Senior executive offering proven ability to shape organizational performance and achieve strategic goals, with prominent contributions to profitability, cost control, process optimization, customer satisfaction and service delivery. A strong leader with considerable experience motivating, coaching and mentoring cross-functional teams of professionals to collaborate, communicate and efficiently perform. A certified Project Manager (PMP) with with keen analytical and decision making skills and over 17 years experience managing IT and operations projects. A highly accomplished professional with extensive experience in executive leadership, financial and operations management and project management with depth of knowledge in both business and technology.

1.  Strategic Planning  Program/Engagement Management  Budget Management
 Customer Satisfaction  Process Improvement/Optimization  Cost Cutting
 Leading/Coaching Staff  Outsourcing/Contract Negotiation  Maximizing Profitability
GAYLE E. HESKIEL
1809 Avenue R
Brooklyn, New York 11229
gheskiel@yahoo.com
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CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER/SVP PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
OPERATIONS/PROCESS IMPROVEMENT ~ FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT ~ PROGRAM
MANAGEMENT
Offering proven ability to shape organizational performance and responsiveness to business needs, with prominent
contributions to profitability, cost control, process optimization, customer satisfaction and service delivery.
 Indentified for key operations leadership role after consistently increasing revenue and cutting costs.
 Built a scalable professional services organization by establishing a project management office, streamlining daily
workflow processes, developing a high performance team of top candidates and designing an optimized call center.
 Consistently increased services revenue by crafting new service offerings, adjusting the pricing model and providing
stellar customer service to guarantee recurring revenue.
 Slashed expenditures by outsourcing several internal functions while maintaining service levels and quality.
Other Technical Leadership Competencies:
CAREER HISTORY AND PERFORMANCE
BINARY TREE INC, Newark, NJ 2005 – Present
Binary Tree, a messaging migration software and consulting organization that is aligned with Microsoft, Google and IBM.
Chief Operating Officer (1/2008 – Present)
Operations
 Directly manage and have P&L responsibility for consulting services, infrastructure, customer support, human
resources and administration functions.
 Actively participate in corporate strategic and business planning and develop strategies to ensure long term profitability
growth and competitiveness and support sales strategy and execution. Develop internal scorecard to help prioritize
projects based on alignment with corporate goals, ROI and TCO.
 Evaluate workflow and operations results, take corrective actions and establish process controls, set key performance
indicators and prioritize opportunities and internal projects. Create dashboards and management reports to enable close
monitoring of daily operations and programs.
 Encourage and foster effective collaboration between departments and amongst the leadership team to ensure an
integrated approach to fulfilling the company’s goals and objectives.
 Manage projects to create company website and employee portal in MS SharePoint and other internal systems.
 Negotiate offshore outsourcing of software QA process, resulting in annual savings of $180,000.
 Move internal data center to offsite location, resulting in annual savings of $100,000.
 Designed efficient virtual call center and increased availability of help desk support from 9-5 daily to 24/7 with only
minimal investment and increased support revenue and profitability.
 Direct and manage IT strategy implementation focusing on IT budgets, timelines and critical systems.
P&L and Professional Services Practice Management
 Meet professional services revenue and profit/margin quotas and work closely with the software sales team to provide
support in achieving software sales quota
 Manage resource schedules to achieve utilization targets and strategic non-billable activities
 Ensure consistent professional services business practices throughout the team by establishing standards, policies and
procedures and implementing and monitoring process and productivity improvements
 Develop new service offerings targeted to varying customer needs. Manage Microsoft BPOS cloud computing services
offerings and optimize program structure and solutions delivery for migrations to the cloud environment. Developed
new software as a service (SaaS) offering to migrate customers to the Google cloud environment.

