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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.
• 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.

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.
• 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)

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.