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Warren Golla is a seasoned management consultant, technologist, and
entrepreneur specializing in business acceleration through corporate
strategy, operational effectiveness, and emerging-market innovation.
Immersed in pioneering activities and thought leadership with a keen
perception of practical capabilities, Warren is able to quickly grasp
complex, emerging technologies and trends to envision how they might
best be leveraged by customers for strategic advantage to drive
profitable growth. As is essential for this role, Warren is an
excellent communicator who is equally conversant with business
executives and technologists alike. At Trexin, Warren provides business
strategy consultation, operational management and transformation
services, interim CIO/CTO executive services, and advanced IT research
and development.
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PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
A sample of Warren’s recent project work at Trexin includes:
- Developed
the business case and managed the subsequent $1.7M, 9-month program to
create a do-it-yourself document assembly system for a specialized
insurance provider.
- Led an effort to create a new
customer scorecard/SLA with baselined metrics aligned with service
management strategies (ITIL and CMMi) and linked to vendor SLAs as part
of a broader $750M IT outsourcing deal.
- Developed a
comprehensive IT Strategy and Technology Roadmap for a $50M economic
consulting firm preparing for 3-year 100% growth.
- Led a
rapid-response “SWAT” team that sustained the performance of an
application ecosystem supporting a $12B financial services firm during a
promotional sales event that drove a 600% increase in business volume.
Prior
to Trexin, Warren was co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of
Javelin Solutions, a regional IT consultancy acquired in 2002 by
Perficient (NASDAQ: PRFT) after 6 consecutive profitable years in
business. Warren played a critical role in growing Javelin to over 100
consultants and $15M in annual sales without any external funding.
Javelin’s rapid success was recognized by two CityBusiness / Deloitte
& Touche 50 Fastest Growing Private Companies awards for the Twin
Cities in 1999 (#11) and 2000 (#9). At Javelin Warren’s role as CTO was
to provide clients with thought leadership and development expertise in
varies areas, including IT strategy, enterprise architecture, systems
integration, and emerging Internet-based platforms.
After the
acquisition of Javelin, Warren remained with Perficient for three years
as a Managing Director, helping to grow the business to over 500
consultants and $100M in annual sales. During this time Warren
continued to guide clients on a number of advanced technologies,
including business process modeling and simulation, workflow and process
automation, business performance management, business activity
monitoring, service-oriented architectures, Web services, distributed
on-demand computing, application integration (internal and external),
applied security and cryptography, virtual teaming, knowledge
management, and technology trend analysis and prediction.
Earlier
in his career, Warren was a Senior Consultant with MCI Systemhouse
(formerly SHL), where he developed the contract management subsystem of a
large commodity merchandising system for Cargill as part of a large
$100M, 100-person systems development project. Warren began his career
at Morgan Stanley developing real-time distributed systems for Wall
Street.
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
University of St. Thomas
St. Paul, MN
Master of Science, Software Engineering
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
Master of Science, Aerospace Engineering
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
Bachelor of Science, Aerospace Engineering |
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AREAS OF EXPERTISE
ANALYTICS
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Risk Analysis
Risk Management
Stochastic Modeling
Monte Carlo Simulation
Bayesian Probabilities
Decision Analysis
Quantitative Analysis |
STRATEGY
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Strategy Execution & Translation
Program Portfolio Management
New Product Development
Balanced Scorecard
Strategy Maps
Enterprise Architecture
IT Strategy Development
BPO and ITO Strategy |
OPERATIONS
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Business/IT Governance
Program Management
Benefits Realization
Service Management
IT Outsourcing & SLAs
Rapid App Development
Lean Software Development
Workflow & Process Automation
Knowledge Management
Business Activity Monitoring
Business Performance Mgmt
Service Oriented Architecture
Measurement & Monitoring
Virtualization
Cloud Computing |
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