Tony Scott is a results oriented senior technology leader with over 23 years of experiences in developing and managing business focused technology solutions. His success is driven from building efficiencies in IT operations so that technology organizations can spend more time on business enablement rather than on break-fix. He aligns technology resources and objectives to business missions and performance through collaborative planning and structured managerial practices. He also has extensive experiences in business development and systems implementation spanning a wide array of business functions and technologies. He possesses strong technology skills enabling him to deploy solutions ranging from applications to infrastructure. An expert in portfolio, program, and project management practices along with the associated governance and audit functions with over 17000 hours of practice in these areas. He has written a book that summarizes how to build efficiencies in IT operational management which made him successful as an Information Technology leader entitled “IT Management Best Practices”. In his book, he presents a framework he developed for IT leaders to deliver the services to a technology department’s customers that strikes a balance between innovation and operational control. Tony has a successful track record in the Fortune 500, implementing a wide range of solutions that include business to business transactions, front office / point of sale / CRM, and corporate wide back end systems across multiple industry verticals including utilities, retail, financial services, and telecom / high tech. He has also deployed application outsourcing solutions and outsourcing business process areas. Tony has developed governance frameworks for audit, outsourcing, and IT management. Visit Tony’s blog at newitleader.com where his latest post discusses evaluating and managing your IT team's skills. Follow Tony @NewITLeader. Tony can be contacted at: tony@newitleader.com
