Lead a team of 14 enterprise banking application experts responsible for partnering with all business unit leaders to develop strategic technology plans, align work with technology trends, drive continuous improvements, and foster a customer-centric team culture. Accountable for providing the long-term strategic vision and develop the roadmap for core banking applications and over 100 ancillary applications. Responsible to identify, prioritize and deliver on key initiatives relating to acquisition and integration efforts, system upgrades, and development and deployment of new functionality.Select Achievements: - Managed and maintained a consistent annual budget of approximately $13MM while the bank grew 118%, 30% and 9% during the past three years.  - Managed the renegotiation of a long-term contract for the primary core banking provider (bank’s largest technology commitment) saving the bank 33% each year and allowing for free growth of this volume-based agreement. Contract includes a favorable early exit plan and effective SLAs.  - The Information Technology team achieved the top IT risk management rating possible in both the 2015 and 2016 joint Federal and State Examiner’s exams.  - Managed the successful execution of a technology plan to convert, integrate or migrate all of the data and software applications of an acquired $2.8 billion bank with 45 branches in six months; and two acquired banks simultaneously with 18 branches in four months.  - Created and implemented a business focused, structured application support model resulting in improved business owner communication, change management, and development life-cycle.

Executive Manager for the credit union’s Information Technology Department. This included managing daily system operations; WAN/LAN infrastructure; and risk management. Created and developed the IT department’s long-term strategic goals, policies, and procedures. Provided leadership and managed the people, processes and technologies within the credit union to ensure support for the strategic direction. Select Achievements: - Instituted the use of a corporate-wide project management methodology utilizing the Project Management Institute’s techniques supported by their accredited certification.  - Implemented a new collections system that has a real-time interface to the core system to ensure accurate information and promote better efficiencies within the Credit Solutions Department. Loan delinquency was reduced by 32% during the first two years following system implementation.  - Developed a stringent database management process for ensuring the Oracle system is running at an optimal level to ensure access speed is effective.  - Implemented a Cisco Unity Connection phone system including VOIP, voicemail, and unified messaging. The system provided a higher level of call routing, call management and reporting resulting in reduced costs due to more informed call center staffing requirements.  - Designed a disaster recovery site which included redundant data communications, telephone system, core systems, virtual servers; a well-prepared hot-site; and automatic fail-over for data communications used for card processing, internet banking, and internet.

Strategic business leader with Board level accountability responsible for aligning the IT team and programs for the established enterprise objectives. Served as executive manager responsible for an 18 person IT Department. Also is a key leader in the critical strategic, technical and management initiatives that mitigate risks and drive business growth. Select Achievements: - Led the integration of two financial institutions in 10 months including the core systems integration, data conversion, network integration for 25 branch offices, network security and over 100 third party applications.  - Managed a corporate-wide core system conversion from a mainframe environment to a thin-client/server based system. Led 20 cross-functional project teams which spanned over 11 months including vendor selection, planning, data conversion, testing and user certification, coordination of over 30 third party interfaces, and employee education.  - Engineered a fully redundant, disaster recovery system providing complete functionality for branches, call center, and online banking, available within hours of a declared disaster.  - Designed and developed a Business Intelligence solution centralizing disparate data for mining and report publishing to be easily available to all users through the corporate intranet. - Implemented an internet lending product, a client-server based loan origination system, and CRM solution.