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Charlotte, North Carolina, US

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US

Improve Customer confidence, Cyber, Cyber, Cyber, stability, roadmaps, achieve team confidence, improve drive by appreciation and changing mindsets via extensive communication and ultimately improving moral, make the team UNSTOPPABLE!

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US

Emergency Commercial Center uplift managing infrastructure refresh, VM’s, FW, WAF planning, mail, etc, as well as managing devops and others.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US

Managing a Major Global uplift initiative of Bank Solutions Commercial CenterData, Analytics, AI/ML and EncryptionCDO Office - Insights - Data Analytics and AI/ML Big Data teams (Apps, Admin and Ops, etc.)Rebuild, migrate and encrypting Hadoop environment ( Cloudera and Alitscale)Orchestrated and lead firm wide application encryption integration program.

Acquired by Fiserv

New York, NY, US

• Managed strategy, engineering and operations for a Retail and Home Lending Data Warehouse unit delivering stability, modernization and process standardization across the organization enabling the Card, Retail and Home.
• Immediate reduction of priority one issues by over 80%, ultimately achieving zero downtime nearing a year, resulting in savings over $15M and eliminating staff downtime.
• Successfully managed and rebuilt a remote Tech Ops team, implemented emergency system capacity uplift while closing 34 CSA's and migrating to internal data centers for LOB acquired in 2007.
• Transformed a Performance organization, which was 80% contractor & 85% onshore to 100% employee and 50%+ offshore with no breakage, 30%+ budget savings and self funded headcount growth in order to add on additional.
• Using Automation, improved processes and scheduling was able to save 3MM+ for 2013.
• Involved with negotiations and creation of a Teradata ICDW which when completed will be major force in decision making in the consumer LOB.

Mclean, VA, US

• Managed a direct team of 285 and matrixes 800+. Strategy, engineering and operations with P&L responsibility for a $100M IT unit delivering technology solutions, modernization and process standardization across the.
• Resolved major issue prohibiting the firm from closing many billions of dollars of mortgages.
• Negotiated new and existing contracts saving more than $90M in technology costs annually
• Saved $800K in license costs by upgrading a Unix platform for two critical business models and consolidating two environments into a single server; upgrade also boosted system capacity and computing power
• Over a 3 month period migrated all environments to spare capacity, allowing the retirement of aging enterprise servers and saving $134K in annual maintenance fees
• Achieved critical milestones re-engineering 85% of the organizations technology within 15 months; right sizing IT staff with 25% reduction, saving $10.25M in salary expenses per annum

Collaborated with the President of the Board of Pharmacies (State of NJ) to design, develop and market an innovative tracking software system for retail pharmacies. System captured and stored critical patient, doctor, drug and insurance information, managed electronic claim adjudication and printed prescription labels. System was NCPDP and HIPAA compliant.

Led a global team of 100+ IT staff in eight countries. Managed alliance and technology contract negotiations. Led the development of the Patagon Global Bank infrastructure. Integrated nine M&A’s spread globally across Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico, Miami, NY, Spain, Germany. Designed a new trading platform and migrated each country to new.

Hired as VP of Application; Database Development. Promoted to CIO within months to manage a team of 80 developers, engineers, DBAs, operations and other technology support staff with a $25M budget. Re-organized five IT groups to streamline processes, eliminate barriers and enhance productivity.

Zurich, CH

Initially ran a Fixed Income database group that had been having sever daily outages. After creating and executing a tactical approach to stabilize the environment we implemented a strategic plan, along with restructuring the team. With that success I was promoted in less than 6 months to manage the Fixed Income Trading Floor technology and managed a staff.

New York, NY, US

Managed a global team of 15 employees and led development of firm IT standards. Designed and developed many of the systems still in use today. Member of Tech Steering Committee. Originally hired as a programmer consultant and progressed through a variety of roles after being converted to employee status in 1989. Developed leading products today known as.

Mathematics

Data Processing Degree, Computer Programming

Mathematics