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CIO and Technology Transformation Executive
JB is a seasoned CIO and technology transformation executive with 20+ years of experience leading enterprise and retail transformation, cybersecurity, cloud modernization, and global IT operations.
Chief Information Officer | Technology Strategy | Transformation | Cybersecurity
Based in Las Vegas, NV and available for CIO, CTO, VP Technology, Head of IT, or transformation-focused technology leadership opportunities.
Open to relocation, onsite, hybrid, or remote depending on the opportunity.
Team and Budget Sizes: Budgets up to $40M with teams up to 100+ FTEs / contractors.
Education / Awards: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. Award-winning CIO, 2023 CIO Public Company Category Award Winner.
Overview:
- Former CIO for the North American division of a $2B+ UK-headquartered, publicly traded retail group and former Global CIO of a Japanese robotics company.
- 20+ years of experience across retail, consumer brands, robotics, consulting, technology services, and global business operations.
- Led enterprise technology, retail systems, cybersecurity, cloud transformation, ERP/POS/WMS programs, infrastructure, and global IT operations.
- Built and scaled high-performing technology organizations, including a modern North American IT operating model and a 50+ person global retail technology delivery organization spanning multiple geographies.
- Board-facing CIO with experience presenting technology strategy, transformation progress, cybersecurity, enterprise systems, and business updates to executive and board-level stakeholders.
- Trusted executive partner to CEOs, CFOs, COOs, CHROs, Group CIOs, and senior business leaders, aligning technology strategy to growth, efficiency, customer experience, cybersecurity, and modernization.
Top Accomplishments:
- Modernized core retail platforms through a multi-year cloud transformation across merchandising, warehouse management, sales audit, and analytics, eliminating EOL risk, avoiding $1M-$2M+ in on-prem hardware refresh costs, reducing recurring IT issues, and creating the foundation for next-generation retail systems.
- Built and scaled a modern North American IT operating model, bringing critical application, store systems, infrastructure, and cybersecurity expertise in-house, reducing external vendor spend by an estimated $2M+, improving delivery speed, strengthening vendor management, and reducing recurring critical production incidents.
- Led retail transformation initiatives across store operations, finance, and merchandising, generating meaningful labor savings through self-checkout, increasing customer throughput during peak travel periods, and improving vendor payment performance through AP automation.
- Strengthened cybersecurity maturity by expanding endpoint protection, vulnerability management, phishing awareness, SIEM, Global SOC operations, data protection, supplier risk management, and governance, improving resilience, compliance readiness, executive visibility, and threat detection and response.
- Built and led global retail technology teams across multiple international brands, including a 50+ person delivery organization spanning 8 geographies and 20 countries. Led IT new market entry and new store opening programs, improving speed and consistency of international retail expansion while reducing IT support and project fees by approximately 30% annually through procurement discipline, vendor management, and standardized delivery practices.
Core Skills:
Technology Strategy | Digital & Enterprise Transformation | Cloud Modernization | Cybersecurity & Risk Management | ERP, POS, WMS & Retail Systems | Merchandising & Planning Systems | Infrastructure & Operations | IT Operating Model Design | Global IT Leadership | Program & Change Management | Executive Stakeholder Alignment | Vendor Management | P&L Management | IT Governance | Data, AI, Automation & Analytics | International Expansion | M&A System Integrations
FRACTIONAL/INTERIM IT LEADERSHIP
KT is a Citizen, lives in Westlake Village, CA and is available immediately for consulting.
Open to 100% onsite if desired, open to travel and has an active passport
Sizes of staff:200+ in all areas of IT, with 5 direct VP or Director reports
Budgetary Responsibility: $30 Million plus
Education/Certs/Degrees: Business Management, numerous management courses
Bringing significant knowledge of IT leadership, investments, mergers, acquisitions, and company operations.
Example skills fit: 1) Companies in transition or with significant growth plans. 2) A company in need of a change agent for upgrades of core systems. 3) Operational support for IT during staff transitions, 4) IT planning; Assessments, organization structure, software system selection, roadmaps, direction setting, project oversight
- Staff assessments, organizational structures.
- Building IT, Customer Service and Operations teams
- Domestic and international location support; Europe, Canada, Central & So. America
- Experience with Public, Private Equity, Privately Held, Mergers & Acquisitions
- Systems implementations and replacements; ERP applications to support Supply Chain, Financials, Subscriptions, Customer Service, Call Centers, Warehouse Management, Distribution Facilities, Business Intelligence, Security & Compliance sales and logistics
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