Chris Callaghan Email & Phone Number

Chattanooga, Tn, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Responsible for the oversight and management of an architecture & engineering service portfolio at Harvard Partners. Directly handle client engagement / leadership and contract lifecycle. Currently running multiple teams of varying sizes. Worked directly with leadership to pioneer the Harvard Partners architecture service strategy, design, and execution. Grew the service portfiolio 2-3x since inception. Currently serving as a consulting resource for critical client initiatives such as Merger & Acquisition Enterprise Architect and Technical Lead for a large financial institution. Using prior M&A experience and having executed 9+ acquisition integrations for our client, our team has helped them gain incredible efficiency and economies of scale by working closely with their resources to define sound M&A execution strategy from pre-signature due diligence all the way through operational hand off and final decommissioning. Throughout our journey, we've increased collaboration and engagement with core organizations between Technology Services, Cyber Security, Risk, and Network Services. Our framework focuses on efficiency, accuracy, technology alignment and enablement. We strive not just to provide a service, but to enable our clients for the future.

Orchestrated strategic initiatives to deploy a commercial loan origination system, leading cross-functional teams and streamlining project workflows.Played a pivotal role in architectural development and roadmap creation, analyzing current and future states for system design and strategic implementation.Led stakeholder engagement across all levels, overseeing life cycle management, solution design, quality assurance, and project delivery.Conducted in-depth analysis of manual commercial lending processes, identifying and addressing critical pain points.Developed and delivered key documentation, including solution scoping, deployment strategies, cost-benefit analyses, and design specifications.Significantly improved process governance, accelerating release cycles, enhancing quality controls, and strengthening audit processes.Guided process mapping and strategy for the commercial banking sector, ensuring alignment with business objectives and facilitating stakeholder training.Directed comprehensive interface design projects, covering service domains, core systems, and data environments, ensuring coherent deliverable standards.Managed consultant teams, providing technical mentorship, quality assurance of deliverables, and effective coordination with client management.

Manchester, New Hampshire, Us

Key contributor to the enterprise architect team and aided in technology / architecture roadmaps. This included current state analysis and projected system design, phased deployment, and strategic positioning of efforts.Defined, documented, trained, and implemented core Team Foundation Server ALM technologies and strategy within the IT organization, project management office, and business intelligence units. Served as subject matter expert for implementation, training, and strategy. Provided mentorship and leadership to multiple levels of engineers, project managers, and business intelligence analysts. Diplomatically approached change to garner greater acceptance. Streamlined delivery lifecycle including planning, design, execution, deployment, and post release support. Contributed to standardization, principles, design patterns, and strategies.Involved with creation and leadership of enterprise architecture review and steering committee within the IT organization. Led enterprise architecture collaboration group across technical and organizational disciplines. Proposed and defined user experience strategy, including tooling, process, and roles. Implemented storyboarding strategy combined with joint domain design sessions to greatly enhance scope honing prior to platform selection. Designed, built and implemented a micro service based enterprise service bus platform to enhance various third party and internal system interoperability, functional security management, data layer translation and data consumption. This framework reduced development, testing, and migration time.Oversaw design, execution, deployment, and production hand off for actuarial calculation engine. The engine was a primary source of data for quarterly and yearly reserve reporting.Received numerous quarterly and spot recognition awards for excellence.

Agoura Hills, Ca, Us

Primary engineer of core Visual Basic ERP system with Sybase SQL back end. Aided tool analysis and selection. Led proposal presentations and integration design. Ran architectural meetings and demonstrations for project and product managers. Provided mentorship and training for product managers.Defined and managed branching/merging strategy utilizing Visual Source Safe and Subversion code management systems.Developed solution for document management in mobile platform. Ensured quality phased migration of business logic from legacy architecture. Led collaboration between platform engineering teams and facilitated conflict resolution without negatively impacting delivery. Organized and executed fun events for employees.

Charleston, South Carolina, Us

Led distributed technical project team on architectural execution of design through delivery, completing 3 months ahead of schedule and below estimated budget. Provided technical business analysis for solution scoping and artifact creation.Designed requested client and server architecture to the core .NET/XML CRM product. Diplomatically handled change in scope requests, working diligently to mitigate financial impact to the project. Developed multidimensional SQL Server client data warehouse extensions. ETL was handled via SSIS. Solution was later adopted into core product offering. Coordinated and facilitated project meetings providing a comprehensive feedback channel to the client. Produced various project artifacts including scoping, analysis, design, change requests, and cost analysis. Mentored various level of technical resources, ranging from junior engineers to tech leads.

Boston, Ma, Us

Responsible for the E2E design, execution and implementation of .NET/SQL Server BI/ERP/CRM based software solutions, interfaces, and data back end.Implemented solutions to greatly improve performance metrics/benchmarking, statistical/predictive analysis, business process modeling, enterprise reporting, and data/workflow collaboration. Developed and implemented multiple core enterprise IT strategies, including automated application distribution, document management, development methodologies and patterns, business-facing IT service management, and resource management.Collaborated with stakeholders to improve process efficiency through automation, design standardization, and governance.Provided critical reporting capabilities to allow more dynamic management of primary business model. Management gained insight into procedural deficiencies, allowing them to more proactively handle market demand changes.Led demonstrations and proof-of-concept modeling sessions with multiple levels of stakeholder engagement, from business users to executives. Facilitated unilateral understanding of concepts and strategies. Supported solution integration across multiple national offices, including hardware and software efforts.Created service architecture for integration alignment with existing LOB systems. Produced comprehensive set of design, implementation, and training artifacts. Artifacts were standardized and accepted as procedure.