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• Led database technical strategy for transformative risk remediation across 990 partner applications• Championed 9 risk and compliance initiatives to meet Enterprise Information Security standards across applications and databases supporting several Lines of Business• Introduced application health refresh roadmap for critical horizontal systems including re-platform, support model change, application secure coding, builds, deploys• Increased availability of application/database by collaborating to align database strategy to business needs through establishing automatic application resilience and seamless failover• Saved 10.3% three year cost reduction on $8.2M annual budget while increasing delivery quality and system availability for 799 databases supporting 108 applications• Built an empowered and collaborative leadership team that increased team member engagement from 3.5/5.0 to 4.7/5.0• Total responsibility for 45 team members (45 FTE, 25 Consultants, 4 SOW Consultants, 16 India FTE)

• Architected the Lean Agile integration of the 220 member IT organization and the Business, defined DevOps strategy, coached 4 executives, 18 directors, and 26 team members• Results with 3 teams: Increased total development output by 57% in 3 months, increased time spent on value demand by 19%

• Served as trusted advisor to executive leaders optimizing application lifecycle management (ALM) transformation for 650 member IT organization, coached 9 executives and 28 managers• Contributed delivery guidance for $46M portfolio delivering solutions to better respond to business agility and application rationalization with 220 consultants• As Account Manager / Delivery Manager supported 38% top line growth with the client (32 consultants, $4.5M portfolio)• As National Agile Lead built the foundation for a national Agile consulting practice (Scrum, Scrumban, KANBAN) delivering improved software development speed, quality, and agility• Aligned technology and product management to refine and deliver on business objectives with direct impact to a $6B biotechnology organization• Streamlined technical delivery of $15M program through integrated processes for business and technology, test automation, branching strategy with continuous integration (“1-click deploy”)• Coached 9 diverse application teams (~60 team members) using a new technology stack while incorporating new code management and deployment practices (agile/scrum delivery model)• Engineered the DevOps strategy and roadmap for a $6B biotechnology company

Provided leadership for the 580 member Iowa nonprofit corporation. Accountable for $180k assets, $105k annual operating budget, and the overall functioning of the business.

• Led alignment of prioritization, estimating, and integrating technical work plans across 5 integrated application platforms, with total responsibility for 7 employees• Created and integrated TNT workflow with tax application and real-time synchronous solution across 9 systems (4 companies) that eliminated $10M in tax penalties in 1st year

• Provided technical leadership to a highly complex regulatory cross-sell initiative for Wells Fargo• Created a data driven automated software-testing suite for Fisher Controls

• Led a team of information technology professionals providing mission critical application, infrastructure, and desktop support providing 99% uptime• Led $10M manufacturing operation with robotics achieving 49% improvement in 9 months, maintained 95% delivery and 1200 defects per million, total responsibility for 75 employees• Configured and integrated Epicor Vantage Enterprise Resource Planning system in record time