Responsible for ensuring the Chingu Platform achieves its goal of preparing new developers for the job market and helping more experienced developers level-up their skills. This includes increasing Member value by developing new learning programs and maturing the platform in the areas of business process creation, self-service automation, and actionable metrics.- Create processes and student materials for our flagship Chingu Voyage learning program.- Monitoring and response to member questions and issues in Discord- Working with the Engineering team to enhance backend business systems and to identify new opportunities.- Developing new learning programs and adapting our business model to a rapidly changing technical landscape.- Writing Medium articles to address member needs for in-depth information including both hard and soft skills.

Project Manager/Scrum Master focusing on Information Security and Infrastructure projects for Fortune 500 customers.

Program/Project Manager• Managed global projects within the customers Information Security Office (ISO). Theseprojects included:• Managed the Authentication Transformation program which implemented world-wide single signon for applications and services, role-based entitlement for SalesForce, and automated account compliance.• Governance, Risk, & Compliance 3rd party product selection. Coordinated a cross functional team of IT and Business leaders to define requirements, develop evaluation criteria, and select an Enterprise GRC solution.• Led the effort to capture Business Process Models for Security processes. This included developing concept, choosing the BPM tool, and engaging ISO teams to create process models.• Participated in security vetting of the customers’ service partners to ensure that security was maintained during the transition to a managed services environment.• Managed the Endpoint Encryption project to encrypt the laptops (25K), including coordination of technical IT teams and the user communication plan.

Supported and enhanced applications to meet business needs and achieve customer satisfaction. This included custom tailoring of applications to business process changes as well as application performance tuning.• Led Scrum project as both Product Owner and Scrum Master.• Led a data preservation project for use by users during bankruptcy and liquidation.• Supported Accounts Payables and General Ledger applications including EDI, ACH, cloud-based, and cross-platform application interfaces.• Reduced critical month-end runtimes by 10 hours and availability by 8 hours.• Designed and developed processes for bulk processing of invoices during Customer bankruptcy to eliminate manual updates.Technologies: IBM z/OS, Cobol, REXX, CICS, DB2, IBM DB2 Admin Tool, Panvalet, EDI, XML, Toad for DB2, QMF, IBM TSM/OPC Scheduler, Esker FaxGate, FTP, Windows 7, IBM SCCD, IBM Debug, IBM Fault Analyzer, Mobius/View Direct

Accountable for supporting and enhancing applications to meet business needs and achieve customer satisfaction. This also included coordinating testing of applications and operations through major system software upgrades.• Managed z/OS 1.4 to 1.11 upgrade between onshore and offshore teams.• Supported AP and G/L applications (EDI, ACH, cloud, & cross-platform interfaces).• Improved team productivity by implementing DevOps procedures.• Implemented a Wiki to support and encourage cross-team collaboration.Technologies: IBM z/OS, Cobol, REXX, CICS, DB2, IBM DB2 Admin Tool, Panvalet, EDI, XML, Toad for DB2, QMF, IBM TSM/OPC Scheduler, Esker FaxGate, FTP, Windows 7, IBM SCCD, IBM Debug, IBM Fault Analyzer, Mobius/View Direct

Primary point of contact for all IT-related business needs for users in Corporate, N. America, and Europe. Established a strategic partnership with business units to capture new projects from the point of inception. Tactical responsibilities are focused on the delivery of IT services through local IT service delivery teams. • Developed and implemented a standard IT service delivery models.• Established partnership between IT and all levels of Business Units.• Led creation of design and support model for an Operational Technology Center. Technologies: IBM z/OS, IBM AIX, Windows Server 2000-2008, VMWare ESX, Windows XP-2007, MS Exchange, Lotus Notes, SAP, Oracle, Esker FaxGate, FTP, HP & Cisco networks, Rajant mesh networks, F5 Big-IP, Riverbed, Rockwell Automation.

Responsible for global server administration, networking, and customer support across the enterprise. Led IT Infrastructure teams in merger & acquisition efforts.• Coordinated global office expansion in China, Indonesia, Mongolia, and Singapore.• Implemented IBM Business Intelligence Accelerator (BIA) for SAP BI performance.• Consolidated multiple Active Directory domains into a single, global domain.

Managed the team responsible for administering non-SAP security, collaboration and imaging tools including e-mail, and administering approximately 500 servers across multiple platforms (z/OS, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, Windows and Linux). • Assisted CIO in improving and extending IT policies and procedures.• Developed and executed strategies for server, storage, and vendor management.• Architected and managed server virtualization (Windows) across the company.• Managed the transition of infrastructure services supporting the spin-off of one-quarter of the Company’s mines into a new company. • Led the conversion of 3000 users from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange.

Managed the team responsible for administering the Windows server domain, e-mail, imaging & document management, and security functions across the U.S. and Australia. This involved developing strategic and tactical plans as well as developing and managing an annual budget of $2M.• Managed the Infrastructure teams responsible for the implementation of SAP ERP. • Coordinating IT security administration including SOX and HIPAA IT controls. • Coordinated planning and execution of servers to new data center.

Multiple positions at Peabody Energy:• Enterprise Architect (2002-2005)• DB2 Database Administrator (1997-2002)• Application Development Project Manager (1995-1997)Achievements:• Architected electronic document and transaction handling for PO’s and invoices.• Led solutions analysis and vendor selection a network traffic optimizer.• Architected and implemented of HIPAA-compliant e-mail encryption.• Established IT policies and procedures for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. • Implemented Java-based integration between IBM Maximo and legacy applications.• Project manager for conversion of Inventory and Purchasing applications from IDMS-to-DB2. Technologies: IBM z/OS, Cobol, Assembler, REXX, DB2, Princeton Softech, Panvalet, Omegamon/MVS, EDI, Server 2000-2008, Windows 95-XP, Lotus Notes, Lotus Domino.Doc, FTP, IBM Maximo, Java, XML, XSLT, Mobius/View Direct