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Responsible for IT project development, daily production support, and legacy software continuous improvement / replacement across multiple tribal-owned entities.• Responsible for strategic direction and IT spend across headcount, infrastructure (mix of cloud and on-prem solutions), and vendor supporting solutions.• Coordinated onboarding of cloud vendor services (AWS, Rackspace) to existing on-prem solutions for loan decision engine suite enclosed within load balanced environment for Cloud IT Operations.• Primary IT liaison for SOC 2 Type 1 assessment engagement with external vendor, responsible for the establishment / enhancement of key policies including: Information Security, Incident Response, IT Risk Assessment and Management, Infrastructure Change Management, Electronic Media Disposal, and Removable Media.• Developed, maintained, and reported Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to business community with regards to website uptime and loan decision engine performance metrics.• Established continuously available SQL Data Warehouse on application volume, metrics and throughput for Risk, Marketing, Operations teams – updated every 15 minutes 24/7/365 with monitoring to support staff as warranted. • Developed customized nightly ACH processing automation to support dynamic investor assignment, delegation to payment processors, flexible reporting structures. • Removed redundant and inefficient file storage methodologies and internet providers, saving firm $25k per year.• Managed training of 65 employees on cyber security trends across 4 diverse office environments (Atlanta, St Croix, Puerto Rico, Upper Peninsula of Michigan).• Oversaw website support enhancement allowing firm to grow loan portfolio 120% within first 6 months of arrival.• Oversaw migration of primary website from Orchard framework to a more flexible and modern architecture (DNN). Oversaw expansion of Marketing content of primary site in excess of 10x amount previously available under Orchard

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Responsible for project management oversight for back-office operations applications and initiatives.• Managed $1 million project to upgrade global execution services applications across three regions (US, UK, and Asia Pacific) eliminating 40 obsolete servers, saving $200,000 in annual licensing and maintenance agreements. Managed both on-shore and off-shore infrastructure teams.• Enabled Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) eliminating 250 company owned instruments, replacing them with BYOD, saving more than $100,000 in hardware, maintenance, and support costs.• Managed training of 250 employees on cyber security policies. • Created and led ABN Amro Clearing Chicago Cyber Security Analysis team to organize, prioritize and remediate Cyber Security Gaps resolution list.• Directed rollout of Business Intelligence Analytics Tool (Tableau)• Established Portfolio Board of unit representatives to provide direction and prioritization to complete 120 projects within last calendar year.• Developed process for new project requests allowing for a priority structure and common value proposition.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Responsible for oversight and continuous improvement to nightly legacy batch systems. Staff of six Microsoft application developers.• Executed more than 2000 applications nightly to update more than 1500 client accounts. • Reduced critical update window curtailing foreign market participation from four hours to 35 minutes allowing for trader access.• Reduce overnight incidents from 120 to three annually by improving and redesigning code base and reusing common elements.• Established KPI measurements to track progress of more than 300 help desk tickets annually. • Cross trained staff to be self-sufficient, one-stop project team (PM, BA, dev, tester, implementation specialist) avoiding additional employee costs.• Managed oversight for project portfolio of 125 projects across eight business units. • Reduced lead time of projects 10% by front running initial business analysis, saving a week of developer labor costs. • Negotiated software vendor licensing cost reduction of 15%, saving $175,000.• Managed 275 user PC upgrades to Windows 7 and Office 2010 including all associated custom applications within 15 months.• Reduced market data vendor costs $66,000 annually by eliminating wasteful spending on duplicate data feeds.• Designed and developed Soft Dollar tracking application identifying $4 million in under reported commissions of broker activity.• Reduced operational risk of disaster recovery by directing Business Resumption testing.