Richard Wright Email & Phone Number

Clearwater, Fl, Us

Mr. Wright is a senior technology leader with an extensive background across multiple verticals / industries. This includes over 25 years’ experience delivering large scale, complex technology solutions in payments, credit card processing, fraud, data warehousing, banking, analytics, business process automation and government.Co-founder, Verto and Associates, LLC, a company founded on a strategy selecting the Best-in-Breed cybersecurity products and services in the marketplace and delivering those selected products and services to our clients from small business to the enterprise.We have established a network of partners with “proven track records” delivering solutions in the following areas of RISK:• Vendor Risk• Digital Risk Protection• Secure Collaboration and Communication Platforms• Microsoft M 365 Security • Vulnerability Management • Digital Payment Security• Complete SIEM Delivery and Monitoring• Interim RISK and TECHNOLOGY professionals.

Company executive responsible for eMason’s technology operations and software delivery organizations. Accountable for ensuring that cost effective operations are in place to support the business and technology efforts of the company as well as implementing continuous improvement and controls to mitigate potential risk for eMASON. • Recruited executive leadership for the following:o Infrastructure and networking.o Project Management Office.o Quality Assurance & Testing.o Software Development.o Training & Support.• Established the Project Management Office driving governance and consistency of delivery across the company.• Transformed the database and software delivery organizations creating a one team accountability strategy aligned with the business & products.• Enhanced the level of technical skills & resources increasing speed to market & quality.Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), St. Petersburg, Fl. (Mar. 2006 – July 1, 2011)SVP, CTO Information Technology Outsourcing January, 2010 – July 1, 2011Global Commercial Services Principal executive responsible for leading a global portfolio of ITO services and solutions, with overall responsibility for the financial, sales, marketing, and operational performance of this growth-oriented line of business. • Lead the delivery of ITO services from India & the Philippines.• Responsibility for the Information Technology development and application support organizations in both India and the Philippines providing governance for the ITO delivery practice.• Launched and grew Professional Services Staffing model by 48 percent (2010).• Established Off -Shore QA Center of Excellence providing services globally. • Transitioned 164 vendor resources to ITO resulting in a synergy savings of $ 3.4 M.

Jacksonville, Fl, Us

• Directed the delivery of ITO services from the following locations:- Chennai (2 locations), Gurgaon, Chandigarh, Mumbai, Bangalore and Manila. - Extensive travel throughout India (2010).• Responsibility for the Information Technology development and application support organizations in both India and the Philippines providing governance for the ITO delivery practice.• Products and services include:- Application Development and Management- Package Implementation- Professional Services- FIS - Products- IT Consulting• Launched and grew Professional Services Staffing model by 48 percent (2010).• Established QA Center of Excellence providing services to FIS (UK). • Transitioned 164 vendor resources to ITO resulting in a synergy savings of $ 3.4 M• Grew captive organization 62% (2010) estimated savings to the business of $ 3.2 million• Developed the necessary plans to consolidate the Chandigarh location into Gurgaon as well as the Bangalore location.• Moved the engagement model from business aligned teams to an off shore factory model driving accountability across the organization.• Developed a strong governance model for the captive and third party clients (reviewed monthly).• Established the Philippines ITO location serving internal captive organizations within FIS.• Responsible for the technology organizations supporting India and the Philippines providing 99.6 % availability this includes the support of 8 development centers.• Established Credit Card (BASE2000) development team off shore team supporting and delivering projects to FIS (Brazil).

Jacksonville, Fl, Us

• Directed international compliance & regulatory software development serving the UK, Australia, Domestic US and Brazil. • Documented a three year road map of functionality for FIS international and domestic customers and delivered on the plan. • Reorganized the international team by decentralizing accountability and eliminating 2+ million in cost.• Delivered 100 K hours of development (successful) Balance Segment Project & new GUI front end to over 3000 clients. • Reorganized IT (ramp up) to deliver 90k hours development Jan. 1 – June 23rd, 2007. • Eliminated 7+ million from IT yearly (2008) run rate through consolidation, RIF’s , Off Shore with consistent quality delivery. • Introduced Release Management aligned with the Business Product Road Maps.• Delivered the first Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence solution for the company, BB&T, Sub Prime & Portfolio Management. • Organized a global (off shore) development infrastructure and process currently delivering two strategic products.• Manage Capital dollars for the division; including IDSW, PPE & Purchased Software across IT and the lines of business.• Established a governance model aligning IT with the needs and priorities of the business.• Manage Client Technical Services / Data Express delivering 10K file transfers daily.• Created the office of IT Relationships and Strategic Management - aligning sales, the lines of business and IT.

Mclean, Va, Us

Led team of 200 Information Technology personnel, (design, development, and management personnel). Administer a $ 30 million annual budget. Scope of accountabilities includes risk identification and mitigation strategies, planning, strategy, human resource affairs, management and metrics reporting, business interaction and communications. • Established, with the business, a governance model when engaging with internal and external delivery sources. • Initiated and led a quality program throughout credit card development resulting in the highest quality measures to date. While implementing over 600 projects across multiple platforms and technologies (comprising more than six million lines of source code) no production defects were introduced impacting more than 100 customers for the 18 month period. • Built the card and account management on shore and off shore software development engagement model. Provided significant contribution to overall 22% cost of development. • Introduced software release management to the business and development organizations, which resulted in efficiency gains estimated at a yearly savings of $ 1.5 million dollars. Director Software Development, Middleware (1999 – 2000)Led team maintaining the Middleware Complex supporting the routing of 40 + million transactions per day, supporting multiple lines of business. Scope included a $ 20 million annual budget, release management, project delivery, human resource interaction and ongoing infrastructure improvements. • Achieved an “up time” of % 99.00 for the Middleware Complex.• Enhanced geographic release management process minimizing risk during software release roll out.• Initiated project management and quality assurance and application testing functions.• Formalized internal release management process providing business units with less risk and more predictability of project delivery.