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As an experienced IT executive, I have always viewed technology through a business lens. Throughout my career, I have been deeply committed to delivering profitable and sustainable growth for firms in thefinancial services, human resources, and real estate industries.I know from experience that a successful IT function results from a strategic vision, skilled talent, and an organizational culture that enables diversity and success. Communication is also a critical component - being able to translate the complex into understandable terms for corporate partners, to inspire more meaningful collaboration.As a leader, I bring deep technical expertise and extensive knowledge of strategy, corporate functions, financial transactions, board procedures, program management, sales, and employee culture. I am also well versed in building high-performing teams, driving mission-critical projects and programs, and leveraging automation to improve processes. Innovation is incredibly important to me, as I focus on sourcing anddeploying cutting-edge technology that helps companies keep pace with the rapid pace of change in the market.SAMPLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS:~ Created robust internal DevOps practice and team. Increased overall stability, reduced time to market, and brought key strategic capabilities to the organization including deployment pipelines, automated testing, performance monitoring, and system resilience.~ Led the design, implementation and migration of the on-prem (hybrid network) portion of the tech stack from antiquated data center and technology architecture to a new co-location facility and a modern flexible architecture using software-defined networking and Infrastructure as Code. Improved core application performance by over 32%. Reduced the time to provision a new environment from over 3 weeks to less then 4 hours. ~ NW Credit Union Professional of the Year - Created 'Service Enabled Culture' Facilitated cross functional and intra-departmental service. Early adopter of the Service-Now Platform which supports highly visible and transparent views throughout the organization regarding resource allocations and project priorities.~ Identified business opportunity with an on-line loan application interfacing with industry leading loan origination system. Led the team to build the internal application with an architecture that productized the application including such features as an administration and configuration tool. Created legal structure to facilitate sales to other credit unions. Software sales to date have produced a 56% ROI.

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