William Hull is an Information Technology executive with over 25 years of experience in strategic leadership roles. He has a strong track record of delivering business value through people, process, and technology optimization. Currently he is the Director of Network and Technology Engineering at Golub Corporation, where he manages teams and a multi-million dollar budget to drive organizational performance through projects, vendor management savings, and technology solutions. Previously he held senior leadership positions at Cameron International and Emerson Electric, transforming global infrastructure and consolidating systems.
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Project Executive with consistent history of producing multimillion-dollar savings while improving efficiency, enhancing processes, and increasing productivity. Previous experience directing mainframe, application development, transition/transformation, business intelligence, financial systems management, and website hosting operations. Skilled at supervising cross-functional teams of more than 200 across the world, administering large budgets, and negotiating contracts of up to $48M.
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This presentation focuses on exploring the challenges that require adoption of advanced methods and tools that measure environmental sustainability performance.
Many organizations engage in initiatives to develop elaborate reference architectures, patterns and governance processes in an attempt to optimize their enterprise. They put significant effort into the upfront guidance of development teams, and then find themselves challenged to understand how closely an architecture matches the approved approach after the projects complete. Organizations must take a new approach to this problem!
Project Executive with consistent history of producing multimillion-dollar savings while improving efficiency, enhancing processes, and increasing productivity. Previous experience directing mainframe, application development, transition/transformation, business intelligence, financial systems management, and website hosting operations. Skilled at supervising cross-functional teams of more than 200 across the world, administering large budgets, and negotiating contracts of up to $48M.
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1. Director | Information Technology
William G. Hull
Charlton, NY 12020
billghull@gmail.com (518) 779-5647 (mobile) LinkedIn profile
Information Technology Executive
“Ownership in Delivering Business Value through People, Process and Technology”
Senior Professional with over 25 years of Information Technology experience. Strategic leader with a strong focus
on execution and delivering business value. Entrepreneurial-spirited team leader with experience in strategy,
program and project management, systems management, strategic planning, systems integration, operations
management and consulting experience in technology companies, manufacturing companies and numerous
organizations. Excel at motivating and energizing teams to deliver results which impact the bottom line. Throughout
my career consistently built high performing teams by driving high levels of emotional engagement and
collaboration.
Areas of expertise:
Senior level leadership, results focus, business relationship management, IT strategy, innovation, communications,
process reengineering, vendor management, international organization experience, project management, planning
and execution, motivation and mentoring.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Golub Corporation, Schenectady NY 3/15 – present
Director Network and Technology Engineering
Strategic Management and leadership driving the maturity of Golub’s infrastructure
Leadership: Align and motivate teams with CIO strategy
Managed a $1.2M Capex budget, $1.8M expense budget
Delivered programs / projects and resourcing to drive next level org performance
Evangelist for cloud solutions and services over in-house assets, when appropriate
o TCO and ROI
Drove strategic vendor management, saved millions of dollars in costs
o Cisco Smartnet agreement $250k saved with $300k Cisco consulting “throw in”
o Negotiated $1.2M Capex spend to $800k
o Reduced telecoms costs by $300k
o Negotiated Pure Tier1 storage expansion from $850k to $150k
o Negotiated zero cost replacement of digital content displays, over $350k
o Negotiated over $2M Microsoft “true up” to ~$750k
o Negotiated IBM audit gap from $5M to $1.2M
People: Directed/Managed 16 employees in the Network and Technology Engineering teams
Numerous contractors and consulting partners
Accomplishments: Managed a portfolio of over 50 projects
Exceeded goals on milestone projects:
o WAN upgrade to Fiber technology across the enterprise
o new wireless platform in 140 store locations
o Physical to Virtual (P2V) initiative
Collapsing end of life infrastructure
Leveraging advantageous software licensing
2. Cameron International, Houston TX 4/06 – 11/14
Director Global Infrastructure
Senior Manager IT, Enterprise Projects
Strategic Management and leadership driving the maturity of Cameron’s global infrastructure
o implementation of an ITIL based ITSM solution
o deployment of ~500 digital media displays across 140 sites
Implemented an ITDP program for recruiting 4yr college degreed graduates
Established first Managed Services agreement for Unified Communication break/fix tasks.
