Michael Brady Email & Phone Number

Greensboro, NC, US

• Planning, directing and controlling the Information Technology (IT) activities of the organization and coordinating the effective design, implementation and operation of IT systems and applications;
• Planning and formulating the IT strategy and policy to meet the current and future needs of the business;
• Coordinating and/or acting as a liaison between business units and other departments, organizations, suppliers, etc. to meet business objectives;
• Directing the IT operations and setting priorities between development, maintenance and operating;
• Maintaining an up-to-date knowledge of new equipment, systems and programming techniques appropriate to the organization;
• Establish and ownership of operations and expense budgets (preparing budgets and other management plans)

• Brought in as the company’s CIO to plan and direct IT activities for the organization and act as a hands on technologist and business liaison.
• Role of Project Management Office (PMO) to work with business and technology to coordinate projects and define technology solutions for company priorities.
• Direct IT operations and define and set technology priorities, manage development, system maintenance as well as operational support.
• Define and deliver IT monitoring controls for operational support.
• IT operational support for two offices (Charlotte, NC and Boca Raton, FL) including system servers, database operations, desktop support, software systems support.
• Transform system and network design for increased utilization and growth: architecture of network, system deployment and design, virtual machines (VMware) and storage solutions.Develop and deploy client/server.

Charlotte, NC, US

• Lead the development and scaling the IT organization, as well as leading the technology organization through enormous growth while ensuring IT and business SOX controls.
• Dramatically improved technology operating results and value by redefining internal SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) to streamline project management, specifications, development and project milestones o Lead.
• Developed and managed Sales Support and Help Desk Call Center o Maintained and delivered LendingTree’s telephony Call Center application systems o Established a call monitoring, routing and analytics system for.
• Information Technology Controls and Monitoring o Established program for IT Control Objectives in regards to Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. o Achieved a 99.9% up-time for all systems, due to a combination of AXX.
• Information Technology – Extended Support Locations: o Lead and provided technology support and operational IT guidance for 5 lines of business each in a different geographical location. o Ability to lead IT.
• Aggressively restructured technology department to streamline communication, visibility and accountability between business owners and IT teams, thereby removing excessive middle management layers and increasing.