Michael Jones Email & Phone Number

Austin, TX, US

London, GB

London, GB

London, GB

Austin, Texas, US

Austin, Texas, US

Austin, Texas, US

Houston, Texas, US

Houston, Texas, US

Austin, US

• Provide innovative vision and leadership for the development, integration and implementation of all technology initiatives for mortgage loan originations of $750M annually. Develop close partnerships with other.
• Drive technology improvements while managing all aspects of end user application support for both commercial and custom-developed applications enabling the loan origination process.
• Achieve success through the hands-on leadership of IT functions, including help desk, LOS Administration, technology vendor management, and outsourced development team.
• Manage all large projects to achieve successfully, in budget completion, such as converting loan origination application from self-hosted to hosted along with all custom developed applications.
• Improve the overall disaster recovery preparedness for technology, as well as enhance process maturity of the technology team with implementation of Atlassian’s JIRA for project and task management.
• Piloted transitioning our underperforming remote desktop environment to Amazon Web Services, which reduced downtime.

Brownwood, Texas, US

• Promoted to positions of increasing authority and responsibility due to my strong leadership skills, teamwork, customer service, and overall performance. Responsible for all aspects of the company’s technology and.
• Successfully led the largest product launch in our history to triple the number of products offered to our customers, which encompassed the purchase, installation, testing, and deployment of a new four-color press.
• Simultaneously, managed the large-scale overhaul of the e-commerce website with a new pricing engine, implementation of a new gang run capability, and integration of a third-party imposition suite.
• Served as the project manager applying agile development principles to ensure the project was moving forward despite the aggressive timeline and resources procurement issues that were threatening to impact day to day.

Brownwood, Texas, US

• Responsible for the development and execution of the organization’s technical vision, working as a member of the Executive Team and reporting directly to the President. Managed all IT areas, including budget.
• Led the software selection process to replace the primary MIS System for the entire organization, including gathering requirements, distributing a request for proposals, evaluating the responses, identifying short list.
• Achieved the successful transition of the IT organization to a task management system that better-supported tracking and workflow of all development projects, tasks, issues, and new feature requests as well as day to.
• Increased visibility of the IT department by improving communications of deployments, projects, issues, and priorities to end users and management, which led to opportunities to create and deliver user training to.

US

• Co-founded the company with the goal of pioneering both automated mortgage underwriting and hosted solutions, rapidly growing to over $12M with 97 employees by providing its flagship loan origination platform.
• Responsible for the development and direction of the technical vision and strategies, including design, planning, software development and systems integration for all company products.
• Elected to the Board of Directors by the shareholders of the company each year, working collaboratively as a member of the executive team reporting to the CEO and participating in three rounds of capital infusion.
• Worked with key clientele, including Lehman Brothers, Deutsche Bank, First Franklin, Guaranty Bank Home Equity, HSBC / Household Finance Company, National City Warehouse Resources, Option One, Ellington Management.
• Provided executive leadership in strategic direction and change management as a member of the Executive Committee to maintain our position on the forefront of technology and service offering in the industry.
• Led the architecture, implementation, testing, and management of technical infrastructure required to provide a secure, available 24/7/365, and certified SAS70 level 2 hosted solution that included a primary data.