• Lead the transformation of chaotic processes into streamlined operations as a Manager of Managers overseeing 100+ direct and indirect reports combined across the Philippines, Mexico, and India.• Manage $28M budget and specialize in Enterprise Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML), directly impacting banks, enterprise risk, and IT units.• Integral in AML initiatives, heavy governance, and data analytics in 2024, applying change management principles to support regulatory analytical needs of USAA and improving systems across banking, property and casualty, and life companies.• Championed implementation of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and DevOps practices, leading to the rapid development and deployment of software components, which optimized operations and achieved significant cost savings, including a combined $40M+ through product rationalization and vendor contract negotiations.• Recognized for driving the shift from a legacy model to advanced data/agile engineering practices within Risk and Compliance IT domain, enhancing operational efficiencies and contributing to $100M+ in GRC and AML project improvements for USAA, balancing immediate and long-term business needs.• Deliver training, diverse assignments, and innovative development techniques, ensuring the execution of best-in-class data services and influencing data-driven insights to improve USAA's operational efficiency.

• Transitioned into first managerial role overseeing 12 direct reports with a budget of $15-20M, becoming a key figure in modernization efforts and driving the transformation of data management across enterprise-wide projects.• Engineered comprehensive database solutions enhancing enterprise data warehouse, fraud detection, and financial services operations for credit cards, investments, and bank and P&C projects, utilizing tools like Snowflake, DataStage, Oracle and SQL Server to automate workflows, leading to significant improvements in time-to-market and quality.• Led process improvement initiatives that optimized team performance and ensured delivery of high-quality data models for reuse, while acting as database consultant to select ideal DBMS for projects, achieving $3M+ in savings by consolidating overlapping tools.• Implemented the first encrypted storage of member numbers in SQL Server Database at USAA, significantly improving member privacy by developing routines to mask sensitive data, leveraging SQL Server's out-of-the-box tools for enhanced data security.

• Spearheaded a team in dramatically reducing a critical data modeling batch program's run time from 3 days to 2 hours, directly boosting efficiency and productivity.• Implemented data profiling to cut data anomalies by 40%, collaborated to define Key Risk Indicators (KRIs), and improved decision making efficiency by 15% through data-driven metrics.• Managed the seamless migration of legacy databases to a cloud-based architecture, cutting infrastructure costs by 30%, and established robust disaster recovery mechanisms to achieve a 1-hour Recovery Time Objective (RTO).• Optimized database indexing strategies to decrease data retrieval times by 25% and enhanced data management by translating business processes into precise data models, alongside conducting workshops to uphold database design consistency and integrity.

• Enhanced claims processing efficiency and speed by revamping a vendor tool's code, alongside designing a scalable database architecture for Claims Query (EDI 834, 837, 835), cutting query response times by over 50% and significantly raising system performance and user satisfaction.• Achieved a 99.9% uptime SLA for a database supporting 800+ users over 12 months, surpassing performance goals, and utilized ad hoc SQL queries and data mining to extract insights that informed product development, boosting customer satisfaction by 20%.• Improved ETL process efficiency by 25%, enhancing reporting and analysis timeliness, and performed root-cause analysis on database issues, resolving performance bottlenecks for a 20% improvement in system responsiveness and uptime.

Worked as a Software Engineer Consultant for Citibank Projects