Head of sales & client service for this successful dot-com startup which penetrated several marquee Fortune 500 firms & raised over $20M in venture funding.

Responsible for management and renegotiation of Nielsen’s strategic outsourced relationship with Tata Consultancy Services. -- Leader of M&A technology diligence, divestiture and integration planning.

CSG Systems has acquired Quaero, a new breed of marketing services provider focused on improving customer interactions across all channels using technology, analytics, strategy and process. Patrick was a key Quaero executive involved in the combination with CSG, and continues to lead marketing, sales and client development efforts for the Quaero business as part of CSG.

Responsibility for the strategic product development plans for Nielsen's Local TV Audience Measurement business. In particular, leadership of Nielsen's Set Top Box/Return Path Data strategy.

Leader in banking & finance business development team.

Sales management, lead generation, and solutions selling for geodemographic and analytic services to these strategic industry segments.

Nielsen provides the most complete view of consumer trends and habits worldwide. Nielsen Social is the leading provider of social TV measurement, analytics and audience engagement solutions for TV networks, agencies and advertisers. With social media transforming the traditional TV viewing experience, Nielsen Social aims to help the industry measure, understand and act on the activity and reach of TV-related conversation on Twitter. Nielsen Social identifies, captures and analyzes conversation on Twitter in real time for every program aired across over 250 of the most popular U.S. television networks, including Spanish language networks. Nielsen Social uses this data to power Nielsen SocialGuide Intelligence, our Twitter TV analytics and engagement platform, Nielsen Twitter TV Ratings, the first-ever measure of the reach of TV-related conversation on Twitter, and Nielsen Twitter TV APIs that feed curated content to power the next generation of social applications for MSOs, connected TVs and second screen developers.

Acceleration of revenue growth for Nielsen’s $500M advertising/media resonance and reaction businesses. These businesses focus on how advertising impacts consumers and how it contributes to purchase decisions, ROI and attribution. This portfolio also includes Consumer Activation, Telecommunications, Nielsen Entertainment, Soundscan, Bookscan and the Billboard music chart operations. - Management of the capex/opex operating plan budget and development capacity prioritization for over 600 engineers, software developers and operations professionals. - Leadership for Nielsen’s Agile transformation with a team of 100 technology professionals responsible for product backlogs, product epics and user stories; improving the translation of product strategies into effective technology. - Oversight of quality management, service assurance & escape corrections; leveraging Business Process Improvement/Six Sigma techniques. - Direction of Nielsen’s technology acquisition, due diligence and integration. - Reporting to Nielsen's Watch segment CTO.

* Leading Enterprise-wide SAP S4/HANA, BRIM & Successfactors Transformation.-- Implementing a Multi-Cloud Strategy featuring a renegotiated nine-figure anchor hyper scaler agreement saving tens of millions for NLSN annually.-- Transformation/Diligence/Deal engagement project leadership experience with Bain, KPMG, Deloitte, TCS, PWC, SAP, and Salesforce.-- Led IT during NLSN’s challenging strategic review, multiple-bidder private-equity sales process, and divestiture separation preparation… reorganizing and reducing annual run-rate costs. Separation included reassigning over 300 associates and 1,000 contractors, SAP ERP "clone & go" replication, complete data center/network split, advantageous vendor contract split negotiations. and successful TSA completion.-- Renegotiated multi-billion dollar Outsourcing Deal reducing NLSN costs by $100M+ over 5 years. Show less