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Emeryville, Ca, Us

Oversee all Information Technology and provide direction for creation and execution of industry leading Mortgage Insurance technology solutions in support of NationalMI's business strategy. Oversight includes providing strategic and tactical leadership for all aspects of the organization's information security and technical infrastructure, as well as all aspects of software development, e-business and IT Vendor governance

Santa Ana, Ca, Us

Led the strategy and delivery of the company’s core Title & Settlement solutions and financial applications. Manage 5 directs, a global team of 450 team members with a budget of $60+ million• Delivered mission critical solutions supporting the generation of Title Insurance Policies and Settlement Services (closing, notary, wires, county recording) for a user base of 10,000 sales and operations professionals• Maintained financial systems including Oracle G/L, Hyperion Planning, Order Management, Invoicing, Payables, Receivables, and expense management• Completed multi-year cloud migration in Q1 2022. Environments built with Infrastructure as code andDevOps CI/CD pipelines.

Santa Ana, Ca, Us

Trusted partner in aligning technology strategy and execution to deliver the highest business value. Manage 7 directs, a team of 32; with sphere of influence over 1,500 global technology staff across the enterprise• Established and maintained technology’s three-year strategy and roadmap; created traceability to programs, initiatives, and projects through implementation of an Enterprise Portfolio planning tool• Responsible for annual financial planning process supported by formal demand and intake process• Established the Business Architecture practice to create technology and business capabilities models, with associated heat maps to influence investments and application rationalization• Matured the Enterprise Architecture function to provide core services including a Technology Governance Board to approve all new software, Application Quality Assessments to review for coding, security and performance issues, and Cloud Migration Assessments to review migration challenges as well as drive adoption of cloud native capabilities• Led high profile enterprise-wide governance program to monitor the remediation of application, server, and desktop vulnerabilities, along with establishing secure coding practices• Provided a high level of employee engagement through transparent communications, social and community give-back events, and comprehensive training with an emphasis on cloud and DevOps skills

Santa Ana, Ca, Us

Partnered with Professional Real Estate divisional leaders to establish a Strategic Business and Technology Roadmap, including successful delivery on multiple large conversion projects while improving technology delivery capabilities. • Managed US/Offshore teams with 4 directs & 35 team members; supporting 6 product solutions.• Delivered a highly innovative Commercial Valuation solution that enables business to enhancefunctionality with no-code/self-service; including UI screens, client deliverables, and API integrations.• Enabled a distribution strategy with new API portal gateway that offered product and data services.• Assessed and balanced product aligned Agile delivery teams, created training and hiring plans, addednew QA automation positions, restructured PMO function, and expanded offshore development team.• Implemented resiliency and monitoring through tools including; AppDynamics, Turbonomic, andcustom self-healing solutions to ensure business service levels were met.• Remained diligent on technical debt addressing system performance, compliance with securityvulnerability remediation, Disaster Recovery tests, and Database operational maintenance.

Santa Ana, Ca, Us

First American Mortgage Solutions, a division of First American Title Insurance Company is a leading provider of solutions including; data, analytics, title, settlement, valuation, quality control for Mortgage Originators and Servicers. Develop mortgage technology strategies and solutions to address lender’s needs and opportunities. • Implemented system enhancements within centralized Title operational platforms that streamlined lender specific flows into a common workflow resulting in 25% reduction in operational expenses.• Delivered innovative solutions to address 2015 CFPB’s TRID regulations, including an Interactive Closing Disclosure, RealEC Integration, and enhanced Web-Signing capabilities.• Executed numerous process improvements such as IT Engagement Process, Project Server, Agile adoption, and production support team to improve process maturity, accountability and transparency.• Delivered OCR powered automation, and implementation of an API portal for lenders to self provision our comprehensive set of business solutions.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Aggressive Business Growth – New SAAS Solutions – Legacy Resiliency Developed and delivered mortgage origination technology strategies that enabled new origination channels, 3X loan production volumes, while providing operational cost per loan efficiencies. Built out team to double capacity, major focus on quality assurance function. Managed highly aggressive and successful deployment of LPS Lending Space LOS Correspondent solution with 3 month project plan. New Correspondent Channel was 10th in industry within 6 months of launch. Delivered new Originations Data Integration Hub to standardize data controls and system integration. Integrated Greenlight Mortgage acquisition in 3 weeks, allowing their loan production and boarding into Nationstar target systems.

New York, Ny, Us

Recruited as change agent to assess current state, create strategic vision, and deliver innovative technology solutions enabling aggressive business growth strategies. With shift in business direction, supported divestiture of forward mortgage business. Established bank-wide application decommission and data archive policies and procedures.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Largest U.S. Mortgage Servicing Portfolio – Distressed Market Strategy, Merger Integration, Common Services Platform, Urgent Regulatory ProjectsDeveloped strategy and directed teams of 40-150 professionals supporting technology solutions for the industry’s largest Loan Servicing portfolio of 14 million loans, 30 systems, and 9,000 users during the distressed housing market. Business functions included customer contact, default management, common services, correspondence generation, image processing, and loan boarding & release.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Largest U.S. Mortgage Origination Pipeline – Refinance Boom Business Value from Technology – IT Operations Effectiveness Served as system owner and led 75-person team that supported the AdvantEdge mortgage origination system during height of refinance boom, handling the industry’s largest pipeline of 2.5 million loan applications annually with sales force of 16,000 users in 1,000 Retail Branches, Call Centers, and Joint Ventures.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Managed a staff of 30 developers supporting the retail mortgage origination AdvantEdge custom application. Development environment included: VB 6.0, C# . NET, C++, MS SQL, and Terminal Server. Established an effective India-based offshore team of 16 developers

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Managed a staff of 10 e-Commerce developers supporting the CWBC Wholesale loan origination system, utilized by Brokers to submit loan applications into Countrywide.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Data Management - e-Commerce - ETLDirected 30 person team providing time sensitive data collection, transformation, and presentation of 2 million real estate listings from 800 sources that provided the base of all revenue for Realtor.com. Achieved a 40% reduction in ETL data processing time and optimized search selection criteria.

Burbank, Ca, Us

Directed a team of 12 programmers providing technology solutions for Legal, Rights Management, and Film & Music Royalties. Development environments included PowerBuilder, Sybase , Omnis 7, NT, and SQL Server.

Burbank, Ca, Us

Recruited to fulfill the promise of a previous failed system implementation already in production. Managed a team of 5 programmers that turned around a custom Royalty systems built with PowerBuilder/Sybase.

Burbank, Ca, Us

Prepared monthly financial statements, provided business systems analysis, and performed user acceptance testing.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

B.S., Management