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As a member of the Captive Finance IT group supporting AHFC, worked with teams across the enterprise to help achieve company goals while driving projects toward completion. • Assumed various roles ranging from project manager to solution architect across multiple initiatives including a Robotic Process Automation project, Enterprise Content Management upgrade, CRM system replacement, and cloud Data & Analytics Platform implementation.• Advanced AHFC interests across the organization such as helping define the Salesforce COE and expanding knowledge within Enterprise Architecture, while also coordinating AHFC efforts with Honda Canada.• Created and actively promoted an application modernization roadmap to provide solid direction on investment focus and future application risk reduction. • Successfully modernized AHFC reporting and analytics capabilities, migrating multiple disparate data stores onto a new cloud platform, creating a single source of truth with improved visualization tools for end users.

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• Collaborated with executive-level business and IT resources to formulate long-term roadmaps and promote larger corporate directives.• Directed teams from integration, infrastructure, database and security in designing and successfully deploying new and upgraded applications, including Siebel, Genesys, Adobe AEM and Salesforce.• Simplified architectures and reduced application failure points, resulting in improved uptime of 99.95% across applications and up to 4x improvement in performance. • Selected as Lead Architect to redefine the Customer Service landscape as part of the replacement of a legacy mainframe accounting system, automating processes to decrease average call times by 10%. • Led a multi-disciplinary Salesforce architecture team, leveraging agile methodology to build upon an extremely successful platform that continues to be expanded upon, beginning with a 250-user pilot that now has over 4000 end users and growing.