Will be used as a model for future staff augmentation/outsourcing
Mainframe upgrade
Defined a Six Sigma 101 training program
Leadership: First ever Director Global Infrastructure at Cameron
o Hired by the first ever CIO at Cameron
People:
Established organizational charter: Standardize, Centralize, “Commoditize”, Insource /
Outsource, while driving transformation and continuous improvements
Enabled growth and ability to scale from ~7,000 people to ~30,000 people, $2.5B to $10B
Strategic planning and budgeting for global Infrastructure requirements
Drove strategic vendor management
o SAP, IBM, HP, Dell, MS, BT, CyrusOne
Transformed three silo’ d world regions to one global infrastructure team
Established a global organization of 120+ direct, 50+ indirect
Operation budget over $20M, Capital budget over $20M
Organizational Change management
o Global infrastructure teams supporting 27,000 employees
o Processes and culture change
Mentor/motivate cross-functional teams
o Analysts, Functional, Business, Management
o Partnered with offshore system integration company
Vendor management, several multi-year multi-million dollar contracts
Accomplishments Delivery/execution of a $6.5M Global Core Infrastructure Program
o Desktop strategy around lifecycle management
o Back end system architecture
o Global policy and governance
Hardware and Software Asset Management
Sustain and Transform of processes from operational to new product introduction
Defined and implemented IT infrastructure Shared Services across the company
Consolidated ownership of $10M/yr global desktop end of life program
Working with CFO/CAO, established IT financial processes
Implementation of a global Service Delivery and Management team (ITIL)
Leveraged Six Sigma and ITIL frameworks
Project setup, execution and measurement: RFI, RFP, POC, TCO, ROI, Contracts
Established first ever Data Center co-location in NSAM. Defined strategy for EACR and
APME
Consolidated servers across the globe to a virtual server environment in one data center
Consolidate global networks into “One Network”
Consolidated ownership for hundreds of “last mile” providers and internet breakouts
Sustainment and Transformation of infrastructure core technologies
Centralized 80+ Email servers and outsourced, equivalent of 16 FTE savings
Consolidation of multi-networks, Savings in excess of $4M annual
Co-location outsource of NSAM data center, Disaster Recovery and Business continuity,
with savings in excess of $250k annual
3. Emerson, St Louis MO 4/03 - 3/06
Program Manager - Independent consultant, Cincinnati Bell
Accomplishments:
Consolidation of Emerson global corporate helpdesk silo’s into a cohesive service desk platform
implementing Oracle’s Support™ application, providing Telecommunications and IT infrastructure services
for the Emerson Electric Enterprise.
Defining and aligning business requirements with the ITIL (Information Technology Information Library)
standards and best practices for IT Service Delivery and Service Management.
Interwoven Inc., Sunnyvale CA 1/00 – 4/02
Manager Alliance Services - Americas
Technical Account Manager - GE
Corporate, General Electric Company, Albany, New York 7/97 – 12/99
Quality Process Leader, Six Sigma Black Belt
GE.com Program Manager
GE Travel Center, Systems Leader
Power Systems, General Electric Company, Schenectady, New York 2/91 – 6/97
Operations and Technology, Desktop, Server and Email – leader
Client/Server, Program Manager
Systems Integration, Project Manager
Data General Corporation, Albany, New York 1988 – 1991
Senior Systems Engineer
General Electric Company, Schenectady, New York 1983 – 1988
Lead Systems Engineer
EDUCATION
Union College, Schenectady, New York
Bachelor of Computer Science
Major GPA 3.7
PROFESSIONAL
PMP certification – October 2013 (expired)
ITIL Foundation certification – 2008
Member of Houston SIM chapter
GE EIMP program, CIO nominated only program
GE 6 Sigma, Black Belt certification
Contract negotiation savings:
o Microsoft EA, over $3M savings
o BT: over $1.5M savings annual
o HP: over $3M savings annual
o IBM: over $2M savings annual
o Outsourcing Project resource augmentation: $600k savings