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New York, Ny, Us

CCTi’s mission is to use technology to create an active digital marketplace that will drive innovation in the community-focused financial industry by making loan transactions more transparent, data-driven and profitable.

Random Dynamix is a FinTech Innovation and Advisory Firm advising client organizations on emerging Technology and Information Security trends within the Financial Services industry, while specializing in the development of Enterprise Blockchain-based solutions to address distributed trust challenges in high-volume, high-security environments.

Blue Spruce Capital is a private wealth management firm with offices in Colorado, Texas, and California.

Lafayette, Co, Us

At Trofi Security, our focus is on providing consulting and advisory services based on the specific security risks impacting your organization. Our team of security professionals analyzes all available information in order to devise the right security program based on your industry specific threats and vulnerabilities. The assigned consultants then work with you to mitigate the risks, while moving your organization to a higher level of compliance with relevant regulations and standards such as FFIEC, HIPAA, HITECH, GLBA, PCI DSS, FISMA, and ISO/IEC 27001.

Denver, Co, Us

Denver, Co, Us

Re-ignited the innovation engine of this early-growth stage SaaS provider of invoicing and payment services to the SMB market by steering the product roadmap toward more aggressive, consumer-oriented goals rather than a focus on support of the aging, legacy platform. Re-organized the technology group to better align team skills with both internal and external business requirements, increase product development efficiency, and structure the team for future growth. Led a technical management team of 4 Directors overseeing 24 in-house and contract engineers, with joint responsibility for envisioning, planning, and implementing the company's product roadmap. • Introduced Portfolio and Program Management constructs and tools into the product development lifecycle.• Re-implemented the development team's software development lifecycle (SDLC) in order to follow more efficient and productive Agile methodologies, as well as Secure Development Lifecycle principles..• Implemented a new collaboration platform to allow executive management to better understand and control the potential return-on-investment and resource impacts of product initiatives.

Denver, Co, Us

Led the enterprise evolution of the technology team, platform, and infrastructure of this late-stage startup, SaaS Platform and Services Provider to the Ultra-High Net Worth (UHNW) Advisor market. Responsible for formulating the strategic roadmap of the Platform offering, as well as the organizational structure and business processes of the Service Operations division. Led a technical management team of 4 Directors overseeing 25 engineers in addition to sharing joint responsibility for leading an operational management team of 3 Directors overseeing 45 operational technicians.• Led the initiative to re-engineer the technology platform and operational processes necessary to support the business’ primary Service Operations Offering, with the target of increasing platform scalability by 100x and operational efficiency by 10x.• Developed the hybrid on-shore/off-shore operations model currently being implemented to achieve the forecasted operational efficiency, as well as established the vendor relationships necessary to support the model.• Negotiated the divestiture and subsequent outsourcing agreement with the former executives and original founders of WealthTouch for an ancillary line-of-business software product no longer considered a core value addition to the WealthTouch brand.

Provide expertise to client organizations in the areas of Enterpise Architecture, Portfolio and Program Management, and Business Process Re-engineering. Manage the internal and outsourced consultancy operations to ensure consistent knowledge, quality and execution throughout the engagement process.• Social Media Platform Provider - Managed the technical teams responsible for designing and developing an OAuth & OpenID-based Authentication Web Service to be marketed to the social media development industry. Performed extensive technical research and analysis on competing platform providers, open source technology infrastructure, and cloud computing architectures. • Outsourced Production Provider to the Title Insurance Industry - Provided expertise to the founders and senior management in formulating the technology platform, production strategy, vendor structure and budget forecast components of the initial business plan.

Spearheaded the re-formulation of corporate IT strategy and corresponding IT organizational structure to better align corporate asset utilization with the rapidly declining, financial market situation and emerging business challenges. Analyzed financial and regulatory compliance impacts of corporate enterprise initiatives. Managed 78 employees across 3 western U.S. divisions in the support of 6700 employees in 450 subsidiary offices. • Centralized key IT decision making and re-organized production operations in order to establish standards, improve enterprise service availability, and leverage economies of scale.• Orchestrated the consolidation of 26 disparate, end-user operating environments into 2 geographically separate, virtualized, datacenter environments resulting in a 20% reduction in server, datacenter, and support expenses which represented an annual cost savings of $425K.• Coordinated the development and implementation of a streamlined purchasing workflow model for the enterprise, which resulted in an annualized cost savings of $775K in technology and operational supply purchases and the reduction of 6 administrative positions at the operating division level.• Established ITIL-based governance policies and procedures targeted at increasing the integrity, visibility, and manageability of the change management process for purposes of achieving and maintaining SOX, GLB, and HIPAA compliance.

One of three founding executives of this centralized, title production subsidiary targeted at aggregating and offshoring the commodity processes of 26 sister, operating divisions. Led the development of the technology infrastructure, software, workflow model, and resourcing model for the division. Educated operating division executives and operations managers on the benefits of converting to a variable-cost production model and coordinated the operational transition to the offshore model. • Developed the initial budget forecast and cost comparison breakdown responsible for securing funding and support from the corporate holding company to start the project.• Built and managed the development, QA, and infrastructure teams, which successfully implemented a new origination, integration and production platform for aggregating production processes across the enterprise; achieving operational readiness within 7 months.• Co-architected the workflow model and .NET software components necessary to integrate 26 disparate production systems, communication processes, and product requirements with the centralized production platform.• Successfully coordinated the deployment of services to all 26 operating divisions over a 2 year period, resulting in a consolidated operating expense savings of $35 million by the 3rd year, with a projected annual savings of $57 million by the 5th year.• Established the quality-metric and service-level requirements for offshore vendors and managed ongoing conformance in the day-to-day production cycle.

Formulated and directed the application development strategy for the enterprise focused on streamlining company financial operations through the use of COTS software solutions and custom software development. Managed a team of 8 developers and 2 QA engineers within a hybrid MSF/Agile methodology with an annual operating budget of $1.5 million. • Conceptualized, architected and led the development of a Federal Reserve Fed-Wire clearing-house system which resulted in an annual transaction cost savings of $5.3 million across all operating divisions in 2004.• Re-architected the transactional and analytical data model of in-house developed systems to accommodate Gramm-Leach-Bliley and HIPAA privacy requirements.• Coordinated the consolidation of 4 production systems and 3 accounting systems over a 1 year period as part of company M&A activities.• Compiled an enterprise risk assessment of all operating division software systems.

Researched and developed the core technology disciplines and methodologies used by all consulting teams. Collaborated with the Business Development group to analyze engagements for technology/expertise alignment, revenue potential, and level of risk. Architected client solutions and managed the consultant teams’ conformance to software development lifecycle milestones across all client engagements.

Identified emerging technologies for use in developing next generation products and services for the company’s target industries as well as established architecture and coding best practices for the company’s development teams. Managed an international team of developers working from offices in London, Dusseldorf and Englewood developing systems for use in the U.S, Europe, and Japan.

Mba, Business

Bsee, Electrical Engineering

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