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Manchester, Pennsylvania, United States

Lead Day-to Day Technology Activities, Manage Helpdesk, Perform Employee Performance evaluation and growth opportunities. As well as work with School district on Technology strategy and budget

Engagement Lead for commercial managed services in health information services. Leading teams that provide application design, development, implementation and support for health exchanges. Developed solid relations with client executives, ensure high customer satisfaction, lead the delivery team to a high-quality solution, and manage the financials. Ensure technology solutions align with business goals and objectives. Managed all production incidents that may have arisen in a 7x24X365 environment.

Wells Fargo Bank, Columbia, Md

Manage full scope of technology for Wells Fargo Wholesale Service Delivery – Manage infrastructure, data center, technology strategy, application integration and information security with a matrix teams across the organization. Ensure technology solutions align with business goals and objectives. Managed all production incidents that may have arisen in a 7x24X365 environment Key Accomplishments:•Implemented key project for Risk Based Remediation for over 2000 servers in the Wholesale Line of Business to align with corporate compliance standards. •Implemented key project to expand Payment/Wires platform to allow global expansion to over 23 countries. •Implemented strategy to build and leverage common server platforms to reduce infrastructure footprint.•Improved technology relationship with business partners through transparency and an effective communication plan of the technology vision and roadmap.

Wells Fargo Bank, Columbia, Md

Managed full scope of technology strategy and infrastructure roadmap for Corporate Trust and Wholesale Insurance Services lines of business along with Operations. Defined all ranges of technology components including infrastructure, application middleware, maintenance, information management components and directional vision. Manage team of 40+ mid to senior level professionals including managers, engineers, operations staff consultants, and architects. Managed all production incidents that may have arisen in a 7x24X365 environment. Managed annual budget of $14M (base and incremental).Key Accomplishments: • Managed data center consolidation effort which consisted relocation of 500+ server via a virtual and physical solution in a 2 month timeframe. • Managed $14M budget to keep within a 2% variance from year to year. • Led effort to consolidate numerous physical servers to a virtual environment which led to a $2M reduction in expense. • Implemented processes to improve infrastructure delivery and support to mirror the enterprise solution model.• Managed project that included the integration of all infrastructure an personnel under my direction into numerous technology groups in the enterprise support groups.

Wells Fargo Bank, Columbia, Md

Managed enterprise wide database strategy roadmap for Corporate Trust line of business along with Operations. Defined all ranges of database technology components including infrastructure, application middleware integration with database, maintenance and upgrade schedules. Managed all production incidents that may have arisen in a 7x24X365 environment. Manage team of 6 mid to senior level database administrators. Key Accomplishments:• Developed standardized processes for all database deployments and upgrades• Managed effort to migrated legacy Sybase environment to SQL Server 6.5 on windows platform to to help LOB to see $2M in hardware cost save.• Developed strategic roadmaps that would align database environment to never be more than 2 version behind on any product.

Wells Fargo Bank, Columbia, Md

Senior member of an enterprise wide database team for Corporate Trust line of business along with Operations. Assisted in all aspects of design and strategic road mapping for all database technology components including infrastructure, application middleware integration with database, maintenance and upgrade schedules. Key Accomplishments:• Managed serval effort for process improvement and automation for upgrades and application releases.• Participated in several successful BCP test scenarios • Participated in contract negotiations with clients, subcontractors and vendors. Developed pricing and cost models to ensure profitability. • Managed steering committees to define, prioritize and track system modification and enhancements.

Graduated With A Certificate In Programming And Design, Programming And Design

Associate’S Degree, Accounting