Audrey Nelligan

16699 Collins Ave # 2601, Sunny Isles Beach, FL 33160

Mobile (617) 596-6235
audreymnelligan@gmail.com
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Professional experience December 1995 – April 2011 Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA

August 2008 – April 2011
Vice President, Program Management Lead, Data Center Strategy
Held a key leadership role on the Data Center Strategy program, a firm-wide initiative to dramatically improve effectiveness and efficiency of the firm’s technology functions by consolidating data centers sites from 80 to 15. The program is ultimately projected to save the firm $200M, and as of April 2011 savings were well ahead of plan. Primary accomplishments included:
• Driving the migrations and optimization of ~ 8,000 app/server instances, for 3 Business Units including Enterprise Infrastructure, which represented 30% of program workload, the largest share of any BU, and involved managing 10 Teams comprised of ~ 70 people
• Planning, scheduling, executing and reporting on migrations involved championing and driving adoption of new tools and processes developed to facilitate and standardize the approach, and prompt consistency in migration-related and data center management activities
• Ensuring Business Unit requirements were met while ensuring the goals of the strategy were achieved, which involved devising creative solutions relative to IT architecture, provisioning and optimization opportunities
• Led the Server Right Sizing project, a 15 month project which significantly contributed to the optimization of the firm-wide server environment via virtualization, consolidation and capacity right-sizing, reducing net physical server counts by 1,000 servers, a 10% overall reduction


September 2007 – August 2008
Vice President, Program Management Lead, Large Complex Programs (LCPs)
Held a key role in designing and rolling out a new process for reviewing and assessing the health of LCPs across the firm. Accomplishments included:
• Conducting LCP Assessments, which included applying industry best practices to execute in-depth assessments of LCPs across the firm, and develop and implement recommendations to maximize success possibilities and minimize risk to the firm
• Driving project and program management best practices included working with numerous subject matter experts to select, implement and drive adoption of industry standard methodologies and tools across the technology organizations

February 2006 – September 2007
Vice President, Program Management Lead, Fidelity Technology Group
Held a key leadership role in Enterprise Infrastructure, driving the Global Workforce Strategy. Managing senior level direct staff accomplishments over this period included:
• Establishing the Global Operations Program, which encompassed staffing the team, developing the business model, opportunity assessment, execution of global migration projects, development and implementation of metrics

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• Driving the globalization strategy which included conducting analysis, site assessments, partnering with Fidelity Real Estate and others to ensure optimal geographic positioning to maximize capabilities and provide a high level of service
• Execution of migration projects included conducting consistent opportunity assessments across the groups to identify the appropriate technology functions to migrate offshore (India), development of plans and management of migration activities. The 5 year ROI for the India program was $50M
• Development of metrics, analysis and reporting involved defining the appropriate metrics to quantifiably measure success of migrations and post-migration productivity

December 2003 – February 2006
Vice President, Program Management Lead, Fidelity Risk Advisory Services
Held a Lead program management role in Fidelity’s corporate risk organization. With a strong focus on technology, primary accomplishments included:
• Roll out of the Risk Management Awareness Program, which encompassed developing products, including newsletters and conferences, aimed at educating Risk Managers across Fidelity to assist them in best managing and mitigating risk to the firm
• Conducting risk assessments focusing on Fidelity’s fastest growing businesses to identify potential areas of exposure and ensure mitigation strategies were in place

April 1998 – December 2003
Vice President, Program Management Lead, Fidelity Web Technology Group
Held a lead role in Fidelity’s primary internet development group. Managing large project teams and direct staff, primary accomplishments included:
• Managing all phases of the development project life cycle for high profile, cross company web projects for the Retirement and Annuities businesses, among others. Successfully implemented numerous cutting edge products, including award-winning products for the Annuities business, providing significant competitive advantage
• Program management of several key initiatives, which required extensive cross group participation and involved complex technology interdependencies. Programs included online rollover, customer service, web quality and outage management. Fostered strong relationships between Business and Technology organizations
• Have received top scores for management skills per employee survey

December 1995 – April 1998
Director, Fidelity Technology Group
• Managed the development and roll out of a firm-wide executive reporting system

May 1991 – December 1995 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Boston, MA
Manager, Corporate Finance: System management, analysis and reporting
May 1987 – May 1991 Colonial Management Associates, Boston, MA
Manager, Corporate Finance: Forecasting and analysis, system management
April 1986 – May 1987 The Boston Financial Group, Boston, MA
Tax Accountant: Managed tax books for this real estate syndication firm
December 1982 – April 1986 The New England, Boston, MA
Accountant: Developed budgets, financial analysis and management reporting

Education Babson College Wellesley, MA
MBA
U/Mass Boston Boston, MA
BS in Management