Northwestern Mutual has been helping people and businesses achieve financial security for more than 160 years by combining the expertise of its financial professionals with a personalized digital experience and industry-leading products to help its clients plan for the future.Responsible for all financial planning and retirement applications utilized by the firm's 18,000+ financial advisors and their staff. Reported to CTO and provided leadership to a global team of 140 individuals. Reinvigorated disparate technology teams by unifying them through collaborations toward a common SaaS-data vision and an integrated “one platform, one team” culture focused on transitioning to modern technologies.

Corsearch provides a comprehensive brand establishment and management lifecycle, enabling businesses to secure and protect brand value both online and offline. Came on board to act as an agent of change to transform the company for a sale.Spearheaded the company's transformation from a services-based company to a SaaS-data company in preparation for company sale, redefining the corporate strategy to focus on data. Drove a technology strategy to enable and streamline data source consolidation and processing and maximize data-derived value. Created strategies for: a common technology stack, data strategy & consolidation, platform migration, and a unified infrastructure for consolidating and modernizing the many existing legacy platforms, while concurrently integrating and onboarding 9 additional platforms & tech teams gained through acquisitions.- Re-architected unstable systems from the ground up for performance gains, extensibility, and rapid development. Increased platform revenue 220% through the resulting increases in performance metrics (60% to 800%), increased client renewals, and improved client experiences- Saved $3M through incident avoidance and cut overall technology spending through vendor/services renegotiations; widened application coverage by 200%+ by retiring excess high-cost technologies- Established Machine Learning (ML) team to focus on Natural Language Processing/Search and Image Processing technologies; ML team processes 20+ million data elements as part of ML algorithms trainingUnified and refined SDLC to adopt Agile; created governance controls to enhance consistency, predictability, and usability.

Galaxy Digital is a diversified merchant institution dedicated to the digital currency and blockchain sectors. The New York-based company was founded by Michael Novogratz. The firm’s multi-disciplinary team has deep experience across investing, portfolio management, capital markets, operations, and blockchain technology. Galaxy is a sector leader whose influence and market intelligence position it at the forefront of the rapidly evolving cryptocurrency and digital asset landscape. Galaxy employs a four-tiered approach to the cryptocurrency and digital asset space: be invested, be connected, be diversified, and be disciplined. The company is focused on capitalizing on the entire cryptocurrency and digital asset ecosystem, including owning and trading liquid and illiquid digital currencies. The company operates four business lines, including: 1. Trading (arbitrage, macro, market making/OTC)2. Principal Investing (private equity, venture, and lending opportunities in blockchain technology, infrastructure, software, ICO investments)3. Advisory (consulting and advising early-stage firms as well as introducing and proposing blockchain solutions to established institutional firms)4. Asset Management (business-to-business products and building passive and active investment strategies managed on behalf of external clients).

NEX ENSO is revolutionizing the way that hedge fund and prime brokers communicate, enhance relationships and derive value. We do this by providing hedge fund managers with everything they need to optimize counterparty relationships. The result is data-driven informational alpha that empowers both buy- and sell-side firms to extract more value in a complicated regulatory environment with multi-dimensional constraints. With more than $1.4 trillion in total assets under advisory, ENSO provides operational insights and alpha-generating analytics to many of the world’s most successful fund managers.

Chief architect for Digital Pulse "Evidence Based Ecosystem" initiative, a Big Data analytics platform, enabling BNY to generate actionable insights to improve processes and business performance. Digital Pulse is comprised of four core pillars – Capture, Store, Analyze, Act – combined to empower working smarter through evidence-based decision making.Delivered full-scale IS monitoring program, featuring a 24/7 Security Operations Command Center utilizing technology such as Security Information Event Management (SIEM), Intrusion Detection System (IDS), Host based Intrusion Detection Systems (HIDS) and log aggregation.

Directly managed a global team of employees and consultants of over 285 staff. Responsible for Internet, Extranet, and architecture, implementation, requirements analysis, design and development, and production support of mission-critical business systems. Authored plan to improved development process, consolidate/upgrade servers and establish consistent hardware/software standards to eliminate unstable, highly mixed operating environment. Established metrics, key performance indicators and service level agreements for driving the performance of applications and IT service delivery, in partnership with management team. Execution required coordinating offshore development, reengineering existing workflows and operations, and facilitating relationships across multiple functional areas. Slashed manual processes by 50% with resultant reductions in overhead costs.- Spearheaded dozens of technology initiatives, leading teams in strategy development and execution to navigate clients through change and transformation, including periods of rapid growth, formation of joint venture, and business reorganization.- Led design, development and implementation for cross-region, cross-platform, high availability enterprise web server infrastructure and application management system that manages more than 5,000 Web servers in 6 data centers globally, hosting more than 1,000 applications. While maintaining a 24/7 99.999% uptime for the organization.- Established and enforced of engineering standards for Microsoft .Net and IBM WebSphere platforms.

Chief Technology Officer for PCH.com with responsibility for the division technology. Accountable for running the 30th most trafficked website on the Internet. Set the vision and led the development and operations, while building up a new organization, performing technical due diligence on prospective acquisitions, hiring and managing senior and junior team members, overseeing and evaluating service providers, and ensuring coordination and collaboration across the corporation. Site architecture ran on Microsoft .Net implemented Web Services using Agile software development.- Designed and implemented a new state-of-the-art Survey system. The Survey system was written in Microsoft .Net C# using WSDL and UDDI for partner integration. The survey system has embedded conditional branching rules based on user responses. The system handles over 5 MM survey responses a day.- Responsible for Business Intelligence system containing 43 MM customer records. Created real-time reporting that allowed the business to monitor and adapt marketing campaigns increasing revenues by $2 MM instantaneously.- Reviewed application development proposals and plans to determine time frame, funding, procedures for accomplishing project, staffing, capital and operating expenses, and resource allocation across project phases.- Defined priorities, authority and accountability structures, determined assumptions, scope control, and risk.

Responsible for overall success of multiple, simultaneous projects, from initial needs assessments through customer satisfaction. Manage risk assessment, issue resolution and change management initiatives. Managed several projects that required extensive interaction at the CEO, President, and CFO level. Responsible for all aspects of technology and fulfillment implementation. Revamped the company’s technology to focus on revenue growth and business execution. Key member of leadership team credited with developing growth, product and services strategies. Hired, trained and mentored direct reports to ensure unified vision of corporate goals.- Implemented a completely new eCommerce architecture and offline catalog architecture in six month. The new site increased revenues for the business by 30% in the first six month post launch receiving several design awards.- Reduced technology costs by $8 MM over 3 years while maintaining service levels. Achieved cost reductions through organizational realignment, adoption of new technologies, and aggressive renegotiation of contracts.- Created in-house Business Intelligence system consisting of 24 MM Martha Stewart Living customers from magazine subscribers and catalog orders. The system was used to create unique online and offline marketing segmentations based on customer profiles.

Developed and implemented the division strategy which included Internet portals, document management, and content management initiatives. Focused on enabling clients and business units to better participate in deals, create/modify website content, enable information reuse, and operational streamlining of business processes.- Acquired senior management approval for multi-phased implementation approach and strategy for document management and content management for division saving $9 MM/year.- Led corporate effort to develop and implement a secure Internet Deal room, document management, and content management strategy, providing solutions for client and enterprise-wide systems. - Created an extranet architecture providing clients with high value-added functionality that allowed clients to participate in deals. The system was implemented using Microsoft ASP.Net and several security packages.- Led technology assessment of division’s infrastructure to take into consideration infrastructure changes needed to implement strategy.