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Atlantic Highlands, NJ, US

• Responsible for the Mortgage Solutions technology portfolio, including planning, implementing, and overseeing technology investments.
• Develop and manage the technology portfolio, including identifying, evaluating, and prioritizing technology investments
• Manage the technology budget and ensure that it is used effectively and efficiently
• Orchestrate project leaders, resources, planning, budgeting, and execution
• Track and report on initiatives, programs and projects to ensure transparency
• Report on trends to help drive/improve strategy

• Specializing in cloud (GCP) migrations and high-profile enterprise technology programs.
• Plan and monitor program execution
• Coordinate projects and interdependencies
• Manage cross-project resources
• Manage stakeholder communications, negotiations, and problem-solving
• Regularly facilitates implementation, status and milestone meetings with cross functional groups

Irvine, CA

• Responsible for managing the largest BU portfolio migration to cloud (GCP), resulting in $3M+ annual cost savings, improved performance, tighter security and rapid scalability.
• Successfully migrated (168) deployable units, (416) databases, (250 TB) data within schedule
• Coordinated project pre-work including PCF migrations and database upgrades
• Develops project plans specifying goals, milestones, strategy, staffing, scheduling, identification of risks, contingency plans, budgets, and allocation of available resources
• Regularly facilitates implementation, status and milestone meetings with cross functional groups
• Captures data, takes minutes, and tracks action items. Also determines needs and facilitates ad hoc meetings to resolve issues as required by project status

Irvine, CA

• Responsible for managing multiple projects from conception through final implementation which grew a brand-new eCommerce platform into a $1M+ channel in under one year. Served as a single point of contact for product.
• Partners with end users, sponsors, and/or business leaders to review, understand and prioritize business goals and information needs related to each project
• Develops project plans specifying goals, milestones, strategy, staffing, scheduling, identification of risks, contingency plans, budgets, and allocation of available resources
• Regularly facilitates implementation, status and milestone meetings with cross functional groups
• Captures data, takes minutes, and tracks action items. Also determines needs and facilitates ad hoc meetings to resolve issues as required by project status
• Uses metrics and data to determine risk at the beginning of each project and assesses risk throughout to identify situations that may cause risk to the project and its completion

New York, NY

• Appointed to special role focused on delivering complex projects within our Critical Selling Segment (CSS) environments. Coordinated internal teams with vendors and app teams.
• Consistently managed the success and delivery of a wide range of projects: - Application upgrades and system migrations - Software development (SDLC) - Enterprise-wide OS upgrades - Enterprise-wide security improvements
• Responsible for overseeing IBM delivery (Project Managers, Architects and specialists)
• Acting program manager for marketing & advertising systems (DAM, MRM, CMS)
• Reported project health to EPMO using Jira and Confluence
• Worked with technical teams by submitting CR’s and tickets inside ServiceNow

New York, NY

• Promoted to manage marketing systems, IT budgets, roadmaps, vendor contracts and Tier 3 support. Delivered enterprise-wide projects consistently while maintaining outstanding support and stability.
• Oversaw system performance, backups, disaster recovery and configuration management
• Managed Tier 3 support team of system admins (VMware, RHEL, Apple, Windows, Oracle)
• Managed IT budgets (OPEX and CAPEX) exceeding $1M
• Managed vendor sourcing, vendor relationships and vendor contracts (Apple, Oracle, Xinet)

New York, NY

• Successfully delivered 100+ projects for systems team, support team and application team. Improved overall project delivery by introducing and enforcing standard project management practices.
• Successfully delivered 100+ IT projects for Macy’s & Bloomingdales
• Ensured quality of requirements, scope, schedule & project workflow for all projects
• Improved project delivery through growing/enforcing a standard PM system and processes
• Reported project portfolio status weekly to IT Director, VP’s, SVP’s and EVP’s.

New York, NY

• Promoted to oversee support team, IT budgets and vendor relationships with Apple, Oracle and Adobe. Appointed program manager for divisional marketing systems.
• Managed IT support team (Tiers 1-3 support)
• Managed IT budgets (OPEX and CAPEX) exceeding $1M
• Managed vendor sourcing, vendor relationships and vendor contracts (Apple, Oracle, Adobe)
• Program manager for marketing & advertising systems (DAM, MRM, CMS) - Worked with business units and BA’s to build roadmaps - Partnered with support and admin teams to maintain customer satisfaction - Actively worked.

New York, NY

• Promoted into role to help build a new divisional IT environment. Successfully prepared new office technology, built new IT team and helped deliver several new divisional systems.
• Managed support team (Tiers 1-2 support) and departmental projects
• Responsible for managing all software assets and hardware assets
• Core team member introducing MS SharePoint to Macy’s organization