Driving a portfolio of US IT initiatives over a period where White Claw has grown from inception to a 100+ million case brand. Overseeing solutions development, engineering, and deployment of custom applications and business intelligence solutions. Nurturing partnerships between senior US business executives and the corporate IT group. Collaborating with senior IT leads on technical best practices, process, and systems architecture.Select accomplishments:* Five years of continuous improvement and program management of Sales’ Annual Business Planning tool* Expansion of mobile iOS retail account survey app* Launched mobile Sales Enablement platform on iOS* Extension of Qlik BI capabilities to internal tools such as annual business planning and market surveys* Enhanced order platform to meet logistical business challenges* Installed new consumer support system with related systems integrations* Refactored backend systems to eliminate unnecessary software licensing* Mentored several new hires as IT presence in the Chicago office expands, including two direct reports

Traded commodity and equity index futures and options. Wrote Python programs to analyze trade opportunities, develop summary level reporting, and test trading strategies.Select accomplishments:* Learned Python and various data science modules. * Presented my exploration of weekly SPX returns with reference to an iron condor strategy to ChiPy Financial SIG. Notebooks are available on Quantopian.

Accountable for all software, custom applications, systems infrastructure and operations support. Managed a team of eight staff with periodic project management responsibilities over additional consultants. Administered IT budgets in excess of $1 million. Developed long term strategy for custom application development and deployment. Custom apps included a pension administration system, a payroll reporting web app, business workflow, routing and KPI applications. Accountable for Cisco VOIP system and network infrastructure, VMWare, EMC SAN, Windows and Linux Servers, VPN, PCs, mobile devices, MFPs and other peripherals, systems backup and recovery, business continuity planning and info sec program administration. Supported software included Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange, SharePoint, Office and Dynamics and EMC Documentum. Reported directly to the Executive Director and influenced the organization's technical and operational strategies. Organized and interpreted member account data yielding actionable intelligence impacting key business process milestones.Select accomplishments:• Hired and retained 5 high-performing employees over a 5 year period. Established Development and Infrastructure team org structure with distinct roles and responsibilities, leading to increased collaboration, accountability and proper segregation of duties.• Developed policy based financial controls for IT systems, including comprehensive application change management policies and procedures.• Delivered a large custom application development project of $600K on time and on budget with integrated development team of 4 consultants plus staff. • Negotiated buyout of distressed 3rd party software maintenance agreement and developed in house capabilities, significantly improving outcomes while eliminating $200K in annual expenses.• Introduced and leveraged new technologies on an enterprise level, including VMWare virtualization, Microsoft SharePoint, Linux and Ruby on Rails.

Senior Consultant 8/2005 – 6/2007 Technical Consultant 5/2001 – 8/2005 Associate Consultant 7/2000 – 5/2001Member of consulting team supporting the implementation of a pension administration system.• Designed and developed automated correspondence and custom reporting.• Transitioned from supporting to leading role in data conversion efforts. Analyzed and corrected data integrity and availability issues.• Developed ctpfers.org, the website used by Chicago charter schools to remit their payroll information to CTPF for pension accrual purposes. Used HMTL, CSS, Javascript, Perl, MS SQL Server and Adobe graphics products.• Designed and developed supporting web and Visual Basic applications.Member of development team responsible for maintaining and enhancing a custom payment processing application in an AS/400 DB2 environment using COBOL and MQSeries. Technical analyst and developer of a web portal that enabled employers to submit child support withholding payments to the appropriate State Disbursement Units via ACH Transfer.

President and founder of custom computer business building and selling PCs to Northwestern students.