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Troy, New York, Us

Senior Director, Data GovernanceSenior Advisor, Division of Data Services & AnalyticsBureau Lead, Bureau of Enterprise & Data GovernanceNew York State Department of Health, Office of Health Insurance Programs Albany, NYProvided strategic oversight on transformational efforts for building highly effective data governance and data services within a newly formed division within the Department of Health.-Oversaw the coordination of overall HHS & Medicaid data strategy aimed at increasing the capacity of the Department to use data to drive organizational decision making and generate insights.-Established operating procedures for delivering sound data governance around all aspects of Medicaid claims.-Introduced ITIL based product and service management for coordinating effort in service delivery.-Collaborated with internal stakeholders to support data-driven decision making, financial forecasting, and budget development and implementation.-Coordinated the remediation of T-MSIS compliance issues to maintain good standing with CMS.-Drove division-wide collaboration and architectural strategies.-Introduced and guided the department in the use of low-code/no-code application development to support internal workflows using Microsoft 365 and PowerApps.-Leveraged vendor relationships to build robust platforms for data delivery.-Championed efforts establishing A.I. based framework delivering predictive analytics for Medicaid data marts.-Established Center of Excellence to accelerate adoption of Artificial Intelligence as a tool for applying machine learning against Medicaid data.

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Directed DevOps, Cloud Administration and DBA resources offering a contextual understanding of IT delivery while orchestrating organizational structures pertinent to IT value chain.• Orchestrated delivery of cloud services to internal PwC development units.• Coordinated trusted-partner relationships with cloud providers.• Lead transformation efforts to move from on-premise data centers to a multi-cloud environment (Microsoft Azure & AWS).• Provided billing and cost allocation reporting for multiple cloud providers.• Directed implementation of DevOps supporting CICD, cost mitigation, and resource management.• Collaborated with application leaders and development teams to formulate project plans and IT direction.• Established, built consensus and promoted compliance with IT security and operational standards.• Managed team of 12 direct reports and 10 matrixed application subject matter experts as well as numerous on and off-shore contracted resources.• Drove introduction of new technologies for application / database integration through data virtualization.• Coordinated establishment of ITIL based service management and Agile development to support application and technical services (ServiceNow, Jira, Confluence)• Established enterprise level monitoring, response, configuration and performance management.• Achieved 40% cost reduction by creating optimization strategy for cloud resources accommodating rapid scaling during cyclical business processing.• Drove simplification through standardized architectures, platform solutions and governance strategies for application migration to the cloud

San Ramon, California, Us

IT Director, Enterprise Architecture & Data ServicesAligned and supervised teams providing Enterprise Architecture, Data Services and Cloud Administration & Transformation. • Supervised 15 direct and indirect staff members supplemented with approximately 30 contracted resources.• Guided development efforts with platform solutions, orchestration, and lifecycle governance.• Coordinated with application teams and business leaders to formulate project plans.Responsible for planning and management of 3.2 million dollar annual budget, including consideration for strategic project encumbrances, vendor and contractor negotiation and agreements.Drove efforts involving application rationalization utilizing Gartner Pace Layering achieving 25% reduction in 1200 application footprint and 50% reduction in 84 ERP systems.Established enterprise architecture team strategically focused on cloud computing.• Facilitated successful migration of 100+ applications to Amazon’s cloud reducing reliance on capital expenditure in favor of operational expense.• Represented technical architecture requirements of corporate business applications to GE enterprise service providers.Led teams in implementation of system monitoring and response utilities reducing application, DBA and system administrator resource requirements by 30% & allowing for growth of IT services with 0% increase in staff.• Evaluated and recommend modern database engine options for business need fulfillment.• Recognized by Oracle for successful large-scale implementation of Oracle Enterprise Manager.Led efforts to implement and configure ITIL based service management framework using ServiceNow.• Built understanding and consensus to successfully implement incident and service management for over 870 applications across 9 corporate subdivisions.Introduced DevOps and bot-based automation for the deployment and maintenance of resources supporting 100+ systems yielding a 25% reduction in expenditures.

Albany, Ny, Us

Served as manager for 5 database administration personnel supporting a 3 year, 25 million dollar project implementing an Oracle Financials public sector ERP system and retirement of mainframe-based legacy solutions.• Installed, configured and maintained Oracle software including RDBMS, Web Application Server, Forms, Reports, Oracle Public Sector Applications, and supporting packages• Managed internal teams resulting in 90% reduction on operational maintenance times and 75% processing window reduction.• Created capacity plans and physical architecture strategy for applications support.Designed online digital information portal providing access to grant management data, eliminating reliance upon large-scale printing and inter-office delivery.• Utilized strategic data structures to establish rapid search and retrieval capabilities as well as analytical analysis of research expenditures.