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Glen Mills, PA, US

Oaks, Pennsylvania, United States

• Leading large-scale engineering teams in the development of alternative and digital asset processing on SEI's wealth platform, driving enhancements to meet complex client requirements while overseeing the program.
• Managing cross-functional collaboration with engineering, product, business stakeholders, and external vendors, ensuring alignment on project objectives, prioritization of tasks, and proactive risk mitigation to.
• Driving program execution by coordinating complex dependencies across teams, removing blockers, and delivering regular progress updates to SEI's executive leadership, while implementing continuous improvement practices.
• Routinely tapped for coaching and mentoring roles across the organization, providing ongoing leadership support and fostering high-performing teams. Leverages 8 years of experience in people management and agile.
• Led the analysis, design, and implementation of a Tokenized Asset proof of concept, integrating the SEI Wealth Platform with a private Hyperledger Besu blockchain, utilizing the TREX ERC-3643 standard to enable.
• Providing strategic guidance to senior SEI business leaders on blockchain, digital assets, and tokenization, delivering actionable insights and driving innovation in these emerging technologies.

Oaks, Pennsylvania, United States

• Successfully managed delivery for SEI’s Blockchain and Digital Assets program, a special project dedicated to exploring uses cases for the technology at SEI.
• Collaborated with the Product Manager to develop a strategic digital asset strategy and roadmap, aligning digital asset initiatives with SEI business objectives.
• Drove the planning and execution of multiple digital asset-related proof-of-concepts, including held-away digital assets integration into SEI's wealth platform, enhanced aggregation capabilities, and the discovery and.
• Periodically assumed Product Owner responsibilities, leading feature and process design, writing detailed user stories, and facilitating backlog refinement sessions to ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Leveraged agile expertise as the team's Agile Coach, driving the adoption of agile practices by leading key scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily standups, story estimation, and sprint retrospectives.
• Lead the DevOps for the program's Azure cloud subscriptions, facilitated cloud infrastructure requirements and optimization of Azure resources.

Oaks, Pennsylvania, United States

• In a Program Manager style role overseeing multiple onshore and offshore engineering teams, led the successful delivery of 9 quarterly development releases of key client deliverables for alternative asset processing.
• Managed complex sets of dependencies across teams and projects, ensuring alignment and coordination during each Program Increment (PSI).
• Supervised vendor relationships, overseeing the statement of work process and ensuring the successful delivery of consulting services from IT partners.
• Established and implemented project management tools and processes, including a maintenance and support estimator, a standardized emergency hotfix process, and a production data mitigation procedure which were.
• Oversaw talent management processes, including recruitment, onboarding, training and performance management of team members, ensuring the growth and development of high-performing teams.
• Led incident response efforts, quickly mobilizing resources, conducting solution workshops, and managing stakeholder communications during platform production issues.

Malvern, Pennsylvania, United States

• Coached a sub-train of engineering teams delivering core applications for the back-office of the SEI Wealth Platform.
• Delivered 11 quarterly releases totaling 12,000 story points, enabling SEI to onboard larger, more complex clients to the wealth platform.
• Mentored 3 Scrum Masters and 4 Product Owners leading to improved team performance and velocity.
• Executed a successful 2-year technical project involving significant changes to the platform’s core transaction database.

Malvern, PA

• Coached 3 engineering teams towards the successful delivery of 4,000 story points of new platform features.
• Facilitated SAFe ceremonies such as: daily scrums, scrum of scrums, sprint retrospectives, sprint planning, backlog refinement sessions, and release planning.
• Oversaw a new hire onboarding and training program for the technology organization.

Oaks, PA

• Served as a BA/QA on several rotational assignments across different engineering teams to gain perspective of the organization and knowledge of the SEI Wealth Platform.
• As a BA/QA, worked with stakeholders to define functional requirements, collaborated with team members to write user stories, and clarified acceptance criteria.
• Conducted functional testing of features, prepared user guides, and presented the system demos
• Lead a multi-department initiative that helped resolve several outstanding issues with the platform’s client financial statements application.
• Facilitated a new hire onboarding and training program for the organization.

Philadelphia, PA

Full-time 2 Year MBA Program (took extra courses to complete ahead of schedule)Focused on Entreprenurship

Greater Philadelphia Area

Teaching Assistant for the Department of Decision Sciences

Levittown, PA

• Lead and supported the daily operations of the business.
• Improved profitability by optimizing operating expenditures, revising customer contract pricing, and investing in marketing spend.
• Handled customer service calls and followed-up on any reported issues or concerns reported by clients.

King Of Prussia, PA

• The SI Organization, Inc was formally known as the Enterprise Integration Group and was divested by Lockheed Martin to Veritas Capital in November of 2010.
• Estimated the system engineering proposals to the company’s U.S. Government customers.
• Finance lead for a successful 2011 corporate focus proposal, which had a very challenging deadline.
• Lead estimator for the company’s 2010 corporate focus proposal: created innovative estimating tools and pricing processes, which contributed to the successful award of the SI’s largest contract in its history.
• Undertook special projects, such as analyzing the SI’s credit agreement and providing an overview, a risk and opportunity analysis, and recommendations for managing the agreement to the SI’s executive leadership team.

King Of Prussia, PA

• The Lockheed Martin Finance Leadership Development Program is a highly competitive program for high-potential, early career employees. It consists of one-year rotations in a variety of corporate finance disciplines.
• Managed a variety of financial tasks for a portfolio of systems engineering and integration programs, such as weekly financial reporting and analysis, monthly forecasting and planning, and quarterly financial status.
• Developed and implemented an Excel-based Program Management Financial Dashboard, which led to improved forecasting, monitoring, control of indirect costs, and enhanced program profitability. Global Supply Chain Rotation:
• Managed an array of organization business rhythms and financial reports for the organization’s director.
• Routinely prepared executive briefings and status reports.
• Trained employees on processes that would improve the organization’s impact on corporate cash flow.

Masters, Business Administration And Management, General, 3.9/4.0

MBA, with a focus on Entrepreneurship

Bachelor'S Degree, Finance, Cumulative Gpa: 3.8/4,0; Major Gpa: 4.0/4.0

Activities and Societies: Beta Gamma Sigma, Phi Kappa Phi, Penn State Investment AssociationGraduated with High Honors