Sr. Director, Software Engineering, Enterprise Platforms
Led the software engineering teams for financial systems across the Cox Automotive portfolio including Oracle EBS, SAP, business intelligence, and mobile platforms. Developed engineering best practices, strategic direction for the platform, software vendor and service provider selection and management• Created the scale needed for one of the largest ERPs in the world which is responsible for over 9 million annual invoices and $240B in financial transactions• Spearheaded the migration from hosted data center to Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and the transformation to infrastructure-as-code resulting in $1.5M annual savings in infrastructure support costs• Removed risk and improved customer experience through the implemention of resiliency improvements to consistently exceed 99.5% availability targets• Transformed the engineering team from a traditional waterfall delivery model to scaled agile• Recruited, mentored and coached 6 Direct Reports and a department of 60+ employees