Creating Software-as-a-Service and data science solutions for stakeholders in the US mortgage industry; specializing in uncovering insights and extracting knowledge from open data.

Data architectures that scale; data warehouse automation; agile BI; senior program leadership. Recent clients include well-known companies in financial services, healthcare insurance, pharmaceutical, energy, and nonprofit.

Oliven Consulting was a Charlotte-based business process consulting firm founded to help my clients achieve their strategic goals through effective business processes. I brought critical thinking, data analysis, business intelligence, and domain expertise to the challenge of understanding my clients and designing highly effective processes to help them grow. Companies I worked with ranged from startups to the Fortune 500, in industries including Banking, Utilities, Renewable Energy, Logistics, and Communications.

Deep dive into consultative sales with a Microsoft Dynamics ERP and CRM partner and business process consulting firm. This was a great experience working with Microsoft, winning new clients, and helping them succeed and grow.

As a member of the executive leadership team at a $.5 billion national bank, I planned and executed major risk-mitigation and cost-reduction improvements, redefined IT staff core competencies to align IT with corporate strategy, created and led a robust vendor management program, implemented a comprehensive new risk-based Information Security Framework matching FFIEC guidelines, improved disaster recovery through SAN-based data replication and virtualization, introduced Check 21 capabilities with branch capture, and led a strategic initiative to improve ROI, network security, performance and scalability by leveraging open source solutions for VOIP, IDS, firewalls, system monitoring and alerting, help desk, web proxy and filtering, configuration management, log aggregation, and network trending.

Spearheaded delivery of an innovative SaaS business model for this early leader in online Talent Management and Applicant Tracking systems. Member of 4-person senior management team collaborating in strategic planning, product management, and corporate governance.

Smart people and an environment that rewarded performance - it took the dot com boom to lure me away. HP, IBM, and Sun UNIX sysadmin; Oracle and Sybase DBA.

Wonderful people, great place to start my career. This is where I learned many management and HR best practices still with me today.