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Prior Lake, MN, US

Minnetonka, MN, US

Minnetonka, MN, US

Eagan, MN, US

• Accountable for all aspects of application development and support of over 500 applications across all Blue Cross business and technical domains including solution architecture, business analysis, application.
• Led program efforts to decommission legacy application and hardware portfolio to save $125M in annualized costs resulting in the 90% reduction in IT staffing over a 4-year period.
• Guided and architected the re-platforming strategy for the Blue Cross health business resulting in migrating over 40 applications to a variety of on premise, SaaS, vendor hosted package, and cloud-based solutions..
• Managed $13M in development efforts to build and implement a new digital consumer experience platform. Leveraged an agile accelerator model to clearly define user experience prototypes. The new portal was a 2015.
• Identified the need to modernize the application portfolio and implement numerous technology upgrades including a Member / Person Master Data Management program, application, middleware, and database upgrades across.
• Optimized staffing strategies to more efficiently utilize resources on-site and offshore resulting in reduced costs of $5 million per year and improved operating efficiency.

Eagan, MN, US

• Directed team of 7 managers, 55 employees, and 120 contractors with project and cost-center budgets of $30M. Accountable for application break-fix support and maintenance of over 500 applications across all business.
• Determined strategy to stabilize applications that reduced major incidents by over 45% over 2 years. Collaborated with business and IT leadership to implement change management and system monitoring improvements to.
• Led SAP development and infrastructure teams to release a Travel Management module, core SAP upgrades, and migration of legacy Finance functions into SAP resulting in $1M in cost savings.

Eagan, MN, US

• Directed team of 3 managers, 35 employees, and 50 contractors in delivering initiatives to build, integrate, deliver, and support technology solutions for operating units across all business divisions with a cost.
• Established a testing Center of Excellence for full life-cycle testing including automation and performance testing. Executed RFP process to engage offshore partner to support testing initiatives on all projects and.
• Facilitated collaboration between application and infrastructure teams to improve overall project efficiency.

Eagan, MN, US

• Managed a team of 10 team members, 20 contractors working in application development projects of over $25M across Sales, Customer Service, Provider, Membership, and Health Management applications and portals.
• Established the first use of offshore development at Blue Cross and set best practices for offshore development in excess of $50M per year.
• Developed and implemented release management procedures for all project implementations to improve project delivery results.

Minneapolis, MN, US

• Managed teams of up to 10 team members, 40 contractors supporting Target Financial Services, Supply Chain Development, and Infrastructure Projects.
• Analyzed industry best practices and developed remediation plans to bring Target Financial Services applications into compliance with PCI and GLBA regulations. Collaborated with business partners to obtain over $30M of.
• Recommended and implemented the business case to consolidate 7 different replenishment applications to save over $8M by optimizing how merchandise was distributed from distributions centers to stores.
• Developed and implemented new strategies to reduce mainframe consumption and generate annualized savings of over $5M.
• Set successful technical direction for the mainframe and UNIX platforms.
• Led multiple projects to implement package solutions including large program efforts to stabilize infrastructure supporting Siebel CRM and the first ever migration from version 3 to version 4 of a PEGA PRPC application.

Houston, Texas, US

Bachelor Of Science, Finance And Mis

Economics