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Boston, Ma, Us

Innovative technology leader spearheading the development of advanced digital solutions across mobile & web channels to elevate the experience of Fidelity customers

Boston, Ma, Us

Leader exploring Innovation & Emerging Technology opportunities in Personal Investing's Digital Experience domain.• Explore and recommend emerging technologies to transform customer, associate and branch experiences• Act as liaison to drive cross-company collaboration on emerging technology initiatives• Promote innovation culture, forming partnerships between teams to rapidly deliver solutions• Direct program management office to increase technology reuse across the enterprise

Boston, Ma, Us

Head of technology for Goal Booster, a digital savings & investing platform that helps young investors reach their short-term goals.Established & scaled the technology function from Fidelity Labs incubator startup to PI product launch.• Led technology hiring, strategy, architecture, development & delivery activities• Collaborated with cross-functional Personal & Workplace Investing leaders to deliver capabilities including:- Personalized real-time goal tracking, account opening and automated funding via EFT & payroll- Event-triggered customer engagement powered by Salesforce Marketing Cloud- Reporting, analytics & experimentation using Alation, Adobe & Google Analytics

Boston, Ma, Us

Lead Agile technology consultant delivering large strategic initiatives for the SHARES program.SHARES is an enterprise financial transaction management web application suite used by Fidelity's corporate finance business partners and employees. It serves thousands of users across global locations in North America, Europe and Asia.Recent deliveries include:- Launch of new RESTful web application to integrate SHARES with Fidelity.com to facilitate shareholder financial portfolio activities- Re-architected Agile CI/CD model to enable product delivery success through all application lifecycle phases- Reimagined custom email marketing solution to enable senior executive to employee communications

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Acted as digital engagement lead to deliver a reimagined web experience for a large multinational client using McKinsey’s rapid digitalization Agile methodology.

Boston, Ma, Us

Responsible for setting future technology direction for the SHARES program. This includes;- Leading collaboration activities with cross enterprise business and technology partners from definition to delivery of new product features using the Fidelity Agile Methodology- Representing the product team in all senior technology management architecture reviews - Ensuring all Corporate and product-specific IT standards and policies are adhered to throughout the SDLC process- Mentoring junior development team members to enable continued success- Managing and enhancing Continuous Integration process and tool suite as product evolvesInitiatives included;- Architecting an interactive, financial modeling tool to project future portfolio value- Using the latest UX design trends, redesigning the front end UI to enhance customer experience on the website- Internationalization of the product to serve customers with holdings denominated in multiple currencies - Defining and implementing a product-wide performance engineering delivery process to proactively ensure software solutions are optimized according to business partner SLAsAlso, act as lead consultant architect for the Partnership Accounting product which is based on SunGard Investran, private equity workflow software solution built on a .NET platform.

Boston, Ma, Us

Lead developer and Agile track lead for the SHARES Program.Main job responsibilities included;- Performing track lead duties over a team of developers, QA and business resources with tasks that included managing story backlog, scope, planning, execution and delivery.- Acting as lead developer in the design, development and testing of newly redesigned, shareholder and administrative web application- Working directly with business partners, developing effectively-balanced design solutions for implementation by a larger Agile development track- Contributing to the implementation effort, splitting time between hands-on code delivery and development governance via design reviews, pair programming and code reviews- Lead facilitator of project/iteration planning sessions and daily scrums- Providing support of the existing Java EE & .NET web applications

Boston, Ma, Us

Worked on the .NET Commons program, an initiative to encourage and facilitate the reuse of common .NET components across Fidelity.Projects and main job responsibilities included;- Design, development, testing and packaging of Fidelity Library, a collection of reusable components built using Microsoft's CAB and Enterprise Library for enterprise-wide use- Providing complete development support to Enterprise Library and CAB across the organization- Developing an Ajax pilot for a fund research team using Dojo and J2EE- Acting as liaison for submitting code to the application security group for secure code review. Actively involved in making any required code changes

Boston, Ma, Us

The LEAP program is Fidelity's intensive graduate training program in web application development. It encompassed a yearlong program divided into;- Four months of intensive classroom training in technology, business and professional skills- A two-month web development project for Fidelity-Ireland creating an internal LEAP website in ASP.NET- 6 months spent on a proof of concept integrating Siebel with an enterprise customer service web application

Boston, Ma, Us

Co-operative education spent as member of the Security Architecture & Technologies group.Duties included;- Carrying out extensive testing on the Reactivity XML Firewall appliance, a key component of the Fidelity B2B Web Services gateway- Developing a Java web application to allow members of the Cyber Security Working Group rate the impact various threats pose to Fidelity- Authoring research papers on numerous security-related topics- Administering group website

Bachelor'S Degree, Information Technology & Telecommunications

Postgraduate Diploma, Web Application Development