1. Gregory L. Shireman gregory.shireman@comcast.net
168 Scully Drive | Schaumburg, Illinois 60193
847-301 -1816 (H) | 847-387-2754 (C)
www.linkedin.com/in/gregshireman
PROFILE
An IT Leader with a track record of leadership, innovation and execution. A leader of worldwide technology development
and project teams, with expertise in complex system designs and implementations. Deep experience in Direct Marketing,
Financial Management (CPA), Large Project Management (PMP) and Six Sigma Quality management, with the ability to
partner with business leaders. Skilled at efficiently aligning resources and new technologies to ensure the right balance
between strategic and tactical requirements, while delivering on high ROI Projects.
EXPERTISE
Project Management (PMP) | CPA | Financial ERP System Implementations | Financial Management & Planning |
Lean Six Sigma Leadership | Data Warehouse Design & Management |Analytics Management | Direct Marketing
Management | Call Center Application Development | Customer Service Delivery
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
GLS INVESTMENTS LLC, Schaumburg IL. 4/2013 to Present
CEO
Purchase distressed properties and convert to positive cash flow rental properties. I perform consulting engagements
between real estate projects
UNIVERSITY of WISCONSON MEDICAL FOUNDATION, Madison WI. 4/2015-Present
Project Manager- (Contract Consultant)
Medical School & Medical Foundation Consolidated Financial Data Warehouse PM, Professional Billing Data Warehouse
PM, Enterprise Data Warehouse Epic Upgrade PM, PeopleSoft Consolidation Gap Analysis PM
UNION BANK of CALIFORINA, Los Angeles CA. 5/2014-7/2014
Project Manager - (Contract Consultant)
ALLSTATE INSURITY, Northbrook IL. 1/2013 to 4/2013
Consultant- (Contract Consultant)
EXPERIAN MARKETING SERVICES, Schaumburg, IL 2007 to 2011
Experian® Marketing Services provides direct marketing services to clients to profitably acquire, retain and grow
their customer relationships. Major product lines include Database Management, Data Integrity, List Processing,
Consumer & Business Data, Email Marketing and Strategy & Analytics.
Vice President, Global Product Development & Delivery (Business Unit CIO) (2009 to 2011)
Selected as direct report to the Experian Global Delivery Director (UK title; SVP equivalent) and a member of the Senior
Leadership team in the Data Management Solutions business unit ($80MM revenue). Appointed to lead a team of 93 IT
project managers, architects, business analysts, product developers and customer database support technicians in three US
locations and Costa Rica. Challenged to make the division profitable and reverse operating losses from aging product lines,
project cost overruns, and out of control IT infrastructure costs. Required to update Database product offerings and to
consolidate duplicate Customer Data Integration systems and mainframes to reduce fixed costs. The strategic IT road map
and overall systems architectures were revised, and product features had to be enhanced to compete in a digital world.

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Vice President, Global Product Development & Delivery (Business Unit CIO) Continued
• Returned Division to profitability in 2010, within one year of taking on the Business Unit role.
• Initiated and obtained approval for an $8MM project to move Experian’s direct mail services from a mainframe to a
distributed systems platform, offering real-time data hygiene, data enrichment and scoring services. Projected to
reduce costs by over 400%, for an estimated $4.5MM a year in bottom line profitability.
• Reengineered Experian’s Truvue® Customer Data Integration product to run on distributed systems rather than on
an IBM mainframe. Reduced the cost to operate the hardware and software by over 600% for a $2.5MM savings
per year, while leveraging new technologies from IBM (pureScale RDBMS).
• Eliminated and consolidated mainframe and distributed system hardware and software accounting for $2MM a year
in ongoing savings.
• Reengineered the printing and inbound and outbound file handling functions saving in excess of $1.6MM a year.
• Completed all major development projects and client installations for 2010 on time and within budget. Maintained
service agreements for 350 clients, including American Express, Wal-Mart, and Hewlett Packard.
• In conjunction with service delivery, retained 90% of the existing client base; a 20% increase in client
retention rates from 2009.
