Frank T Paleno
Chief Technology Officer at The IRONMAN Group
West Islip, New York, United States
About Frank T Paleno
Frank T Paleno is Chief Technology Officer at The IRONMAN Group. Location: West Islip, New York, United States.
Transformational IT Leader in infrastructure, systems environments, and internal/customer-facing support with demonstrated success delivering divestitures, directing private equity acquisition and IPO efforts, mergers integrations, consolidations, and enhanced business operations. My special skill is re-organizing and transforming large technology teams recognized for creating followership by building rapport and trust with employees. I am a gifted communicator with the ability to share technical and business vision, champion new concepts, and gain executive support. Accomplishments at CLARIVATE ANALYTICS and RADIAL/eBAY ENTERPRISE: ✦ COMPANY RE-INVENTION / TRANSITION SERVICE AGREEMENTS (Clarivate): Key member of leadership team to create new company from spin-off of long-established company. Drove efforts to exit 17 Transition Service Agreements up to 17 months early, saving millions of dollars. ✦ STRATEGY & RESTRUCTURING: Designed new enterprise systems infrastructure for company separation, built standalone global network, established global datacenters, set up Cloud-based application and data directories, migrated data and apps, selected/developed/deployed all business applications, and implemented performance metrics. ✦ DevOps EFFICIENCIES: Worked with development team to create product specific DevOps teams and moved post-launch support coding from DevOps to support group, enabling DevOps to focus on next iterations. ✦ VENDOR MANAGEMENT: Re-negotiated contracts with top spending vendors, including AWS, MS, Oracle, ATT, and IBM, to consolidate and reduce contracts from 174 to 100. Annually, captured services and licensing savings in the millions. ✦ TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP: Led 1200 reports to support 27 distribution centers, 12 data centers, 5 call centers, and 500+ e-commerce retail sites. ✦ ENTERPRISE-WIDE COST REDUCTIONS: Restructured teams, initiated constant, ongoing process evaluation and change, and negotiated/re-negotiated vendor contracts to achieve cost reductions of 15% - 20% over 5 years. ✦ STRATEGIC CUSTOMER & PARTNER ENGAGEMENT: Led high-profile meetings with client representatives, including Zales, Polo, iRobot, Toys R Us, Timberland, Ace Hardware, Sports Authority, Dick's Sporting Goods, RadioShack, and others. ✦ M&A PLAYBOOK: Co-authored playbook outlining organization structures, future integration governance and process flows, staffing, tech assessment, risk recommendations, synergies identification, and how to capture savings.
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Additional experience
Interim Chief Information Officer (TrueBridge)
The IRONMAN Group
January 2025 – May 2025
Education
- , New York Institute of Technology