Career Focus
Senior digital transformation and technology portfolio leader with 20 years of enterprise experience modernizing digital ecosystems, aligning cross-functional product teams, and governing multimillion-dollar technology investments within a $13B global Fortune 300 organization.
Proven budget owner, board-level presenter, and strategic partner to senior executives across IT and Corporate Communications. Experienced operating in product-aligned, agile delivery environments coordinating cross-portfolio initiatives, quarterly planning cadences, executive steering routines, and value-based roadmap sequencing.
Strengthened with graduate-level applied data science training, including machine learning workflows, analytics pipelines, and AI-enabled application design.
Education
2024 - 2025
Master of Applied Data Science
Syracuse University
1998
Bachelor of Science, Biological Sciences
Cornell University
Experience
Fractional Digital Lead
OrganizeToSize, Corning, NY
October 2025 - Present
Independent Consultant
DX-ROI, Dublin, Ohio
January 2025 - Present
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Leading end-to-end digital launch strategy across platform selection, customer journey design, e-commerce, product pricing, marketing operations, and analytics infrastructure.
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Driving structured planning cadences, delivery milestones, and performance tracking routines to ensure accountability and transparency across cross-functional contributors.
Independent Consultant
DX-ROI, Dublin, Ohio
January 2025 - July 2025
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Evaluate marketing channel performance through data analysis (Google Analytics, Hotjar, Pardot).
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Develop AI Workshop materials for executive education on ML/AI adoption strategies.
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Provide recommendations to digital marketing technology roadmap to improve ROMI.
Director, Experience Platforms & Analytics
Corning Incorporated, Corning NY
June 2020 - May 2022
Director, Communications & Marketing
Corning Incorporated, Corning NY
June 2020 - May 2022
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Led enterprise experience platform and analytics transformation (corporate and 8 BU’s).
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Built first internal cross-functional digital team (UX/UI, platform engineering, analytics), reducing agency dependency and delivering >$1M annual cost savings in partnership with brand studio director.
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Temporary oversight of content and creative design teams during creation of an internal brand studio.
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Secured $8M+ in modernization investments and aligned product priorities across web CMS, e-commerce integrations, marketing automation, enterprise search, and analytics capabilities.
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Established and facilitated portfolio planning sessions and executive steering routines to align roadmap sequencing, capacity planning, and cross-team dependencies with enterprise objectives.
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Oversaw agile delivery cadences across multidisciplinary product teams, ensuring backlog prioritization, milestone transparency, risk mitigation, and executive reporting.
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Managed cross-functional dependency mapping across business, engineering, analytics, and external suppliers to ensure coordinated delivery and risk mitigation.
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Presented digital modernization strategy and governance framework to a Board of Directors advisory subcommittee during COVID-19 crisis.
Sr, IT Manager, Communications & Marketing
Corning Incorporated, Corning NY
May 2017 - June 2020
Sr, IT Manager, Communications & Marketing
Corning Incorporated, Corning NY
May 2017 - June 2020
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Owned digital service line strategy and ~$10M annual technology spend across global communications, marketing, analytics and e-commerce technology portfolio.
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Rescued a failing $14M program through strategic management of technology, finance, and agencies.
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Replaced failing primary digital agency; restructured $3.5M multi-year contract to improve quality, capacity and governance while maintaining flat spend.
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Acted as primary liaison between technology, product stakeholders, and senior leadership to align backlog priorities, financial oversight, and delivery milestones.
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Sponsored and structured agile delivery cycles using JIRA; facilitated sprint planning, backlog prioritization, daily scrums, demos, and retrospectives across cross-functional product teams.
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Authored user stories and acceptance criteria in partnership with product owners and engineering teams to support value-based prioritization and predictable delivery.
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Led in quarterly planning cycles and portfolio review sessions, aligning technology capacity, funding allocation, and cross-team dependencies with executive priorities.
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Defined and governed statements of work (SOWs) with external agencies, establishing delivery milestones, acceptance criteria, risk controls, and performance accountability.
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Enabled roadmap supporting ~$40M modeled annual revenue uplift via optimized end-to-end customer journeys and marketing-qualified lead growth.
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Enabled ~$10M in marketing-influenced revenue through coordinated e-commerce and partner portal launches (AEM + SAP Hybris integration).
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Improved website conversion rates by 5% through search data pipeline remediation and enhanced targeting capabilities.
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Delivered 150% ROI business case for global brand experience modernization initiative.
IT Manager, Solutions Architecture
Corning Incorporated, Corning NY
May 2015 - May 2017
IT Manager, Solutions Architecture
Corning Incorporated, Corning NY
May 2015 - May 2017
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Orchestrated a team of 8 subject matter experts in North America & Taiwan for design of cybersecurity, cloud platforms, IT infrastructure, new plant builds and M&A.
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Designed solution governance (TOGAF-aligned) and standards, reducing delivery time by 20%.
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Delivered real-time transaction architecture supporting $550M revenue post-acquisition.
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Coordinated cross-functional stakeholders across infrastructure, applications, business, and operations to propose architectures, conduct pilots and poc’s, and manage execution dependencies and risk.
EARLIER LEADERSHIP ROLES
IT Manager, Business Analysis
Corning Incorporated, Corning NY
September 2013 - May 2017
IT Manager, Business Analysis
Corning Incorporated, Corning NY
September 2013 - May 2017
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Led 10 analysts and managed requirements across 150+ projects/year, reducing delivery time by 20%.
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Designed project requirements management process and led global change management program.
IT Team Leader, Commercial Applications
Corning Incorporated, Corning NY
May 2010 - September 2013
IT Team Leader, Commercial Applications
Corning Incorporated, Corning NY
May 2010 - September 2013
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Led the software engineering delivery for web applications, integration, automation, and salesforce.com.
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Directed 8 engineers and 3 agencies, wrote +100 project charters & contracts, and managed all IT costs.
Technical Leader, Applications Engineering
Corning Incorporated, Corning NY
March 2006 - May 2010
Technical Leader, Applications Engineering
Corning Incorporated, Corning NY
March 2006 - May 2010
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Delivered technical and brand refresh of corning.com, on-site search, analytics, e-commerce, and PIM.
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Delivered technical and brand refresh of Corning’s internal communications channels.
Technical Project Manager & SoftwareEngineer
Weightwatchers.com - New York, NY
April 2001 - March 2006
Technical Project Manager & SoftwareEngineer
Weightwatchers.com, New York, NY
April 2001 - March 2006
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Technical project management of software engineering process for subscription website features.
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Led full stack web development for weightwatchers.com globally (US, UK, DE, SE, AU).
Recent Projects
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Please visit my Project Portfolio.
Recent Technical Skills & Training
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Coding: Python | PySpark | SparkNLP | R | SQL
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Analysis: Exploratory Data Analysis | Statistics | Data Visualization | Quantitative Reasoning | Communication
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Insights & Prediction: Machine Learning Algorithms, Deep Learning Techniques, Neural Networks
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AI: Natural Language Processing | Embeddings | Large Language Models | Prompt Engineering | Retrieval Augmented Generation
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Scale: Big Data | PySpark | Data Pipelines
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Domains: Business Analytics | Marketing Analytics | Financial Analytics
Interests
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Parenting | Guitar | Tennis | Fly Fishing | Skiing | Hockey | Script Writing | Beach Vacations & Snorkeling