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Atlanta, Ga, Us

Greater Atlanta Area

Developed and led integrated solutions across the enterprise to solve complex and critical business opportunities. Served as the lead solution architect for a 300+ million, multiyear, multivendor project to consolidate regional systems into target platforms. Provided architecture solutioning and system impacts to the teams responsible for development of the 100+ applications impacted and facilitated review sessions for the solutions. Reviewed, provided feedback, and approval for the detail design documentation provided by the development teams. Initiated and led a team to develop and analyze alternative solutions that reduced both risk and cost compared to the original business case and presented results to senior leadership. The alternative plan reduced risks by 20 percent and costs by 12 percent.

Recruited, hired, and supervised a team of architects and technical project managers to provide system and enterprise architecture oversight across Telco wholesale and large business applications. Developed and implemented a solution assessment process to ensure consistency with multi-vendor architectural deliverables and to provide validation that the business objectives were met using the technical solutions specified. Streamlined planning, development, business justification and delivery of system infrastructure strategies to ensure the system platforms were maintained, utilized efficiently, and were cost effective. Generated an average of one million dollars in expense savings annually through these strategies.

Greater Atlanta Area

Director of IT: Chief Architect. Established and directed the overall IT strategy during BellSouth’s extremely successful and largest product launch in history. Provided integration solutioning across multiple suppliers, partners, hardware platforms, networks, and systems to support long distance wholesale, retail, and complex business markets. Substantially grew the business capabilities by adding systems and infrastructure to support fraud, least cost routing, marketing and financial data warehousing, pricing and contract management, message processing, billing, trouble management, provisioning, inventory management and integration capabilities with Qwest. Conducted capacity planning, modeling, and benchmarking to ensure enterprise systems stability during the rapid customer growth and activation period. Represented and collaborated as a member of enterprise wide architecture strategy council.Director of IT: Led the system development and application support functions in the Customer Care, Provisioning, Order Entry, and Rating capabilities required for large scale business customers. Directed the efforts of 60+ contractors dispersed among three outsourced vendors. Initiated and implemented an integrated project planning, tracking, and reporting process between these vendors to ensure quality and on-time delivery. Managed a 15+ million budget, produced fiscal plans and ensured adherence to those plans.

Mba, Information Technology - Minor

Bachelor Of Arts, Computer And Information Science