Clay Worley
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, STRATEGIC PROGRAMS
Leading Change to Achieve Multi-million Dollar Savings, Improve Quality, Go to Market, and Enhance Customer Satisfaction Enabling Multi-billion Dollar Corporate Growth
Senior level executive with 30+ years of international IT experience as a strategic and results-oriented professional who leads enterprise platform operations, service management, banking technology transformation and operational excellence. Responsible for partnering with all key business functions and providing scalable IT services to meet dynamic business needs. Plays an integral role in developing enterprise strategy and supplying valuable insights. Fluency in Spanish with abilities in five additional languages. Prior Top-Secret clearance.
CONTACT ME
(512) 694-7787
scworley@sbcglobal.net
Canton, GA
ACHIEVEMENTS
- Led turn-key first-to-market mobile application for small businesses with iMobile3 in just four months featured by CEO at Money 2020. Read Full Story
- Led a successful migration of entire legacy portfolio (11K merchants & $23M revenue stream) to new payment processing platform. Read Full Story
- $150,000 in profit generated in seven days at the first retail store by leading the design of on-site service, asset management, equipment procurement and installation. Read Full Story
- Oversaw security and logistics during the presidential and first family visit to Bosnia. Read Full Story
- $1 million saved in the first 30 days by establishing operational process improvements.
- Led numerous civil relief efforts including assisting in the rescue of 90 people during a devastating flood.
- Decorated eleven times for service in combat and civil relief missions.
- Steered the migration from legacy corporate financial software to the First Assist intranet package in 45 in support of 1,200 end users.
- Decorated 25 times for outstanding service and achievement.
- Recognized via letter of commendation by the commander of the unit for outstanding support in outreach to the community through the Toys for Tots program.
- Honored for defense of the nation, outstanding unit performance, and good conduct.
- $6.1 million in EDI savings reached by developing the revolver exchange system for storage devices and leveraging the program to foster a relationship with EMC. Read Full Story
- Improved materials delivery management quality and cut operating costs by devising an online management tool for 100+ warehouses that also decreased shrinkage 0.4%, reduced service response rates, enhanced shipping and reached the highest customer experience levels. Read Full Story
- $31.2 billion growth enabled through a new product launch, $1 million in disputed returns resolved and 67% decline in daily backlog realized by expanding shipping operations in Canada and Latin America and integrating internal and outsourced shipping facilities.
- Launched a series of logistics leadership seminars at minimal cost during the first 45 days on the job, resulting in positive feedback from customers across the entire state.
- Played a key role in developing the mall kiosk services solution for Canada and China.
- Served as a member of a 450-person unit with $128 million in capital expenditures to deliver artillery fire in combat exercises without stretching supply lines. Designed a new supply and logistics doctrine. Led a new support organization for testing and developing a supply chain methodology and to manage the change throughout the battalion and rolled out Army-wide.
- Earned the brigade executive officer’s commendation for excellence by establishing improved quality controls as well as continuing education for 1,200 team members.
- One of two Marines out of 100 to earn the Navy/Marine Corps Achievement Medal for outstanding service.
- Improved IT backlog performance by 15% – commended by CTO for positive business impact in the first 40 days – creating structure to define and ensure consistent delivery of robust revenue channels. Read Full Story
- $6.9 million decrease in expenses achieved in 30 days by cutting IT expenditures 50% and implementing aggressive controls. Read Full Story
- #5 ranking in the IT Security 500 for two consecutive years won by setting goals, streamlining processes and enhancing environmental stability around the world. Read Full Story
- Led the migration to PeopleSoft 9.2 in less than six months.
- Guided the team to implement PeopleSoft 9.1 enterprise-wide in six months resulting in recognition for PeopleSoft optimization at Oracle World.
- $8.7 million in projected savings attained by creating and implementing web-based training in five continents in less than 45 days.
- Set a university attendance record co-hosting, no-cost assault prevention seminars to students and faculty to teaming with campus police.
- 99% student satisfaction received in survey results after the first semester.
- Experienced in a broad spectrum of business operations management including procurement, logistics, education / training, information technology, customer service, crises management and leadership.
- Served as a senior staff officer training 450 soldiers. Commanded 100+ associates and managed $32 million in equipment with zero shrinkage. Responsible for the defense of 20,000 citizens.
- Spearheaded the rescue of 90 people during a Texas flood in partnership with local, state and federal authorities.
- Decorated eleven times for combat service in Iraq and leadership during civil relief efforts in Texas, ie. wildfires.
WORK HISTORY
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- Directed DCS-wide portfolio clean-up efforts with Finance to ensure accuracy of efforts for 2023 and prep for 2024: yielded a 61.5% of portfolio accuracy in 45 days.
- Pitched, planned, and drove the DCS-wide efforts for its first Program Increment (PI) planning session setting the groundwork to drastically improve ways of working, i.e. reducing chaos, increasing predictability, rigor, and discipline to enable revenue growth.
- Led the successful migration from silo project tollgate management to a DCS-wide process with Technology and Product Teams.
- Ensured that DCS reduced duplicate reporting channels, forums, and formats by building a successful reporting for the CDO with a bi-weekly presentation cadence that aligned with MBR prep.
- Microsoft Partnership: led the end-to-end delivery of a new Identity Verification Solution to include (not limited to) vendor agreements, on-boarding and orchestrating the cross-functional success across enterprises resulting in an on-time go-live.
