Senior Vice President of Technology and CISO, responsible for an IT Department which supports a substantial Multi-Family, Senior Housing and Hospitality Management group. Have established close working relationships with business heads and end-clients, delivering tactical priorities while progressing their longer-term needs. Oversee a team of 15 direct reports and member of the Waterton Management Committee.• Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) responsible for the creation and ongoing maintenance of Cyber-security and HIPAA programs at Waterton. This covers the Corporate office as well as all properties. Have fully implemented an enterprise-wide security culture at Waterton.• Launched an innovation program, putting the framework in place to capture, qualify and drive associate ideas to completion. Active participant and overall responsibility for Waterton investments in a Real Estate Technology accelerator, developing use cases around disruptive technology in the Real Estate space.• Outsourced Infrastructure to cloud-based provider, reducing hosting provider costs by 25% while improving stability and services to clients. Reduced Telecom costs at Waterton properties by an average of 20%.• Responsible for the support and maintenance of all applications used by the corporate office and Multi-Family and Senior Living Communities. • Implemented a strategic IT staffing model for the firm. Continue to improve the model with changes that strengthen the talent level overall and improve the bench strength of critical management positions. • Team has delivered on hundreds of projects over the past 6 years, fully supported by an active Project Management Office (PMO).• Have built out a fully-functioning data warehouse, updated daily with relevant data feeds from various applications. Launched a business intelligence project delivering dashboards/reports as requested by the business community.

Responsible for the design, development and ongoing support of the Technology and Application Infrastructure for a $12 Billion Fund Manager based in Chicago, IL and Hartford, CT.Accomplishments include;• Built architecture to support 2 major offices in Chicago and Hartford. Integrated US Infrastructure into Global Henderson Network based in London, UK.• Built US Mutual Fund Application infrastructure from the ground up. The operating environment ties in the trading operations from Henderson’s London offices, Back-Office support from State Street Bank, 3rd Party Transfer Agencies and Henderson’s Operations teams in Chicago and Hartford.• Implemented support for Wholesale distribution team, a group of individuals across the country charged with distributing Henderson funds to registered advisors. Support includes the use of handheld (Mobile) CRM applications, iPads, Mobile Apps and cloud technology.• Centralized and standardized a US Property Investment Application Infrastructure. Implemented usage of ASP solution for 100+ Properties owned by Henderson. • Implemented numerous revenue generating enhancements to Henderson's US Real Estate Advisory business, including the introduction of Resident Portals to multi-family communities, Online Payment functionality, Real-time unit availability delivered to property web-sites, Revenue Management system usage, Call Center technology and more.• Streamlined Operational Data/Work-Flow of the Institutional business, resulting in a quicker turn-around of the take-on of new mandates.• Built US IT Staff, handling all hiring/firing decisions.• Responsible for IT Budget, working across business lines to determine the best usage of discretionary dollars. Have met or beat annual budgets for past 13 years.• Overall responsibility for Henderson North America’s strategic technology direction.

Responsible for all in-store Hardware and Software Applications executing in over 1,000 sites across the country.Accomplishments included;• Responsibility for $10M dollar effort to implement standard Hardware/Software configuration for all in-store processing. • Responsible for Call Center operations for all sites, handling 70,000+ calls annually.• Responsible for all Vendor Management as well as contract management associated with Store Technology.

Highlights include;• Responsible for the replacement of various Mainframe Reserves applications with Client-Server applications.• Effort was broken into 5 staged releases covering a 14-month period. Multiple releases were managed concurrently.• Managed multiple Vendor scan processes, including a Request for Information (RFI) and Requests for Proposal (RFP) process. • Application handled over 7.5 million transactions monthly in support of Reserves reporting. Budgeted Project Amount was $1.9 Million. Annualized Savings were approaching $7 Million.• Responsible for stabilizing Payment and Reconciliation distributed applications (Mainframe, DB2/SQL, VB, MF Cobol). Coordinated the installation of 20+ enhancements and production fixes. Implemented reporting procedures so that all problems were addressed in less than 24 hours.• Addressed Compliance related concerns with Tax Reporting and Checkwriting applications. Hundreds of changes installed with no production fall-out. Established and opened communications with Tax related business personnel which led to the prioritization and implementing of high priority modifications.