Jim***raf

Due Diligence, Corporate Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Strategic Initiatives

Sr. Director Transformation Strategy Consulting at Blend

• Location: Greater Chicago Area
• Duration: 2023-12 to Present
• Description: As a seasoned business leader with a track record of success across diverse industries including telecom, financial services, retail, software, and technology, I specialize in driving comprehensive business transformations for large clients. Leveraging years of experience, I collaborate with clients to develop a more holistic and contextual understanding of their business and value streams, leading to accelerated time-to-decision and time-to-value. Key Responsibilities: • Strategic Operational Conversations: Lead strategic discussions to align transformation initiatives with overarching business strategies and corporate goals. • Value-Driven Transformation: Drive tangible value creation through initiatives that directly align with strategic objectives, ensuring measurable impact on business outcomes. • Organizational Change Management: Implement effective change management strategies to facilitate smooth transitions and adoption of transformational changes across the organization. • Champion of Ideation Process: Foster a culture of innovation by championing the ideation process, encouraging creative thinking, and identifying opportunities for business improvement and growth. • Process Mapping and Definition: Create value through meticulous process mapping and definition, optimizing workflows and operational efficiencies to drive transformational change. • Integration of People, Process, Technology, and Data: Harness the synergy between people, processes, technology, and data to create cohesive and integrated transformation initiatives that deliver high value and sustainable results. Through my collaborative approach and expertise in connecting various elements of business transformation, I empower organizations to embark on successful transformation journeys with a significantly higher success rate. My focus is on driving tangible results, fostering innovation, and delivering sustainable value that propels businesses toward their strategic objectives.

Sr. Director Strategy and Operations at Cenergi

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• Duration: 2023-06 to Present
• Description: -Building a strategic management consulting practice and driving internal business and sales operational excellence and efficiency. -Co-developing cnOps, an M&A due diligence framework to assess IT operations, security, procurement, and planning. Leading IT asset discovery and operational maturity assessments for clients undergoing mergers. -Providing strategic guidance on pricing models and partnership strategies through a robust business architecture lens. -Established transformation methodologies that include comprehensive OCM plans, ensuring seamless adoption of new processes during mergers and acquisitions

Enterprise Transformation Director at Ansys

• Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
• Duration: 2021-10 to 2023-06
• Description: Delivering a Business Process first approach to our transformation initiatives starting with identifying impacts and dependencies across the Enterprise and then ensuring we are not only investing in the most impactful transformation initiatives, but doing them in an order that has the highest chance for success and least risk for rework or start/stop. -Designed Ansys’ first unified transformation roadmap, integrating business functions through a centralized operating model. -Led process mining (using Celonis) and reengineered core processes (CPQ, Lead-to-Cash, Procure-to-Pay) with built-in OCM strategies. -Developed a scalable business architecture framework, mapping enterprise value streams and driving continuous process improvements. -Oversaw M&A integrations and ensured alignment between legacy operations and the new operating model. - Conducted activities using the following tools: Salesforce, Office 365, Smartsheet, LeanIX, Celonis, Azure Dev Ops, Oracle EPS, Snowflake, PowerBI, MeisterPlan, ServiceNow

Sr. Enterprise Business Architect at Sophos

• Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
• Duration: 2021-03 to 2021-10
• Description: Working in the Enterprise Architecture team to help define strategic goals and create journey maps to solutions. Current focus on Lead to Cash transformation. as well as: - E2E Customer journey mapping and capability alignment - E2E Internal Transformation journey mapping including Data Object Alignment - Business Outcomes and Benefits planning and Management - Organizational Change Management program development - Report Certification Process -Conducted activities using the following tools: Salesforce, Office365, Abacus

Sr. Business Architect - Business Transformation Team at Apptio

• Location: Bellevue, WA
• Duration: 2018-04 to 2021-03
• Description: Integral part of the Business Transformation Team leading multiple transformation projects including Lead to Cash, M&A, Acquisitions Integrations, Cloud Migration. - Campaign to Renewal Process Capability Mapping - Mapped strategic process for Campaign to Renewal including Lead to Cash. Developed Business Services maturation process. - Enterprise Architecture Process Development - Developed end to end process improvement and governance for Enterprise Architecture function. Created Maturity Model - PMO Process Development - Aligned PMO process to overall corporate strategy including end to end process mapping, gap analysis, artifact creation and maturation progression model. - Cloud Migration Program Management - Drive planning, collaboration and portfolio of projects designed to migrate from an on-prem data center model to a public cloud model. - Acquisition Program Management - Managed the entire acquisition portfolio for an acquisition and integration. - Compensation Planning Program Management - Drive operational and strategic change decisions and corresponding work efforts to improve overall compensation plan for Sales. - Driving the implementation and utilization of Apptio Business tools within the Apptio IT and Finance ecosystems. - Conducted activities using the following tools: Salesforce, Office365, Jira, Confluence, LeanIX, NetSuite, Outreach, Hubspot, Apptio, ServiceNow