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New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

• Independent contractor providing technology solutions to medium to large businesses.
• Defined architecture decisions in alignment with business and strategic objectives,
• Designed and developed enterprise class software solutions, evaluated software, and negotiated software contracts,
• Application architecture and design including security, data, messaging, and UI,
• Data design, migrations, integrations, and data warehousing.

Greater Chicago Area

• Product Manager for one of the world’s largest managed service providers with many Fortune 500 Clients, managing services from concept through production and post implementation.
• Provided technology and business leadership, driving company-wide technology strategy to deliver business change and growth,
• Led cross-functional teams and managed budgets,
• Used market research and consumer trends analysis to identify future client needs and new business opportunities, creating persuasive business cases and value propositions,
• Frequently appeared at industry trade shows, presenting the business benefits and technical details of services.

United States

• Provided internal and external IT Consultancy and Project Management. Formed and ran teams as needed, presented complex ideas, and detailed plans.
• Reviewed, analyzed and created detailed documentation of business systems and user needs, including workflow, program functions, and steps required to develop or modify programs,
• Used industry standard project management tools and Agile project management practices to effectively manage the process, people and resources, including continuous delivery/deployment,
• Identified and resolved project issues and managed project dependencies, then conducted project postmortems and created recommendations reports to document the successes and challenges that were experienced over the.

United Kingdom

• Provided internal and external Technical Architecture governance, server software design and deployment and issue resolution.
• Designed, implemented and supported technical solutions in the following technologies:o Server Virtualization (VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V),o Desktop Virtualization (Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, Microsoft.
• Cloud hosting of databases, servers, web applications and storage (Amazon Web Services, Azure),
• Storage Virtualization (NetApp),
• Application Virtualization (Citrix),
• Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS),

London, United Kingdom

Provided IT Engineering expertise and technical support across all disciplines of banking and finance for the European branches of the Bank of Chin.