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Suwanee, Ga, Us

United States

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Atlanta Georgia, Usa & London, United Kingdom

Chief Product and Technology Officer reporting to the CEO. Accountable for delivering innovative solutions to ~9000 customers globally across product, platform, and technology. Focusing on growing the Enterprise Value by expanding the market leveraging Cloud, Data, Digital, Platform, Portfolio Consolidation and Ecosystem Partnerships.Accountable for the overall Product Strategy covering 7 LOBs: Platform, Payments, Corporate Banking, Treasury / Capital Markets, Retail North America, and Retail International. Rationalized and optimized a complex product portfolio across all LOBs.Delivered FusionFabric.cloud (FFDC), a multi-sided network platform, serving as the foundation to marketplaces, Banking as a Service (BaaS), and Embedded Finance (EF). The platform includes Finastra Data Cloud, with a complete end-to-end data pipeline.

Greater Atlanta Area

CTO Software solutions reporting to the CEO and accountable for all software at NCR across all verticals: Financial, Retail and Hospitality. Key responsibilities include: setting the technology vision for NCR, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Portfolio Management, Engineering leadership, Product Management and P&L for the Payment and Security group. Leading the global software team with over 3000 globally distributed team.• Develop a vision and deliver “NCR Marketplace” for NCR's customers, solution providers and the developer community and “NCR insights”, a data based set of solutions for Big Data and advanced analytics. Those two innovative solutions are part of a transformation to a platform business model to enable digitally integrated businesses. Benefits include new high margin revenue growth opportunities, improving NCR’s brand as an innovator, shorten time to market, improve quality and TCO reduction. The main tenants of the transformation include data monetization and the API economy as well as portfolio optimization and rationalization.• Driving a cultural change for Design-Based thinking as well as outside-in thinking.• Driving operational excellence in 2 dimensions: internal efficiency and enterprise portfolio management. Accountable to optimize and rationalize the software portfolio as the only team within NCR that see the software portfolio holistically across all divisions

Greater Atlanta Area

Accountable for overall Strategy, Product Management, Enterprise Architecture and Technology for the Retail division of NCR Inc., Also accountable for Professional Services for the Food, Drug and Mass Merchandise segment.

Duluth, Ga

Global VP for the software engineering for all lines of business: Financial, Retail, Entertainment and Healthcare..

Office of strategy management, Product Management, Architecture, User exprience, Components, Enterprise Applicaiton Integration (EAI), Development, Quality Assurance, data center operations.

Managing over 300 people with a budget over ~$40.Product definition, design, management, development, testing, deployment and operation of the data center. The overall team performance grew by ~20% in the first year.Developed strategy focusing on revenue growth and productivity. Supported revenue growth of 12% and expenses reduction of 13%. Those two strategies drove double digit EDITDA growth.Established Balanced Scorecard (BSC) for strategy planning and alignment, and Quality Function Deployment (QFD) for product definition and DMADV (Design, Measure, Analyze, Design, Verify - Design for 6-Sigma – a DFSS methodology). Established Portfolio Management - investment strategy across the solution portfolio. Competitive analysis, product planning and go-to-market plans.Defined Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) with the Architecture team. Established the User Centric Design (UCD) process including various techniques to gather the Voice Of the Customer (VOC).

Definition, development and deployment of platform and applications for wireless carriers in North America and Europe.Market research, competitive analysis, strategic and technology partnerships.Identified acquisition targets and spearheaded due diligence to support M&A activities. Primary interface to industry standard bodiesCreated knowledge base, white papers and presentations for a Sales-Toolkit. Defined the business process, triggers and the transitions, using techniques like RACI (Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed) charts and Swim-Lane diagrams. Those tools helped reduce friction amongst the teams and explain the business process.Defined and developed the product roadmap including technology roadmap. Technologies and tools used in the solution: WebLogic, J2EE, EJB, Oracle, Apache web server, JSP, XML, XSL, DTD, MS Compact Framework, MS Internet Toolkit, Struts.