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- 1. – Continued – PAUL F. SCHANEY 55 Hanlon Road, Holliston, MA 01746 ▪ 508-893-7953 (H) ▪ 508-380-9599 (C) ▪ PFS0164@aol.com I NF ORM AT I ON T ECHNOL OGY EX ECUT I V E Expert in delivering strategic IT business solutions. Successful delivery of multimillion-dollar projects. Transformed business enterprises through technology investments and integration. Forward-thinking executive with a successful 29-year career record leading mission-critical IT projects synchronized with organizations’ business strategies, contributing significantly to heightened efficiency, productivity, regulatory compliance, and profits. Expertise in systems development, IT and business-needs assessments, and operational improvements as well as developing strategic solutions and managing implementation projects within diverse industries. Effective leader, mentor, and trainer for multi-site, multiple-enterprise, and cross-functional teams. Talent for managing sophisticated and multimillion-dollar projects within tight budgets and deadlines. Provide business advisement to CXOs. Core Qualifications Strategic & Long-range Planning IT Operational Planning and Budgeting Program Office, Project Planning & Management Program/Project Risk Assessments IT Risk Assessment and Controls Assurance Project Crisis Management and Turnaround Business Process & Operation Enhancement Organizational & Change Management IT Governance & Cross-organizational Leadership Crisis Management & Disaster Recovery Quality Assurance & Security Controls Technology & Application Implementation Client & Vendor Relationships Problem Identification & Resolution P ROF ES S I ONAL EX P ERI ENCE FIDELITY INVESTMENTS, Boston, Massachusetts 2006 – Present World Class financial institution providing customers financial guidance and investments. Vice President Currently leading the Enterprise Technology Risk Evaluation and Controls Assurance teams. The Technology Risk Evaluation (TRE) team specializes in assessing current and emerging technology risks associated with the development, deployment and support of business applications and infrastructure systems across the Enterprise. In addition, TRE provides technology risk guidance and consulting services. The Technology Controls Assurance team works closely with the Enterprise Technology teams and other Fidelity business partners across the firm to maintain a control inventory, control validation mechanisms, and coordinate audits and certifications such as SSAE16/SOC1, SysTrust/SOC3 and ISO27001. Additional team responsibilities include overseeing external SSAE16/SysTrust audits, ISO27001 program management and oversight, controls assurance, management of Information Technology General Controls, controls and risk governance. Key Accomplishments: Leading an enterprise wide transformation to adopt standardized information technology general controls that will allow for the monitoring of compliance across multiple business units supporting over 4000 assets Served as the Chief of Staff to the CIO and managed the program management office for an IT organization with an annual budget of $154M and a global staff of over 700 employees and contractors. Responsibilities include a wide range of duties that leads to the health of the organization, provide executive-level support to top decision- makers and project managers and oversee the finance statements and ratios, as well as IT budget planning, monitoring the organization budget compliance, strategic planning, resource model planning, staff globalization modeling and strategy, vendor strategy, communications strategy, coordination and collaboration with finance, human resources and FPCMS Program Planning office, integration of IT to overall FPCMS strategy. As Program Manager, led a $130+ million large complex project from the business case, program start-up through the analysis phase of a complex project to consolidate fund accounting general ledger systems to a third-party commercially available product, grew team to over 150 resources within a 5 month period, managed the program including the analysis phase, definition of data strategy, for over 40 internal and 70 external applications resulting in a revised timeline, budget and resource plan across multiple Fidelity business units, responsible for executive communication with business unit and firm leadership.
