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United States

• Principal, Head of Digital Advice TechnologyDirect a global technology team for creation of company’s robo-advisor technology platform, delivering strategic support in realizing desired objectives. Direct strategies.
• Championed a global technology team of 200+ professionals for planning and creation of company’s digital advisor technology, enabling clients to effortlessly manage investments without need for in-depth understanding.
• Played a key role in establishing a top-performing team model that garnered respect from business and IT departments via leadership of assets growth under advice for digital advisor offering, resulting in expanding.

Malvern, PA

• Principal, Head of IT Risk ManagementLeadership of 45 person technology risk and controls assurance organization reporting directly to CIO and partnering with IT senior leaders to identify, mitigate and manage critical.
• Transformed Vanguard’s IT Risk and Controls organization to focus on business value creation while simultaneously assuring a strong controls environment vital to regulatory compliance and client trust.
• Built a comprehensive domain framework covering the risks within strategic technology programs, critical processes, and assets.
• Established trusted relationships across the IT senior leadership team by delivering value added risk services that provide leaders with the appropriate guardrails to ultimately speed up application development and.
• Built an interactive, self-provisioned risk dashboard linking Vanguard’s business goals to technology KPIs and KRIs. Regularly present risk dashboard to IT senior staff to drive accountability and action.
• Established an innovative governance model with key second line of defense partners including internal audit, enterprise supplier management, enterprise risk management, third party risk management, legal and.

Philadelphia, PA

• Manager, Electronic Commerce and Systems DevelopmentLed strategic planning and systems development for Electronic Commerce, EDI, Hazardous Materials Handling and Quality Assurance. Management of 28 person staff.
• Developed and presented Electronic Commerce strategy which won approval for implementation.
• Led improvement of telecommunication software resulting in over $200,000 in annual savings.
• Improved existing quality assurance rate by 15% by adding targeted improvements in process. Project Leader Project management responsibility for multiple mainframe and client/server development projects including.
• Constructed and implemented a process for archiving, updating and managing workstation library of multi-million dollar development project resulting in a faster development life-cycle.
• Delivered projects on schedule and within budget resulting in 25% higher client satisfaction. Senior Programmer / Analyst Development of C programs on MS Windows platform for client-server systems

• Software Engineer
• Led design and development of a ground-based portable weather station and aircraft mounted weather analysis system. Successful implementation generated sales in national and international markets in the Middle East.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

M.B.A., Management

B.S., Electrical Engineering

B.A., Physics