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Charlotte, Nc, Us

• Leadership: Inspiring and leading high-performing, globally distributed engineering teams in modernizing and expanding AvidXchange’s Integrations and data platforms, including partner integrations, connector development, and customer management.• Accelerate: Driving a culture of innovation, value acceleration, growth mindset, and automation by encouraging curiosity, continuous learning, and frequent inspection. • Software Engineering: Leading and supporting autonomous software engineering teams in developing and sustaining over 400 integrations with diverse ERPs, including property management platforms, to enhance customer process efficiency.• AI Innovation: Integrated AI/ML tools across the software development lifecycle, resulting in a 30% improvement in product delivery efficiency. Led proofs of concept and implementation of technologies to enhance team capabilities in requirements gathering, development, and testing processes.• Data Solutions: Harnessing the power of unified data through Master Data Management and Customer Management Platform, accelerating operational, analytics, and product value while driving efficiency, compliance, and strategic growth.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Cloud Architecture: Guiding the overall enterprise architecture and application modernization, aligning the 5-year business strategy to IT's future state, moving to cloud and service architectures while promoting an agile and DevOps mindset.• Technology Insights: Providing insight into industry and technology trends and best practices recommending improvements for the organization as a member of the Community's Leadership Team.• API Development: Directing the Interoperability architecture and implementation using FHIR APIs and Azure Cloud to meet regulatory requirements and drive cost savings, patient access, and better health outcomes.• Analytics Platform: Drove the move to an analytics platform, shifting to the cloud-native services, enabling AI and predictive analytics, integrating 35+ data sources across the care continuum, and resulting in alternative financial models and quantifiable value-based care with a forecasted benefit of $5M to $25M.

Houston, Texas, Us

• IT Strategy: Led the enterprise digital and data strategy, driving digital healthcare transformation serving 450,000 customers moving IT from projects to products, features to capabilities, and systems to platforms.• Digital Transformation: Oversaw 14+ initiatives to improve customer engagement by delivering a 360-degree customer view, data as a service, next-generation web experience, mobile presence, and personalized content. (Salesforce, Informatica, Microsoft Azure)• Master Data Management: Led the creation of a single version of the truth, improving provider data quality by 50%, through mastering provider, member, and reference data, increasing accuracy, trust, and completeness.• Data-Driven Solutions: Shift mindsets and information management approaches removing data silos, improving patient-provider relationships, and enabling smart customer-centric software solutions. • Agile Transformation: Drove Agile Transformation using a strategic wave approach, developing other agile leaders, gradually shifting culture within IT and across the organization, demonstrating increase value, transparency, and satisfaction with agile teams.

Houston, Tx, Us

• IT Strategy: Oversaw a $30M+ budget as part of shifting application teams from primary tactical to strategic execution, moving from disparate and disjointed applications and data to shared application services, integration, and data platforms.• Digital Transformation: Led digital transformation projects to change the way members and providers collaborate with the health plan from paper to online portals and mobile applications, improving user experience with a forecasted benefit of $11 million in savings.• Software Development: Built a software development team from the ground up, starting with creating job descriptions through recruitment, hiring, and coaching. Cultivated a vision for how business software applications and technology innovations enhance health plan operations. • Data Integration: Reduced delivery time for IT solutions by 40% through spearheading the strategy, architecture design, and implementation of application and data integration across on-premise products, SaaS solutions, and cloud-based services. • Executive Leadership: Chaired the Business Advisory Committee, which improved IT business alignment through collaboration, established product ownership, and ensured IT teams met the business needs. • Vendor Collaboration: Realized $2M in annual savings by partnering with a key vendor to implement additional functionality, maintaining license costs, and replacing an inefficient system.• Agile Transformation: Drove the Agile Adoption Initiative across IS and relevant business departments, coaching managers, and product owners, increasing team efficiency by over 30%. • IT Compliance and Security: Monitored and enforced HIPAA compliance for software development, implementation, and data security, which resulted in passing external compliance audits and readiness reviews.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Managed a program of four projects that resulted in the integration of the multi-family retail energy brands onto a single operational platform with streamlined processes and $4M in savings.• Program Management: Directed the consolidation of billing platforms, interfacing with senior leadership, to define strategic objectives and business outcomes, forecasting $1.1M in growth over 3 years, $4.3M in retention improvement, and double the number of customers on a single platform without increasing operating costs.• Process Improvement: Eliminated $800K in unnecessary project and enhancement costs through the centralization, categorization and analysis of business process owner’s requests, and employment of a new prioritization methodology that significantly reduced redundancy.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Project Portfolio Management: Directed a $25M project portfolio and change plan for corporate systems across Finance, HR, Procurement, and other corporate areas. (SAP FICO, SAP HANA, and OpenText)• Software Implementation: Directed the implementation of an Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solution giving executives visibility into project investments, eliminating $12M project spend over the first year.• Organizational Change: Successfully built a team of project managers, transitioned 20 projects from the incumbent team, and incorporated agile methods to deliver value iteratively.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Global Leadership: Led a global team of project managers and business analysts, overseeing a $5M+ project portfolio across custom development, process improvement, infrastructure, and software implementations. • Project Management: Transformed project execution by introducing agile methods, delivering business value sooner, which increased stakeholder satisfaction and project success rates to 90%.• Portfolio Management: Served on the Project Governance Committee that monitored and recommended changes to the governance process for 14 global portfolios.• Business Strategy: Worked closely functions with senior business managers to align project portfolio with strategic business objectives in support of cash management, client services, dealer services, risk analysis, and other investment services.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Data Integration: Managed project to streamlined data integration by consolidating trades and security positions into a canonical format leveraging a publish and subscribe architecture, reducing maintenance, and support by cost by 65%. • Project Management: Spearheaded the multi-million-dollar Single Security Master Project, consolidating the processing and maintenance of securities and prices across global operations, resulting in $2M initial cost savings. • Process Improvement: Conducted in-depth analysis of business processes across global operations for trade settlements, position management, optimizing business workflows, and reducing manual interventions.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Functional Design: Gathered and analyzed business and technical requirements, captured functional specifications, and managed the development of data interfaces between internal investment systems, external data providers, and other third-party applications.

London, England, Gb

• Designed and deployed Oracle 9i Application Servers and Oracle Real Application Cluster infrastructure to support Trade Capture, Portfolio Management, Risk Assessment, and Enterprise Application Integration applications.• Reduced the time to import physical deals by 60% in order to meet strict deadlines by tuning real-time trading and risk management platform.• Designed, standardized, and implemented an integrated solution for centrally managing and monitoring Oracle and SQL Server databases using Oracle Enterprise Manager and customized Java components.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Applied previous experience to deliver technical architecture and infrastructure design for support of ETRM system.

Au

• As part of the ETRM practice, led efforts to architect data services/data layers for flowing deals from front-end office trading systems to back-end LOB systems.• Led data architecture and integration as part of implementing a customer-focused Internet/extranet site and internal applications which improved trade floor information and efficiency reducing manual work by 70%• Spearheaded the data analysis, requirements, and architecture for item master, pricing, and contracts systems.

Dublin 2, Ie

B.A., Computer Information Systems

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