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Parsippany, New Jersey, Us

Provenir’s purpose is to help fintechs and financial services providers make smarter risk decisions faster with our Data and AI-Powered Decisioning Platform. Provenir brings together key decisioning, data, and AI capabilities to help power rapid approvals that drive world-class customer experiences. This unique offering gives organizations the ability to power decisioning innovation across the full customer lifecycle,driving improvements in the customer experience, access to financial services, business agility, and more.Provenir’s Data and AI-Powered Decisioning Platform provides the foundation for more accurate, automated risk decisions across identity, credit, and fraud. Our solutions enable you to stay ahead of risk and focus your resources on innovation and the customer experience.

Plano, Tx, Us

Alkami Technology is the leading cloud-based digital banking solutions provider for financial institutions that enables clients to grow confidently, adapt quickly and build thriving digital communities. Alkami helps clients transform through retail and business banking, digital account opening and loan origination, multi-payment fraud prevention, and data analytics and engagement solutions.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Us

Created the Fiserv/Dovetail enterprise payments global professional services practice from the ground up to deliver digital payments transformation strategy. Designed and executed on-premise and SaaS/cloud delivery models that delivered client value on day one. Became an integral member of the Fiserv executive leadership team following the acquisition of Dovetail. Held full revenue and P&L accountability with a team of 110 solution architects and technology professionals. Oversaw portfolio of client delivery projects, managing onboarding priorities, governance and risk.

London, Gb

Dovetail Systems was acquired by Fiserv in 2017.

Toronto, On, Ca

Recruited as Global Head of the Financial & Risk Senior Leadership Team serving as a customer advocate in the area of product, technology and service leadership. Global responsibility for leading customer success and revenue retention across $1.5B ARR. Led a distributed team of technical professionals that reduced customer churn by proactively monitoring customer accounts and continuous innovation of solutions delivery process. Established service as a competitive advantage by creating consultative and trusted advisor relationships.

New York, New York, Us

Led transformation of NA and UKI implementation and customer success teams for this start-up technology SaaS provider of high-performance OTC, Listed and FX trading solutions used by sell-side banks, market makers, hedge funds and institutional investors, acquired by Citigroup in July 2004. Created the Program Management Office (­LavaFlow ECN & ­Regulation NMS) with P&L accountability. Member of the Leadership Team and Operating Committee reporting directly to CEO. Led FIX integration of execution management (EMS/OMS) partners: SunGard, Thomson ATR, MacGregor and Order Management Systems, Brass, Fidessa, NYFIX, Bloomberg Tradebook, Charles River, MacGregor, Redi-Plus, LineData, Eze Castle.

New York, New York, Us

Managed business planning and project execution (development & implementation) of CitiDirect - Citigroup’s award-winning global cash management, payments and treasury services platform. Deployed a global web-based system built on J2EE/.Net technology and used by 100,000+ client firms in 95 countries and 19 languages.

New York, New York, Us

Recruited to lead distributed team of web-development professionals across multiple US development centers. Held budgetary accountability for $21MM annually. Developed and executed web-based product strategy for the Global Relationship Bank and Global Trading Technology. Initiated software best practice by adopting the Software Engineering Institute’s (SEI) Capability Maturity Model. Created Architecture and Technology Standards governance processes. Received Chairman’s Award for Excellence.

Cupertino, California, Us

Recruited as an early employee of start-up technology provider of Next Computer and NeXTSTEP, an object oriented development environment (IDE) founded by Steve Jobs. Created Professional Services practice that supported Financial Services and Software VAR development program. Apple's OS X and iOS are direct descendants of NeXTSTEP.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Developed business systems for a variety of clients using Sun’s Solaris UNIX operating system and OpenWin (X-Windows). Provided systems engineering support for 3rd party Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) packages.Technical Systems Engineer (1986-1988)