Michael Thornton Email & Phone Number

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Us

Lead a global team to build, test, and deploy mobile apps and web sites for over 5,000 financial institutions.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Us

Lead a global team to develop, test, deploy, and manage web sites and mobile apps for our clients.

Westerville, Oh, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Manage a team of mobile developers, QA, PM and business analysts focused on the development and release of Mobile Banking iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Mobile, and Mobile Web. Responsibilities include managing the development teams, creating mobile strategy roadmaps, budgeting, vendor management, and capacity planning. Each platform has four major releases each year with each release incorporating multiple projects on each platform. The mobile banking apps are used by over 28 million customers per month and are responsible for more that six billion dollars in transactions per month.Notable accomplishments• Lead the development and launch of Chase iPhone, Chase iPad, JPM iPhone, JPM iPad, Chase Android, JPM Android, and Chase mobile web.• Created the processes, organized, and staffed mobile development teams to support multiple platforms and operating systems.• Instituted policies for mobile governance, development, and strategy to incorporate mobile efforts within the individual Chase lines of business. • Partnered with Apple and Chase Paymentech to create the Paymentech Apple Pay SDK.• Developed, released, and maintain the Chase Pay iPhone and Android apps.• Developed, released, and maintain the Chase My New Home iPhone and Android app.• Grew the mobile UI development team at Chase from 2 developers to a peak of 70 developers.• Instrumental in moving the Chase Digital organization from Waterfall based practices to Agile practices.• Established development centers across multiple cities and countries.• Launched one of the first HTLM 5 mobile web sites by a financial institution.• Top ranked Finance app in the Finance category in iTunes and Google Play.• Chase Mobile ranked #1 by Forrester Research’s 2013 Global and U.S. Mobile Banking Functionality Rankings.• Winner of three Webby awards in mobile categories : 2011: Utilities & Services, 2011: Best Use of Device Camera, 2009: Mobile Marketplace & Services

New York, Ny, Us

Lead the development teams responsible for the initial launch of the Chase iPhone and iPad apps. Responsibilities include managing the iOS development team, creating iOS mobile strategy roadmaps, budgeting, vendor management, and capacity planning.Notable accomplishments• Built and released the first Chase iPhone and iPad banking apps.• Winner of three Webby awards.• First major financial institution to release mobile check deposit.• Introduced automated build, test, and deploy tools and process.• Introduced Agile development strategies and methodologies.

New York, Ny, Us

Managed technical operations and production support for the Chase billing and alerting platforms.

Lead a group of developers, project managers, business analysis, and QA responsible for delivering customized versions of Pivots Variable Annuity software for financial institutions clients.

Columbus, Oh, Us

Lewis Center, Ohio, Us

Paris, France, Fr

Master Of Liberal Arts, Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Computer Information Systems