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Manchester, Nh, Us

Manchester, Nh, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

• Lead a Decision Support team of five senior analysts in providing Fidelity Technology Leadership withdata analysis and insights for a $6.6B technology portfolio.• Developed a utility to help IT Product Managers and business unit finance to understand the firms $1.25Bin core & maintenance spend. Identified opportunities for reduction including $34M in non-strategic ITProducts• Developed presentations to help executive leadership understand the portfolio management datamodel.• Created a dashboard to help leaders understand forward deployment of their resources to Jira Aligninitiatives.• Lead a project to develop a capacity planning dashboard that compares the actual allocation to the planthat helps leaders determine if their plan meets the needs of the business.• Developed an initial prioritization process proof-of-concept for Enterpris

Boston, Ma, Us

• Blends datasets from disparate systems and constructs reports using BI tools including Tableau andPowerBI. Reporting responsibilities include workforce planning, capability model analysis, and enterprisecloud migration. Regularly presents analysis and recommendations to Fidelity Technology ExtendedLeadership Team up to the CTO.• Business Unit Coordinator for Enterprise Services and Legal, Risk and Compliance for Managing the Work(MTW) tool adoption including Jira Align, Domo, and the Enterprise Agile Directory. Created the monthlyscorecards to help business units understand their adoption progress.• Responsible for Jira Align data governance that enabled the enterprise to use a common workmanagement taxonomy.• Developed enterprise guidance to categorize core & maintenance initiatives, providing business unitswith a better understanding of their operational expenses.• Created a dashboard that identified geographical co-location of large initiatives that helped enterpriseworkforce planning optimize delivery in India.• Mentored and coached for associates on data analysis and engineering techniques.

Boston, Ma, Us

• Develops KPIs and reports on five key IT Product Management accountabilities: Roadmap, TCO,Governance, Security & Risk, and Stability.• Incentivized Product Managers to adopt technology standards which lead to the discovery of ~40,000additional product model associations to Fidelity’s application inventory.• Responsible for technology obsolescence reporting for over 9,000 applications using Tableau, SQL andother BI technologies.• Responsible for facilitating the Product Management Committee and informing key stakeholders oncurrent/emerging organizational activities that impact Product Management.

Boston, Ma, Us

• Participated in financial management activities for the Global Network Services organization includingthe MYP and 2017/2018 budget.• Collaborated with procurement in reviewing, negotiating, and renewing network support contracts forover 30 vendors.• Responsible for obsolescence planning for all network infrastructure including switches, routers, firewall,proxy, and load balancing hardware.• Developed and presented funding proposals for Funding Governance.• Lead the campus network team in replacing end of life switches in 39 different locations.• Lead the DHCP, DNS and IPAM (DDI) team through the technology selection process for the nextgeneration DDI platform. Gathered requirements and submitted them to the vendors for an RFI.

Boston, Ma, Us

• Researched and evaluated new and emerging data center network and storage technologies.• Partnered with Network Architecture in developing a next generation vision for the data center networkusing a layer 3 top-of-rack switch design based upon BGP. Developed a zero-touch-provisioning proof-of-concept that automatically integrated a bare-metal top-of-rack switch into a layer 3 network fabric.• Certified the use of commodity direct attach cables for server-to-switch connections resulting in over$500k in savings for Fidelity’s latest data center.

Durham, New Hampshire, Us

-Managed, improved, and used a MATLAB-based test system to verify the functionality of the physical layer of Ethernet systems for next-gen devices from technology vendors-Responsible for planning, scheduling, and testing needs for customers-Interacted with customers for technical issues, questions and clarification

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Electrical Engineering