- Fiserv Fraud Defense Network Fortification: led planning sessions with SVPs, VPs, and Senior Directors to evaluate current defenses against threats, assess risks, develop a comms plan, and resolution for the existing network going forward, not to mention corporate wide changes in organizational structure.
- Indispensable service to Fiserv’s Horizontal Fraud Practice Lead in building out a portfolio pipeline of revenue enabling work for the end of 2023 and revenue plan for 2024.
Director, Portfolio Management, Strategic Initiatives
Reported directly to the Senior Vice President of Enterprise Portfolio Management as a managing director of personnel in the US and abroad. Responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of 1000 app/dev projects with $1B in planned benefits.
- Readily embraced organizational challenges upon arrival and was applauded by his SVP for navigating the complexity with “grace” and “ease” in supporting the implementations organization.
- Enabled double digit YOY growth for some of Fiserv’s most profitable portfolios with end-to-end oversight of thousands of client delivery solutions.
- Seamlessly integrated new resources and significant portfolio scope in the first 60 days.
- Lauded by senior vice presidents for improving accuracy and time to delivery across multiple BUs via LEAN, Six Sigma, and Agile methodologies in the first 180 days.
- Commended by the Vice President of the Military Leadership Council for outstanding contribution to the cause of transitioning veterans in the first 120 days.
- Chosen by several vice presidents to represent Fiserv in public forums, special workshops with the likes of the University of Syracuse, and the 2022 New York City Veterans Day Parade.
Senior Executive Consultant, Technology Solutions Delivery
Senior Executive Consultant, Service Solutions
SITE LEADER, TECHNOLOGY DELIVERY
- Led turn-key first-to-market mobile application for small businesses with iMobile3 in just four months featured by CEO at Money 2020.
- Improved IT backlog performance by 15% – commended by CTO for positive business impact in the first 40 days – creating structure to define and ensure consistent delivery of robust revenue channels.
- Facilitated site transitions to multi-source project management methodologies (Agile SAFe, Waterfall, et al).
- Led a successful migration of entire legacy portfolio (11K merchants & $23M revenue stream) to new payment processing platform with zero hacks or cybersecurity impacts.
- Chosen by the VP of Implementations to develop a new managed services strategy for presentation to Peter Forbes, President of the Corporate Business Unit.
- Led cutting edge API product feature development for NCR Silver Tablet platform benefitting 400,000 merchants in less than 120 days.
MANAGING DIRECTOR, SERVICES & CORPORATE IT PORTFOLIO
Led transformation roadmap through design and other solutioning efforts. Progressively promoted to director and owned end-to-end international support of 91 software applications (including SFDC) in servicing 103K employees and all external consumers world-wide. Partnered with CSO to combat cybersecurity threats, safeguard employees, software, and infrastructure.
- $6.9 million decrease in expenses achieved in 30 days by cutting IT expenditures 50% and implementing aggressive controls.
- Security and Compliance: Achieved top five rankings in the IT “Security 500” for two consecutive years won by setting goals, streamlining processes and enhancing environmental stability globally.
- Won the 2013 Teradata Award in Business Intelligence!
- SLA Mastery: Broke enterprise hardware records across three LOBs (Servers, Workstations, & Storage) with service levels at 95% and higher.
- Presented to CEO as services architect for the first retail store with leading edge IT on-site service, asset management, computer hardware procurement and installation. Designed services solution for Canada & China.
- Established Dell’s first Client Partner Relations Office to own/manage master service agreements with top tier partners alongside of the Enterprise PRO with Microsoft, Red Hat, Linux, EMC, et al.
- $31.2 billion growth enabled through a new product launch, $1 million in disputed returns resolved and a 67% decline in hardware backlog realized by expanding shipping operations in Canada and Latin America and integrating internal and outsourced shipping facilities.
- Generated $550 million in revenue in 15 months by development of new consumer support solution.
- $6.1 million in hardware savings reached by developing the revolver exchange system for storage devices and leveraging the EDI consigned inventory program to build a strategic relationship with EMC.
A credit card company with call centers across the US. Managed a team of 25 inbound call center technicians managing credit card portfolios for military and airlines card members.
- Led customer support team in saving $1 million during the first 30 days via operational process improvements.
- Ensured seamless operational transition in the wake of mergers with Bank One and First Commerce Bank.
- Directed the site migration to new corporate financial software in 45 days benefiting 1,200 end users.
Commanded 100+ associates and managed $32 million in sensitive assets with zero shrinkage. Responsible for the defense of 20,000 citizens in a combat zone against imminent threats.
- Spearheaded the rescue of 90 people during a Texas flood in partnership with local, state and federal authorities.
- Decorated 11 times for combat service in Iraq and leadership during civil relief efforts, i.e. wildfires, floods.
Highly Decorated First Lieutenant, United States Army, 1994-1998
EDUCATION
Florida State University
Master of Science in Instructional Systems & Learning Technologies
Florida State University
Graduate, Entrepreneurship Boot Camp for Disabled Veterans
Kennesaw State University
Bachelor of Arts in Spanish
Southern Polytechnic State University
Specialized Coursework in Mechanical Engineering Technology
Professional Development
Dale Carnegie Training, Ritz Carlton Leadership Academy
Airborne School, Army Officer Candidate School and Field Artillery Officer Captain’s Career Course
MILITARY
Decorated Sergeant, United States Marine Corps Reserve
Highly Decorated First Lieutenant, United States Army