• Increased employee satisfaction scores in excess of 10 percentage points on the employee opinion survey, while
cutting costs and reducing headcount.
Vice President Database Service Delivery (2007 to 2009)
Reporting directly to the Senior Vice President Service Delivery and Technology Services, asked to lead a team of 100 full
time database service representatives and technicians in four US locations and in Costa Rica. Expected to provide the
delivery of database services for over 50 large customers B to C marketing databases, and ensure the delivery of customer
data integration for large bank’s CRM systems.
Significant accomplishments include:
• Led a team to determine the future of the Database unit. The project’s scope included individual product exits and
new product investment strategies. Achieved the goal to cut operating losses and return the $60MM unit to
profitability.
• Represented the IT function on the team that developed the Totalvue Universal database product line, which became
the foundational business model for all database development.
• Successfully moved 11% of the Database support staff to a newly established office in Costa Rica, achieving 11%
operating cost reduction and no disruptions in service.
• Reversed the corporate decision to close the database product line by providing new financial data from individual
client P&Ls and KPI dashboards tracking the services provided to client.
GE MONEY, MONEY SERVICES, Schaumburg, IL 2006 to 2007
GE Money provides credit products and services to retailers and consumers across North America. The Money Services
division included the GE Partnership Marketing Group, CashWorks (Check Cashing) and Web based consumer saving
accounts.
Lean Six Sigma Quality Leader (SVP level)
Appointed as a member of the Senior Leadership Team reporting directly to the CEO of GE Money Services to lead a staff of
six full-time Black Belts and Master Black Belts. Commissioned to lead the effort to identify and launch cross functional
strategic business initiatives, and select, mentor, and train high potential management candidates to lead these projects.
Significant accomplishments include:
• Led a project to remove human call center intervention from an online check cashing process at CashWorks. The
need for a 60 person call center was eliminated while keeping check cashing fraud losses constant.
• Designed and implemented a system to track subprime mortgage default returns for WMC mortgage.
• Led the project to successfully shut down business operations at CashWorks.
• Implemented Net Promoter Score tracking at the GE Partnership Marketing Group, and implemented feedback
systems to drive customer satisfaction scores to new highs.

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GE PARTNERSHIP MARKETING GROUP
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO) (2005 to 2006)
Selected by the CEO and as a member of Senior Leadership Team to lead a staff of 58 full-time employees and over 100
outsourced onshore and offshore contractors. Expected to provide the delivery of all voice, web and computer applications
for the division. Challenged with financial regulations and a declining profitable client base that was having an adverse
impact on margins. Saw the opportunity to rewrite the strategic IT roadmap to reduce overall costs and to utilize technology
to become a world class provider of auto disablement dispatch services.
Significant accomplishments include:
• Developed a new web based call center application to globally service over 2MM auto dispatch calls a year.
Successfully utilized Location Based Services (LBS) to accurately Geo Code the longitude and latitude of the auto
disablement for accurate dispatch and billing.
• Developed and installed an algorithm to statistically predict which tower to select for an auto tow dispatch.
Statistically optimizing the auto dispatch produced savings of $1.38MM a year.
• Successfully implemented three new auto wholesale clients (Verizon, Porsche and Dollar Thrifty Rental).
• Reduced IT operating expenses by $2MM (10%).
• Completed a successful technology pilot to provide OnStar like services for Ford Motor Company.
• Increased the utilization of offshore development teams by 21% to 64% of total development.
• IT Employee satisfaction survey results increased an average of 12% across the board.
• Completed an Oracle Financial systems conversion (G|L, AP & PO).
•
Lean Six Sigma Quality Leader (SVP) (2004 to 2005)
Promoted as a member of the Senior Leadership Team reporting directly to the CEO of the GE Partnership Marketing Group
to lead a staff of six full-time Black Belts and Master Black Belts. Assigned to lead the effort to identify and launch
cross functional strategic business initiatives. Asked to select, mentor and train high potential management candidates
to lead these projects.
