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Chicago, IL, US

Chicago, IL, US

Owings Mills, Maryland, US

Des Plaines, IL, US

Enterprise Architect and IT strategy consultant for global digital agency. Delivered on over a dozen client consulting engagements providing thought leadership and advising companies ranging from startup ideation to small-mid market, and Fortune 500. Executed on IT landscape and architectural assessments, strategic roadmaps, business process improvements.

Researching of emerging technologies including Cloud & Edge Computing, AI/Data Science/Machine Learning, and Blockchain.

Houston, Texas, US

• Overall responsibility for the North America home warranty and protection plan applications including both the software and hardware platform, supporting 650+ users including near shore contact centers in Guatemala and.
• Effectively designed, architected, and developed the system capabilities following an agile methodology within our existing custom Home Warranty platform to launch a Protection Plan business in 2013. Successfully grew.
• Directed the Home Services side of our business to partner with our residential energy business to launch the first major cross-sell with energy. This allowed for protection plans to be sold by our energy business and.
• Managed a $7.5m IT budget including $5m of OPEX and a $2.5m change envelope.
• As a people leader, grew team from 4 to 15 and provided growth and promotion opportunities. Extremely high management effectiveness score of 93% was achieved on engagement survey.
• Managed and led effort to build out a more scalable digital platform. Created a more robust development, testing, and QA environment along with introducing DevOps tools for continuous integration and deployment..

Bedminster, NJ, US

• Executed as IT and business leader involved in planning of business strategy and leading implementation of innovative technology solutions enabling significant business growth over this time frame. Revenues grew from.
• Facilitated strategy as a member of the Executive Team reporting directly to the President.
• Designed, architected, developed, and managed a custom digital technology platform using state-of-the-art, industrial strength technologies and frameworks. The platform ran the business from end-to-end including order.
• Engineered custom Decision Tree algorithm to standardize and improve internal claims processing and enabling customer-facing use.
• Engineered complex service contractor rating and selection algorithm to significantly reduce claim costs and standardize processing.
• Executed on all aspects of IT due diligence process during acquisition by Direct Energy.

• Executed as business owner including business development, recruiting, management, and accounting responsibilities. Performed as senior IT consultant for Northern Trust, Quaker Oats, Home Warranty of America, and the.
• Team leader of full life cycle development effort for a suite of Investment Research applications. Lead developer of client/server application allowing Research Analysts to create earnings projection models.
• Technical team leader and developer for mission-critical trading & modeling system used by personal trust portfolio managers.
• Technical team leader and database developer for integration of company financial data into research reports in a Lotus Notes workflow and commentary report distribution system.