Paul Meekin Email & Phone Number

Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

On contract as a product manager at a health plan company.

Provide contract and freelance Salesforce.com consulting (6x certified): Business analyst (BA/SF Admin), product owner (PO), project manager (PM), and data architect.

[Contract position] DealerAlly is a financial startup that provides its dealers and partners with capital solutions for them to offer their customers affordable, no-money-down, low-payment financing. As an IT Consultant, I was ultimately responsible for the design, build, and implementation of a Fintech partner portal that allows dealers to submit residential and commercial loan applications to multiple financial institutions and administer the loans through funding via our portal and/or our public API. The portal was built on Salesforce and AWS technologies. I performed the following roles:* Product Manager - Managed the system feature roadmap.* Business Analyst (BA) - Elicited business requirements, translated them to detailed and un-ambiguous user stories, tasks, and system (non-functional) requirements. * Salesforce Admin – Custom objects & fields, workflows, validation rules, reports, and dashboards.* Subject Matter Expert - Learned financial institutions’ underwriting criteria, processes, and related program offerings. * Data Architect - Designed logical and physical data diagrams. * Tester/QA - Performed system, integration, user acceptance testing.* Trainer – Trained users and wrote user guides. * Project Manager (PM) - Managed team of international developers (in Colombia and Australia) using Jira and Slack, ran 2 - 4 week sprints, managed user-story backlog, refined sprints, resolved issues, managed all production promotions.* Customer Support - Provided multi-modal support and troubleshooting.* Integration Analyst - Learned the financial institutions’ public APIs, published DealerAlly public APIs for our partners to consume, supported our APIs with documented user stories (for our partners to consume) and created and administered an API certification process.

Annapolis, Maryland, Us

Joined this financial startup in its second year of operation and expanded its market territory into Minnesota and Wisconsin. Developed and implemented marketing strategies and initiatives. Built a network of real estate professionals. Secured necessary state licensing. Monitored real estate investment projects and complied with statutory regulations.Marketed and sold, won customers and repeat customers, priced loan products, negotiated deals, and underwrote loan terms and conditions. Reengineered business processes and implemented appropriate technology.

Managed IT for 2 of the largest MN State agencies concurrently: Dept of Public Safety (DPS) and Dept of Corrections (DOC).DPS: This State agency consists of 13 business divisions, including MN State Patrol, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, Driver and Vehicle Services, State Fire Marshal, Homeland Security and Emergency Management.CBTO, DPS (2011-2018)Accountable for IT operational support, security, system development, and IT procurement for all the divisions of the Department of Public Safety. Made decisions on IT strategy, policies, and standards. Executive IT leader of numerous governance committees that are responsible for the strategic direction of large departmental IT initiatives. Reported to the Deputy Commissioner of MN.IT Services, the statewide IT agency. Managed staff of more than 150 IT professionals with an annual budget of over $40M as well as numerous multimillion-dollar project budgets. Managed systems that earned $1.4B in annual revenue.DOC: This State agency's mission is to reduce recidivism by promoting offender change during safe and secure incarceration and effective community supervision.CBTO, DOC (2015-2017)Accountable for IT operational support, security, application development, systems modernization, and IT procurement. Made decisions on IT strategies, policies and standards. Implemented executive IT governance which defined agency IT needs, prioritized initiatives, and matched IT capacity to IT demand to deliver the most impact to the agency and its divisions. Reported to the Deputy Commissioner of MN.IT Services, the statewide IT agency. Managed more than 70 IT professionals located in the central office and correctional facilities with an annual budget of over $14M as well as numerous large project budgets. IS Director, DPS (2009-2011)Responsible for building project teams, defining IT architecture and project development methodology, contracting with vendors, and managing project budgets.IS Manager, DPS (2007-2009)

A financial services company that focused on residential real estate loans. As part of GMAC, ResCap, at that time, managed over $30B in mortgages. Enterprise IT ArchitectResponsible for systems and information architecture of numerous financial systems. Utilized the Rational Unified Process (RUP) and system engineering techniques to gather requirements and define systems architecture and design. Accountable for managing project teams and delivering systems to specification, on time, and within budget. In addition, developed numerous enterprise architecture strategies for topics such as Web services security, LDAP, and information/data architecture.

Owner/Senior IT ConsultantLead cross-functional team in the development of a proof-of-concept for a Web-services based identity management system that integrated with four other major service delivery systems. Facilitated JAD sessions to gather functional requirements and created a high-level functional design for a system feasibility study. Created a prototype and developed architecture models. As the project architect, developed information security policy and XML utilization standards.As a system architect, performed object-oriented analysis and design and developed the data architecture for a point-of-sale system. Developed use cases, logical and physical data models, definition of interfaces to external systems, and prototypes.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Concentrations: Information Technology & International Business

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Major: Computer Science, Minors: Business Administration And Spanish