Grace Qian Lai

Grace Qian Lai

Executive Director @Morgan Stanley

New York, NY, US
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WORK HISTORY

Jan 2020 — Present

Executive Director @Morgan Stanley

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New York, NY, US

Global transformation lead of Morgan Stanley Property Management digitization and employee experience platformStrategize with Property Management client, defining Smart Building business strategy, value propositions and KPITransform the Digitized of the Employee Experience mobile and desktop offerings, onboard a low coder cloud based workplace application, configure/customize location specific content/services offerings, especially ramping up a Return to Work workplace reservation system in less than 4 months. Onboard/integrate future-focused Smart building technology solutions, aim to provide enhanced human experience, improved operational efficiency, and business values, e.g. Occupant experience and decarbonizationOrchestrate multi-discipline teams to design a state of art network architecture and application strategyPioneer on the business process reengineering on converged IT and OT operational modelProactively lead the team established Global IoT Cyber security standards, policy and guidelines, Azure application strategy and framework as well as IoT Device Management guidelines, in anticipation of FFIEC audit requirementsOnboard a vendor hosted the Employee Experience Vendor management on engineering consulting and procurementsStaff augmentation and financial planning of a 30 million budget

EDUCATION

N/A

University at Albany

Master of Business Administration - MBA, Human Resources Management and Services

1999 — 2001

University at Albany

MBA, Human Resource/Information Systems

SKILLS

Quality AssuranceIntegrationStrategyVendor ManagementHuman ResourcesInformation TechnologySoftware Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)PmoPmpEnterprise ArchitectureLeadershipBusiness Process ImprovementCrmItilProject ManagementConsultingBusiness AnalysisBusiness IntelligenceProcess ImprovementData WarehousingScrumCustomer Relationship Management (Crm)OffshoringSdlcProgram ManagementTrainingTalent AcquisitionSphr

ABOUT GRACE QIAN LAI

A result-oriented executive with a proven track record to lead, orchestrate, strategize and deliver critical transformational initiatives with the highest standard of quality and user experience for large enterprises cross-regional/cross functional engineering and operational teams, navigating complex legal/compliance and regulatory landscape. Strong internal personnel skills, communication, highly effective at building clients and stakeholders relationship not only at C suites senior executives level but also with engineering focused organization and business SMEs. Passionate about people, building high performance teams, fostering personal growth alongside corporate needs in a driven fashion facing program challenges ultimately leaving clients happy and successful across multimillion dollar initiatives.Program experience spans across large enterprise infrastructure deployment, data management including building enterprise-scale data capabilities, governing high quality data assets, and leading cross functional teams. Proven ability to translate business strategy into data standards, platforms, and operating models that enable analystics and AI adoption.Gender Diversity Lead of Morgan Stanley Women In Technology Career Development chapterLong term volunteer of Tzu Academy, a non for profit organization focusing on nurture virtue, kindness and passion, advance respect to all people regardless of race, culture, language and religion.Business Analysis Design thinkingProgram Management (Agile and Waterfall)Product envisioning, roadmap design and executionBuilding high performance team from ground upSmart Building Internet of Things, Zero Trust Network Data Management and Business IntelligenceSoftware as a Services (Saas) and Infrastructure as serviceHuman Resources Information System Management:Corporate Philanthropy, Corporate Employee Giving Platform and Grand ManagementCorporate Information Management and record archiving Airline/Aviation Flight Operation managementWorking knowledge of Microsoft Azure Fundamental, HP Mercury Quality Center 11.2, JIRA, Microsoft Project Server; SAP HCM, Vuru (formally known as Recruitmax), Microsoft BizTalk and Microsoft SQL server reporting suite and

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