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St George, Utah, United States

Strategic Leadership: Oversee and align all corporate strategies and objectives.Global Oversight: Manage thousands of resources worldwide, including teams in the US, Mexico, Canada, Europe, South America, Asia, and Africa.Budget Management: Handle budgets ranging from $150K to $18M+.Sales and Business Development: Drive sales management, achieve sales goals, and spearhead new business development.Operational Excellence: Oversee global operations, including Compliance & Audit, Mergers and Acquisitions, Consolidation/Integration, and Migration.Executive Team Management: Lead executive teams across Finance, HR, Operations, Security, IT, and Technology.Growth and Scale: Instrumental in tripling the company's size and securing a client that doubled the company's size.Compliance and Restructuring: Successfully guided the client through SOC, HIPAA, and HI Trust compliance, and led a complete organizational restructure.Talent Development: Implement programs to enhance individual and team growth, resulting in a 50% increase in retention rates and a 75% increase in job satisfaction for over 200 resources.Client Satisfaction: Achieved a 20% increase in client satisfaction while elevating corporate compliance standards to industry-leading levels.International Relations: Manage international relations and client interactions with major customers, including Intel, Northwell, and Microsoft.Process Improvement: Implement and oversee Change Management, Risk Management, Incident Management, Fraud Waste and Abuse, Information Management, Information Security, Vendor Management, and Professional Development.PMO and CMMI: Establish and enhance PMO processes, achieving CMMI Level 4 across the company and its subsidiaries, with continuous improvement in software development, design, QA, and PM processes.Cross-Organizational Collaboration: Collaborate directly with numerous CEOs to achieve optimal results in cross-organizational initiatives.

Remote

Oversaw all projects and programs for insurance client, including migrations, compliance, IT and development, and align with corporate strategy. Managed KPI's, risk, audits, backlogs, with numerous teams and over 425 individuals from various teams and departments.Financial Analysis for corporate programs and projects.Program Management for 6 programs and numerous projects.Worked closely with Infrastructure team to ensure compete successful migrations, analysis and program success with exceptional availability focus.Juggle conflicting initiatives and drive critical initiatives at the highest levels.Worked heavily with Azure and Google cloud services to ensure optimal security, resource management, and ease of use.Mentor and manage teams across PMO and all technical teams throughout the organization.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Oversee releases of all new software, hardware, firmware and media for multiple clients including: temple department, missionary department, church history department, priesthood department, family history department, and more. Team focus on mobile, client/server, standalone, web service, blade server and various other technologies. Worked closely with multiple departments to ensure projects meet the client’s expectations and needs. Worked through implementation of new portfolio wide tools for enhance productivity, and greater overall project success.Implemented automated testing procedures and trained new engineers. Oversight of multiple $1-2B projects at a time. Focused on cutting edge technology with huge range of technologies. Annual world-wide travel and correspondence with local leadership.Oversight of work on financial application and integration with banking API for financial services including donations, philanthropy, reimbursements, and more.

Clearfield, Utah

Oversee QA, Configuration and Build teams for both Flex and Java web-based applications and VB client/server-based applications for multiple teams and multiple simultaneous projects. Work closely with multiple development managers to ensure quick issue resolution and rapid solution to client and quality concerns. Increase company revenues by over $1.2M through new contracts and streamlined processes. Cut QA, Configuration and release expenses by over $50K annually through CMMI best practices including formalized checklists, standards, policies, processes, and procedures, and quality control of processes throughout the organization. Found new business opportunities, improved client relations, and increased project and company visibility across multiple areas. Manage multiple simultaneous projects including the migration of a legacy product to new web based nationally used government application. Increase configuration management and built management to follow best practices and standards. Worked closely with Marketing including the development of a marketing plan for new services, and the development and maintenance of a new company website. Manage QA/Release processes and resources. Improved release process from around 3 days to under a day for releases.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Improved automation suite coverage and test suite by over 200%. Increased automation results by over 12 times while assuming automation management role. Managed and dramatically improved all metrics, policies and procedures. Managed over 550 automated tests with continual improvements. Forecasted and managed testing requirement timelines, and roadmap for all automation. Key player in organizing and getting approvals for first ever Trick-or-Treating activity for ICS after moving to Triad.

Kaysville, Utah

Work closely with clients throughout the country, QA engineers, development, project management, and business analysts to insure quality standards. Develop automation, and quality assurance metrics, policies, procedures, and documentation. Lead training's for employees and clients. Work closely with a team ranging in size between 5 and 15 employees.

Various

Engineering responsibilities, including IT, Development, QA, DBA and other database responsibilities, systems integration, hardware and software integration and various other roles including a focus around technical processes and procedures and implementation within organizations. Enterprise Security software Quality Assurance and Automation Contractor