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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 life of the project.

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 Remote Desktop Services),o Microsoft Windows Server,o Microsoft Active Directory,o Microsoft SQL Server,o Tableau and Microsoft Power BI.Experience across all roles with the following technologies:• 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),• Data Analysis, Visualization and Business Intelligence (Tableau and Microsoft Power BI),• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, OneDrive, Project),• Email (Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange Server),• Microsoft Windows Desktop,• Antivirus and Antimalware.

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.