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Boulder, Colorado, United States

Lead and support all aspects of Software Engineering, Production Operations, and Application Support. Partner with key executives to help prioritize a balance of Engineering, Operations, and Product initiatives. Continually evaluate and support a servant leadership culture allowing for increased self-empowerment and decision making.

Boulder, Co

Lead and support all Engineering, QA, Database, Reporting, and Production Operations. Partner with key executives to help prioritize a balance of Engineering and Product initiatives. Continually evaluate and support a servant leadership culture allowing for increased self-empowerment and decision making.

Louisville, Co

Managing the core Healthcare Exchange supporting all customers, suppliers and trading partners. Provide Technology leadership within development driving technical decisions and direction. Partner with key business VP’s, Directors, and IT Operations groups to identify, prioritize, streamline, and enhance defects and operational processes. Lead Data team reporting on key Data Quality metrics allowing our business partners to prioritize and increase visibility to issues affecting key customers.

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

Architect for the Enterprise Data Warehouse and Reporting solutions. Oversee all architectural and technical solutions to develop, maintain, support, and report on all data within the company. Lead all aspects of the Extract, Transform, and Load process to ensure data is consistent and available for all business functions across North America. Advise and recommend reporting solutions to enable business functions to pull and manipulate data when, where, and how they need it.Partnered with IT Operations and other groups to help advise and recommend solutions for a Data Quality Program. Worked with Infrastructure teams to help align and build application servers that are standard across environments. Developed an availability tracking process used by Application Support to report application availability.

Manage a team of Developers, Data Analysts, and DBA's ensuring all Business projects, System operations, and Data integrity are continually maintained and supported throughout the organization. Oversee project review and development, data consistency/integrity, vendor relationships, technical and operations support and release management.

Broomfield, Co

Managed a staff of Database Administrators (DBA) and Developers presiding over more than 100 production databases, 250 development and testing databases, 8 disaster recovery systems and an internal custom developed application. Oversee all Database System components, application lifecycle processes, and department functions including vendor relationships, technical and operations support, disaster recovery planning, capacity planning, budget planning and implementation, application testing, and systems architecture.Provided tactical and strategic plans to consolidate and upgrade distributed server/database systems and establish consistent standards/procedures throughout the environment eliminating an unstable and highly mixed operating environment. Organized and ensured Tier 1 system recovery by coordinating the planning, development, and implementation of a Disaster Recovery Plan.