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Valley Forge, Pa, Us

Leading the software engineering organization supporting Vanguard Personal Investor core client journeys such as Onboarding and Manage Account along with Automation & Digitization of internal processes and workflows.

Valley Forge, Pa, Us

Leading Vanguard's application portfolio modernization efforts through strategy, planning, and execution. Migrating over 2000 applications from on-premise data centers to cloud leveraging AWS and SaaS providers.

Valley Forge, Pa, Us

2018-2020: Led software delivery teams and solutions architects in defining a new, global platform for advice software that leverages cloud (AWS), microservices, and APIs. Enabled the delivery of several new advice offers for Vanguard globally, including Vanguard Digital Advisor.2016-2017: Led Agile software delivery teams building out technology to support Vanguard's Personal Advisor Services offering.

Valley Forge, Pa, Us

I served as the Chief of Staff for IT, supporting Vanguard's CIO as well as the IT division senior leadership team. A primary area of focus was the governance, communication, and change management of strategic IT initiatives. Key responsibilities included coordinating and facilitating all IT senior staff meetings, planning sessions and off-sites; preparing presentations for the CIO's use in meetings/speaking engagements; working with the IT divisional leadership team to refine strategic business plans; creating various written communications for the CIO and IT division, including executive and board-level reporting and strategy papers; supporting PR activities for the CIO and IT; and participating in various other special projects as needed.

Valley Forge, Pa, Us

ScrumMaster for an Agile team which optimized Vanguard's International web sites for mobile, utilizing responsive web design.

Valley Forge, Pa, Us

Worked on an Agile team to develop web applications for Vanguard's International Division. Pioneered the implementation of responsive web design for the webapps. In addition to development, responsibilities included developing standard templates and reusable common modules, packaging the applications, leading design sessions and coaching junior developers.

Valley Forge, Pa, Us

UI Developer: Worked on Agile teams doing UI development for various applications for Vanguard's Institutional division. Also worked on technical initiatives such as architecture/toolset migrations and supporting releases for applications.Developer, Production Support: Supported Vanguard's pension administration system by conducting data fixes in PL-SQL, as well as product-specific configuration for pension calculations.Technology Leadership Program: 2-year program with 8-month rotations in UI Development, Production Support, and Systems Testing. Most of the work was on Java-based web applications.Special experience: IT Strategy Team: Served on a cross-divisional team that researched and presented findings on Workforce Mobility & Unified CommunicationsVirginia Tech Champion Team Coordinator (2 years): Led recruiting efforts on-campus as well as on-boarding initiatives for new hires

Blacksburg, Va, Us

Worked for a research group consisting of professors and graduate students. Edited technical papers and maintained a tech report archive, among other administrative activities. Used Unix, bash/ksh scripting, and TeX typsetting language.

Schenectady, Ny, Us

Began a project to consolidate multiple document repositories (both physical and electronic) across GE Nuclear Energy sites (now GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy); my work included cataloging the size and type of the repositories as well as building a business case to IT management to allocate resources to the project.

Schenectady, Ny, Us

Developed and maintained regression test scripts for turbine-controller software using Test Director and QuickTest Professional; in addition to developing and executing new scripts, I optimized existing library functions, which helped reduce execution time of the scripts by 50% or more in some cases.