Global, business-focused, strategic Senior Executive. Leads complex business transformations, and drives performance improvements with world-class solution delivery. Skilled in anticipating shifting business needs and proactively adapting IT direction that creates new opportunities and drives business results. Adept at building and leading large teams through complex, enterprise-wide change.

1. BILL HASER
billhaser@outlook.com
Wimberley, TX 78676 www.linkedin.com/in/Bill-Haser Mobile 847 615 1751
CHIEF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
Global, business-focused, strategic Senior Executive. Leads complex business transformations, and drives
performance improvements with world-class solution delivery. Skilled in anticipating shifting business
needs and proactively adapting IT direction that creates new opportunities and drives business results.
Adept at building and leading large teams through complex, enterprise-wide change.
Haser Consulting Wimberley, TX 2018 –Present
Worked with business leadership of a start up organization to create an IT roadmap to support their
objectives of entering into and rapidly scaling serial production.
Led projects to transition two revenue generating applications from the legacy data center of the client’s
prior parent company to the cloud with no disruptions in ongoing operations. Challenges overcome
included:
• Coordinate creation of a robust testing strategy to overcome lack of existing system knowledge
and documentation.
• Identified and onboarded key resources required for projects success and ongoing support.
• Drafted basic IT processes required to ensure both the successful transition and ongoing support.
TENNECO INC. Lake Forest, IL 1983 – 2018
Tenneco Global CIO / VP Information Technology 2002 – 2018
Global CIO for an $9.3 billion tier-1 automotive, truck and off-highway vehicle supplier with 91 plants and
15 engineering centers across 24 countries. $122 million enterprise IT budget with 305 IT employees.
Member of executive leadership team reporting to the CEO.
• Enabled growth at 2x industry average which represented 84% expansion by creating and
executing technology driven business and IT roadmaps. Realized 7 consecutive years of
expanding operating margins, resulting in a 370bps improvement while maintaining IT
operating expenses below 1% of revenue.
• In 2017 led the IT project portfolio that enabled more than $73 million in value while freeing
up over 176,000 hours of salaried employee time.
• Created bimodal organization that supported agile delivery of new solutions for ecommerce,
Customer Relations Management, analytics, and collaboration.
• Delivered a new analytics platform that is driving improvements across the organization:
o Reduced material cost $30 million by identifying least cost suppliers and volume
discount opportunities.
o Expect 5% improvement in manufacturing productivity via identification of
business best practices.
o Identifying market opportunities via a deeper understanding of customer
spending patterns supporting product planning, engineering, and sales.
• Reduced ongoing annual costs $5 million in 2017 by identifying and executing a sourcing
program across the IT spend. Realized a further $8 million reduction in 2018 via lean initiatives
and portfolio rationalization.
• Led the 12-month accelerated global conversion from Notes to Cloud-based MS Office 365
which improved global employee collaboration, document management, simplification, and
security. This was supported by a robust organization-wide employee training program.
• Delivered an engineering program and portfolio management solution that will reduce launch
penalties by over $3 million per year while reducing over 10,000 annual program management
administrative hours.

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• Launched network modernization program that doubled available bandwidth, improved
resilience, while reducing costs by $500,000.
• Executing a COBIT & ISO 27001/2 information security roadmap, driving improvements in
compliance, monitoring, control and incident response. Efforts averted shutdowns that would
have occurred due to malware and ransomware attacks.
• Led the implementation of standard SAP ERP solution across 66 manufacturing locations with
implementation and ongoing support costs benchmarked by SAP as top quartile.
• Created an effective business process governance organization to implement optimized
standard processes globally. Utilized Lean concepts in support of the 370bps margin
improvements.
• Consolidated HR management onto a single SAP HR system, which provides a global view of
all 12,000 salaried employees in support of employee development programs, improving
employee training compliance and identity management.
• Developed IT organizations in China, India, and Brazil that are supporting local businesses
and contributing globally to improve IT responsiveness and optimize IT costs structure.
• Designed tools to ensure timely realization of project benefits based on FMEA based control
plans. Significantly shortened time to benefit from 4 to 6 months to between 6 and 12 weeks.
• Effectively utilized partners for application development and maintenance which provided
flexibility while maintaining IT costs at benchmark levels.
Tenneco Americas CIO / VP Information Technology 1998 – 2002
Accountable for $50 million enterprise budget with a direct staff of 150.
• Achieved $5.2 million savings in operational effectiveness by installing rigorous project
management discipline in a massive SAP project and upgraded the project team. Delivered
all 13 scheduled start-ups on or ahead of schedule reversing the prior track record of missed
deadlines.
• Implemented system development and support processes that led IT staff to achieve top
quartile results for problem resolution, system availability, and on-time delivery of IT-enabled
projects.
• Successfully launched the first B2B after-market supplier site in February 2000.
Tenneco Packaging CIO / VP Information Technology Evanston, IL 1995 – 1998
Responsible for $70 million enterprise budget with a staff of 200.
• Created first information technology strategic plan linking business strategy to systems-
enabled projects.
• Integrated the systems and IT organizations for 3 major acquisitions; 2 U.S., and one
European which allowed the organization to operate as a single entity.
PREVIOUS BUSINESS EXPERIENCE
Held increasingly responsible strategic planning, manufacturing, and finance line and staff positions within
various businesses of Tenneco Packaging.
EDUCATION
MBA Kellogg Graduate School of Management Northwestern University
BS Chemical Engineering Cornell University
CERTIFICATIONS / AWARDS
Six Sigma Black Belt Executive Sponsor Certification & Six Sigma Green Belt Certification
Tenneco Lean Manufacturing Program Certificate
CIO Magazine 100 Most Resourceful CIO’s & Chicago Chapter of AITP 2003 CIO of The Year
Past Chair of Lake County Boys & Girls Club Annual Fund-Raising Campaign