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Scottsdale, Az, Us

Responsible for strategies to support the delivery of data solutions, revenue growth, innovation, governance and enhance data-driven decision-making.- Lead Data and AI transformation efforts by evolving operational tasks and mitigating risk areas within provided solutions or existing implementations.- Lead customer and client collaborations for solution delivery and ongoing consultation to ensure compliance with regulatory and governing body regulations.- Propose solutions and oversee the implementation of scalable, flexible, and future-proof technology architectures and programs.- Build, inspire, and lead a high-performing technology and consulting team that embraces innovation with client delivery.- Foster a collaborative environment that encourages creativity and continuous learning, and support professional growth within the team.

Costa Mesa, Ca, Us

Responsible for leading personnel, driving business objectives, managing capital and expense budgets and owning the suite of data and fraud platforms that host and update data on 3.6B health, fraud, business and consumer financial records. In charge of program enhancements, data insights and the holistic data catalog.- Led the development and execution of the Experian "High Performance" and "Operational Excellence" which standardized and improved all operational processes and procedures across workstreams that directly impacted the organization's revenue.- Drove all performance changes in platform, data and governance programs through direct leadership by focusing on process, procedures and personnel capabilities.- Re-instituted the talent development and training programs to increase awareness on data standards, cloud services, application usage, data analysis, business processes and best practices.- Led operational improvements in the organization's "focus" workstreams to improve efficiencies, quality, accuracy and to achieve a strategic competitive advantage within the industry.- DevSecOps hybrid-cloud transformation efforts with CI/CD pipelines, systematic security assessments, penetration testing and ongoing optimization resulted in a 75% decrease in risk exposure, 80% faster security fixes, 90% faster build times while simultaneously achieving an 85% decrease in OpEx cost.- Created Experian's Data Governance and Risk team. Chartered to evolve MDM capability, adherence to regulatory compliance and improve the organization's risk posture. This created an ongoing risk posture for the organization and achieved data accuracy to greater than 99.9%, data delivered within 24 hours at 90% and a 90% faster change process.- Implemented use of cloud services, configuration management, serverless architectures, and software containerization. Was awarded the Global Leadership and Innovation award from the results experienced.

New York, Ny, Us

Hired to lead a team in the U.S. and India for audience monetization infrastructure and platform in support of search/ads, business intelligence, targeting, campaign management, user experience and digital marketing.- Architected the migration of legacy applications onto AWS and Azure cloud environments achieving data collection of page hits in under 10 milliseconds, sustainability of site visits averaging 300 million unique visitors per month with a total of over 2 billion page views each month.- Managed business continuity and disaster recovery for all data centers, work sites and infrastructure to include - network, storage, back office, database, dedicated and virtual servers.- Achieved 75 % faster analysis feedback results and marketing assessments with clients by developing the organization's DMP (Digital Marketing Platform).- Managed vendor relationships and service contracts, and wrote RFPs and RFIs for 3rd party vendor software integrated into marketing platforms.

Tempe, Az, Us

Charged with providing complete oversight of technology practices, including network, database, system engineering and software development functions. Built and led a team of 75+ across Development, Engineering, Analytics, Operations and Support overseeing the company’s hosting product lines impacting 3.5M customers on over 1,500 shared servers and 10,000 dedicated servers. Provided additional leadership of team of 25+ network and system engineering teams supporting internal applications and back-end servers. - Directed the development and implementation of design procedures to enhance Windows and Linux hosting server environments while ensuring compliance with security best practices, regulations, and customer expectations. - Designed and implemented self-service, automated troubleshooting application to drive the resolution of support issues. - Overhauled the training curriculum for the call center’s advanced hosting support groups; delivered training to all team members on shared and dedicated hosting products to ensure optimal customer satisfaction.

Progressed through roles of increased responsibility, taking on additional tasks to meet business demands. Managed team of 12 Development, Engineering, Network, Systems and Database staff responsible for the design, support, and problem resolution for product line utilizing MSSQL, C++, and the .Net Framework. Achieved and maintained 99.99% availability for corporate and production network.

Washington, Dc, Us

USMC enlistment. Various leadership roles from team leader to platoon commander. Honorable Discharge.

Master’S Degree, Leadership

Bachelor'S Degree, Technical Management