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Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Lead, hire, and train a team that has grown from 1 to 6 members as my oversight into the company has expanded.• Develop product release schedules with adherence to the SDLC.• Liaise with product managers from our customer banks to develop client communications, SOWs, delivery timelines, and product documentation.• Provide updates to senior leadership with relation to company performance goals.• Primary manager and scheduler of release software upgrades. Improve planning cycles by expanding into the outyear 12-15 months.

Greater New York City Area

• Managed platform release upgrades, deployment timelines, and oversaw the release schedule.• Developed and managed the enterprise schedule (from market readiness through product delivery). Improved schedule performance by shifting from Excel into Confluence for better visibility and communications.• Developed product requirements to introduce new reporting and integration modules.• Managed large infrastructure projects such as migrations to Azure, instance consolidation, and security strengthening. Successfully consolidated 55 customer instances (environments) into just 5 instances. Through this consolidation, upgrade event times were cut from 8 hours to 30 minutes.• Joined a specialized team to integrate payment options and acquisitions into the Nordic region as part of Mastercard’s open banking solution.

Greater New York City Area

• Overhauled numerous processes to improve efficiencies and quality of delivery while establishing incentives for teams to increase their productivity.• Implemented process improvements to ensure punctual delivery of products 100% of the time.• Worked with Product, Development and QA teams to manage workloads.

Rockville Centre, Ny

• Oversaw the Information Technology (software and networking), Web Design, Project Management, and Implementation teams of a company that owns several online travel brands.• Delivered reporting software for business intelligence (such as QlikView and Microsoft PowerBI).• Increased the speed of product from its contracts to live-site purchasing by championing an initiative to migrate to newer ERP software.

Panama City, Florida, United States

• Planned and managed migration of legacy databases into online systems in support of the US Navy.• Provided logistics and procurements for manufacturing projects.

Huntersville, North Carolina

• Lead gross profit improvement programs with manufacturing companies by gathering, analyzing, and presenting data to help guide management decisions.• Integrated custom databases with ERP systems to be used as specialized reporting tools.

Panama City, Florida, United States

• Constructed network diagrams.• Developed purchase orders of technical equipment.

Panama City, Florida, United States

• Supported the US Navy Budget Office.• Inputted requisitions and orders into central inventory database.