Significant accomplishments include:
• Led a Quality initiative to increase customer retention. The use of Design of Experiment (DOE) and a rigorous
measurement system identified over $1.2MM in expense savings and increased revenue $1.6MM a year.
• Led a Quality initiative to establish a broker sales channel. Several business systems and processes were
reengineered to accommodate this new sales channel.
• Led a Quality project to reduce customer refunds. IT systems were rewritten, refund policies were revised and
customer service representatives were retrained. Refunds were reduced over $1.1MM (10%) a year.
• Implemented Print on Demand membership fulfillment saving over $600K on an annualized basis.
Leader Business Intelligence and List Processing (VP) (2000 to 2004)
As the business intelligence leader, was asked to lead a team of 23 full-time marketing planners, list processors, project
managers, analysts, and a variable staff of onshore and offshore contract programmers (14). As a direct report to the Senior
Vice President of Database Marketing and Chief Information Officer, selected to lead the formulation and execution of
Partnership Marketing Group’s (PMG) overall data strategy as well as all information technology development for Finance,
Risk and Data Base Marketing and Analysis Divisions. The passing of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act reduced the amount of
credit information legally available for targeting customers. Marketing campaign response rates fell and margins were
reduced from 40% to less than 10%. This created a need to design and implement a campaign selection management and
tracking system to utilize commercially available non-credit consumer information to improve response rates and to identify
non profitable business.
Selected accomplishments include:
• Designed and implemented a world class campaign management, Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence reporting
system. The system was credited by the CEO as “a major factor in the company’s return to profitability”.
• Identified and implemented a new Do-Not-Solicit process that increased total PMG sales by over 10%.
• Created a SAS Marketing Data Warehouse to consolidate customer data from over 18 different operating systems in GE
Financial Assurance (Genworth). The project was completed within a year and provided in excess of $1MM in payback in
the first five months of operation.

4. • Winner of the GEFA Platinum Award, the highest award for individual achievement.

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Assistant Vice President Financial Systems (1995 to 2000)
Selected by the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer to lead a staff of 20 full-time associates and additional
contract programmers. Responsible for all information technology support and development for accounting, purchasing,
budgeting, forecasting, marketing decision support.
Selected accomplishments include:
• Managed one third of a $21MM project to incorporate the Amoco Motor Club into PMG’s systems.
• Converted PMG’s financial and payroll systems into the GE Standard Oracle financial systems.
• Overall project director for the installation of People Soft Financials. The General Ledger, Accounts Payable and
Purchasing modules were successfully installed on time and within budget.
FLEXI INTERNATIONAL SOFTWARE, Schaumburg, IL 1994 to 1995
A software startup company that produces financial accounting software and specializes in high performance applications for
large complex financial service companies. (Revenue $40MM)
Senior Product Consultant
Responsible for pre-sales support for Flexi’s line of client server accounting products. Reported to the Sales Director of
Flexi’s Central Region. Supported general ledger, accounts payable, purchasing, accounts receivable and fixed assets.
Provided application and technical support for prospective clients prior to the purchase decision.
