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Colorado

Responsible for Foundational Platform Modernization efforts, representing Payments and Billings domains. Participated in a SAFe 6.0 Release Train, including acting as a team coach for Program Increment planning sessions. Created intake and prioritization governance for two Payments teams resulting in increased organization and timeliness and preventing work from coming into the teams sideways. Participated in the planning and implementation of an Application Rationalization exercise for over 100 applications, resulting in updated capability mappings for business and product use, as well as upstream/downstream dependency mapping and tiered disposition and prioritization recommendations for technology use. Took over and successfully completed a vendor transition for lockbox processing for Trustee and Recovery teams.

Denver, Colorado, United States

Acted in a consultative manner across the full Credit department, providing input on technical strategy, and aligning a portfolio of multiple programs to utilize common foundational technologies, services, and data sources. Coached and mentored other Technical Program Managers. Served as a Subject Matter Expert across the full Credit Technology stack, as well as all integration points to multiple financial processing vendors, as well as Nordstrom internal capabilities, including Customer Identity, Loyalty, Store, and Payments. Provided high-level system architecture across multiple business domains, ensuring flexibility, and efficient re-use of existing capabilities. Performed initiative intake and sizing for planning and budgeting purposes. These efforts collectively contributed to growing the portfolio to over $4B. Worked with development teams using Agile SCRUM, Kanban, and SAFe methodologies.Architected and implemented a foundational Credit Cardmember Key Store and event-based model allowing the bridging of data between Customer Identity and Credit identifying keys, resulting in the ability to definitively synchronize, maintain, and audit millions of records between Credit, Customer Identity, and Loyalty, which in turn reduced Rewards errors, increased customer satisfaction, and lowered the contact volume to Customer Care. Fulfilled the role of Product Manager on behalf of Credit foundational technologies, resulting in reduced duplication of effort across teams by advocating for a domain-services model. Acted as a Sr. Engineering Manager during COVID, taking over a dysfunctional engineering team and successful implementing an updated Dialer solution, and onboarding a 3rd-party collections capability, enabling the Collections team to dramatically improve collections efforts.

Denver, Colorado, United States

Performed full Software Development Life Cycle program management for cross-functional credit business and technology programs across multiple business domains, including Customer Identity, Loyalty, Store and Payment. Performed intake, architectural guidance and prioritization for Credit Technology development teams for a portfolio of strategic initiatives, including a $2.2B portfolio sale and an account renumbering project involving approximately 6M consumer cards. Managed projects involving commercial banking and credit best practices, federal regulatory compliance initiatives including the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and Regulations E and Z. Implemented new credit risk management solutions and improved visibility into customer loyalty rewards reporting and accounting. Assisted in enterprise transformation from Waterfall to Agile SAFe methodologies.

Denver, Colorado, United States

Performed full SDLC program management for cross-functional credit business and technology programs

Denver, Colorado, United States

Performed full SDLC project management for cross-functional credit business projects

Provided senior project management, program planning and design specification services to various clients in support of commercial, law enforcement/DHS and classified DoD programs. Areas of work included Unmanned Aerial Vehicle RDT&E and UAV operator training, network-centric intelligence analyst toolsets, and Virtual Reality-based simulators for Special Operations training. Streamlined efficiency and significantly reduced C-level executive burden through process mapping and analysis resulting in improvements including the development and launch of a secure online collaborative portal. Managed the development of PCI/DSS-compliant policies, procedures and configuration standards for identity-theft prevention throughout the commercial credit/banking network and supporting security infrastructure. Defined DSS non-compliance remediation pathways that successfully resulted in swift mitigation of expensive and mission critical security violation risks.

Successfully managed software development, marketing and business alliance projects for $300M+ annual multi-national developer of COTS desktop and enterprise publishing and content management packages. Launched and managed multiple virtual project teams collaborating across US, Europe and India. Served as Senior Project Manager and ScrumMaster launching a $3M business unit tasked with design and development of a new Software as a Service (SaaS) product line. This project, integrating graphics, printing and e-commerce components, was successfully completed and launched.

Led the design, development and production of a $2.5 million annual internet subscription-based streaming media SaaS solution. Formally recognized for successfully managing a team of software developers, database administrators, network engineers, testers and customer support staff in achieving all established deadlines within budgets and timeframes. Created strategic plan that guided program from initial conception through development and implementation. Transitioned project from development to maintenance mode and oversaw several additional feature releases.

Leveraging skills in PERL, oversaw the maintenance and enhancement of the proprietary search engine code that drove a sophisticated $9.5 million internet user-tracking website. Performed all features of custom portal code development and maintenance, using proficiencies in UNIX, SQL, Oracle, HTML, and others. Managed production of detailed traffic analysis reports that monitored site usage. Designed and fielded a custom INMARSAT-based vehicle-mounted mobile comlink system for a nationwide promotion campaign.

Successfully led design, development and production of technology-based training packages developed for US military, intelligence, law enforcement and emergency response special operations personnel. Resulting products were incorporated into state-mandatory certification criteria in 27 states with adoptions by such entities as the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC), the National Fire Academy, as well as agencies to include the FBI and DEA. Acted as company Treasurer, successfully managing project budgets, fulfilling licensing requirements, and orchestrating new product financing. Concurrently co-Founded and managed DC Regional Virtual Reality Developer’s Group, establishing Lightworks senior personnel as Subject Matter Experts among the numerous DC-area defense and aerospace contractors, including Lockheed, Boeing and Northrop, who joined the group.