Seeking IT leadership role related to vendor management, operational efficiencies and next generation technologies. Unique leader with IT operations and business background at Fortune 100 company. Negotiated $120M plus year over year IT savings. Manage $300M in annual IT spend vendor contracts including Oracle, Red Hat, and ServiceNow. Focus on maximizing budgets for IT hardware and software procurement through industry evaluation, pricing and terms negotiation. Lead evaluations and implementation of physical to virtual compute and storage migrations. Managed $40M project including planning, build out, and turn up of replicated Verizon Online applications in 9 month timeframe for pending asset divestiture.

Sr. Vendor Manager IT @ Manage spend and contracts with top IT vendors Implement sourcing and vendor SLA standards for incumbent and new vendors Review and recommend changes to vendors based on business needs Foster relationships with strategic vendors From May 2015 to Present (4 months) Grapevine, TXSenior IT Sourcing Consultant @ Focus and delivery on reducing year over year spend and negotiating industry leading discounts on software, hardware and services spend including $100M savings on single contract. Negotiating best in class terms on over 300 master agreements covering pricing, indemnity, termination rights, license rights, escrow, work product, pricing consistency, etc. Manage negotiations with IT industry hardware and software leaders including Oracle, Red Hat, ServiceNow, NetCracker and others. Able to manage multiple use case agreements (internal, hosting, resell, cloud, etc.), communicate with all levels of organization (CIO to engineer), and negotiate with all levels (attorney, contract manager, sales executive) during contract negotiation. Successfully manage 30 to 50 concurrent contract negotiations including new agreements, additional orders, orders for professional services, etc. From January 2011 to May 2015 (4 years 5 months) Dallas/Fort Worth AreaManager - IT Operations Capacity Planning, Performance Management, and Capital Budgets @ Managed $30M to $50M annual capital budget ensuring proper spend on growth and capacity needs. Change agent leader in discovering, testing, and engineering new vendor technologies promoting green technologies. Focus on converting physical systems to virtual including cloud development. Ensuring automated reporting for real-time, daily, weekly, and monthly operational IT reporting working as designed and new data views produced. Main interface among IT, network, product, and executive teams. From April 2005 to December 2010 (5 years 9 months) Dallas/Fort Worth AreaLead Analyst - Reporting, Capacity Planning, and Industry Benchmarking @ Create and manage capacity planning reporting via BMC tools and custom developed tools capturing systems and application data. Identify areas of improvement and drive change. Lead broadband internet benchmarking study with Lionbridge Technologies in key Verizon markets in US testing web browsing, DNS response, video viewing, overall latency, email, and other simulated customer activities. From March 2002 to April 2005 (3 years 2 months) Dallas/Fort Worth AreaCommunications Specialist @ Management reporting for accounts payable auditing. Modified reporting procedures to maximize value to executive management and decrease report creation timeline. Ensured key metrics and statistics were presented and analyzed to executive management as a result of audit findings. Managed reporting transition from Howard Schultz & Associated to PRG-Schultz as part of company merger. From October 2000 to March 2002 (1 year 6 months) Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Project Management, Project Management @ Stanford University From 2004 to 2005 Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration and Management, General @ University of Massachusetts, Amherst From 2003 to 2005 B.S., Business Administration @ The University of Texas at Dallas From 1995 to 2000 Jeremy Brown is skilled in: Telecommunications, Vendor Management, Managed Services, Computer Network..., Troubleshooting, Program Management, Contract Negotiation, IT Strategy, Capacity Planning, Project Management, IT Sourcing, Master Agreements, Integration, Cloud Computing, Solution Selling, Management, Disaster Recovery, IP, Security, Data Center, VoIP, Wireless, Call Centers