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Head of Engineering for all Fedwire business lines. Lead multiple agile, technology teams of around 100 people nationally spanning all facets of delivery. Total budget of $30mSuccessfully delivered multi year, multi-million dollar initiatives across multiple business lines. Created new partnerships across the Federal Reserve System (FRS), introduced new technologies, built an organization of cross-functional teams (100+) and transformed the organization’s culture to be nimble embracing agile and iterative delivery processesCurrently leading a major transformation of the organization to an agile delivery framework Changed the culture of the development organization to consistently encourage experimentation and advancement of automation leading to break-through ideas for development, testing and deployment of applicationsEstablished new partnerships with senior leaders spanning business and technology groups across the FRS. Collaborated with senior leaders spanning business and technology groups on strategic planning, technology road maps, architecture and prioritization of initiativesLed customer data management application development for the FRS implementing web and API services providing secure and open access to data for client applicationsMember of various national leadership and technical advisory teams supporting strategic initiatives including establishing the first cloud migration strategy

Provided staff mentoring, solution architecture, project management and planning services for Fedwire Payment System teams. Engagement led to a full time leadership position within the Fedwire organization

Senior leader at a start-up IT consulting company focusing on Enterprise 2.0 platform enablement for the Financial Services industryLed various technical consulting engagements for financial services firms

Head of Web and Distributed application development for FICC, a subsidiary of DTCC. Led transformational change by building new cross-functional teams and introducing new nimble processes and technology standards ultimately used for all application developmentLed delivery of the Real Time Trade Matching Web platform. This street facing, mission critical platform provided real time trade processing for GOV/MBS/CMU products and ReposLed the implementation of DTCC’s first AML system. Created a new innovative agile delivery methodology to complete implementation in a very rapid timeframeImplemented the firm’s public website using the first SaaS based system in the organization. Managed vendors, marketing and technology teams with these implementationsImplemented company-wide shared services, web and security frameworks and vendor based IM systems that were foundational for other company-wide applications

Led multiple matrixed teams with the design, development and implementation of Repo Trading and end-to-end Fixed Income clearance systems. This included front and back office systems also supporting MBS, Muni and other business lines.Led delivery for client facing applications including Wealth Management, Financial Planning, Stock Plan Administration, CRM and other financial services applications supporting the firm’s Financial Advisor community.Designed and implemented enterprise wide technical operations technologies.Built strong relationships with vendors in support of various applications. Led technical due diligence examinations for many of these relationships.Most roles were hand-on including architecture, database design/modeling, coding (C, C++, Java and .Net), quality engineering, release management and production implementation.