Selected to lead a critical group of core IT teams, with 12 direct reports across 5 teams. The teams included Symitar, the core financial system ($4B in assets and 350k member accounts), IT Security & Architecture, Database Administration, and the Data Warehouse. Build close partnerships with the IT application and business stakeholders to provide impactful change on UFCU’s core financial systems and operational backbone. Championed continuous improvement and process excellence across the 5 IT areas.• Successfully transitioned the Data Warehouse and Symitar Core teams from waterfall into agile development and planning practices. • Oversaw the development of UFCU’s first custom cloud-based Data Warehouse throughout multiple phases, including onboarding 5 core vendor data sources, implementing a data virtualization layer using Denodo, and the development of new self-service dashboards and reports using Azure PowerBI.• Transformed the relationship between our Symitar core team and the IT and business stakeholders by building trust through successful project delivery, streamlined intake and communication process, improved testing, and training.• Championed and led the effort to implement next-gen IT security tools, including Palo Alto Cortex XDR for end point protection, CriticalSTART for MDR(Managed Detection & Response), and Fastly/SignalScience WAF(Web Application Firewall) to protect our public facing web API’s.• Actively contributed and currently facilitating future state architecture development and strategic planning.• Spearheaded multiple designs, automations, deployments and support processes for key systems utilizing my technical development experience.• Responsible for identifying opportunities, engaging Leadership, issue communication and continuous improvement on the Shared Technology Services team.• Provide individualized coaching and feedback to team members and peers.

Collaborate closely with business stakeholders to align technology to support business processes and help resolve technical issues. Oversee day-to-day operations, tactical and strategic enhancements and upgrades to the company’s ERP system including changes to item maintenance, pricing, ordering, receiving, and ensuring accurate and consistent communication with the point of sale (POS) systems in 500 stores. • Successfully transitioned the organization from a waterfall to an Agile development environment, which has significantly improved the speed and quality of application development.• Spearheading the integration efforts between the current ERP platform, and the large-scale partnership development of a new cloud-based ERP system, designed to serve the company for the next decade with numerous enhancements including the integration of real-time Business Intelligence, analytics and reporting.• Currently overseeing multiple critical and highly confidential projects in collaboration with Amazon.• Presented with a “Global Technology All-Star Award” in 2016 for exceptional overall performance.

Lead, trained and supervised an agile team of five direct reports with overall responsibility for supporting the Grocery, Specialty, Private Label, Food Safety, and Health and Body Care business teams. Collaborated closely with various business stakeholders to establish trust, gather requirements, prioritize features and ensure efficient, high-quality development and deployments. Managed multiple successful projects from initial planning and design, through execution, integration and ongoing support.• Transformed the relationship between technology and business by ensuring transparency and building productive, collaborative relationships which have helped manage and prioritize IT solutions to support major business initiatives.• Spearheaded the development of a supplier promotion funding and contract management solution which was used to negotiate and record supplier funded promotions for all 480 stores.• Created a custom incident management solution allowing stores to report and document food safety issues, which has transformed the ability of the Global Risk and Food Safety teams to respond quickly and effectively.• Oversaw the development of a custom integration and management solution for Nutritional Information (housing 10K recipes), which exceeded the FDA’s standards for reporting ingredients, allergens and nutrifacts for all prepared foods.• Rebuilt a legacy java web application for supplier promotion event execution and invoicing, which reduced processing time from 22 hours a day to just 15 minutes, enabling the stores to recognize actual results daily rather than monthly, enabling stores to make better buying decisions.• Recognized with a “Global Technology All-Star Award” in 2013 for work on the supplier promotion funding applications.

Designed applications, automated the build and deployment (DevOps), assigned and prioritized development tasks for a team of 18 developers across 11 regional offices. Maintained responsibility for development status reports and communication with senior leadership and business partners. • Helped facilitate, support, implement a 3rd party Recipe Management system to the stores and bakehouses.• Implemented and built custom integrations from a 3rd party Recipe Management System into the company ERP system, thereby providing a single global platform for Recipe Management that all stores use.• Designed and coded an item/price lookup web application to support front end store users, increasing the amount of time team members were on the floor engaging with customers.

Worked on the Flexible Spending Account team. Worked in DB2 and SAS. Developed batch processing jobs for over 30 health care providers, team training, data conversion project management, year-end reporting

.Net and Reporting applications for E-Pass customers. Responsible for analysis and custom customer reporting solutions , server configuration, QA testing, application development, technical documentation and support