Customer driven, open-minded Business Development and Information Technology Professional

KRISTINA SODERBERG BROWDER
502 Academy Drive Austin, Texas 78704
512-289-1235 kbrowder@austin.rr.com

PROFILE

Customer driven, open-minded Business Development and Information Technology Professional who has achieved a reputation for overall business excellence through the strategic use of people, technology, and process. Able to turn a vision into a reality. Enjoys the challenge of delivering high availability solutions in global, large-scale data center and distributed system environments. Is particularly knowledgeable of:

• Business Development
• IT Strategic Planning
• Infrastructure Management
• Financial Systems & e-Discovery
• Expense & Capital Budgets Management
• Enterprise Management
• Contract Negotiations & Vendor Management
• Disaster Recovery Planning and Retention Policy
• Service Delivery & Outsourcing
• International Operations Management

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

• Systems Architecture
• Multi Level Security
• Software Development
• Data Management
• SAP & Manufacturing Automation
• Process Management - QS9000, CMM SEI, ITIL, SOX
• High Availability UNIX, Windows, Clustering, Storage
• Data Center & Infrastructure Consolidation
• Network & Server Management Monitoring

CAREER SUMMARY
Silicon Laboratories, Inc. 2005 – Present
Director, Information Technology
Currently leading a team of systems administrators, network engineers, and desktop support technicians for a global infrastructure operation covering Asia, Europe, and the USA. Providing management oversight for the annual operations budget. Reporting directly to the CIO managing data center operations, networks, web presence, and business and engineering design systems.
• Developed and executed plan to reduce operating budget by 21% annually
• Successful implementation of SAP
• Leads IT support of compliance and customer audits
• Developed and executed acquisition and divestiture plan for infrastructure

General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems 2004 - 2005
Manager, Advanced Programs
Delivered a business plan and marketing and sales plan to produce additional revenue stream for products and services. Responsible for developing partner relationships with Sun, IBM, and Hewlett Packard. Developed and delivered new business and provided advanced program management for a multi level security (MLS) software product and services to the federal government. Established key relationships in the DoD, Intel, and Homeland Security community.
• Established partnership with Sun and installed product in Sun Executive Briefing Center in multiple locations to gain additional potential customer visibility and partner with the Sun Sales Force on marketing and sales opportunities

• Established partnership with Hewlett Packard to port and deliver services to the Trusted Linux customers
• Established key partnership with IBM and funding for product porting to IBM platforms
• Developed competitive analysis and market plan for expanding into additional vertical markets
• Clearance: Secret

NetSolve (now Cisco Systems) , Austin, Texas 2001- 2003
Director, Engineering
Delivered end-to-end operations management of outsourced WAN, LAN, IP Telephony, server, and security through technical organization of 85 people comprised of customer engineers and project managers who provide engineering design, implementation, and management for over 1000 customers. Responsible for new business implementation and customer service in 24x7x365 Network Operations Center.
• Drove down cost by 10%, reduced defects in customer infrastructure.
• Improved productivity of team after establishing SMART objectives and a nine box evaluation system.
• Reduced cycle time on book-to-bill by 50% as a result of analyzing roadblocks and developing new reporting system.

Motorola, Austin, Texas 1999 – 2001
Director, Global Infrastructure, Semiconductor Product Sector
Managed $80 million dollar operation and data centers with over 300 employees spanning three continents. Reported directly to CIO managing global systems, networks, email, help desks, CRM, SAP, and e-business site operations in 24x7x365 environment.
• Reduced costs by 15% and integrated leading technological innovations in value-oriented manner with service perspective.
• Produced cost avoidance reductions of 20% by consolidating multiple budgets.

IBM Tivoli, Austin, Texas 1999-1999
Software Development Manager, Tivoli Framework
Provided resource and budgetary management for the Tivoli Framework software development team.

Motorola, Austin, Texas 1990-1999
Business Manager Information Technology Semiconductor Sector 1998-1999
Managed multi-million dollar capital and expense budget for CIO of worldwide organization managing all business operations. Oversaw program management, collaboration technologies, and strategic planning.
• Achieved 10% savings for organization by consolidating all contracts into one master agreement.

Computer Integrated Manufacturing Staff Manager, MOS 8 1995-1998
Managed software development personnel and set strategic agenda for factory computer systems in 24x7x365 semiconductor manufacturing fab. Managed systems, networks, and software engineering personnel. Ensured 100% uptime of two data centers.
• Led software development group to CMM SEI Level 3.
• Led expansion of automation on factory floor to accommodate additional capacity and assured compliance for Year 2000.
• Decreased factory cycle time by 10% through software solutions

Computer Aided Planning Section Manager, Manufacturing Planning, 1994 - 1995
Installed computer systems programming. Automated planning function. Wrote software to support analysis process of supply chain management. Provided training to users. Acted as security administrator for planning application.
• Reduced cycle time for creating manufacturing data presentations from two weeks to two hours after automating procedure.

Systems and Network Manager, MOS 3 Die Production 1990-1994
Provided guidance for multi-vendor network including OpenVMS, Macintosh, Personal Computers IBM RS6000 and SUN in MOS 3 semiconductor die manufacturing facility.

EDUCATION
The University of Texas - Austin, Texas
• Graduate, Engineering and Technology Institute, College of Engineering
• BBA, Double Major: Marketing and Data Processing & Analysis
• BS, Communications
• Leadership Skills for Managers Certificate Program

PROFESSIONAL VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES

• Encompass, a Hewlett Packard User Group
o Board of Directors – Past President
o Took group to profitability for first time in four years during first year as President.
o Reelected to the Board of Directors in 2006 and served second term as President
• Austin Women in Technology
o Advisory Board Member
• Balcones Country Club
o Board of Directors - President