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Dallas, Texas, Us

San Jose, California, Us

Defined and executed strategic roadmaps around transformational, enterprise-wide initiatives involving AI/ML platforms and new product offerings. Provided executive leadership with concise, actionable updates based on data-driven metrics while managing cross-functional stakeholder expectations across the organization. Orchestrated changes to complex business processes that spanned the organization (from Sales to Customer Success to Client Implementations) as part of the overall program delivery; facilitated OKR and KPI planning with cross-functional teams. Managed risks and issues across intertwining project timelines with complex dependencies. Helped pull together a vision around product direction and architecture that reflected the needs of multiple data consumers. Launched an innovation effort to collect Ideas across the Engineering teams focused on cost reduction, improving productivity, and reducing overall cognitive load on daily tasks to facilitate overall program goals. Tackled difficult organizational issues related to poor documentation, inefficient processes, and a lack of clear understanding of basic business functionality that hindered cross-team alignment and successful customer implementations. Mentored fellow TPMs and provided Agile coaching to engineering teams.

South Bend, In, Us

Working on a large digital transformation effort that includes acquisition unification and building out a nascent data mesh and graph database across the organization. Responsible for building a new business operating model that integrates multiple methodologies, company cultures, and delivery strategies to help drive execution against a complex roadmap that includes multiple enterprise-level deliverables. Organizing a large number of business initiatives that include Big Data, AI/ML, and a variety of technology stacks . Acting as a key player to help teams tackle extremely difficult architectural problems around data integrations. Working with Sales, Client Implementation, and Product teams to ensure issues are addressed, the right priorities are in place, and the organization is able to properly support their goals. Producing concise executive summaries that provide clear options for success.

Chicago, Il, Us

Managed executive governance, staffing, budgets, vendors, and overall delivery on very large strategic data-centric programs. Provided practical how-to guidance on incorporating Agile best practices into large delivery programs.

South Bend, In, Us

Managed a $25M+ multi-year program that involved the creation of three product offerings on a new cloud platform. Provided C-level executive status that outlined program goals and deliverables in an easy-to-digest format. Built automated program-level reporting, utilizing Tableau, that gave executive insight on program progress and budget run rates; this reporting model was rolled out to the rest of the company. Aligned external vendor teams with internal groups to ensure a consistent and integrated delivery approach. Monitored the budget monthly and provided succinct and actionable proposals when trends diverged from initial forecasts. Provided process guidance to project teams on Agile delivery methods.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Managed a $10M+ technical program for a multi-year Big-Data transformation project that involved migrating multiple legacy data systems to a centralized, governed Enterprise Data Warehouse. Successfully transitioned multiple teams from Waterfall to Agile, overcoming organizational, structural and cultural challenges. Produced budgets, resource plans and roadmaps in concert with Product Owners, ensuring the success of aggressive implementation schedules that involved multiple cross-team dependencies. Worked with ISO20022, Hadoop, Oracle Exadata, and other Big-Data tools/concepts and facilitated alignment with enterprise architecture efforts. Spearheaded Continuous Integration efforts to ensure rapid delivery cycles unencumbered by long testing cycles or tricky deployments. Provided coaching and mentoring for team members in wide-ranging roles to ensure maximum productivity and focus. Produced comprehensive testing strategies as well as data quality checks that aligned with the low-risk tolerance of the organization without sacrificing speed to market. Consistently provided a framework of options – as opposed to constraints – that stakeholders could leverage at critical decision points. Built a long-term plan to reduce monthly run-rates, increase business value of deliverables, and develop stable and repeatable processes that would serve as the long-term foundation for Northern Trust’s data services program.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Managed a large scale implementation for a customer that involved coordination between technology, business, and customer teams, and included bringing several new products to market. Developed metrics to track and expose project health to the company executive leadership team.Acted as a liaison between the business and technical teams and managed the overall program goals to ensure success across all teams.Built and fixed technical and business processes, which reduced inefficiencies, centralized information, helped teams to transition to the Agile process, generated cost savings and improved productivity.

Managed multiple project tracks to implement a CRM solution on a Force.com platform. Involved with IT strategy, vendor management, contract negotiation, resource planning, budget creation and management, and technical oversight. Actively mentored and trained the delivery team in the Agile methodology, including roles and responsibilities and basic day-to-day expected activities. Built processes from the ground-up to support current technical efforts that fit with organization size and culture; introduced appropriate tools to help the team manage the project successfully. Performed upward reporting to the management team on timeline, budget, and risk. Helped the organization adopt a clear understanding of typical software lifecycles. Acted as a technical liason between the business team and the technical group and ensured system architecture was coherent. Coordinated both onshore and offshore teams and multiple vendor teams.Consulting project included extensive VisualForce development along with ETL and BI reporting tool components.

Coordinated a company-wide infrastructure effort to failover all products to a new data center by the published deadline. Closely managed 2-3 large projects between four infrastructure teams and ensured projects were properly staffed. Drove out requirements and created detailed project plans, strictly monitoring status to ensure that published deadlines were met. Mitigated risks and managed issue communication and resolution to increase the final quality of the deliverable. Enforced scope and provided detailed analysis of proposed changes.

Managed a development team operating under the SCRUM methodology working on developing a cutting-edge, open source distributed data storage technology. Drove the product vision forward by managing how to deliver business needs into a solution with complex technologies. Identified architectural and design problems and ensured a high level of quality in the development process. Handled process creation, resource allocation, strategy planning and other aspects of technical project management as well as business prioritization from the product perspective.

Dublin 2, Ie

Handled new development and production support for an internal portal website that utilized CMS, Sharepoint Server, .NET, and SQL Server. Managed several technical teams across three time zones (Asia, Europe, and North America). Delivered key artifacts associated with all aspects of the full life-cycle project. Improved the communication process and teamwork between continents by adopting clearly documented hand-off points and task assignments.

New York, Ny, Us

Managed a team responsible for the enhancement of a high-performance, commercial credit card software package. Involved with process creation and implementation, cost management, resource allocation, team vision, and strategy planning.

Conway, Arkansas, Us

Technical solution architect on client site. Part of a project to rebuild the technology infrastructure of a system and migrate the company from legacy mainframe applications to Unix-based grid processes. Architected solutions for a Factory Data Warehouse that involved 50TB of data and stringent performance requirements on a Linux Grid environment with Oracle/.NET client-server websites and J2EE Web Services.

New York, Ny, Us

Consulted for a wide variety of companies, ranging from small start-ups to worldwide management consulting firms. Headed up multiple technical teams and designed technical architectures for primarily web-based solutions in Microsoft technologies (ASP, C#, VB.NET, XML/XSL, SQL Server). Handled many customer-facing scenarios with both internal and external clients, and served as a technical point person in sales meetings.

Worked with technical team members in full life-cycle development projects to create client-server, multi-user desktop programs (Visual Basic) and websites (ASP/SQL Server) that applied auditing methodologies across the firm.

Lemont, Il, Us

Designed and created a scientific software package currently in use in some bio-terrorism prevention systems. Applied neural networks to the analysis and classification of chemical spectral data. Coded artificial intelligence logic in a Unix environment to train and utilize various types of neural networks, including radial basis, probability, and linear discriminate networks.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science

B.S., Computer Science, English