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Greater Chicago Area

Greater Chicago Area

Schaumburg, Illinois, United States

• Oversaw strategic decisions and initiatives related to application development and security. Led a team responsible for migrating 25 software applications from on-premises data centers to the cloud, optimizing.
• Continued to drive technology transformation efforts, aligning development and security best practices.
• Continued management of software delivery, strategy, execution, security, and operations.

• Led billing system software development, security, and operations with annual revenue exceeding $108 Billion.
• Spearheaded technology transformation initiatives, including Agile, DevSecOps, and CI/CD adoption, resulting in improved software delivery processes.
• Successfully migrated technology infrastructure from Unix to Linux, achieving scale by moving to in-memory data grids (IMDG) and logical databases.
• Implemented resiliency measures, including multi-node RAC and… Show more
• Implemented resiliency measures, including multi-node RAC and remote failover capabilities, enhancing system reliability.
• Delivered over $110 million in software enhancements for AT&T's strategic programs on core mission-critical systems with a $171 million Total Cost of Operations in 2018.

• Progressive increase in scope and responsibility directing and administering the management of AT&T’s Consumer Wireline and Wholesale, Customer Care, Ordering, Billing, and Sales Negotiation systems.
• Accountable for SOX, PCI, CMM, Technical Standards, Information Security Management, Internal\External Audit Action Items, Contract Negotiations, and Budget for 763 applications, including 50+ mission-critical.
• Leading critical software delivery for major AT&T… Show more
• Leading critical software delivery for major AT&T programs such as U-Verse and One AT&T. Show less

• Responsible for directing IT organization consisting of 60+ professional staff charged with system and solution designs required by major programs to enhance and maintain systems that bill and collect $40 billion in.
• Business analysis and design. Staff functions included consulting, project sizing and estimating, developing detailed business requirements and system designs, resource capacity management, project management, and….
• Business analysis and design. Staff functions included consulting, project sizing and estimating, developing detailed business requirements and system designs, resource capacity management, project management, and.

• Program Manager responsible for program and project management of large multi-million-dollar strategic IT initiatives. Successfully completed numerous complex, multi-organization, multi-disciplined, and, highly visible.

• Information Systems Manager (1994-1997) Responsible for directing work for software professionals including project managers, systems engineers and software developers supporting a billing and customer care software.
• Information Systems Manager (1994-1997) Responsible for directing work for software professionals including project managers, systems engineers and software developers supporting a billing and customer care software.
• Systems Engineer (1990-1994) Responsible for requirement definition and design for a state-of-the-art cellular customer care application. The application utilizes client-server architecture. Show less

St. Louis, Missouri

• Software programmer IBM Assembler, PL/1, and COBOL,
• Progressed from entry level programmer to Systems Analyst, receiving two promotions, in less than 4 years.

Bs, Computer Science

Ms, Information Technology