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Colorado

Charter Mobile

Hired to build a strategic initiative to optimize cash utilization through the Loan Acquisition program. Overseeing the acquisition of a diverse $1 billion loan portfolio from three different vendors, primarily comprising house and car loans, I played a pivotal role in co-owning and initiating loans to enhance our financial portfolio.

Centennial, CO

Led the transformation of a 16-member team into three specialized units, addressing a project comparable to Comcast's with only two dozen individuals. Successfully navigated the transition to SAFe, splitting teams based on product development and project utilization. Aligned deliverables with operations' needs, fostering collaboration and efficiency..

Centennial, CO

Revitalized the team's estimation methods, implementing metrics to enhance utilization and streamline sprint planning, ensuring realistic commitments and target achievement. Recruited to define Agile/Scrum usage for Arrow E-Commerce, led teams through successful major platform upgrades and modernization with Microsoft Navision and SAP Hybris, specifically.

Lone Tree, Colorado

Drove the Portfolio Management tools modernization initiative, including DEEP Migration (Disciplined Enhanced Equity Platform). The primary focus was on seamlessly integrating equity ETF tools with CSIM's (Charles Schwab Investment Management) equity portfolio management tools, significantly boosting trading speed and expediting basket construction.

Greater Denver Area

Recruited to lead transition to Agile methodology, overseeing and coaching Agile squads dedicated to the suite of online appointment scheduling platforms, frameworks, services/microservices, and administrative applications. Implemented structured weekly meetings among Product Owners to synchronize dependencies and align deliverables. And independently.

Greenwood Village, Coloado

Recruited to improve the productivity and processes and to guide a conversion to an Agile methodology. Manage the business and technical aspects of multiple projects relating to the Electronic Federal Tax Payment System.

Westminster, CO

• Managed end-to-end management of emerging technologies, led team transitioning R&D-developed products, including One-Touch video and MAA, to commercial product groups. Pioneered a groundbreaking product utilizing early.
• Led geographically dispersed development and quality assurance teams, transforming R&D solutions into marketable products. Mentor project teams to mature into Agile/Scrum frameworks, overseeing six simultaneous.
• Provided end-to-end oversight for architectural design, development, testing, disaster recovery, and system releases. Manage team selection, onboarding, schedule planning, product backlog grooming, and lead governance.

Denver, Colorado

Retained to drive the delivery of multiple federally mandated software enhancements to exchange of passenger / customer information with foreign governments and expand participation with U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Secure Flight Passenger Validation Program. Contract extended following success to program manage 12 critical migration and.

Cheyenne, Wyoming Area

Recruited on contract to turn around 9-month behind project to implement key enhancements into mission-critical web-based Wyoming Client Information System (WCIS). Drove the adoption and execution of Agile/Scrum best practices to align deliverables with evolving business and regulatory needs. Interfaced with product manager to define themes for 2-week.

Centennial, Colorado

Built an impressive record of achievements planning, defining and ensuring the delivery and enhancement of mission-critical OPSControl system supporting more than 30 airline clients in both a hosted and client production environments. Chosen following the sunset of OPSControl system to lead team in conducting feasibility studies to design the Next.

Englewood, CO

• Retained on contract to oversee the delivery of a key middleware solution for Galileo International client (now Travelport). Planned, defined and led team of 4 in designing, developing and implementing interfaces.
• Led all efforts to deliver major initiative under budget and one month ahead of schedule. Drove the creation of interfaces to provide airline availability information to external airfare providers and subsequently to.

• Fast-track promotions overseeing the design, development and rollout of complex, high-transactional systems, interfaces and applications for this leading airline. Kept on and promoted following divestiture of Sabre by.
• Identified key inventory spoilage issue. Discovered and resolved software architecture / design flaw; and developed programs and processes to return $50 million of available inventory.
• Drove the utilization of newly designed code generation system prototype that was forecasted to reduce time-to-market by 75%.