management process, and partnering closely with executive committee. Communicate with Board of Directors for $1M+ initiatives.
Improved business and IT alignment by driving business goals into significant process and technology improvements as the “relationship manager” to the sales, marketing, customer service, technical services and R&D departments.
Revenue Growth / Top Line Impact
Increased revenues $11.2M over 5 years by partnering with Sales, Marketing, Customer Service, Technical Services and R&D groups to redesign their business processes and implement a global Customer Relationship Management system.
Created a global multi-language ecommerce solution with a rich product catalog, targeted marketing information, online webinar capability and automated lead generation. Also implemented electronic transaction exchange with customers (B2B/EDI). This initiative contributed to significant revenue and productivity improvements.
Created, promoted and ran profitably an IT consulting firm serving key clients in diverse industries, with annual revenues in excess of a quarter million dollars.
Cost Savings/Reduction/Controls
Reduced IT expenditure by 20% during economic downturn, while delivering a global ERP implementation on time and under budget.
Saved $2M by favorable vendor negotiations, software rationalization, and improving the productivity and skills of internal resources.
Drove significant cost savings via reduction in application portfolio by standardizing functionality, eliminating servers, and migrating websites and applications to corporate standard environments.
IT Modernization and High Performance Team Building
Currently driving global business and technology improvements. Initiatives include global process enablement, overhaul of all major IT systems, and implementation of standard IT processes and best practices.
Implemented new organization design and quickly upgraded team skills and personnel in key areas to improve service delivery to associates.
Rebuilt and modernized IT organization including a complete overhaul of roles, skills, personnel, and IT processes in order to deliver massive improvements to IT architecture and business processes.
Mergers, Acquisitions, Divestitures
Directed effectively the IT integration of 2-3 acquisitions per year and closely involved in the due diligence.
Involved in multiple divestitures. For 2 large divestments, worked on teams to do the strategic planning and rebuilding of new IT organizations (process redesign, organizational design (OD), and technology roadmaps).
Process Reengineering, Improvements and Enterprise Systems
Redesigned global business processes to support enterprise strategies and successfully completed a global ERP implementation on time and under budget.
Quickly gained cost savings / synergies from multiple acquisitions and enabled smooth integration into parent company by redesigning business processes and executing ERP implementations.
Implemented massive process and technology improvements including sales, marketing, tech services, and R&D process redesign, customer relationship management (CRM), plant automation, knowledge management, ecommerce, workflow, employee collaboration/portal, business intelligence, laboratory information management system (LIMS) and process automation.
Healthcare
Built a clinical patient management and billing system used by 40+ clinics to manage healthcare for 160,000+ patients. Additional functionality included disability, workers' compensation case management and OSHA recordkeeping.
Worked with the Mayo Clinic and their claims processing unit (MMSI) to create a specialized medical health insurance plan and HIPAA compliant adjudication system targeted at lower risk, well informed employees.
Designed and built a comprehensive healthcare data warehouse for predictive modeling. Among many other purposes, the warehouse was used to design preventative care strategies for the company.
Worked with Lucent Technologies, their divested company Avaya (of 36,000 employees) and Gates McDonald to design and build a hybrid out-sourced/in-sourced disability and workers’ compensation claims process and related systems.
Infrastructure Design and Consolidation
Streamlined and reduced infrastructure 75% by consolidating regional infrastructure into a single virtualized global data center.
Architected, built and supported large, global enterprise systems and 24x7 operations. Regularly interacted with global business partners at all levels to ensure alignment and clarity around objectives.
Outsourcing, Offshoring and Vendor/Supplier Relations
Transformed IT organization into a flexible workforce via relationships with key outsourcers, improving service delivery and ability to scale up or down depending on economic conditions and strategic project priorities.
Built key vendor relationships enabling a major technology modernization for a fraction of the typical/expected cost.
Experience with a wide array of major technology vendors & products including Oracle, JD Edwards, Siebel, PeopleSoft, Business Objects, SAP, Microsoft, Dell, IBM, Cognos, Cisco, Avaya, Lucent, AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, SAS, CSC, EMC, HP, Lenovo, Siemens, Honeywell, Infor, CDC/Pivotal, Wipro, Systime, Yash, etc.
SOX, ISO, Security and Risk Management
Redesigned IT SOX control environment, made key improvements that dropped our remediation items 88% (from 17 to 2).
Oversee ISO Quality Management System including maintenance of standard operating procedures, work instructions, controlled documents and quality assurance manuals as well as performing internal quality audits and coordinating external audits.
Improved IT Security and Risk Management by establishing independent security and risk assessment process, creating global security policy and procedures and implementing several technology and process improvements to reduce vulnerabilities.
Supported project to ensure compliance with SOX, American Chemistry Council’s Responsible Care initiative, and general IT best practices. Passed Responsible Care audit in the process.
Holder of excellent credentials and called upon as a 'thought-leader'.
Brad Manning
Global Information Technology Executive
Education
Ball State University (2005)
M.B.A., Finance Concentration Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society
Purdue University (1993)
B.S., Computer Technology Graduated with Distinction
Memberships
Member, CIO Leadership Network
Certifications
Enrolled in a Six Sigma Yellow Belt program (expected completion by Q4 2010)
Publications
Interviewed multiple times for IT related trade journals (CIO Insight, Intelligent Enterprise, Baseline, Accelerate, etc.) on topics such as 'Virtualization', 'Business Intelligence', 'ERP' and 'Data Integration'.
Enjoys a reputation for being a 'take charge' leader who can turnaround and rebuild global, multi-cultural IT organizations and deliver business results.
Brad Manning
Global Information Technology Executive
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