Jim Wasley

About Jim Wasley

Influential, innovative, and highly accomplished senior information technology leader with 20+ years of extensive experience driving enterprise strategy and technology delivery. Demonstrated repeated successes in both building out high performing technology organizations and leading existing teams and systems to significantly improved results. Have successfully led cloud migrations of systems and business portfolios since 2014. Develops effective and trusting relationships with teams, stakeholders and senior leaders across the organization. Implements and optimizes business systems operations that adapt to changing priorities. Excels at building powerful teams by establishing expectations, communicating vision, and driving performance to maximize effectiveness. Have reported directly into CIOs for 5 of the past 7 years. Key Skills Change Leadership Strategic Planning & Execution Organizational Transformation Vendor Management Team Building Continuous Improvement Entrepreneurial Mindset Business & Technical Acumen Cross-Functional Collaboration & Leadership

Experience

1. Senior Director, Firmwide, Business and Legal Technologies

   King & Spalding

   Apr 2025 — Present

   Serves in a key leadership position reporting directly to the CIO. Owns the planning, implementation and operationalization for technology solutions to elevate the delivery of legal professional services. Partners with the CIO in the development of the overall technology strategies for the firm. Performs as a pivotal member of the Technology and Innovation Committee executive team, working with senior partners to align technology initiatives with practice groups needs and priorities.• Have doubled responsibilities in 3 years, currently leading 6 technology teams – Business Solutions, Project Management, Data and Integrations, End User Devices, Software and Applications, and Virtual Events and Legal Proceedings, with a total headcount of 38.• Leading delivery of the data and analytics strategy, remediating legacy processes and integrations with modern architecture, platforms and governance to increase the value of enterprise data sets.• Built Virtual Events and Legal Proceedings team to provide client-billable services in support of remote legal activities, and lead the technology refresh of conference and meeting rooms globally.• Leading technology replatforming and delivery efforts across critical business functions such as timekeeping, matter intake, conflicts and service management.• Modernizing user device fleet through cloud-based authentication, device management and software provisioning.• Incubates new technology and innovations that aim to improve work products. Led delivery of robotic process automation (RPA), an enterprise data platform, integrated matter management solution, and testing of artificial intelligence (AI).• Driving agile adoption across all projects and rationalization of legacy technologies.

Skills

• Project Portfolio Management
• IT Management
• Governance
• Business Process Improvement
• Software Project Management
• Software Development
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Documentum
• Enterprise Architecture
• Business Process
• Pmo
• IT Strategy
• Business Process Design
• Requirements Gathering
• Business Analysis