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Accountable for overall information technology and risk management. Passionately assessing company-wide outcomes and implementing end to end solutions that effectively meet customer satisfaction in a secure manner.

Leader of a highly productive product and engineering culture with 120+ staff and $35M+ budget with full-orbed architecture, software development, infrastructure & operations solutions for Medica. A continual focus on financial discipline with modernization and streamlining of a matrixed entity to achieve maximum engineering capabilities, productivity, and sustainable growth. • Over the 1.5 years serving in the IT Cloud & Infrastructure area, I earned additional responsibility of IT Operations & Enterprise Services (Application development) and became known as a reliable and transformative leader with a strong focus on innovative and iterative delivery of material value to stakeholders.• Navigated an extensive, enterprise wide multi-year Cloud initiative enabling product teams to make 50% quicker compute decisions and allow up- and down-scaling flexibility in response to business demand which reduced costs by 25%. • Established a culture of continuous improvement by evangelizing Agile, DevOps & Product mindset within the Infrastructure & Operations organization achieving a 20% increase in efficiency by streamlining processes. • Improved customer experience scores by 20% annually by orchestrating seamless migration of four traditional data centers to new cloud provider.• Executed a $35M merger of two health insurers, achieving a 15% increase in operational efficiency through the seamless integration of 150+ employees and more than 400 applications into a new company. This included leveraging the best technology and leadership from both entities to enhance overall performance and drive measurable result.• Recruited to join Medica as a key leader in the organization’s transformation.

Established and direct highly productive product and engineering culture with business, IT engineering, architecture, and operations. Continually focus on modernizing and streamlining a matrixed entity to achieve maximum capabilities, IT productivity and organic growth. • Established a culture of continuous improvement by evangelizing Agile, DevOps & Product mindset within the Infrastructure organization resulting in a 30% increase in delivery speed and efficiencies.• Orchestrated a seamless bank merger, integrating over 800 applications into a unified system, resulting in a 25% reduction in operational redundancies and a 20% improvement in overall efficiency by leveraging the best leadership and technology from both organizations.• Managed a budget of >$25M in annual spend. Achieved savings of >$3M annually through evaluation, renegotiation, and restructuring of capabilities, licensing, and maintenance agreements.• Accomplished a 30% improvement in operational efficiency by spearheading multiple large-scale enterprise modernization initiatives. Achievements include implementing cloud, database, and hosting life-cycle events, as well as re-platforming backup/recovery systems and hyper-converged solutions.• Achieved a 20% improvement in organizational stability, a 15% increase in operational efficiency, and a 25% reduction in overall risks by collaborating closely with IT, security, and business segment leadership to devise and implement key initiatives. • Define and administer datacenter and cloud strategy to optimize delivery of wide array of products and services to enhance national lending capacity.• Recruited to join TCF as a key leader in the bank’s transformation.

Directed a North American team in the role of APIM Practice Director, overseeing strategic engagements, operational/financial metrics, and overall business outcomes for the API practice. Responsible for sustaining practice leadership, the focus included ensuring a 15% increase in consulting delivery quality, effective management, and a 20% growth in both revenue stream and customer base.

Led a 50+ member global team tasked with supporting, delivering, and evolving a broad set of enterprise digital health platforms (enterprise data hub, integrations/middleware, IoT).• Promoted while within the position, earning the additional responsibilities of the IoT & EDH platforms.• Reduced yearly legacy costs by 25% by directing the development of API gateway and portal technology to expose and manage all enterprise APIs.• Achieved a 30% improvement in team agility and cost savings through strategic recruitment and development initiatives by spearheading and establishing a measurable DevOps practice for Digital Health. • Achieved cost savings of over 30% by transferring all enterprise integration platform support to a single supplier.• Increased cost-effectiveness and financial flex by 15% by guiding the transformation of Pyramid's annual operating model from CAPEX to OPEX.

Led an IT infrastructure organization supporting a broad range of platforms with a global staff of 25+. Responsible for a $21M annual budget and end-to-end enterprise (NoSQL, Big Data/Hadoop, Business Intelligence and Master Data Management) technologies.• Average 95 / 100 score across a 4-year average in Target’s Best Team Leadership Survey.• Directed the strategic planning, construction, implementation, and support of scalable self-service compute and data store services, resulting in a measurable 25% improvement in efficiency and accelerated adoption of DevOps practices.• Introduced and implemented a new agile approach to efficiently manage workload prioritization based on staff availability and skill set resulting in a 45% better SLA and decreased overtime by 8 hours a week.• Decreased build time by 60% and reduced headcount by introducing a new suite of tools to automate engineering tasks.