As the Portals and Collaboration Practice Manager at Centric, I engage and collaborate with business and technical decision makers to translate business needs into solutions using leading intranet, extranet, collaboration, and social computing platforms. With a goal of helping organizations realize a return on their investment in collaboration, mobile, and social tools, I focus on helping global organizations and government agencies gain alignment across IT and the business to drive innovative solutions that bring qualitative and quantitative business benefits to employees, partners, suppliers, and customers.