As an accomplished and forward-thinking technology executive, I am highly experienced in developing, optimizing, and managing technology infrastructures, operations, and digital/cloud-based solutions for large, matrix organizations with significant, real-time global impact.Throughout my career, I have stabilized and enhanced existing systems while driving innovation and effectively managing change at three of the world's preeminent financial institutions—Visa Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., and Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA).I am relentless in managing the two most imperative technology priorities vital to business success:1. Providing customers and employees with secure, cost-effective, uninterrupted service, and2. Propelling the company toward the future of technology to ensure success in our fast-moving and rapidly changing digital world.At the same time, I am passionate about building people-oriented organizations and high-performing teams (3,500+ employees and numerous partners/vendors) that work together to drive superior performance, seamless functionality, and uninterrupted availability of in-house and customer-facing technologies.Select IT and operations achievements:❏ Developed, managed, and improved the global IT infrastructure for the world's largest credit card processor—100% uninterrupted availability for over 9K secure transactions per second during peak performance.❏ Right-sized a $1.1B operating budget to $900M.❏ Stabilized existing systems while leading CBA to become one of the first financial services institutions to implement a contestable, multiple-cloud-based, pay-as-you-go model of operations.❏ Participated in the $19B Visa IPO (largest IPO to date in U.S. history) and many M&As such as the consolidation of six high-profile banks for JPMorgan Chase.Specialties: IT Leadership, Technology, Cloud, Big Data, Solution Development, Data Center Management, Contestable Cloud, SaaS, Team Building, Security, Business Strategy