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Boulder, Colorado, United States

• Lead innovation, and tech strategy development for organizations to unlock operational efficiencies and deliver a valued customer experience.
• Assist clients with business, IT strategy development, and transformation initiatives delivering business value through optimizing the efficiency and modernization of their IT capabilities.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to Identify and assess opportunities to enhance or enable critical business capabilities by leveraging innovative technology tools and solutions to implement technology strategies.
• Assist clients with interpreting new technologies, innovations and potential impact of emerging technologies and trends on their Business and Operating Models.

Tampa, Florida, US

Led development and application of enterprise architecture strategy and capability roadmaps for North America’s #1 aesthetics’ brand. Responsible for identifying and assessing needs to enhance and enable critical business capabilities to support growth.

Hampton, New Hampshire, US

Lead, develop, and facilitate enterprise architecture strategy, governance, and technology roadmaps for one of the fastest growing fitness brands with over 17M members and 2,300 clubs in the US and abroad.

Brentwood, TN, US

Led retail innovation, modernization, and digital transformation initiatives for $11B Fortune 400 company with 2000 stores. Provided architectural leadership, mentored, collaborated with 24 cross-functional architects on numerous complex strategic enterprise transformation initiatives contributing to a 31% increase in sales growth.

Fort Myers, FL, US

• Lead architect responsible for tech strategy and roadmap development, design and integration of retail initiatives to serve $2.4B retail organization with 4 brands and 1500+ stores located in the US and Canada.
• Chartered and led the office of Enterprise Architecture responsible for technology strategy development and roadmaps, provide oversight and guidance over solution/integration design and delivery supporting a team of 12.
• Implemented the business CMMI capability modeling framework to develop technology roadmaps and ensure technology strategy alignment with business strategic objectives. Mentored and collaborated business leadership and.
• Established application portfolio life cycle management and a Total Cost of Ownership model for technology investments based on Business Impact Assessment resulting in 20% reduction in costs through application and.

Fort Myers, FL, US

• Lead and mentor team of 6 senior applications engineers and analysts to support service catalog of 125+ frontline applications and technology lifecycle, including selling systems, payments, settlement, tax, CRM, and.
• Principal Architect for the company's first international expansion into the Canadian market, overseeing design and installation of a new service infrastructure leveraging an integration service bus to connect with.
• Led the tech integration of M&A purchase of a new retail brand. Responsible for planning, integration, and migration of the acquired business portfolio of technology services into the CHS landscape.
• Led integration design and replacement of the full tech stack in 1500+ stores. The project entailed the replacement of all hardware, software, payment devices, as well as design, installation, and integration of a.
• Implement the company's first Omnichannel OMS order management system used by stores and the customer service center to locate and sell inventory through the distribution center and stores across the country.

Bachelor Of Science, Business Management

Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (Mcse)