Keith Yanachik, Mba, Cissp Email & Phone Number

Troy, Michigan, United States

Greater Detroit Area

Greater Detroit Area

Managed a global technical team of 20 to implement and scale an existing Microsoft.Net application to accommodate Ally’s large enterprise data volume - 2,500 total users, 1,000 concurrent users, 2.5M accounts, 4 TB of total data.Leader of application development teams consisting of in-house developers and multiple contract vendors to develop and deliver cohesive IT solutions solving business needs. Solution architect for all IT systems in the Retail Operations Department in the Dealer Financial Services business unit. Responsible for interviewing and hiring all in-house and contractor technical team members.Microsoft lead architect within Ally.Lead architect in charge of formulating Ally Financial’s Microsoft-based development practices and procedures.Responsible for the technical architecture of IT systems that have thousands of concurrent users daily.Responsible for technology, application, and data governance across the enterprise. Looked to for leadership around digital innovation and formulation of strategies based on digital and technological opportunities. Technical Consultant between Auto Finance IT and Data Analytics teams. Problem solver relied on to examine current data and reporting situation and provide solutions to discovered needs. Most of the solutions required examination of operational data and methods to warehouse the data for analytical reporting. Worked with the analytics business teams to determine the best tools to use for the analytical reporting required.Technical consultant on Ally’s Auto Advantage project, which will replace the existing core financial system for Ally’s Dealer Financial Services division. Interacts with senior management to devise technical solutions for business opportunities or issues.

Business interface for application development team with internal and external clients. Responsible for the complete software development lifecycle of all system architectures, development, implementation, and maintenance.Project Manager of all team projects with employees reporting directly me. Duties include working with executives to determine and prioritize projects, assign developers to projects and complete the project through the entire life cycle. Project Manager in charge of migrating existing Microsoft.Net and Mainframe applications to Ruby on Rails, while developing all new applications in Ruby on Rails. Over ten years of experience in the Microsoft .Net stack and three years of Ruby on Rails corporate experience.Interviews, hires, and sets salaries for IT employees. Architect of Agile Microsoft .Net and Ruby on Rails based Client/Server applications. Implemented current Agile practices based off of SCRUM including Test Driven Development, short 2 week iterations, constant client involvement, agile style meetings, and pair programming. Implemented wire-framing for rapid prototyping. Our projects saw a significant success rate after we implemented wire-framing with client reviews. Selected N-Hibernate as the corporate .Net ORM standard and extended the default implementation for faster development. The extensions that I developed mirrored Ruby on Rails ActiveRecord methods. Team lead for the development of www.novixus.com, a website for the patients of a mail order pharmacy, Novixus, to manage their prescriptions and request refills. This site interfaces in real-time with our existing shop-floor management systems. Utilizing agile practices the website was delivered in under a month from requirements gathering, prototyping, TDD development, client review, and QA, to production. The website is a highlight for acquiring new business, and I give presentations of the site to potential clients of up to 20 in a presentation.

Led a team of 3 developers and provided consultation with additional team of 6 developers. Placed in charge of integrating multiple different processes from different teams to architect a cohesive solution for clients. Developer for a major automotive finance company’s Canadian Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment website. Architected a system to facilitate workflow of plant processes; Developer of Customer Service website; Consultant for VB/ C++ systems development.

Team lead for external client business including Ford, Visteon, MichCon and The Salvation Army. Interfaced directly with the client, and was flown to different locations within the US to provide support for failing projects that the client was doing internally. Lead Interface Programmer for Business-to-Consumer www.evisteon.com, Visteon’s first Business to Consumer E-Commerce website. Led development teams for the following websites: www.michcon.com, www.evisteon.com, www.visteon.com, and www.salvationarmyusa.org.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Entrepreneurial And Small Business Operations

Bs, Information Systems Management

Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering