Life at GE : Careers : GE
The systems managed by my team and by our shared service partners, such as GAMS, TSG and GIS, enable the business to capture $4 billion in operational profit a year. At the same time, my team can have a definite positive impact on the user experience of our roughly 6,000 employees by providing them with highly available well-performing systems.
GE is a future-oriented company in many very exciting business domains, and it has a very high level of integrity. It also offers a great deal of professional learning opportunities - we have everything at GE; it's simply a matter of looking for it. And it gives me the opportunity to work with a humble, helpful and knowledgeable team of colleagues.
I've not only worked in various IT functions - from an ITLP through ERP expert, program manager, CIO and PMO - but have also spent years in other functions, such as Sales, Marketing and HR, to truly understand the perspective of our users. I also worked in Asia (Sri Lanka), Eastern Europe (Ukraine, Czech) and UK (London) outside of my home country (Hungary), which enabled me to more easily approach the diverse culture and matrix teams of GE.
I've been asked to oversee how we can improve our IT project delivery cycle time by 20 percent over two years... and the Energy Service team eventually did it! After we understood our baseline, we attacked the problem with a good set of orchestrated initiatives around improving First Time Right to reduce variance to plan, leaning and automating processes to improve entitlement and looking for new game changers, such as Agile and SaaS (Software as a Service).
I rely on my ability to translate strategy into action and the ability to navigate end-to-end through complex IT architectures (from the clients through Networks, database, applications to high-end SUN servers) to deliver the optimal solution for our business.
Do the extra miles, and be willing to understand the business you are working for. Meet your users, visit their customers with them. Your value contribution will be multiplied.
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