Michelle Beck - Palomar College

ARLINGTON (CHRIS) PRICE
1329 Post Oak Ct.
Crest Hill, IL 60403
Phone: (815) 729-1069 Email: Chris_Price@Compuserve.com
SUMMARY
Highly accomplished technology professional with a distinguished 20+ year career leading the
architectural design, implementation and integration of enterprise-wide solutions to meet global business,
financial and market demands. Strength in building synergy between management, teams, partners and
clients to support strategic business objectives across complex global environments.
EXPERIENCE
CHICAGO BRIDGE & IRON COMPANY Plainfield, IL & London, UK
Built an impressive record of achievements through a series of increasingly responsible positions for this
global provider of engineering, procurement and construction services to the energy and natural resource
industries.
• Pivotal role in defining the strategic direction for.
• Manage business processes globally for IT.
• Participate in cross functional management groups across the enterprise.
• Led the build out and management of IT infrastructure and systems supporting remote project
operations worldwide.
• Lead role in facilitating the capture of key projects and expansion of overall product offerings.
• Credited with transforming disparate IT groups into a centralized global organization.
• Implementation of standard core IT architecture globally.
• Reduction of total IT costs to 1% of annual revenues.
• Contributed to the design and implementation of standardized n-tier architecture across the enterprise.
• Lead all Merger, Acquisition, and Divestiture projects for Information Technology.
Senior Director of Global Projects, Plainfield, IL and London, UK 2008 - Present
Promoted to new CIO-created role to oversee the appropriate and on-time delivery of global project
initiatives.
• Project managed the integration of IT infrastructure and operations for Lummus acquisition to
provide a unified business environment and reduce operating costs by more than 25%.
• Spearheaded the definition and implementation of standard project management practices and
framework for all of IT, enhancing overall planning, optimizing usage of resources, and unifying
measurement systems.
• Led numerous IT project management initiatives sold to external customers, valued in excess of $1
billion in revenue.
• Manage all IT business functions globally.
Director, International IT 2006 - 2007
Advanced and given additional responsibility to oversee the expansion of IT architecture and to support
all field project locations outside North America.
• Orchestrated the architectural design and rollout of global voice convergence, producing an overall
sustained reduction in international direct dial long distance costs of 30%.
• Drove the implementation of common data management tools to standardize the tracking and
management of client projects.
• Chosen to assist sales teams in advocating technology and business best practices to new clients to expand
revenue growth. Conceptualized and led establishment of an Information Management / Data
Management function to oversee electronic data from creation to delivery, enabling company to capture
key projects.