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Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Us

- Provide leadership and oversight of the technology integration program for Fiserv's $580 million acquisition of US Bank's Debit Card client base- Provide leadership and oversight of the technology integration program to build a best of breed suite of products between Fiserv and First Data Corporation. Fiserv purchased First Data for $22 billion in 2nd half 2019.

Roseland, New Jersey, Us

ADP is a Fortune 250 provider of cloud-based Human Capital Management solutions for HR, payroll, tax and benefits administration, and a leader in business outsourcing services with over $13B annual revenue.As Senior Director, Global Enterprise Technology Solutions – Major Accounts Business, Richard leads a global technology team of 60+ to provide architecture, design, engineering, deployment, and 24/7 TechOps for an ADP application suite (Workforce Now (WFN), EZ Labor Manager, Essential Time) that generate $1.6B in annual revenues and are used by 150,000 clients. He is responsible for co-ownership of product roadmaps and leading feasibility studies for new technologies including cloud.In this role, Richard has led datacenter consolidation and application/database porting to AWS, creation of a data lake and analytics platform, introduction of no touch auto-remediation of incidents, implementation of Docker automation, and provided oversight for an organization transformation that included pair programming and migration from ITIL-type vertical service model to Scrum.

Roseland, New Jersey, Us

In this role, Richard led three ADP Centers of Excellence: ► Capacity and Performance Management Center of Excellence - Richard led establishment of ADP's Capacity Planning and Performance Management Practice for hosted applications and the launch of an open source Capacity and Performance Management application that collected and centralized infrastructure metrics into a time series database with a self-service dashboard. He also served as a member of multiple ADP thought leadership groups including Member Release Management Taskforce, Enterprise Architecture Review Board, Senior Technology Management Directional Committee; M&A Technology Evaluation Steering Committee, and Z-Linux Executive Council.► Monitoring Engineering Center of Excellence - In this role Richard established a centralized team for enterprise-level systems and application monitoring service responsible for profiling applications, developing monitoring baselines/notification conditions to ensure SLA compliance, engineering builds, customizing for cross-product integrations, and reporting on anomalous conditions.► Messaging and Application Middleware Engineering Center of Excellence - This center was chartered to standardize the use of messaging and application servers across ADP’s applications. Richard led development of a shared messaging middleware infrastructure and a standard engineering and escalation support model. This also included collaboration with ADP's Architecture Review Board to ensure compatibility, compliance and governance across systems, implemented ADP-wide under the CIO’s direction.

Hoboken, Nj, Us

Richard was engaged as a consultant commissioned by the CIO and reporting to an executive oversight committee to lead two strategic technology initiatives. He led the consolidation of three different applications that create Wiley publications (akin to a customized content management system) and developed strategies to enable Wiley’s technology organization to improve response to changes in the IT landscape.

Created by then Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, 9/11 USG oversaw a consortium of NYC human services organizations working on the front lines of the 9/11 recovery efforts. Richard was hired as CTO and reporting to Vice Chairman and Goldman Sachs CEO Robert J. Hurst to lead a complex, multidisciplinary consortium to define, design, and construct a suite of technology tools to enable thousands of caseworkers across dozens of human services organizations to better assist 9/11 victims. Richard oversaw ~20 technology staff with responsibility for managing projects, systems, operating procedures, and privacy/compliance mandates. His work included negotiating vendor contracts with IBM, McKinsey, and Accenture (fully paid, discounted, and pro bono), consulting with various agencies to expedite information sharing between agencies and government, and extensive collaborations with member charities and leaders from government and business including FEMA Head Michael Brown, Mayor Giuliani, Senators Schumer and Clinton, Red Cross CEO Bob Bender, and the Board of Directors.

Richard led multiple technical teams to define, build and scale out massive online communities for new media and entertainment clients including AOL, A&E Network, NFL, Ford Motors, Martha Stewart, MTV, Philip Morris, Showtime, and Time Warner.Richard developed, launched and managed the first all-digital imprint for a traditional book publisher, Time Warner’s iPublish.comHe was a Member of the Executive Strategy Group that included industry experts and clients sharing ideas to improve community experiences.Key contributor in the sales cycle contributing to pre-sales research, proof-of-concepts, presentation development and delivery, joint brainstorm sessions and response to RFI/RFP’s.

Bigchalk.com was a pre-IPO online learning hub providing an array of educational tools to K-12 students with peak market valuation of $350M, acquired by ProQuest in 2002.As VP of Product Development, Richard led a department of 50 including contract resources and directed all staff, systems, projects, and SOPs within the New York office. During this time Richard led the design, build, and rollout of a $4M school community portal to over 55,000 (35%) US schools and served as the Chief Technology Advisor for M&A transactions.

Chicago, Il, Us

Grant Thornton provides management consulting and tax services through offices in the US and in 109 countries worldwide. As a consultant Richard served as Technical Lead and Project Manager for dozens of engagements for clients in entertainment, financial services, government, publishing and telecommunications industries.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Six Sigma Green Belt