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Mclean, VA, US

Asked to head up the Cloud Financial Management engineering effort to slim the AWS spend, discovering opportunities for Cost Optimization, and driving engineering to implement. Turned around increasing year-over-year spend to a decrease of 20%.

Mclean, VA, US

Program Manager of the build of the AWS Platform that hosts migrated applications from legacy environments. Management of strategy for transformational approach, platform Risk, controls, resiliency, ransomware protection, and stakeholder management.

Mclean, VA, US

As part of the Strategy and Operations group, the lead of the technical program to integrate a new acquisition into Capital One.

Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, US

As part of the Leadership Team, standing up an agile Enterprise PMO and agile practice to service the delivery program. Remit was to transform the Program to embrace the newest delivery methods to increase efficiency and adaptability.

Sphere offers leadership and management to structure and implement transformational change for corporations, projects, and systems.

Hired to lead multiple Agile projects. Total team size is 100 consultants and employees, and budget of $25M. Provide leadership, guidance and mentoring to manage and coach a department to properly implement and run an Agile environment. Application is the mortgage underwriting system. Technical guidance on traditional Agile, DevOps, Continuous Integration.

Investigating and sourcing a technology portal solution that meets PCAOB’s technological solutions needed by an organization transitioning from spreadsheets to a CRM/BPM system. Developed presentations to outline strategy and solutions.

Asked to help rescue a $4M project from jeopardy. Reporting to the CIO, leading a team of 30 developers, QA, BAs to deliver a new Insurance portal that will allow brokers to apply/renew policies. Application issues and administers Policies & Claims, and integrates with Accounting and Reports. Moved all development in-house. Project will now go live on.

Providing leadership on this company's most important IT project, High Availability for their most critical applications.Previous projects was leading the effort to upgrade all of the Microsoft software serving thousands of employees and hundreds of applications.

Reston, Virginia, US

• Project management of several initiatives which include:
• Carrier class Cyber Security product that can be resident or cloud based to uncover compromised assets from inside your own company, usually from Malware, phishing, malicious URLs, botnets.
• Intelligent Cloud Services, an API portal to the large telco carriers for location, privacy, messaging, and IP services.
• Suite of ENUM products that provide addressing and routing solutions for Telcos.
• “Text Everywhere”, a product that can SMS message home (wired) telephone numbers by intercepting the messages to custom clients for handheld devices, Outlook, and web.

• Led a $14M FMS (Federal Management System) project for the Dept of Treasury (through a large US Bank) to refresh all components of a financial system whose life was extended 5 years. Built and managed a team of.
• Scope was wholesale replacement of servers, OS, network, database, and middleware, the code rewrite to integrate with the new system, comprehensive testing all functions (Unit, System, Performance, UAT, Disaster.

• At Roco Ki, a proposed 5 star luxury resort development in the Dominican Republic, managed the direction of the technology infrastructure to support up to a 1000 guests, including conferences. Determined what changes.
• Developed an RFP for the resort management system. Managed the construction direction and schedule, while helping the construction content experts to deliver based on their own plans. Work with President, Chairman, and.

Overland Park, Kansas, US

• As an Infrastructure Project Manager at Sprint, managed the build out of the components needed to convert Sprint’s billing platform and 25 million customers from Convergys to Amdocs Ensemble.
• Built out the infrastructure needed for conversion. After analyzing the planned buildout, reduced the plan cost from $16M to $2M, by the re-mapping of activities and better utilization of hardware. Saved a further $1M.
• Managed the Conversion vendors. For one vendor contract, reduced the cost by $400K by being inventive with software license needs. Saved another $500K eliminating unneeded hardware.
• Transitioned to be the Operations Manager of Conversion – Responsible for overseeing the success of the conversion go-live events. Shrank the conversion window by 50%.

• Functioned as the Director of nSat Operations at The College Board until an individual was identified for the position. Led the Technical Support Group of 15 staff. The new application was a new registration, scoring.
• Managed multiple daily bulk data feeds from 3 vendor partners as registration, scoring, and reference data flowed to feed the batch schedule. Became the de-facto expert in managing the troubleshooting failures in the.

Overland Park, Kansas, US

• As the Infrastructure manager, directed the build of the infrastructure of Nextel’s $1.7 billion project that implemented the new Nextel billing, provisioning, and customer care system. Rollout affected 10 million.
• Vendor Management of the main 3rd party vendor that built the solution and ran the daily operations. I was the only focus point needed to stream all technical aspects affecting Nextel. When I finished on the project.
• Audited the level of effort and scope of “Change Orders”. After traveling to Israel to investigate further, the price of 5 of the change orders was reduced by $600K.
• Disaster Recovery planning to replicate the data and how to re-assert data integrity of all the updates. There was also a heavy emphasis on contingency for a “Catastrophic Outage” where operations stayed on site, but.
• Supported the 40 person test team in their effort to pass 10,000 test cases on 4 cycles per conversion. Management of the test, performance, and training environments. I noticed that the performance team was too.
• Debugged all connectivity issues for all environments – Test, Production, Performance, Client, Web, Training, External vendors. Was the company expert on the issues to connect to the Citrix farm, and wrote white papers.

US

Led the provisioning, implementation, and transfer to BAU Operations, a new $100M North America Data Network for Accenture.Let 3 teams - Hong Kong focused on Far East buldout, London (EMEA), and US (60 offices/data centers)Was responsible for all aspects, from ordering circuits to circuit turnup.

• At C&W, was the manager responsible for rolling out a $200M global data ATM/Frame/ISDN network for Accenture using different network suppliers (AT&T, C&W, HKT, Optus, IDC, etc). Was brought in to add expertise until.
• Strategize Trans-Continental capacity. Directed creation of global project plans responsible for the rollout of Data Centers, networks, equipment, and people.
• Work began before the contract was signed so while planning the network, was still involved in contract definition and negotiation. This would involve the lawyers asking for clarification, or editing sections to meet.

Washington, DC, US

IBM Systems Programmer managing the World Bank and IMF mainframes, as well as Tier 3 support for application systems.

Arlington, Virginia, US

• At ARC, remotely managed the Dallas based Corporation’s Data Center. ARC had decided to develop a new system to collect the records of 4 million transactions from the 44,000 travel agents in the US. Responsibilities.
• Was promoted to team leader of both application team and technical support teams, where duties included project management, hiring, technical strategy, and technical adviser to Systems Director.
• Lead Programmer - programmed on COBOL/CICS development suite on the PC in addition to troubleshooting for the programmers. Was the only employee to receive a performance bonus.
• Lead Technician - Systems Programmer and LAN administrator.

• Was recruited from University to join BP’s Corporate Systems Support Team.
• Senior CICS Systems programmer supporting the CICS regions for the corporate applications.
• Seconded as an application developer to the EDI Taskforce