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Richmond, Va, Us

Richmond, Mclean

Led engineering and Agile delivery teams in building and operating technology solutions supporting Enterprise Risk Management, Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Second-Line Compliance, and Operational Risk Management functions.✓ Assumed interim role, leading extended organization of all associates and contractors for 1 year, as organizational leadership was being recruited.✓ Supported Chief Risk Officer, Chief Compliance Officer, and Head of Enterprise Risk Management on technology, architecture, and cyber topics.✓ Established product and tech investment roadmaps, incorporating staffing strategies and efficiency actions.✓ Launched following major platforms, designed and developed in house:✓ ✓ Governance, Risk Management, and Controls (GRC) platform.✓ ✓ AML platforms supporting Suspicious Activity Reporting and Cash Transaction Reporting.✓ Drove sustained improvements across key operational metrics, including cyber and application resiliency, while influencing enterprise strategy.

Greater Chicago Area

Led engineering and Agile delivery teams in driving technology transformation and operational excellence in support of partnership credit card programs; teams built engineering solutions supporting integration of new partners, establishing partner-facing capabilities, and migrating partners to common card servicing solutions.✓ Held responsibility for potential and existing partner technology engagements, including new partner deals and existing partner technology strategy and support.✓ Led streamlining and expansion of Chicago as location for Software Engineering People Center for card business.✓ Migrated partnerships technology infrastructure to external data center hosting suppliers as part of company strategy to exit owned data center footprint.✓ Worked with card partners on their migration to common card platforms, resulting in simplification of infrastructure and improved partner capabilities and economics.✓ Drove technology operations investments, resulting in improved customer in-store experiences.

Richmond, Mclean, San Francisco

Led engineering and Agile teams in operating and transforming marketing and credit decisioning software supporting U.S. card business; teams modernized credit decisioning through open-source, microservices-based solutions running on AWS.✓ Established first software engineering teams in McLean, Virginia and San Francisco, California markets for U.S. card business.✓ Led architectural strategy, design, and implementation of in-house-developed infrastructure on AWS, supporting card originations decisioning.✓ Led strategy and modernization of Customer Management decisioning capabilities supporting existing customer offers, including credit line increases.✓ Implemented machine learning (ML) solutions.✓ Led transformation of people, process, and technology to Agile software delivery.✓ Partnered with primary marketing vendor to strengthen operational execution and migrate combined teams to Agile software delivery.

Greater Richmond Region

Led engineering teams accountable for technology development and operations supporting inbound credit card and installment loan consumer applications; supported services included receipt of consumer requests for credit through final credit decisions and account onboarding. Managed program and engineering teams developing and supporting in-house-developed and internally hosted vendor applications for purpose of card and installment loan originations. Led development and implementation of real-time modeling infrastructure supporting card models and removing re-coding requirements for new model builds.

Greater Richmond Region

Joined Capital One (then Signet Bank) coming out of college. Held variety of roles in operations before moving over to technology team to lead running, development, and insourcing of card originations technology solutions for credit card business; technology roles spanned hands-on coding, team management, and technical design and delivery.