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Spokane, Washington, United States

Spokane, Washington, Us

Member of the management committee at AgWest Farm Credit, a $30B customer-owned financial lending cooperative, with responsibilities including strategic resource prioritization, application services, business analysis, and project management. AgWest Farm Credit was formed in 2023 through a merger of Northwest Farm Credit and Farm Credit West. The association provides financing and related services in Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington to farmers, ranchers, agribusinesses, commercial fishermen, timber producers, rural homeowners, and crop insurance customers. In addition to management activities, responsibilities include:•Chair of the strategic prioritization committee, chartered to prioritize association resources, oversee change capacity, identify, and assess emerging opportunities and risks, collaborate across departments and business units, and drive communication of strategic business initiatives and projects throughout the association.•Executive sponsor for merger work related to integration of primary business systems.

Springfield, Massachusetts, Us

Member of the Financial Partners, Inc. (FPI) board of directors. FPI provides technology and related services to Farm Credit associations across the United States. Technology offerings include enterprise applications, infrastructure services, information security, data processing, and technical support. Before joining the board, served as chair of the FPI technology governance committee with work focused on collaborating with representatives from other associations to align respective strategic priorities and key technology initiatives, including governance, security, application development, operations, and adoption of cloud services.

Spokane, Washington, Us

Member of the senior leadership team and executive management committee at Northwest FCS, a customer-owned financial lending cooperative, with management responsibilities over strategic planning, information technology, security, data governance, project management, business analysis, and organizational change management. Northwest FCS provided financing and related services in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington to farmers, ranchers, agribusinesses, commercial fishermen, timber producers, rural homeowners, and crop insurance customers, growing assets from $10B in 2014 to $15B in 2022 before merging with Farm Credit West in 2023 to form AgWest Farm Credit. Key accomplishments included:• Formalized and modernized the association’s technology architecture, including migrating custom legacy systems to standardized commercial cloud systems.• Developed and implemented a modern technology operating model, including addition of agile methodologies and product management.• Created a change leadership initiative focused on developing the culture and capacity of the IT and Project Management teams, including initiatives for strategic alignment, consultative change leadership, building trusted advisor relationships, and employee engagement. • Improved the security program through the adoption of the NIST cybersecurity framework.• Built an organizational change management discipline to support staff through adoption of procedural and technical changes, reducing risk of change resistance.• Formalized the business analyst team capabilities, with focal points including customer and employee needs assessments using persona development, journey mapping, and system dynamics methods.• Chaired the Northwest FCS information management steering committee.• Member of Farm Credit Digital Alliance (FCDA) operations committee. The alliance developed customer-facing digital products and services on behalf of Farm Credit entities representing over $100B in assets.

Denver, Co, Us

Member of the senior leadership team at Red Lion Hotels, a publicly traded (NYSE) hotel company, with direct management responsibilities over information technology, corporate engineering, facilities and purchasing. •Executive sponsor for industry award winning e-commerce initiative.•Drove key strategic projects to leverage cloud providers, improving business capabilities and reducing costs.•Led corporate initiative to implement a sustainability program, significantly reducing corporate utility spend and carbon footprint. •Led implementation of Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard compliance program, materially reducing related risk across all Red Lion transactional systems.•Managed IT transformation to meet Sarbanes-Oxley governance requirements.•Led the selection and implementation of enterprise systems to accommodate company growth, doubling central reservations revenue contribution while significantly improving cost efficiency, productivity, and service levels.•Managed the development of software for hotel guest loyalty program.

Spokane, Washington, Us

Managed information technology and residential property management teams with responsibilities including staff supervision, budget management, IT operations and planning, residential property owner relations, and interaction with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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Managed manufacturing processes, production yield, device testing, and quality assurance for multiple Exabyte data backup products.•Lead manufacturing engineer for launch of new flagship product in 1996.•Initially responsible for product line representing approximately $5.7M/year in sales, lead engineer in offshoring product manufacturing.

Engineer'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Education record

Management Executive Education, Business Dynamics