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Charlotte Metro

Denver Metropolitan Area

Management consulting to provide next-level business solutions to optimize strategy, capabilities and results. Driving an internal business model transformation of people, processes, and technology to deliver new and innovative solutions to support the broader goals of the business. Transformation initiatives are aligned with enabling strategic, operational, and commercial excellence, and are focused on the Client’s most urgent needs. Experienced with modern technology service delivery frameworks including Agile, DevOps and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment. Technology Examples: • Platform: Mainframe, Midrange, Client Server, PC/Micro, Mobile and Web • OS: UNIX, Linux, z/Linux, z/OS • SDLC: Agile, Lean, Waterfall • ITSM: Remedy, Maximo, ServiceCenter Mainframe technology instances: • Subsystem: CICS, DB2, IMS, RACF, SMF, TSO/ISPF, WebSphere/MQ • Workload: APA, RMF, ThruPut Manager, Workload Manager • Languages: ALC, C++, CLIST, COBOL, JCL, PL/I, REXX, SAS, SQL • Software CM: ChangeMan, ENDEVOR, Librarian • Scheduling: CA7, CA11

Multiple Cities

DEFINED STRATEGIC CAPABILITIES AND TARGET ARCHITECTURES FOR AGILE DEVELOPMENT. LED LARGE-SCALE CHANGE INITIATIVES WITH ENTERPRISE LEVEL IMPACT. AGGRESSIVELY MANAGED RISKS IN PRODUCTION AND TESTING AND ACHIEVED COST REDUCTIONS OF OVER $22MM. Chaired multiple projects to repurpose and reduce IT infrastructure and processing capacity consumed by 83 testing environments, yielding over $10MM reduction in IT infrastructure spend and operating costs.Executed an initiative to decommission obsolete testing environments, leading virtual global technology and operations resources across 15 teams, yielding $276K annual reduction in infrastructure and labor costs.Directed global program for planning and quality assurance certification of vendor upgrades to critical midrange and mainframe system software, achieving KPI of 100% prevention of failures in production usage.Led virtual team for, and personally provided, 24x7 Level 3 technical support and expert triage for 33 environments used for agile delivery plus monthly and integrated software releases. Achieved KPIs of 99% global availability of environments and determining root cause of critical test scenario defects within one hour. Assumed technology support of performance testing environment and created daily automated infrastructure maintenance. Developed online testing request system, reducing requester and scheduler efforts by 80%.Increased proactive monitoring of critical IT infrastructure utilization to identify problems before users realized impacts. Automation emailed select staff and interfaced with paging facility to alert on-call technicians.Spearheaded daily infrastructure capacity planning and prioritizing testing workloads across lines of business to promote efficiency and avoid $3,000 per day charge by IBM to activate additional processing capacity.Scrutinized and assessed risks of changes to enterprise IT infrastructure, configuration, security and vendor products.

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

IDENTIFIED AND MANAGED MERGER AND ACQUISITION IT RISK. PROVIDED THOUGHT LEADERSHIP IN EXPLOITING IT INFRASTRUCTURE AND WORKLOAD PERFORMANCE TUNING. DELIVERED STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP OF TESTING ENVIRONMENT STRATEGY AND CREATION. Steered IT infrastructure strategy and planning for mergers and acquisitions as a member of the leadership team. Spearheaded certification of infrastructure and performance during actual transfer of IT processing. Coordinated capacity planning team’s effort to identify specific software release testing workloads and calculate their IT resource consumption. Extrapolated results to provide capacity for concurrent workstreams and meet their service level agreements without negatively impacting production processing. Built business case with CIO for $5MM strategic acquisition of emerging DASD technology to leverage data virtualization to drive cost savings and productivity gains. Chaired team of engineers leveraging cutting-edge technology to develop an automated, standardized and error-free process for creation of testing environments. Transformed environment strategy from individual project testing environments to using an integrated set of environments for testing each software release. Managed teams creating testing strategy and test plans, executing regression test cases, performing user acceptance testing, communicating results of software release testing cycles, and escalating testing defects. Oversaw RACF and application architecture security for 50 testing environments. Responsible for remote access security and provisioning.

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

DROVE ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE FOR INTERNATIONAL EXPANSION. TRANSFORMED SOFTWARE RELEASE STRATEGY AND IT CHANGE MANAGEMENT. SELECTED AND IMPLEMENTED IT SERVICE MANAGEMENT (ITSM) AND ESTABLISHED GLOBAL HELP DESK. Developed the change management strategy for international expansion into Europe. Met with leaders in MasterCard, then created and implemented a transformational software release strategy. Headed the change management organization comprised of two managed teams: one for production deployments of application software, and the second for changes to production IT infrastructure and critical system software. Received superior ratings from internal audit for over 60,000 changes annually. Directed conversion from one software configuration management product to a customized and automated use of a different vendor’s solution. Created new policies, processes, and user documentation and education. Championed business continuity and served as the site manager for IT Operations and Production Services within annual enterprise-wide disaster recovery exercises. Selected for Credit Card Banking Master’s Program and met with each line of business executive. Performed business case SWOT analysis and presented an improvement project which was approved and implemented.

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

INITIATED AND MANAGED AUDIT REMEDIATION PROJECTS INCLUDING A NEW DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGY. DROVE DEVELOPMENT AND CONFIGURATION STANDARDS AND A BEST PRACTICE SOFTWARE DELIVERY FRAMEWORK. Corrected audit findings for the CIO by designing and implementing new system development processes and policies with proper security, preventive and detective controls plus interval and self-audits for compliance. Created and implemented a complete System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology providing a comprehensive and consistent system development process. Orchestrated software development team supporting the Application Change Management group. Created standardized DB2 software production deployment tools plus a set of integrated DB2 developer utilities. Partnered with the vendor and developed a customized application software installation process for the Hogan Deposits system.