Dynamic consulting firm guiding clients in AWS cloud adoption and enterprise architectural modernization strategies.

Partnered with enterprise and domain architects, and technology managers to enable business capabilities, design and guide strategic solutions, and provide governance and directions for program implementations. Member of the architect review board (ARB) assessing the introduction of new technology products and solutions ensuring alignment with the organization’s strategic directions.

Managed and facilitated domain architecture for Personal & Business Banking (P&BB) domain. Led join discussions with internal and external business and technical partners. Liaised with enterprise architecture to align P&BB strategic solutions with enterprise strategic objectives. Adapted cloud solutions to transform legacy systems into modern agile cloud solutions, increasing business agility and automation while minimizing infrastructure management. Advised and consulted for senior management on business opportunities, weaknesses, and risks. Provided oversight and guidance to development teams for business and regulatory projects, and technology refresh mandates.

Oversee several architecture and integration projects as Lead Architect with Enterprise Payments Solution Architecture team, ensuring excellence in business technology. Champion assessment, design, optimization, development, and delivery of key solution architectures. Manage multiple projects concurrently, successfully meeting competing deadlines. Provide advisory to program delivery leads and senior technology delivery leads, and guidance to junior solutions architects. Implement payment and invoicing platform for small business clients. Consult with global information security to ensure application of non-functional security requirements

Partnered with business and technology stakeholders as part of merger and acquisition architect team. Defined value propositions and business goals, aligned technologies, and developed and governed enterprise architectural solutions.

Modernizing large scale systems in the small business and business banking areas with alignment to the enterprise strategic goals by designing emerging and cloud-base end-to-end solutions. As the primary architect collaborating with senior leadership, line of business partners as well as external and internal technology partners to deliver domain and robust solutions.

Collaborate with technical teams to define architectural approach of complex IT systems. Act as primary architect for domain projects; define architecture patterns in collaboration with strategy and technology architects. Communicate with executive leadership to develop roadmaps, investment plans, and cost estimates for major projects.

Recruited into a key role on a global integration program for the GBAM Credit, Client, AML, and Sales Solution Architecture teams – overseeing a number of complex architecture and integration projects throughout all stages of worldwide integration and business technology excellence. Consistently promoted opportunities to leverage information assets to the benefit of sales and service teams. Champion the full lifecycle for delivery of key solutions architectures, including assessment, design, optimization, development, and delivery in alignment with user requirements. Conduct feasibility analyses for all solutions and modify as needed. Successfully balance a portfolio of competing deadlines and simultaneous deliverables. Recognized as solutions delivery SME and technical knowledge resource.

Drive development and delivery of tactical IT solutions in alignment with enterprise and business objectives, facilitating achievement of core goals through creation of technical roadmaps detailing the path between current and future states. Work with senior personnel on external service provider sourcing, analysis, and selection based on cost drivers and strategic capabilities. Research and choose technology solutions meeting core business goals. Leverage TOGAF framework for cost-effective, profit-supporting architecture frameworks and organizational strategies.

Directed solutions architecture and technical processes for the $60 million Model T Loans project on the Agile / Scrum framework, spanning several technology domains and business channels to deliver key technology tools across client self-service, operations, client support center, IVR, and sponsor planning. Oversaw more than 100 cross-functional technical personnel throughout end-to-end technical solutions delivery via Spring MVC, Atom Framework, and Atom Transaction for optimal efficiency and reusability. Coordinated collection of user stories, tech design sessions, and creation of design patterns, resource and cost estimate models, and deployment models. Managed test and deployment planning, environment setups, and release schedules. Represented technical functions during sessions with product owners and business analysts, technical design and optimization sessions, and joint planning sessions with IT and business leadership.

Currently consulting for Wells Fargo to provide on-site support and development of the Loan IQ, Loan IQ View, and WebAspire applications. Drive partnerships with key leaders and team members for strategic planning, infrastructure and architecture planning, and technology solutions and upgrade implementation. Evaluate organizational, operational, and technical goals to identify technology requirements and solutions critical to business enhancement. Leveraged in-depth assessment of the existing infrastructure to provide recommendations for performance, cost reduction, and new equipment for the applications target state. Took an instrumental role in business strategy and future roadmaps by partnering with senior leadership to create a plan for new application and infrastructure deployment by Q2 of 2016. Elevated capacity to meet business needs by transitioning to a new host platform for Loan IQ View.

Oversaw several crucial projects, working with senior business and technical partners on technology roadmaps, strategic plans, and transition from concept to project plans. Supervised IT lifecycle management for the business infrastructure. Provided status reports to key stakeholders. Ensured compliance with audit standards. Optimized campaign preparation and reduced manual effort through implementation of Lending’s prescreen marketing campaign initiatives, offering bank loan services to existing enterprise customers.

Directed IT project delivery for numerous cross-enterprise projects valued up to $5 million each – with authority over all planning, milestones, resource management, requirements, scheduling, design documentation, test planning, and vendor sourcing. Evaluated business architectures to uncover gap areas and leverage technology to enhance functions. Partnered with external companies such as FIS, EWS, and PHH on service delivery. Ensured high availability with obstacles swiftly removed and projects quickly progressing to deliver new solutions. Reduced future costs of technical solutions delivery by using existing design patterns and technology services mixed with emerging technologies. Supported new hire on-boarding. Contributed to balancing banking assets and boosted the lending portfolio $30-60 million via automation of the new referring service. Eliminated $1 million in potential losses via a Polypath application for the fraud department. Reduced QA time and cut testing costs via recommendations and expertise. Oversaw the EWS project to route transactions to Early Warning Services via a new technical solution, resulting in fewer loses to fraud.

Worked with clients to present and sell customized financial services and recommendations for hold life, disability, annuities, long-term care, Medicare, and health insurance. Active Securities Licenses 6 and 63.

Provided support and technical expertise for management of 5 applications on several platforms, aligning technology services with business and operational needs. Spearheaded design and development of the project infrastructure and framework. Addressed and resolved issues. Liaised with project managers to scope, planning, and business requirements. Wholly rebranded 237 wholesale product services customer Oracle reports from Wachovia to Wells Fargo, which boosted single-application management 300%. Took an instrumental role in design and implementation of eForms / Filenet version migration. Restructured the investigation tracking system. Introduced customized client reports by developing an infrastructure for Java utility reporting.

Key authority over implementation, maintenance, troubleshooting, upgrades, and enhancement of 4 pivotal banking department applications. Fully overhauled the architecture and infrastructure of a global reporting system supporting 8,000 daily and 12,000 monthly reports. Managed development of a customer inquiry interface for multiple platforms, capable of supporting 50,000 to 75,000 transactions daily. Partnered with Cyber Inquiry to develop an exports collection subsystem and customer inquiry web-based application. Trained and supervised team members, providing insight on back-office software. Leveraged application performance management tools to lower downtime.

Administered online applications utilized by international businesses – handling case tracking and controls / investigation application systems while upholding customer SLAs on both a domestic and international scale. Supported service automation and enhancement. Supervised and mentored staff. Lowered batch process cycle time from 4 hours to 1.5 hours for 200-300 daily and 500 monthly reports. Converted 2 large mainframe applications for M&A activities.