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Irvine, Ca, Us

Santa Ana, Ca, Us

Providing advice and direction to business navigating the changing landscape of AI and cybersecurity.

Irvine, California, Us

Solidified cybersecurity as the foundation for the managed IT service offering.Expanded the compliance management as a service program to align with NIST CSF 2.0 and CIS v8.Unlocked the capacity to deliver assessment services to large organizations.

Garden Grove, California, Us

Founded the IT Department, providing services for 108 not-for-profit affiliates, with more than 3,000 employees.• Developed the IT shared services organization, ultimately providing 4.9+ (out of 5 stars) service, meeting SLA 99.8% of the time, at a monthly ticket per user ratio of less than 0.6.• Implemented a hybrid, multi-cloud infrastructure, consolidating infrastructure, reducing expenses , and enabling the overall digital transformation of the organization.• Spearheaded the design and development of the custom ERP, saving $250,000 per year in banking fees and thousands of hours of labor per month.• Centralized systems and data, cutting costs and allowing for standardization, brand consistency, and data driven decision making.• Expanded the cybersecurity program, focusing on the impact of people and AI, virtually eliminating impactful cybersecurity incidents.

Community bank ($426 million in assets), acquired by Pacific Premier Bank.• Rescued Independence Bank from regulatory concerns, providing the processes, systems, and infrastructure for 4x growth through mergers and acquisitions.• Optimized IT operations processes, providing scale and improving productivity by 34%.• Modernized the bank's technology stack, mitigating technology risk and supporting the growth of the bank (Cisco, Avaya VOIP, Windows Server, and Hyper-V/Nimble clusters).• Reduced tickets per user per month from over 4 to less than 2 by mentoring and developing the technology skills of the front-line employees.

Fountain Valley, Ca, Us

Captive technology services company, supporting Hyundai and Hyundai Capital.• Led the people and projects to support CRM, eBiz, Oracle Daybreak, LeasePak systems.• Managed the Tibco, Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) / Dataflux, Master Database Management project team, enabling a data synchronization Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Technology services company, providing vCIO and vCTO services to tech startups.• Refined processes and standards to attain PCI, Level 1 EI3PA (credit data security) compliance, allowing the client to pre-qualify customers for auto financing.• Mentored a B2C eCommerce web application development team to deliver a distressed property auction web site.• Developed a C# application to create MS SQL databases based on a defined object model, reducing design errors completely and the time to delivery by 58%• Architected, developed, and delivered a MSSQL database to support 1 million daily prepaid mobile phone payment transactions.

Auto Finance services company, focused on near prime credit and sub-minute automatic approvals.• Increased productivity 20% per year for 3 years, exceeding avg. productivity to cost ratio by 7x.• Achieved an average talent retention of 6-years while fostering high-performing teams.• Managed the IT systems at “four-9s” of resiliency across 2 data centers and 9 locations.• Attained full process and system compliance to PCI and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX).• Reengineered business processes to optimize credit audit by 75%.• Designed, developed, and maintained the proprietary loan origination system supporting $300MM+ of processed loans per month.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Information Technology Leadership

Ba, Entreprenurial Management