Michelle Cammarata

About Michelle Cammarata

IT EXECUTIVEOPTIMIZE IT COSTS WHILE DELIVERING INCREASED BUSINESS VALUESenior Director of IT Finance, PMO and Vendor Management known for bringing cost transparency to IT, enabling a deep understanding of what drives IT costs, as well as how to measure and track the delivery and value of IT projects. Performance-oriented leader with expertise in:~Project Management Center of Excellence ~Portfolio Management ~Benchmarking~Finance and Capital Budget Optimization ~Global Outsourcing ~PM Tools and Processes~Vendor/Contract Management ~Telecom Expense Management ~ITIL & CobITCAREER HIGHLIGHTS• Achieved 10% YOY cost reduction by implementing cost controls on $190M annual IT expense and capital budget. • Decreased annual hardware/software maintenance costs by 3% through rightsizing spend, aggressive vendor negotiation and elimination of underutilized software• Merged 13 resources from across IT to form the Office of the CIO for Financial, Project and Vendor Management, reduced to six resources through process improvement and synergizing similar roles (50%+ reduction in staff)• Identified $10M in annualized Telecom reductions by benchmarking rates, identifying unused circuits, discovering rate errors and right-sizing mobile plans. • Reduced procure to pay process for IT expenditures from 30+ to 15 days resulting in a 50% improvement by leveraging automation and centralization of order placement and invoice payment.• Developed a Value Proposition for the ERP-Revenue Management / Call Center Consolidation project with a projected $400M ROI. Verified actual expense savings for 2014 at $20M run rate.

Experience

1. Director of Program Management

   Quanta Services, Inc.

   Oct 2014 — Present · Houston, TX, US

   IT Program Management, Vendor/Category Management, Financial Management, and Mergers and Acquisitions- IT Integration

Education

• University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  Journalism and Mass Communications

Skills

• Quality Assurance
• Operating Budgets
• IT Audit
• Business Analysis
• Ms Project
• Agile Project Management
• Sdlc
• Portfolio Management
• Contract Negotiation
• Program Management
• Financial Audits
• Sharepoint
• Real Estate
• Business Process Improvement
• Budgeting
• Powerpivot
• Project Portfolio Management
• Capital Budgeting
• Budgets
• Change Management
• Management
• Team Building
• Software Development Methodologies
• Itil
• Strategic Planning
• Vendor Management
• Pmo
• Pmp
• Leadership
• Sop 98-1 IT Capitalization Guidelines
• Financial Analysis
• Information Technology
• Financial Risk
• Telecom Expense Management
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• IT Management
• Project Management
• Process Improvement
• IT Strategy
• Project Management Office (Pmo)