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Chesterfield, Missouri, US

West Chicago, IL, US

Maximized growing corporations’ mission-critical enterprise-wide operational efficiency and market penetration, via web and mobile-based technologies. Delivered process improvements to ensure global IT organization governance and compliance, including customer service and supply chain management. Advised startup and large corporate organizations on.

Elmhurst, Illinois, US

• Led organization transformation and system redevelopment / reimplementation efforts for core back-office, customer-facing and driver-facing systems. New system will result in increased margins, more rapid.
• Led replacement of all systems. Worked with key system development vendors to implement a new platform integrating Salesforce Service Cloud, Descartes Route Planner, Kronos Scheduling, and a custom developed driver.
• Rationalization of legacy infrastructure for networking, telecommunications, IaaS, and hardware resulting in over $450K in savings. All future systems and infrastructure will be implemented as SasS or PaaS resulting in.
• Transform the organization. Redesigned and grew the organization from 7 to the current headcount of 19 with a budget of $7M. Organization encompasses Development, Infrastructure and Support, Quality, and IT Product.
• New headquarters. Designed and implemented all technology aspects and was a key member of the build out and move teams for the new 400 employee corporate headquarters. All facility technology is 100% cloud-based.

US

• Lead diverse group of over 200 resources with a budget of $22M+ providing services for both external facing software products as well as internal claims processing systems and support. These functions include.
• Lead the redesign and reimplementation effort for all externally facing software products. Grew the organization from 32 resources to over 70 in less than 18 months to support the effort. Implemented full Agile.
• Implemented data operations function to effectively monitor and manage 2000+ data feeds and the onboarding of 20M records a day. This function has allowed us to reduce our data transit time by over 75% and increase.
• Implemented process and infrastructure necessary to support 40 resource outsourcing relationship. The addition of these resources has allowed employed resources to focus on adding new feature / function to our products.
• Key member of deal team involved in all aspects of the acquisition of Valence Health by Evolent Health (NYSE: EVH) for $220M in October 2016. Coordinated integration planning for the Valence IT function with the.

San Antonio, Texas, US

• Expertly develop healthcare industry focused mobile technology [including FDA 510(k) clearance], driving enhanced clinician engagement, strengthening care coordination, and improving clinical and financial performance..
• Direct multi-million dollar combined revenue value strategic customer joint-development partnerships.
• Engage in the management and oversight of technological aspects within intellectual property portfolio (patents) creation and enforcement.
• Lead technology transition into core platform and processes for the integrated mobile system, enabling medical personnel to view all relevant patient data.
• Develop comprehensive technology strategy and plans, budgeting, status reporting and board presentations.Designed and managed a $7.4M+ combined engineering resources and IT infrastructure. Evaluated, selected, planned.
• Delivered $10M+ in recurring SaaS revenue products, growing from a single niche product to an integrated product suite.

• Created technology group for startup dot-com and oversaw $6.4M budget. With 17 employees and 12 consultants, developed comprehensive product in five months.
• Directed all product activities, including product management, development, implementation, data center and operations.
• Created custom-developed solution uniquely combining technology and procurement personnel expertise, from product definition through functional design and development.
• Developed and implemented comprehensive product development and delivery processes.
• Managed customer requirements analysis and competitive product analysis; buyer and supplier B2B architecture; vendor and product evaluation, demo/prototype development, implementation methodology; sales and marketing.

London, GB

• Provided executive leadership within this 35,000 employee, $6B insurance and financial technology services organization. Hired as Technical Head for Advanced Technology Division inception and development, implementing.
• Directed a $58M budget, 200-member group for global corporate business unit information systems activities, including systems analysis, programming, and computer operations and support.
• Provided senior-level organizational technical vision and strategic planning, including organizational consolidation, project development, and key external organizational voice.
• Eliminated $15M of redundant systems to achieve the largest possible return for enterprise business requirements analysis and architecture plans, combining ongoing investments as key input to the detailed planning.
• Maximized the positive impact on information leverage organization-wide by spearheading analysis to determine which possible key data items’ characteristics to standardize and encode in directly controlled systems, and.
• Streamlined standardization and leveraged application development investment by making existing systems’ reusable components and frameworks available corporation-wide through analysis, selection, packaging and.

• Managed the $26M budget software development and daily business operations. Expanded the organization by designing and implementing several Internet/intranet, data warehousing, and actuarial analysis projects..
• Merged six other internal IT groups into the organization.
• Developed a new $15M retail insurance broking system by replacing current AS/400-based back office system for all 65 U.S. retail brokerage offices.
• Directed all information systems activities, including systems analysis, programming, and computer and auxiliary operations.
• Managed a $6M, 40-man-year project, developing a client server natural catastrophe modeling system, and delivering service to customers via a phased iterative approach and object-oriented techniques.
• Strategized the corporate-wide global consolidated intranet framework by integrating individual operating companies’ sites, including infrastructure, common user interface standards, and content organization..

Dublin 2, IE

GB

Arlington, VA, US