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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.
• 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.