- 2. PAUL F. SCHANEY Page 2 – Continued – Recovered and successfully delivered a $54M large complex and strategic IT program that provides a centralized integration and control point for consolidated shareholder reporting and money movement. Program required crisis management and turnaround to get a struggling project back on track. Responsibilities included the program management of a global team of over 130+ resources including a fixed price contract utilizing an offshore vendor, management of an in-house team to provide business requirements and QA oversight resources, financial responsibility for the project budget, contract negotiations and oversight. Contracted and managed an off-shore third party vendor who is responsible for the design and development of a large complex project including a multi-year contract providing on-going development and operational support. Conduct large complex project reviews across Fidelity’s business units resulting in project assessments that are presented to the CXO levels of the corresponding business units. Represented business unit on a number of firm-wide initiatives such as IT Transformation, large complex projects analysis and reviews, off-shore development center proposal and selection, project tracking and reporting standardization, and standard key performance indicators. DELOITTE CONSULTING, Boston, Massachusetts 1992 – 2006 High profile, professional-services organization focused on providing premium client services. DIRECTOR (Non-Equity Partner) Led IT consulting services unit and provided direct management of a broad range of highly profitable, IT projects valued above $150 million during tenure. Collaborate with executive clients to assess needs and determine scope of complex projects. Direct efforts through full lifecycle, from strategy to system implementations, for a variety of world-class organizations within diverse industries. Breadth of position includes development of yearly business plans, business development, account management, project P&L responsibility, recruiting, hiring, and counseling. Services provided include strategic planning, business transformation, operational improvements, security and control analysis, design, development, installation, implementation, support, training, administration, and management. Recruited, mentored, and coached staff, successfully growing Boston IT group from 30 to 75+ resources. Key Accomplishments: Led project-management office overseeing 100+ resources from more than 60 locations, establishing and managing an IT governance model for an $80+ million enterprise-wide business transformation project, allowing the project to stay on track and on budget. Developed strategic information-systems plan including analysis of in excess of 100 business processes across the enterprise, resulting in five-year, IT investment plan within a major metropolitan city. Organized, recruited, mentored, and managed team of 50+ employees and contractors through the design, development, testing, and installation of a custom-built application project valued at $30+ million for a large statewide, criminal court system. Assembled team of 30+ consultants and subcontractors to successfully manage delivery of a profitable $20+ million custom-built application and provided account management. Designed, developed, and implemented four case management systems over a four-year period that fully automated four paper-based organizations and facilitated the strategy for an enterprise-wide case management solution and obtained cross-organizational buy-in. Provided quality assurance and guidance to $10+ million enterprise-wide implementation of health plan software package and led a detailed risk assessment interpreting HIPAA security regulations for a major hospital network and its four affiliates resulting in the creation of 18 new security policies and more than 30 supporting procedures. Implemented an identity and access management solution to increase security and streamline access to electronic patient health information, resulting in operational improvement by decreasing help desk calls 40%. Performed application IT assessment for major hospital, analyzing more than 160 applications containing electronic patient health information, resulting in strategic plan identifying a number of remediation projects to address identified deficiencies resulting from newly created security policies and procedures. Developed enterprise-wide requirements for financial and human resource ERP solution across 50 departments. Led the development, issuance, evaluation, and selection of a multimillion-dollar request for proposal for a financial and human resource system and integrator.
- 3. PAUL F. SCHANEY Page 3 – Continued – Developed IT governance model, including IT standards, progress tracking and monitoring, reviews of current and future workloads, and analysis of IT staff requirements. Performed IT assessments for numerous multimillion-dollar, health care organizations under consideration for acquisition, including two hospitals and one nursing facility, and led an IT merger integration effort for a utility. Assisted troubled health care management company in reviewing and streamlining IT special project budget to successfully reduce planned expenditures from $20 million to $5 million. Participated in thought-leadership forum to define business solutions and market services to help state and health care organizations respond to growing demand for Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Electronic Health Records (EHR), Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIO), Personal Health Record (PHR), and Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE). Cemented strong, long lasting client relationships resulting in $50+ million in sole-source contracts. Negotiated numerous complex contracts including a large-scale, business transformation, custom-application development and fixed price projects, including a multi-year $20 million custom-built development project. As member of the national system analyst (SA) executive committee and Boston office SA champion, expanded college hire system analyst program growing the Boston office program to 40+ resources and the national program to 500+ college hires. COMPUTER SCIENCES CORPORATION, Newton, Massachusetts 1988 – 1992 Global professional services organization with 45+ years of experience delivering business results to clients. PRICE WATERHOUSE, Glastonbury, Connecticut 1987 – 1988 Large professional services organization providing clients with innovative solutions and services. AETNA LIFE & CASUALTY, Middletown, Connecticut 1986 – 1987 One of the nation's leading providers of health, dental, group, life, disability, and long-term care benefits. EDUCATION: BS in Business/Management Information Systems, Central Connecticut State University