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Sunbury, Oh, Us

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Marketing leader responsible for the material life-cycle management (Digital Asset Management) & distribution (Web-to-Print) applications used by our marketing and sales associates for the acquisition of print & digital marketing collateral and premium items, serving our insurance, financial, and other enterprise businesses.• Led the delivery of an iPad application that allows for digital display and distribution of marketing and sales materials. The result has been an improved user experience, and a reduction in time to market and associated print costs.• Responsible for ensuring that required regulatory materials are distributed to customers within the appropriate time-frames. Requires working with multiple internal partners and outside vendors. (i.e. Prospectus and supplements)• Leading the team that is responsible for material distribution following various regulations (FINRA, SEC, State and Firm restrictions); Ensuring the proper life-cycle of material is followed including the appropriate retention, destruction and legal hold processes are managed. • Management of various SaaS based vendors for the distribution and fulfillment solutions.

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Leader of a team of architects that provided technical solutions and consultation for our business partners in the Nationwide Financial (NF) and Enterprise Applications (EA) line of business, with a matrix relationship to their respective CTOs.• Developed and improved the strategy and processes for infrastructure refresh activities that resulted in a reduction of over $750K in average annual operational expenses. This became the model for other organizations due to its success.The changes increased performance an positively impacted meeting SLAs, while reducing risk to the NF organization by managing to MTBF server lifecycles.• Lead architect on the migration and shutdown of two remote data centers, reducing cost and reducing risk by eliminating unneeded points of access to the Nationwide core network.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Member of the software sales team at IBM (JP Morgan Chase account). Responsible for the leadership of the overall Technical Health, Software Technical Strategy and Software Account Plan. The role was multi-brand covering all IBM Software Group products (WebSphere, Lotus, Tivoli, Rational, & Information Management).• Built working relationships with IT executives, leaders and architects to ensure they saw myself and IBM as trusted advisers and ensured our strategy and sales plan was consistent with their changing business needs. Increased product awareness and active interest by over 40% in one year.

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Responsible for the leadership of the Office of Investments systems department within Nationwide's Enterprise Applications organization. My primary objective was to lead the change management of the Investment Systems department into the IT organization from the Investments business unit by leveraging my background of the Nationwide IT standard processes and tools. This goal was completed in 18 months, six months ahead of plan.Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) control owner for the Investments IT systems.

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Manager over application development and engineering staffs for Internet applications and the Nationwide Global divisions.• Management of the hardware and software budget and vendor contracts for the department• Reduced costs equaling 1/6 of the overall NF IT consumption reduction efforts in 2002• Internet SME of the roll out of the ITIL Incident and Change processes at Nationwide• Provided strategy to our international operations for e-commerce and shared services initiatives• Technology Standards Board (TSB) member representing the Nationwide Global business unit• Managed to the requirements and processing of international data. Included appropriate aggregation levels and compliance to international regulations.

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Multiple progressive roles with a focus on Internet and Intranet applications using various web based technologies. This required becoming fluent in product evaluations and procurement (RFP) processes. • Lead developer in the 1st implementation of customer access via the Internet for Nationwide• Established initial SLAs and DR environment for the enterprise Internet/Intranet infrastructure• Provided security consulting for e-commerce development activities• Administration of DMZ infrastructure components (Firewalls, DNS, Web/App servers,VPN)• Performed hardening process, installation and cabling of DMZ servers• Setup first Certificate Server at Nationwide for internal use• Created and maintained role-based access control groups for secured systems• Design, build and maintain financial illustration applications to aid the sales staff

Reston, Virginia, Us

Responsibilities included: create source code for automatic test equipment systems to test reliability and functionality of Air Force avionics; design electrical and electronic test adapters to interface universal test systems with specific avionics equipment; generate supporting DOD standard documentation for the test programs and interface adapters. This position required a Secret level security clearance.

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Responsibilities included: design, maintenance and support of software and hardware for a nationwide network of UNIX based computer systems; performed systems administration for client-server environment; provided support for personal computers and telecommunication hardware and software.Management of the remote parts ordering systems, which included: Server access and control; parts ordering system application development; and disaster recovery implementations; Management and support of the remote access bank of modems used by customers for the parts ordering system; Development and configuration of the modems and software supplied to customers to enable remote parts ordering process.Implemented bar code printing system for enhanced and automated inventory management. Included addressing plant floor wiring issues through proper shielding, routing and amplification.

Stockholm, Se

As an intern at Electrolux, I was the primary engineer in the design and implementation of the voice activation and mechanical controls portion of the Kitchen of the Future project sponsored by Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Our demo unit was put on display at the Ohio State Fair and later implemented in the American Electric Power (AEP) House of the Future.Provided support of AppleTalk network and Macs used by the engineering team.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Marketing & Strategy Focus

Bachelor, Science Electronic Engineering Technology