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Phoenix, Az, Us

Phoenix, Arizona, Us

Developed Technology Strategy to support organic and inorganic business growth objectives. Contributions to date include: Co-leading IT Organizational & Operating Model definition; Developed the IT components of the Enterprise Strategic Plan; Defined, implemented, & expanded FinOps team & practices, yielding several $MM in cost reduction; Incubated GenAI POCs to learn about transformative technology & identified use cases & associated business value drivers; Developing business case & building team to develop & build out a scalable GenAI platform to support several use cases & leverage enterprise data sets.Re-designed & built an Enterprise Architecture function supporting product line segments and enterprise horizontals. Execution activities include: Defining job profiles, accountabilities & deliverables; Instituting Architecture Governance forums to support business strategy & effective use of enterprise IP and assets; Aligning Architect priorities with Business Strategy & Objectives; Assigning Solution Architects to business growth & operational excellence initiatives.Developed strategy & built the Enterprise Data & Analytics function. Core functions include Data Governance, Data Management, and BI/Analytics. Initiated rollout of Data Governance processes, forums, & tooling. Developed master data sets for critical data subject areas. Led enterprise initiative to define & implement a product catalog. Defined Enterprise Data Platform conceptual architecture & drove migration of siloed Data Marts to the strategic architecture.Defined, developed & implemented operating model for an Enterprise Platform horizontal. Built out platforms, standards & patterns, & delivery teams to take in work from product line segments and build customer products, enterprise services, and/or business process automation. Platforms & teams developed & operating currently include: API Development, File/Batch Processing, Event Management, Operational Logging & Dashboarding, & DevSecOps.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Led business case development for global digital transformation, cloud migration, & technology modernization program. Supported and drove initial execution activities including assigning application dispositions, defining cloud native architectures, and developing patterns for application deployments. Program is expected to realize $20M - $30M in annualized cost reductions, reduce technology variability, & improve security and operational posture with early wins realized using Microsoft 365 and Amazon Connect solutions, deploying critical batch application in the public cloud, defining the to-be data and analytics architecture, and enabling foundational digital capabilities (e.g. API Management, service mesh).Functional accountability of 130+ architects. Built and led the global enterprise architecture function by defining the vision and strategy, implementing the organizational and operating model, installing processes and governance structures, and creating artifacts and tools used by EA to manage function.Led global M&A efforts for technology and security workstreams, covering due diligence, integration planning, and integration execution efforts. Managed $150 million in cumulative integration budgets for acquisitions valued from $15 million to $1.4 billion. Completed 16 integration programs and 50+ diligence assessments since 2013.Developed hypothesis and incubated teams to support Global Platform strategy that includes both enabling technologies and common functions resident in all platforms. Led Agile/Scrum teams of critical credit, analytics, matching, and data hygiene services supporting $1 billion of annual revenue.Investigated and onboarded emerging technologies to optimize current spend and improve capabilities through business case development in key areas: private/hybrid/public cloud, SaaS, containers and Kubernetes, API Management, service mesh, microservices architectures, event management/streaming, and network security.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Technology sponsor and leader of all domestic M&A activities related to diligence and integration efforts for technology and security. Built M&A diligence and integration playbook to support growth strategies through identifying and assessing acquisition opportunities, and defined and drove integration activities of organization, processes, and technology. Directly led efforts to complete seven integration efforts and also led three to four diligence efforts annually. Managed $15M in annual CapEx/OpEx budgets for all integration efforts.Served as part of office of CTO team accountable for developing transformational strategy (Project Spark), business objectives, scope, costs, and business case after company sale. Operated as essential initial contributor to success of Project Spark (2013 to 2016) and successfully demised 30,000 Mainframe MIPS of applications and capacity.Architecture leader for strategic technology modernization programs: PCI certification, Strategic Refresh (infrastructure architecture rationalization and standardization), Global Collaboration capability enablement.Partnered with fellow architecture leader to create innovation team with accountability to assess new technologies for potential use at company and bring key findings to leadership in form of POC demos, learnings, and product ideas. Completed assessments and POCs and demos in various technologies, including real-time stream processing, Blockchain, public cloud, global platform services, big data technologies, and persistent chat solutions.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Built and cultivated Infrastructure Architecture team from the ground up. Defined and implemented patterns and standards across all infrastructure architecture domains. Developed and implemented infrastructure strategy and roadmaps to manage technology lifecycle, optimize current capabilities, and evaluate and implement new capabilities. Created first architecture governance processes and artifacts (modified versions in use today).Architecture lead for enterprise strategic initiatives, including programs focused on M&A due diligence and integration, divestitures, new capability development, network strategy/refresh, storage and virtualization enablement, and application consolidation, with a particular focus of driving out OpEx costs. Managed U.S. technology organization's CapEx plans for four years.

Northbrook, Il, Us

Led team of 28 to 45 architects and engineers accountable for strategic planning, design, and deployment of infrastructure capabilities and services in storage and data protection, database (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2), and transaction systems (CICS, WebSphere MQ, DB2 Connect, MSMQ, WebSphere Application/Portal Server) domains. Managed $50 million capital and expense budget for storage, data protection, and shared software technology solutions and services supporting eight business units. Delivered approximately 40% more annual storage capacity while keeping overall storage budgets flat year-over-year during tenure.Maintained technical accountability for advancement of storage and data protection platform covering $30 million in annual capital expense, 65 resources and contractors, four strategic vendor partners, and multiple smaller vendor relationships. Defined the roadmap, reference architectures, tiered storage model for storage and data protection platform that aligned to strategic goals for the platform, accommodated various availability, performance, and cost requirements, & enabled easy to consume services for the business.

Dublin 2, Ie

Increasing responsibilities and leadership roles with leading global consulting organization working with customers in Retail, Telecommunications, Manufacturing, Health & Life Sciences industries. Includes time living and working in the U.K. and Italy. Led workstreams for the two largest transformational outsourcing programs focusing on cost optimization and management (VMWare virtualization, application rationalization, server and storage consolidation, operations process improvement). Defined enterprise architecture standards, designed infrastructure architecture, and managed procurement for all projects ($100M in capital) across $1.5 billion IT transformation program. Built and led post-merger integration team of 25+ consultants, sub-contractors, and client personnel tasked with delivering $27 million in annual synergies through rationalization, consolidation, and optimization of data center capabilities across four sites and ten business units. Oversaw other projects for various clients, including acting as Kintana implementation PM, technical architecture international team lead, UI and newsfeed developer, and network migration team.

Master Of Science - Ms, Electrical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical And Electronics Engineering