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Dallas, Texas, United States

Dallas, Texas, United States

Dallas, Texas

With ORIX and subsidiary Lument, I championed unique business and customer solutions by managing a cross-functional team of Business Analysts, Project Managers, and Application Developers leveraging agile methodologies. As a liaison between executives, business departments, and the shared-service IT group, I streamlined communications to impact business systems and project teams. Also, I oversaw CRE technology budgeting and roadmap development while ensuring regulatory compliance.Selected achievements:» Led initiative to centralize loan accounting platform managing combined loan portfolio of >$48B and tracking >$100M in transactions per month; solution broadened subsidiary finance insights, centralized business processes, and boosted data warehouse capabilities.» Oversaw entire recruitment lifecycle while mentoring team of nine associates central to administering helpdesk support, corporate shared services, custom application development, and third-party software procurement.» Spearheaded creation of microservice apps like centralized comments, rent roll tracking, monthly investor reporting/validation, and covenant tracking to streamline business processes and provide cross-functional tools for multiple teams.» Reduced time to build, test, and deploy applications by 40%; successfully transitioned team from spreadsheets/TFS/manual deployments to intuitive cloud-based Azure DevOps method using CI/CD and Kubernetes.» Leveraged Agile methodologies (SCRUM) to track, build, and modify custom-built applications providing continuous delivery of solutions by harnessing both onshore and overseas resources.» Provided feedback and oversight for the corporate ITSM (ServiceNow) implementation by representing the needs and requirements for commercial real estate division.

Irving, Texas, United States

This role involved coordination of quality line of business solution development efforts as part of the development leadership team. I orchestrated collaboration among all stakeholders across business lines to prioritize objectives and ensure budget constraint alignment. Additionally, I coached a team of junior developers to drive professional growth and technical knowledge attainment.Selected achievements:» Unified document naming conventions while centralizing transaction/loan-level documentation, delivering efficient integration with custom asset management apps; reduced document silos by partnering with lines of business to craft/implement SharePoint framework featuring automated website creation, application integration, content types, and training methodologies.» Consolidated Organizational Data Mart from multiple sources into single solution utilized in company and departmental monthly compliance and annual budget reporting.» Built new NAI website informed by insights yielded from Power BI analysis of website effectiveness, included member/broker penetration, new deal activity, and estimated/final commission amounts.» Eliminated redundant/manual business processes, substantially reducing time to produce reports; designed centralized corporate reporting structure and strategically trained employees on SSRS, Excel, PowerQuery, and Power BI toolset.» Streamlined annual budgeting process via aggregation of corporate Dynamics GP data to Adaptive Insights cloud service.