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Wichita, Kansas, Us

Own the strategy, planning, and performance of applications and technical operations for Equity Bank. Direct the effective and creative use of information technology to evolve customer journeys, digitize end-to-end operations, and create new data analytic capabilities, while modernizing technical infrastructure for optimal performance and resiliency. Lead, mentor, motivate, and develop a high-performing team. Foster a culture of communication, transparency, and accountability.

Kansas City, Mo, Us

I entered UMB Bank with a mission to transform, modernize, sunset legacy technology, and introduce technologies to create a more agile environment to seamlessly scale and shift with market, economic, and customer changes. My oversight spans transformation, enterprise architecture, applications (deposit, lending, payments), and enterprise fraud teams. I strategically partner across product and business functions to surface gaps in current technologies and craft a multiyear strategic plan for future integrations.Key Results:▬▬▬▬▬▬▬✓ Spearheaded introduction of real-time payment solution that was projected to increase revenue and improve customer retention, managing strategic partnerships with 3rd-party vendors. ✓ Lowered TCO and stimulated development of a more sustainable environment through an enterprise architecture strategy that strategically aligned business functions. ✓ Built out new retail internet banking platform – replacing 20-year-old legacy system – introducing digital issuance, fraud alerts, and new account creation to elevate competitiveness in the market and open revenue opportunities. ✓ Headed move into the cloud to elevate revenue opportunities through agile innovation, reduce costs, ensure market competitiveness, and reduce on-premises talent needs. ✓ Fueled digital transformation across core banking technologies to enhance the customer experience, enabling real-time deposit processing, core card processor conversion, and enablement of advanced loan processing functionality including digital workflow and imaging.✓ Increased the enterprise risk posture through the development of an enterprise fraud program that consolidated systems, introduced machine learning and AI with real-time fraud detection and prevention, and improved market position by driving down traumatic experience of fraud.

Denver, Co, Us

Inside this multibillion-dollar diversified financial services company, I drove the optimization and modernization of the IT landscape to lead the organization through a major growth phase. I partnered across the executive team and with diverse functions to drive short- and long-range strategic planning, technology investments, systems integration, governance, and IT planning. I played a critical role in the development of powerhouse teams and the advancement of the IT infrastructure to ensure a scalable and resilient function that could weather market, economic, and compliance changes. Key Results:▬▬▬▬▬▬▬✓ Recognized need for and built an information security program from ground zero to comply with advancing GLBA requirements. ✓ Managed and navigated through multiple growth stages, shaping strategies to future-ready the operation at it expanded from $500M to $4B in assets and completed/integrated 6 separate M&As. ✓ Spurred delivery of 300+ business applications to transform the customer experience and elevate IT functionality and capability in alignment with shifting customer and market demands. ✓ Defined 5-year strategy to move technical assets from "in-house" resources to cost-neutral "cloud" resource for improvements to core capabilities, duplication elimination, complexity reduction, and adoption of new technologies. ✓ Instituted first-ever project management office (PMO) to enable the delivery of critical projects that met business objectives, on time and on budget.✓ Deployed and led the first business continuity program across the entire enterprise to ensure stability of business functions for customers in the event of natural or man-made disasters including pandemics. ✓ Inaugurated a technology risk management program based on NIST and COBIT standards that addressed all components of risk, including technical risk, information security, compliance, and customer and corporate information security.

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Former Senior IT leader for Southwest Bank of Texas, now Amegy Bank of Texas with approximately $13 billion in assets. Brought on to direct Operations, Infrastructure, Applications Support, Help Desk, Field Service, Data Management Engineering and Training. Quickly resolved and eliminated IT material weaknesses that were hampering growth.• Developed and implemented >100 business applications that drove revenue growth and optimized operational efficiencies. Created, designed, and implemented 100K square foot operations center facility, including a 15K square foot data center. Redesigned the infrastructure of two major operation centers and 70 bank locations. Planned and directed all Y2K remediation efforts.