THE SIGNATURE GROUP (purchased by GE in 1999), Schaumburg, IL 1988
to 1994
Manager of Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis (1991 to 1994)
Systems Administration & Control Manager (1988 to 1991)
EDUCATION
MBA Finance, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Specialized in International and Managerial Finance - GPA - 3.56/4.0
BSM, Accounting, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
Graduated with Distinction - GPA - 5.62/6.0
Certified Public Account (CPA): Issued by the State of Illinois
Lean Six Sigma Quality Leader (one step higher than Master Black Belt): General Electric trained
Project Management Professional (PMP) – Project Management Institute
Real Estate Broker – Issued by the State of Illinois
Strategic Leader Program Graduate -Center for Creative Leadership
TECHNOLOGIES MANAGED
Package Experience: Alterian, Unica, Campaign Elements, Multi Channel Marketer, Oracle Financials (G|L, AP, PO),
PeopleSoft Financials (GL, AP, PO), Flexi International Software (GL, AP, PO, AR, FA), Frx Financial Report Writer,
Lawson Software (Billing and Accounts Receivable), Hyperion Enterprise
Programming Languages: C, .NET, Visual Basic, Java, ASP, COBOL, Assembler, SQL, Power Builder
Database: Netezza, IBM DB2, IBM pureScale, Informix, Oracle, Sybase, Teradata, MS SQL Server, MS Access
Web: IBM WebSphere, IBM Rational Application Developer, Sun ONE
Operating Systems: zOS, MVS, Solaris, AIX, Redhat Enterprise Linux, Windows 2000, Windows XP
Data Warehouse: Informatica (Powermart), IBM DataStage (Ascential), Ab Initio, Microsoft SSIA, Sybase IQ, Business
Objects, Cognos, Microsoft SSRS, Erwin, Oracles RTD, QlikView, Oracle OLAP, WhiteLight (OLAP), TM1 Perspectives
(OLAP), Hyperion OLAP, Group 1, Finalist, Minitab, SAS, Seagate Reports, Seagate Info

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Assistant Vice President Financial Systems (1995 to 2000)
Selected by the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer to lead a staff of 20 full-time associates and additional
contract programmers. Responsible for all information technology support and development for accounting, purchasing,
budgeting, forecasting, marketing decision support.
Selected accomplishments include:
• Managed one third of a $21MM project to incorporate the Amoco Motor Club into PMG’s systems.
• Converted PMG’s financial and payroll systems into the GE Standard Oracle financial systems.
• Overall project director for the installation of People Soft Financials. The General Ledger, Accounts Payable and
Purchasing modules were successfully installed on time and within budget.
FLEXI INTERNATIONAL SOFTWARE, Schaumburg, IL 1994 to 1995
A software startup company that produces financial accounting software and specializes in high performance applications for
large complex financial service companies. (Revenue $40MM)
Senior Product Consultant
Responsible for pre-sales support for Flexi’s line of client server accounting products. Reported to the Sales Director of
Flexi’s Central Region. Supported general ledger, accounts payable, purchasing, accounts receivable and fixed assets.
Provided application and technical support for prospective clients prior to the purchase decision.
THE SIGNATURE GROUP (purchased by GE in 1999), Schaumburg, IL 1988
to 1994
Manager of Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis (1991 to 1994)
Systems Administration & Control Manager (1988 to 1991)
EDUCATION
MBA Finance, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Specialized in International and Managerial Finance - GPA - 3.56/4.0
BSM, Accounting, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
Graduated with Distinction - GPA - 5.62/6.0
Certified Public Account (CPA): Issued by the State of Illinois
Lean Six Sigma Quality Leader (one step higher than Master Black Belt): General Electric trained
Project Management Professional (PMP) – Project Management Institute
Real Estate Broker – Issued by the State of Illinois
Strategic Leader Program Graduate -Center for Creative Leadership
TECHNOLOGIES MANAGED
Package Experience: Alterian, Unica, Campaign Elements, Multi Channel Marketer, Oracle Financials (G|L, AP, PO),
PeopleSoft Financials (GL, AP, PO), Flexi International Software (GL, AP, PO, AR, FA), Frx Financial Report Writer,
Lawson Software (Billing and Accounts Receivable), Hyperion Enterprise
Programming Languages: C, .NET, Visual Basic, Java, ASP, COBOL, Assembler, SQL, Power Builder
Database: Netezza, IBM DB2, IBM pureScale, Informix, Oracle, Sybase, Teradata, MS SQL Server, MS Access
Web: IBM WebSphere, IBM Rational Application Developer, Sun ONE
Operating Systems: zOS, MVS, Solaris, AIX, Redhat Enterprise Linux, Windows 2000, Windows XP
Data Warehouse: Informatica (Powermart), IBM DataStage (Ascential), Ab Initio, Microsoft SSIA, Sybase IQ, Business
Objects, Cognos, Microsoft SSRS, Erwin, Oracles RTD, QlikView, Oracle OLAP, WhiteLight (OLAP), TM1 Perspectives
(OLAP), Hyperion OLAP, Group 1, Finalist, Minitab, SAS, Seagate Reports, Seagate Info