Brian Gillette Email & Phone Number

Englewood, CO, US

Denver, Colorado, United States

Denver, CO

• Responsible for Transamerica Annuity & Pension website and mobile application development.
• Managed three development teams that support Transamerica's retirement business, including: Java website development team,.net website development team, and mobile application development team.
• Responsible for oversight of development for Transamerica mobile application for 401k plan participants to manage their 401k and pension plan contributions and allocations.
• Implemented Agile/Scrum methodology within annuity & pension development teams.
• Utilized India & Brazilian offshore development & testing team in order to reduce software development / testing costs.
• Liaised with enterprise architecture on defining technical approaches for new projects.

Denver, Colorado

• Responsible for creating a new Digital Marketing Technology group within Transamerica to focus on digital technology and to modernize Transamerica's digital presence.
• Hired and organized into teams a staff of 35 digital/web technologists to staff the Digital Marketing Technology group, including the following roles: Business Analysts/Testers, Web Writers, Content Managers, Web.
• Responsible for oversight of the re-design of 5 key customer servicing websites.
• Participated in identifying, evaluating and implementing new toolsets to efficiently support new Digital Technology group’s SDLC including: new Content Management System (SDL Tridion), new source code management.
• Responsible for development team annual operating budget.
• Developed and monitored departmental service level agreements.

Denver

• Managed cross-functional staff of employees to support divisional business systems.
• Responsible for management of OLTP databases and DBA team.
• Implemented business intelligence systems.
• Implemented Epiphany sales force automation/CRM system. Participated in every phase of this full lifecycle project.
• Managed multiple CRM implementation & conversion projects to convert existing CRM systems from one platform to another (Active Sales CRM to Epiphany CRM – Epiphany CRM to Pivotal CRM – Pivotal CRM to Salesforce CRM).
• Designed and implemented internal web portals using open source development tools.

Denver, Colorado

• Responsibilities included:
• Responsible for management of 20 Java developers, including H1B visa holders.
• Accountable for the oversight and delivery of CRM System Implementation & and integration projects.
• Estimated projects and wrote Statements of Work (SOW) for client engagements.
• Simultaneously managed the design, development and delivery of multiple projects to completion.
• Ensured that project goals and objectives were accomplished in accordance with outlined priorities, time limitations, and funding conditions.

Formerly American Management Systems Denver, CO

Responsibilities as a Senior Consultant with American Management Systems included the delivery of customized eBilling solutions for large telecommunications clients. As a group leader, led a mixed team of developers and business analysts to cover the full development lifecycle for a given functional area.

Phoenix, Arizona

Responsible for managing Information Technology Department staff, evaluating emerging technology, negotiating vendor contracts, developing disaster recovery plans and defining and implementing IT security policies.