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Plano, Texas

Lead the Largest Hackathon at USAA: Gen AI Hackathon- Gen AI Hackathon, engaging 465 participants, 88 teams, and 60 judges.- Assembled and led a core team, orchestrating weekly strategy meetings.- Secured sponsorships, funding, and prizes, enhancing participant motivation.- Engaged senior executives for endorsement and support, ensuring high-level participation.- Provided individualized mentorship and coaching, fostering innovation and collaboration.- Maintained seamless communication through weekly updates with executive leadership.- Organized a high-visibility TechX booth, amplifying event awareness and engagement.- Partnered with external vendors like Google, facilitating advanced training sessions.- Outcomes: The top three ideas generated an estimated value of $40 million, identifying critical areas for company-wide improvements.Revamping College Recruiting for Enterprise Digital Technology- Led and restructured college recruiting efforts - Collaborated with EDT leadership to pinpoint internship needs, ensuring targeted recruitment.- Coordinated meetings and mentorship programs, enhancing the intern experience.- Managed HR logistics for 50 interns, ensuring compliance and smooth operations.- Organized meet-and-greet events with senior leaders, including Kenan, to foster engagement.- Results: Achieved a 2x increase in internships, attracting top-tier talent to USAA.Ensuring Training Excellence- Acted as the Training Point of Contact (POC) for the Innovation and Process Platforms Department.- Maintained a 100% completion rate for all employee training, ensuring compliance and up-to-date knowledge.Thought Leadership and Innovation- Distinguished Speaker at the USAA TechX Technology Conference, delivering insights on Generative AI and its future at USAA.Silent AuthenticationLed fraud prevention initiative with strategic Vendor, projected to save $20 million annually.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Managed a team of 16 scrum engineers which enabled 197 Innovation Employee Ideas which resulted in a 3 year Enterprise savings of $70M. Years (2016 - 2021)Responsible for managing and executing $4.0 million annual budget.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Revolutionary DevelopmentAdaptive Mobile DDOS PreventionLed an Industry Leading development effort to design and build the first Commercialized Mobile Security Infrastructure to prevent future DDOS Attacks. • Tech Lead on geographically dispersed team• Mentored and on-boarded 3 new hires and 2 college interns• Created a new mobile domain and migrated existing infrastructure to the new domain• Created and Maintained Roadmap, Documentation and Daily Tasks for the Team• Planned and Executed Risk Mitigation Strategies by piloting and executing rollout plan.• Partnered with Business and Enterprise Teams to create strategic security solution Mobile BiometricsSr. Mobile Developer on Award Winning effort to design and build the industries’ first Biometric Authentication Infrastructure.• Mentored and used Extreme Programming Methodology to onboard and develop new team members• Helped lead effort to decouple voice and face biometrics so that members could choose their preference• Designed and developed custom voice enrollment and verification on AndroidMobile Teller Check ExpressSr. Services Developer on first mobile kiosk that prints Cashier/Teller Checks by Scanning a QR Code on your Mobile Device.• Process improvement that reduced wait times by 88% to 1 minute per check.• Designed and developed enterprise JSON service that integrated multiple JAXB Webservices.• Integrated funds transfer capabilities with Direct Banking.

San Antonio, Texas Area

Bank Application Support SystemsBank Re-OrganizationLed a joint effort to re-organize the Bank M&P Organization • Created 2 new teams and renamed existing teams• Organized teams from queue focused to technology focused, which targeted technical depth and self mastery.• Successfully Pitched and Presented New Organization to Management and then rolled out the plan to the Organization.Remote Deposit Capture (RDC) / Deposits Component LeadLead Developer / Component Lead of the industries’ first Deposit@Mobile Remote Deposit Capture (RDC) Technology. • Reduced the average Website customer Support MSR call time by 9% to 11 minutes.• Cut the number of check images being manually reviewed by back office support by 50%. (420,000 fewer images to manually review)• Reduced System Processing time by over 50% to less than 7 sec per transaction.• Increased the Deposit@Mobile first time success rate from 45% to 81%. (Still the best in the Industry.)

Bs, Information Systems Technology

Education record

Activities and Societies: Honor Society, Upward Bound, BPA, Student Body Vice President, Homecoming King