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Lancaster, Pa, Us

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

- Provided expertise in solution architecture and implementation planning for a large US logistics company's next-generation revenue management systems, significantly improving package delivery profitability.- Successfully led the high-impact SAP release, ensuring minimal downtime, over 99.5% automatic financial transaction segmentation, and high stakeholder satisfaction through effective project management, rigorous testing, and comprehensive risk mitigation strategies

Greater New York City Area

- Led digital transformation for a leading US telecom, redesigning its business website and developing IoT buy flow.- Strategically redesigned a healthcare company’s digital experience, boosting customer satisfaction and revenue.- Expert contributor to the World Economic Forum’s external publication Digital Assets, DLT & the Future of Capital Markets (Pub. 2021)

New York City Metropolitan Area

Employee #25 and the first project manager to join this innovative Blockchain startup. Responsible for the successful execution of all North American projects as well as numerous presales efforts. - Project Manager for a post trade clearing and settlement, healthcare claims processing, and mortgage securitization proof of concepts - Established Digital Asset’s client engagement model - Led the response effort for numerous RFPs - Coordinated delivery efforts across third party… Show more Employee #25 and the first project manager to join this innovative Blockchain startup. Responsible for the successful execution of all North American projects as well as numerous presales efforts. - Project Manager for a post trade clearing and settlement, healthcare claims processing, and mortgage securitization proof of concepts - Established Digital Asset’s client engagement model - Led the response effort for numerous RFPs - Coordinated delivery efforts across third party implementation partners Show less

New York City Metropolitan Area

Responsible for the successful execution of Lab49’s Capital Markets projects in North America. Key duties include ensuring all projects conform to Lab49’s engagement, compliance and governance protocols, building strong client relationships, managing the project managers in the region, as well as industrializing, scaling and optimizing key delivery processes and support systems.- Personally managed an agile team that designed and implemented a revolutionary and award-winning single-dealer… Show more Responsible for the successful execution of Lab49’s Capital Markets projects in North America. Key duties include ensuring all projects conform to Lab49’s engagement, compliance and governance protocols, building strong client relationships, managing the project managers in the region, as well as industrializing, scaling and optimizing key delivery processes and support systems.- Personally managed an agile team that designed and implemented a revolutionary and award-winning single-dealer foreign exchange, rates, credit and commodities trading platform - Established a multi-vendor “development factory” designed to reinvent the securitization process and revitalize the core operational systems for one of the mortgage industry’s largest liquidity providers- Created the Washington DC delivery practice, hired the team and delivered $25M of revenue in the first year Show less

New York City Metropolitan Area

Product manager for a very ambitious and innovative software development project to build the world’s best eLearning platform, which combines sophisticated data modeling and AI methods with novel content management and authoring tools to provide an efficient, effective and highly personalized multimedia learning experience. Managed a global 50+ person agile software development team and numerous subcontractor relationships.

General MotorsManaged an agile team that designed, developed and implemented applications that improved the Information Technology component of GM’s Sarbanes-Oxley program, strengthened its internal control framework, demonstrated compliance with GM’s Treasury Loan covenants and automated the data collection and reporting for its 302 Certification Process. These systems are an integral part of GM’s global compliance program.Interpublic GroupManaged a team that designed… Show more General MotorsManaged an agile team that designed, developed and implemented applications that improved the Information Technology component of GM’s Sarbanes-Oxley program, strengthened its internal control framework, demonstrated compliance with GM’s Treasury Loan covenants and automated the data collection and reporting for its 302 Certification Process. These systems are an integral part of GM’s global compliance program.Interpublic GroupManaged a team that designed developed and implemented ASP .NET applications that reengineered the international tax reporting and revenue recognition processes. Responsible for overseeing every aspect of these custom development efforts, which resulted in the remediation of several material weaknesses. These systems are used in approximately 1200 distinct locations in over 80 countries. Show less

New York City Metropolitan Area

Project manager, architect, lead developer and lead business analyst for the strategically important Manhattan Mini-Storage project. Responsible for managing this project’s $3 million budget and its many subcontractor relationships. Crafted a SOA-centric corporate IT strategy and redesigned its AS/400 IT systems and key business processes that supported this $60 million per year business. Designed and implemented several OLAP cubes to facilitate the segmentation and analysis of Edison’s… Show more Project manager, architect, lead developer and lead business analyst for the strategically important Manhattan Mini-Storage project. Responsible for managing this project’s $3 million budget and its many subcontractor relationships. Crafted a SOA-centric corporate IT strategy and redesigned its AS/400 IT systems and key business processes that supported this $60 million per year business. Designed and implemented several OLAP cubes to facilitate the segmentation and analysis of Edison’s customer base. Used Data Mining Techniques to create decision trees that optimized the rate increase and pricing processes. Show less

New York City Metropolitan Area

NYC Department of Finance Managed a 30 person software development team, subcontractor relationships and inter-organizational SLA. Responsible for managing the development teams who maintained and modified a custom Websphere application that interfaced with many of New York City’s legacy systems. In 2003, this system processed over 1.8 million transactions and collected over $6 billion in revenue.NYC Financial Information Services AgencyDevelopment manager for a client server… Show more NYC Department of Finance Managed a 30 person software development team, subcontractor relationships and inter-organizational SLA. Responsible for managing the development teams who maintained and modified a custom Websphere application that interfaced with many of New York City’s legacy systems. In 2003, this system processed over 1.8 million transactions and collected over $6 billion in revenue.NYC Financial Information Services AgencyDevelopment manager for a client server application that supports New York City’s accounting, budgeting, procurement, and contract management processes. This system is used by 4,000 city employees and accounts for the financial activities of New York City’s annual budget.VerizonTechnical team leader and lead developer for a risk management system that helped Verizon’s multi-state collections team recover approximately $20 million in delinquent debt annually. Show less

Ph.D., Information Systems, 4.0

-Adjunct Professor for Computing Applications in Business (Fall 2010) -Authored Chapter 12 of Supporting Real Time Decision-Making..

M.B.A., Finance

Specialized in financial modeling theory (e.g. Black Scholes, Markoff Chains and Brownian Martingales)

M.S., Information Systems

B.S., Computer Science And Business