2. Team Management
 Supervise, lead, evaluate and coach consulting managers and staff
 Lead effort to recruit top notch candidates to fill professional services positions with unique skill sets
 Develop business partner and consultant certification program that includes classroom study, self-study and job
shadowing
Customer Delivery
 Partner with sales to assist with project scoping and SOW creation. Develop tools and resources for sales team to assist
in qualifying and scoping service opportunities (i.e. pre-sales questionnaires, SOW templates, service estimation
calculators)
 Negotiate service contracts, discounts and scheduling with customers and their legal teams to minimize company risk
 Serve as a senior-level contact for customers and resolve escalated customer relationship issues
 Provide ongoing oversight on customer engagements to ensure they are delivered to meet/exceed customer
expectations
 Perform project reviews to ensure project managers comply with standards and methodologies
 Lead efforts to innovate and provide creative solutions; maintain customer satisfaction, and implementing
methodologies to increase quality and productivity
 Collaborate with cross-functional teams on project delivery, solution development and deployment, and revenue
generation techniques as needed
 Develop a scalable implementation model to support a rapidly growing client base
 Capture lessons learned and successful process improvements and incorporate them into ongoing continuous process
development
CFO/Director of Operations (10/2006 – 12/2007)
Selected Achievements:
 As CFO, managed accounting staff, coordinated daily finance, budget and accounting activities.
 Managed cash position and credit line, created financial reports and provided analysis and recommendations to CEO.
 Maintained relationships with tax auditors and bankers and completed QuickBooks upgrade project.
 Managed on-going cost-cutting initiative, documented expense guidelines and streamlined purchasing approval process.
 Ran day-to-day operations in the accounting and consulting services groups and identified areas of process
improvement, workflow enhancements and implementation of internal controls across the organization.
 Increased company profitability by successfully implementing price increases and creating new service offerings.
 Re-negotiated vendor and customer contracts to protect company’s interests and ensure favorable financial terms.
 Outsourced HR and benefits function to a PEO reduced annual recurring costs by $200,000.
 Introduced, defined, created and managed a new PMO structure as an integral part of the consulting services
organization. This provided organization and scalability to the consulting group.
 Lead a virtual global team to deliver high value services and successful execution of all PMO related tasks, programs
and projects across the entire product portfolio.
 Authorize service work estimates, customer SOWs, RFP responses and resource allocations.
 Implemented various methodologies, procedures, dashboards, reports and tools to monitor project quality.
Consulting Services Manager (3/2005 – 10/2006)
Selected Achievements:
 Increased services revenue by 40% by enforcing consistent pricing structure and selling new services.
 Crafted project plans, managed work breakdown structures against milestones and tracked project progress.
 Communicated status, risks and mitigation plans to all project stakeholders.
 Developed and recommend tools and processes to increase efficiency.
 Lead virtual global team of Domino, Java and messaging consultants and managed consultant utilization targets.
 Oversaw multiple concurrent customers IT projects and served as escalation point for resolving customer issues.
 Created and implemented consulting methodology and project procedures.
Clients include:
JP Morgan Chase, Marsh & McLennan Companies, Sun Microsystems, Carestream/Kodak, Microsoft, IBM, Metlife,
Ameriprise, International Paper, Pitney Bowes, Blockbuster, Corning, The Hartford, AON, Glaxosmithkline, Wachovia
Bank, Sunlife Financial, Watson Pharmaceutical, Unimin, SuperValu, Collins & Aikman and Expeditors

3. RELAVIS CORPORATION,New York, NY 7/1996 – 3/2005
Relavis offers customer relationship management (CRM) solutions built on the IBM Lotus Notes and Domino platform. Their CRM software helps
streamline the sales, marketing and customer service functions in any organization.
Director of Consulting
Promoted throughout tenure to manage global Consulting Services organization taking primary oversight of CRM
implementation services.
Selected Achievements:
 Lead consulting team by supervising progress and quality on all phases of implementation project, prioritizing projects,
providing technical direction, recommending communication strategy to customers, scheduling resources, creating
training programs for customers and business partners and generating proposals for new business.
 Promoted efficiencies by establishing the strategy and direction for new project methodologies, best practices,
procedures, and standards that provide for consistency, globalization and ease of integration.
 Spearheaded development effort of two new software products throughout the project life cycle.
 Built new consulting division to service and implement company’s new product offerings.
 Supervised consulting staff and managers including internal and offshore resources.
 Reviewed and assessed consultant utilization targets.
 Managed customer relationships, consulting projects and customer expectations.
 Ensured project timelines, budgets, and quality standards were met.
 Facilitated analysis and requirements gathering sessions with customers and functioned as Domino development SME.
 Assisted customers to optimize their sales processes and monitor KPIs for their sales, service and marketing groups.
Clients included:
Credit Suisse, Nalco Chemical, Schering, Tanimura & Antle, Western Union, Acceleron, Ansell Perry, Hamamatsu,
Dentsply Int’l, Texas Monthly Magazine, Novartis, SPL WorldGroup, DuPont, Western Union, Engelhard, Citibank,
Union Camp, Arizona Chemical, Aspen Technology, Vistakon, Duke Energy, Rockwell Collins and The Vanguard
Group.
ARTHUR ANDERSEN, LLP, New York, NY 9/1993 – 7/1996
Arthur Andersen LLP, was once one of the “Big Five” accounting firms among PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young
and KPMG providing auditing, tax and consulting services to large corporations.
Senior Consultant in Business Systems Consulting Group (BSC)
Worked for Arthur Anderson and provided consulting services for large corporate clients in the financial industry as well as
companies in the non-profit sector.
Selected Achievements:
 Worked with all user levels from C-level down to analyze business processes and provided cost justifications and
estimates for technology projects.
 Gathered user requirements, and researched design alternatives and products for financial and accounting systems.
 Developed and implemented numerous Lotus Notes/Domino and Microsoft Access applications to automate customer
business processes and improve productivity.
 Recommended packaged solutions to address customer requirements in the areas of accounting, human resources,
information technology and finance.
 Organized vendor demonstrations and assisted customers in evaluating and selecting appropriate solutions.
 Documented all client and vendor issues.
 Coordinated and conducted end-user training.
Clients included:
JP Morgan Chase, Société Générale, Administration of Children’s Services, Central Park Conservancy, AVSC
EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
University of Pennsylvania
THE WHARTON SCHOOL
Bachelor of Science in Economics with Double concentration in Finance and Entrepreneurial Management
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
ITIL v3 Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management
Masters in Business Administration (MBA) in progress