Vp, Business Systems | Director, Application Systems
Directed development efforts for digital products, managing developers/QA/Scrum masters locally as well as 20+ offshore vendor staff members.• Led 10+ development products, ranging from $50k to $1.5+M, managing budgets, resources, deadlines, reporting status and timelines to ensure project delivery success.• Introduced/championed Agile Methodology to increase stability of code base, simplified release deployment, empowered teams to take ownership, and promoted collaboration with multi-functional teams.• Designed/guided a flexible GDPR solution from requirements gathering and user story creation though prioritization and development that integrates with all existing products, exceeding European Privacy Standards and allowed easy updates for future policy updates.• Coached Product Owners to help shape business needs and to effectively create actionable PBIs, to streamline the requirements gathering process by more than 30%.• Facilitated design/brainstorming sessions with business units to gather requirements and designed solutions that leveraged existing functionality while providing flexible solutions to co-exist with existing architecture and limits cost/speeds delivery.• Empowered teams of cross-functional developers across all skill levels respond to changing business demands, ultimately increasing capacity over 100% with third party resources with 0% increase in cost.• Devised and led Data Retention initiatives to mask candidate data to protect candidates’ data by removing over 2M entities and over 20M records without disrupting downstream reporting.• Set strategic and technical roadmaps for digital development, cloud-based and traditional architectures, providing continuous improvement in a 5-week release cycle.• Led 3 major integrations, prioritizing efforts with acquired companies in France, the United Kingdom and Canada and other markets, providing necessary new functionality without a without interruption of legacy country-based services.
