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Riverside, Ca, Us

San Jose, Ca, Us

• Partnered in the transformation of a BE specific team to a new shared service team within Cisco IT, overseeing technology delivery for key functions of the Networking business.• Reorganized and combined teams to operate as a unified engineering organization, optimizing efficiency and collaboration.

San Francisco, California, Us

- Increased Engineering Velocity ~60% through standardization of processes, empowering teams, and promoting SAFe Agile Best Practices. - Re-organized near 60 member engineering team into business area focused platform agnostic development teams aligned to business value streams driving faster time to value, increased internal CSAT, and streamlined processes. - Developed Comprehensive career ladders for all roles in the department and empowered leaders to use them to drive development conversations with Staff, improving People Metrics around job clarity, expectations, and improving retention. - Drove consolidation of enterprise & business architecture practice to better align technology roadmaps to the long-term business strategy.- Oversaw implementation of entirely new recurring revenue business model; built in existing platforms, and aligned to best practices; enabling $10MM+ in new ARR business to date.- Leveraged external vendors to scale development teams to meet business critical deadlines; including driving hundreds of thousands in savings from vendor firms through negotiations.- Lead Integration of Meraki internal assets with Cisco Corporate Network & Identity, preserving key autonomy the business required, but aligning to corporate methods where in the best interests of both teams.

Oakland, California, Us

- Lead a team of nearly 250 Analysts, testers, and engineers, developing comprehensive test suites for mission critical (life & death) software. - Leading large matrixed team, on and off shore, as the primary accountable leader for all testing efforts, 5 simultaneous testing phases for multiple lines of business in parallel; Project Scale: ~4 years,$1B in capital investment. - Drove the creation and implementation of an automation strategy that significantly reduced manual effort, improved quality, and accelerated defect resolution by allowing engineers to re-test their fixes in real time.- Worked with business leaders to ensure coverage of their key scenarios and edge cases and ensure the system went live with minimal production issues.

Oakland, California, Us

- Responsible for all aspects of the Technology supporting the Affordable Care Act Line of Business- Built and Managed team responsible for triage and mitigation of production issues including engaging customer outreach, developing operational work-arounds, and coordinating with development teams at vendors when a fix was required in their platforms.- Saved tens of millions in operating costs by implementing automated analytics on daily activities to detect issues, process automation, and long term EDI optimization.

Oakland, California, Us

Working to provide technical & process solutions to Improve Operations. Building and Developing Cross organizational End-to-End Analytics across Membership Administration and Vendors. Working to move operational processes towards automation.

Oakland, California, Us

Working within the On-Exchange Program to manage high impact, extremely visible, and tightly regulated projects related to legacy enrollment and EDI platforms. Pushing resolution as quickly as possible while mitigating member impact and maintaining regulatory compliance.

Working as part of a project management team to facilitate the rapid growth, system and process optimization, and technology adoption of a mortgage services company. Leading Agile teams in Java and .NET, both onshore and off shore to rapidly develop complex internal applications.

Designed, implemented, and patented Pre-Service Medical authorization and adjudication system. Including designing and coding the web architecture (MVC based web-portal with integration to multiple COBOL applications on the back end and a large MySQL database). Lead a cross functional team composed of subject matter experts, the medical director, researchers, and programmers working in 2 very different technologies using agile methodologies. Lead a cross functional team including the medical director, sales staff, government relations director, researchers and other developers along with myself to design and develop software for rating medical providers, resulting in significantly decreased costs for payers.Leading a small development team including an outsourced GPS developer designed and developed a provider referral engine, utilizing scores resulting from the above system and GPS mapping to suggest nearby providers, of a specific type, that would likely result in the lowest cost and best care. Forecast timelines, developed budgets, prioritized features, worked with vendors, managed risks including licensing and patent issues, wrote documentation, managed future feature needs, interfaced with clients, consulted on sales calls, managed client expectations, developed rollout plans for various test markets. Chosen for technical skill and leadership ability to run a new spinoff: Provider Analytics LLC.

Bs, Accounting

Ma, Biblical Studies & Theology

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