Oversees and defines the strategic vision and direction of enterprise software applications for the third largest school district in the US, supporting 40,000 employees and 360,000 students in Chicago. Areas of responsibility include: Oracle Financials, Human Capital Management, Student Information Systems, Web Services, Service Management, Mobile Web Development, SQL Server Databases and Digital Signatures.Leads a group of 70+ IT professionals across 5 enterprise application teams. Direct reports include: Director of Oracle Financials, Director of Human Resources, Director of Student Information, Director of Web Services and Manager of Service Management; responsible for hiring, coaching, delivering performance reviews, overseeing projects and supporting personal growth.Manages an annual IT budget of $15 million, maintains a portfolio or 40 IT projects and manages 25 IT vendor contracts.Develops short and long term strategic visual roadmaps by area and ensures technology initiatives are aligned with the district's mission, vision and objectives.

Established and implemented the strategic vision and direction of enterprise software.Areas of responsibility include: Oracle Financials, Human Capital Management, Student Information Systems, Web Services, Service Management, Mobile Web Development, SQL Server Databases and Digital Signatures.Oversaw the successful rollout of a new Student Information System to 600+ schools and 25,000 educators in April 2019; the project consolidated 4 separate on-premise IT systems into 1 cloud hosted application.Onboarded a new Managed Services team of 10 people in May 2019 to improve technical support for the district’s core finance systems, including Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Hyperion, Oracle Business Intelligence and Oracle Imaging and Process Management.

Technology Director for the third largest school district in the United States, supporting enterprise applications for 40,000 employees and 400,000 students.Directed all aspects of enterprise web and mobile application development including business analysis, design, development, deployment, maintenance and support for 40+ web applications, including the district's primary public web presence, www.cps.edu.Led the strategic direction in the following areas: Mobile Web Strategy, Mobile Web Development, Enterprise Content Management, Web Governance, Content Strategy, Digital Strategy, SaaS applications, Web Analytics, Web Application Support, Software Development, Website Hosting and User Experience Design.Transformed the primary public web presence www.cps.edu to become the first large urban school district in the nation to be mobile device friendly. Established web governance group of 130 web content authors across 75 business units, upgraded web development process to be “Mobile First” using responsive web design, implemented Google Search and established unified web standards for 70 different websites across the district.Spearheaded moving the help desk support ticketing system to a cloud based Software as a Service (SaaS) provider to lower licensing costs by 22% and consolidate 2 different ticketing systems (HP PPM, HP Service Manager) into one solution (Service Anywhere). Retired 28 on premise servers to reduce operating costs.Architected a mobile friendly IT help desk statistics dashboard to improve visibility of incident tracking across IT leadership and drive accountability. Created simple charts and graphs to track 800+ active support tickets by priority, assignment group, ticket age and ticket backlog trends. Virtualized Production and Development Internet/Intranet web server environments using Hyper-V for 40+ web applications to reduce data center footprint and lower support costs.

Managed the launch of an enterprise district website www.cps.edu designed to provide Chicago parents, students and community members with information about district initiatives, programs and school performance. Developed a plan to migrate 40+ data driven web applications to 64 bit virtual servers to decrease server leasing costs, power consumption and cooling costs, and increase application availability.Streamlined software development life cycle for 30 web applications by implementing an automated build server and web based publishing system to sync content across a load balanced web farm.Designed and developed a self service password management website used by 45,000 employees to reduce help desk calls by 60% and decrease operational costs by $200K annually.Performed vendor evaluations for a web based Student Information System to support 400,000 students.Implemented an application inventory system for managing over 50 custom web applications and 380 school websites. Automated the creation of new school websites using a web request form with workflow.Designed and built a LDAP authentication web services framework to enable single sign-on capabilities.Implemented a Content Management System for the Chief Education Office to improve communication with 1,200+ Principals and Assistant Principals across the district.Architected and deployed web server infrastructure for Intranet and Internet web environments.Defined technology standards and best practices for internal and external software development teams.

Analyzed customer needs and creating detailed specification documents. Designed Internet application solutions for a wide range of business challenges. Implemented multi-user, transaction-based web applications. Built reusable, high performance web server components for data collection, data analysis, report generation and searching capabilities. Database design, development and administration. Maintained and enhanced existing legacy systems. User Interface design and implementation.

Worked with clients to analyze, design, and implement technology solutions within their organization.Architected and developed a web based data management system for Sara Lee Corporation. Developed a web-based statistical analysis tool to compare cellular telephone carrier's key performance indicators for the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA).Enhanced and maintained a content publishing system for sharing Reuters news feeds with Intranet websites.

Summer internship as a software developer.