GREGORY BONDY

Strategic IT leader with over 25 years of experience in corporate IT and 8 years in leadership roles driving modernization and performance improvement. Delivered more than $1M in annual savings through automation and targeted infrastructure efficiency gains. Completing an MBA at the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois to deepen executive capabilities and prepare for doctoral research focused on organizational performance, inclusive leadership, and systems optimization.

• Enterprise Performance Leadership: Led performance engineering strategy for 100+ enterprise applications. Reduced infrastructure costs by over $1M annually while improving system resilience and scalability.
• Operational Efficiency and Cost Reduction: Streamlined testing workflows, implemented performance automation, and enhanced cross-functional delivery through agile and continuous integration practices.
• Strategic IT Leadership: Built and led a 12-person high-performance team. Embedded a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement across all performance engineering initiatives.
• Doctoral Research & Teaching Interests: Organizational performance, systems optimization, behavioral operations, and inclusive leadership. Focused on applied research that bridges theory and practice, with emphasis on hybrid teams, digital complexity, and resilient business systems.

• $1M+ Annual IT Cost Optimization: Led benchmarking and cloud migration for 100+ applications. Eliminated legacy systems, enabled data center shutdown, and improved infrastructure resilience.
• Team Leadership and Culture Building: Built and scaled a high-performing engineering team, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement across the enterprise.
• 40% Latency Reduction: Improved enterprise application responsiveness, throughput, and scalability.
• Automated Delivery Acceleration: Integrated performance testing into development workflows to accelerate release cycles, reduce risk, and improve delivery consistency across platforms.
• Strategic IT Alignment: Partnered with senior leadership to ensure technology performance aligned with enterprise growth and transformation goals.
• Crisis Leadership: Directed pandemic-era IT response, preserving uptime and team productivity while delivering a 15% cost reduction.

• Leadership & Transformation
  High-Performance Team Development • Agile & Service Delivery Models • Change Enablement
• IT Strategy & Enterprise Architecture
  Strategic IT Planning • Digital Transformation • Scalable Systems Design
• Performance Optimization & Research Interests
  Enterprise Efficiency • Cloud Strategy • Observability & Measurement • Inclusive, Resilient Team Structures

• Built and Scaled a High-Impact Performance Engineering Team: Recruited and developed a 12-person team, embedding a culture of innovation, technical excellence, and continuous improvement across the enterprise.
• Scalable Performance and Cost Optimization: Delivered over $1M in annual infrastructure savings and reduced application latency by 40% across 100+ enterprise systems. Led cloud migration, legacy system decommissioning, and benchmarking initiatives that improved resilience and scalability.
• Enterprise Alignment and Systems Thinking: Partnered with enterprise architects and executive leadership to align performance strategy with business transformation goals. Deepened my focus on systems thinking, incentive design, and organizational resilience.
• Strategic Cost Management During Crisis: Directed IT response to pandemic-driven budget cuts, achieving a 15% spend reduction while preserving system uptime and team productivity.

• Performance Engineering Foundations: Established the performance engineering function from the ground up, establishing standards and automation practices that enabled long-term scalability.
• Team Mentorship and Technical Leadership: Mentored junior engineers and helped build high-performing teams focused on benchmarking, automation, and infrastructure optimization.