An accomplished Information Technology management professional with over 25 years of comprehensive financial sector experience in a multi-site, multi-host, networked environment. Proven ability to manage complex high volume projects, developing high performing teams from concept to service delivery. Has strong relationship skills in working with application project teams, internal/external clients, hardware vendors and third-party providers all via Quality Assurance and Quality Controls utilizing relevant and strong Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and any other necessary metric’s. Experience in:• Network Data/Voice, Security & Data Center Mgmt • Middleware & Messaging Service delivery• Data Archiving and Lifecycle Mgmt. • Audit and Regulatory compliance• Information/Access & Security Controls • Applications Development• Data Management & Governance • Project/Program Management• Financial Planning & Management * Vendor Supplier Management• Structured and Unstructured Data Service Design and Delivery • Enterprise Architecture, Standards and best practice adoptionMajor Accomplishments:• During the last 5 years at Ally Financial, I have lead the Data Network (operations/engineering and architecture), Voice Network, Data Center Management and Enterprise Services like IP management, load balancing, Web Application Firewall, VPN, and DDOS protections with Akamia DDOS and security platform Kona.• 8 years experience determining data management strategic direction, developing and delivering managed database services in a private cloud. This is a multi-dimensional challenge from product licensing, managing multi-tenancy, operational risk segregation, team skills, meeting regulatory requirements for data (security, access/audit controls/resiliency) while delivering a 'commercial' like elastic experience.• Initiated and spearheaded operational stability and efficiency program to consolidate diverse technical teams into a centralized high performing ITIL model.• Deep Oracle database technology expertise with products like; RAC, pluggable DB’s, RMAN, ASM, GG, Data Guard, Exadata/Exalogic, ODA, OEM, OIG, Audit Vault, Cloud Pak, ZFS and Oracle Backup appliance.
Listed skills include Enterprise Architecture, It Strategy, Project Management, Integration, and 14 others.