Timothy A. Werth
West Lafayette,IN
Summary
Tim has 30 years of IT and Finance senior leadership experience with higher education, global manufacturing, distribution and services organizations. Tim's modern strategic leadership skills drive value through financial and technological transformation using technologies as a catalyst enabled by relationship building and collaboration with internal and external stakeholders. Further, Tim uniquely combines this extensive financial and technical background with a problem solving, systems thinking mindset to deliver initiatives at scale. He has successfully created value in challenging, capital constrained environments and has built productive, accountable and service oriented high performing teams.
Overview
33
33
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Chief Information Officer
Purdue University Global
West Lafayette, IN
04.2021 - 11.2024
- Delivered a technology strategy and roadmap that offered growth and transformation to meet current and future institutional objectives for student success, technology independence from outsourced services, and growth through emerging technologies and AI.
- Built a knowledgeable and trusted technology organization that developed and deployed a RAG-based, 24/7 agentic AI application to support students and increased persistence by 8%.
- Led a successful transformation of our HRIS and Learning Management processes and technologies from outsourced providers that delivered ~$1M in annual savings.
- Created a robust, Google-cloud environment to support a more robust data strategy and emerging technologies to drive student success.
Executive Directior, IT Strategic Initiatives
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
01.2020 - 04.2021
- Led the first multi-campus consolidation of IT infrastructure and support organizations, which delivered $2M in annual savings to the Purdue ecosystem.
- Created a culture of transparency, accountability, and commitment to excellence through the deployment of KPIs and project management metrics designed to improve IT as a service organization.
- Implemented a 10-year life cycle replacement process to deliver a long-term view of IT spend, and transparency toward critical roadmap decisions. The process resulted in averting a $2 million annual budget shortfall for critical network storage technology replacement.
- Instituted a focus on the professional development of staff to address the behaviors needed to move from good to great, and create a high-performing IT team.am.
Senior Director, Finance
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
02.2016 - 01.2020
- Led the $33M Transform Purdue initiative within the approved ROI and 2½-year timeline, while achieving $10.7M in annual savings (project on time, on budget, on quality).
- Led the implementation of enabling, fully integrated technologies such as SAP S/4 Finance (ECC to S/4 conversion) and SuccessFactors (Employee Central and Payroll), supporting 15,000 staff and faculty.
- Retired redundant, poorly integrated ERP systems (Maximo/Primavera) and replaced them with integrated, redesigned SAP functionality.
- Led cultural transformation to reject the status quo philosophy that impedes institutional progress by focusing on business outcomes, automation, and the elimination of hundreds of thousands of redundant paper transactions and related approvals.
- Led the use of new financial transparency to locate $43 million of formerly unknown cash reserves in the approximately $300 million portfolio of Student Life and Intercollegiate Athletics.
- Created institutional and key employee value within Intercollegiate Athletics by introducing Split Dollar Life Insurance resulting in long term savings to the University of ~$1.9M (additional opportunities totaling $10M deferred due to COVID).
Director, Continous Improvement/FP&A/Controller
Oerlikon Fairfield
Lafayette, IN
08.2012 - 02.2016
Controller
Ntk Precision Axle
Frankfort, IN
07.2010 - 08.2012
Chief Financial Officer
Henry Poor Lumber Company
04.2003 - 07.2010
Director, Accounting
Adelphia Communications Corporation
Coudersport, PA
02.2000 - 07.2002
Senior Manager, Audit
KPMG LLP
Buffalo, NY
09.1993 - 02.2000
Senior Accountant
BDO Siedman LLP
Grand Rapids, MI
07.1991 - 09.1993
Education
MBA -
Purdue University Global
West Lafayette, IN05-2021
Bachelor of Science - Accounting
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN05-1991
Skills
- Executive leadership - CIO and CFO
- Enterprise IT strategy
- ERP implementations
- Process improvement
- Cultural transformation
- Change management
- Emerging / AI technologies
- Value creation & Problem solving
- Digital transformation
- IT Project management
- Budgeting & Forecasting
- Risk management
Certification
- Certified Public Accountant (MI) - Expired
Affiliations
- Board Member - North Central Health Services (Current)
- Youth Sports Coach - Basketball / Baseball / Soccer (Past)
- Board Member - Acacia Fraternity - Purdue (Past)
Featured Speaking Engagements
- Google Cloud Next 2024: “Making Education more Personal and Accessible.” – Las Vegas, NV
- Internet2 Cloud Forum 2024: “Meeting Campus Demands for AI.” – Stanford University
- Daniels School of Business / NACUBO / ACFE / IIA: Keynote Speaker “Business Ethics & Accountability.”
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Chief Information Officer
Purdue University Global
04.2021 - 11.2024
Executive Directior, IT Strategic Initiatives
Purdue University
01.2020 - 04.2021
Senior Director, Finance
Purdue University
02.2016 - 01.2020
Director, Continous Improvement/FP&A/Controller
Oerlikon Fairfield
08.2012 - 02.2016
Controller
Ntk Precision Axle
07.2010 - 08.2012
Chief Financial Officer
Henry Poor Lumber Company
04.2003 - 07.2010
Director, Accounting
Adelphia Communications Corporation
02.2000 - 07.2002
Senior Manager, Audit
KPMG LLP
09.1993 - 02.2000
Senior Accountant
BDO Siedman LLP
07.1991 - 09.1993
- Certified Public Accountant (MI) - Expired
MBA -
Purdue University Global
Bachelor of Science - Accounting
Purdue University
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