Served as subject matter risk expert, standard and policy writer, and steward of Discover’s Business Technology single agile-way-of-working method as part of the Technology Capabilities and Innovation team and the Business Technology Customer Success team.

Responsible for the technology solutions and technology delivery within the cloud security, security automation, and application security product area. Defined the product area vision and served as servant leader and ambassador for automation, cloud, and application security practices. Managed, mentored and developed thought, people, and technical leadership skills across a department of ~20 staff members. Accountable for performance, employee experience, leadership behaviors, culture and quality best practices across engineering and leadership domains across the three programs.

Responsible for cloud security technology solutioning and delivery. Formally established Discover’s cloud security program with a product delivery focus, while establishing the first agile practice in the cybersecurity team. Lead as product owner, product architect, people leader, and scrummaster for a team of cloud security engineers. Curated roadmaps, removed blockers, and developed talent to achieve the cloud security mission. Developed and trained a group of high potential entry-level engineers to an effective and premier security technology delivery team.

As a key player in Discover’s public cloud adoption team, assessed cloud system vulnerabilities for security risks and proposed and implemented risk mitigation strategies for Discover's first foray into the public cloud.

Designed and implemented IT system architectures that met Discover's business requirements. Gathered requirements, understood specifications, evaluated potential solutions, and worked closely with stakeholders to deliver the fit-for-purpose solution. Specialized in distributed, datacenter hosted middleware architectures.

Functioned as senior Middleware technical lead for build and implementation of numerous enterprise critical projects. Projects of note include a complete banking transformation effort, mobile wallet implementation and implementation of anti-money laundering applications and infrastructure.

Serve as an engineer and operations liaison between Application Development teams and Middleware Infrastructure teams. Ensure proper change management procedures were followed and served as point person for production environment installs. Provided second-level support and serves as an escalation point for all issues impacting production and pre-prod environments.

Conducted performance tests on most enterprise applications. Including setup, script support, and first level analysis of test results.

Performed regression testing for major application upgrade as part of a 3 month internship.

Made editorial decisions on content to be displayed on newspaper web site read by 4000 students daily.

Developed a Student Interactions web-based system to document student related incidents within residential services.

Help desk support for local internet service provider in Morris, Illinois. Support included dial up internet and DSL.