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Omaha, Ne, Us

Arbor Bank comprises of six branches in and around Omaha, including the oldest state charted bank branch in Nebraska City. With assets currently over $500MM, Arbor is one of the fastest growing community banks in the region, providing retail and commercial banking services, along with mortgage and insurance services.- Initially recruited by Arbor Bank to assess poorly performing network suffering significant daily slowdowns and frequent outages. Assessment encompassed all aspects of the technology environment, including the managed service providers, the core hosting company, other technology service partners and services utilized.- Several systems were identified for improvement and cost savings were identified across various components of the wide area network and telephony infrastructures.- Seamlessly integrated into the executive management team and provided cybersecurity expertise to executive suite and Board of Directors.- Serve as Infosec Officer, Privacy Officer, and Physical Security Officer.Notable Accomplishments:- Implemented several initiatives upgrading technology, improving stability and saving costs.- Migrated enterprise to Microsoft 365, providing vastly improved security and office suite licensing compliance across the enterprise. Initiative was largely revenue neutral.- Initiated reduction in footprint of on premises server environment, ultimately leading to streamlined asset management and reduced capital costs.- Greatly improved the security posture of the bank through adoption of current technologies such as multi-factor authentication, next generation firewall technologies, encryption practices, etc.

o Aggressively recruited by BH Media to relocate to Omaha to lead the technology team for the company and its significant number of recently-acquired entities.o Focuses on systems/cultural integration for 30+ companies, with many unique platform and systems infrastructures; approaches each integration with commitment to communication and openness to ideas.o Leads talented team of Directors in areas of: Digital Development, Enterprise Service Desk, Infrastructure, Applications, IT Security, and Project Management.o Notable Accomplishments:▪ Traveled to major field locations to spearhead the migration to common systems across the country; met with IT staff at various locations to understand their approaches and input.▪ Developed a transformational strategy to modernize systems, through implementation of an internal private cloud, that provided a 2-3 year TCO recoup by centralization, standardization, leveraging automation, and decreasing the need for systems and networking resources by 60%+; this solution positively impacted EBITDA.▪ Proposed aggressive road map to consolidate two data centers into one main hub, frugally leveraging the public cloud as a disaster recovery and business continuity solution.▪ Reorganized the IT Security function to provide dedicated focus on reducing cyber threats and risks to the enterprise.▪ Co-leading PCI compliance project to ensure readiness by 2019.

o Led the technology team in support of the second largest Radiology practice in Tennessee.o Directed the company’s efforts to migrate from legacy Fuji PACS to a modern Intelerad InteleOne implementation, providing an advanced imaging suite with capabilities for billing and scheduling services.o Worked with technology and business leadership to complete stalled Fuji RIS conversion.o Served as a liaison to core hospital client and partner, ensuring trust and providing services that were not available at the hospital.o Notable Accomplishments:▪ Convinced owner-partner radiologists to significantly invest in technology and IT security, modernizing firewalls, physical security and converging their architecture.▪ Leveraging previous M&A experience, co-led the efforts to sell the company; collaborated with NYC financial advisors to vet investment firms; the sale ultimately netted the physician owners over $2MM each and was the highest multiple radiology acquisition price in the U.S. to that date.

Nashville, Tn, Us

o Managed the technology and security assessment for the Consolidated Utility District of Rutherford, County, in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, on behalf of the CUD Board; findings and recommendations led to improved disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities.o Served the Infinity Management client by conducting a comprehensive technology and IT security assessment and development of strategic IT roadmaps.o Notable Accomplishments:▪ Created trust in IT, and served as Interim CIO during assessment engagement, and received lucrative employment offer to become permanent CIO at Infinity Management.

o Partnered with owner of Group Data Services to launch an IT Security Consulting firm that performed penetration testing for 80+ financial institutions across the country.o Served as leader of the firm, while also serving as VP of Operations for GDS.o Hired team of sales representatives, telemarketing firms, technology staff, and operations support.o Notable Accomplishments:▪ After initial two years providing IT security consulting services, pivoted into full-service IT Managed Services for additional revenue generation.▪ Worked with owner to develop branding/marketing collateral for the expanded managed services.▪ Located, negotiated and ensured quality control for the telemarketing efforts for lead generation and sales appointment setting.▪ Located suitor and worked with the owner to negotiate an attractive deal in selling company to an established Nashville accounting and consulting firm.

Parsons, Tennessee, Us

o Recruited to join progressive division of Ayers Asset Management in Western Tennessee.o Led GDS so that the owner could focus on other Ayers Asset Management entities.o Managed Human Resources, Operations, and IT in support of seven key clients across three states.o Interfaced with CIOs of banks as well as the VPs in operations and technology.o Notable Accomplishments – VP of Operations:▪ Spearheaded aggressive modernization and automation.▪ Reduced headcount by 50% through implementation of state-of-the-art Check 21 processing solutions.▪ Able to reduce costs of $1MM data center to $500K through innovative sourcing and management.▪ Improved firm’s score on FDIC exam by reviewing a robust follow-up action plan with examiners.▪ Achieved SAS70 (later SSAE16) certification in compliance with banking regulations/requirements.

Provide strategic technology and operational vision/roadmaps for technology dependent organizations. Implement complex technology integrations, infrastructure architecture, vendor management. Data center design, consolidation, construction. Business process optimization, tactical and strategic roadmaps. Operational improvements, efficiencies, cost optimization.

Norwalk, Ct, Us

Vertrue Inc. is an integrated marketing services company, providing membership programs and pioneering affiliate marketing programs with some of the large early internet service providers such as AOL and Yahoo.• Promoted to CTO/VP to address technology management in midst of dramatic organic growth period (1998 – 2003) when revenues increased from $70M to over $400M. Adjusted staff and organization. Deployment of improved technology solutions stabilized the network environment and implementation of high-speed, highly-available LAN architecture for initial improved service levels to 99.9+%. • Assumed oversight of development team and highly customized Siebel CRM platform integrated with legacy systems. Led cross-functional teams to diagnose and remediate repetitive hourly outages in the CRM system, improving up-time from 97.5% to 99.5%. Significant positive business impacts. • As part of the M&A team beginning in 2002, performed due diligence assessments for eight target companies over three years. Integrated five acquisitions into a federated operations model with consolidated data centers. • As a part of the senior planning committee in 2003-04, developed company’s first direct-to-consumer product line and marketing program. • Spearheaded technology projects for business efficiencies or needed functionality: - EMC SANs - Network/server load-balancing - Clustering - Firewalls - Network upgrades for performance and HA - Upgraded obsolete IBM mid-range systems for lower TCO and higher performance - Migrated outgrown AIX/DB2 data warehouse to MS-SQL Server 2005 environment with OLAP and robust BI tools. - Constructed lights-out disaster recovery data center - Negotiated $200K in free consulting services for deployment of BizTalk-based Enterprise Services Bus - Kept failing custom warehouse management system alive long enough to replace with an integrated WMS

Norwalk, Ct, Us

• Managed enterprise telephony and call center systems in three separate call centers in the domestic U.S. and Montreal, Quebec. • First-year impact saved over $1M or 25% in expenses for call center operations. Subsequent years’ expenses reduced also. • Replaced Intecom telephone/ACD systems with Avaya Definity G3r networked communication system, providing for seamless enterprise communications. • Replaced leased-line network with higher bandwidth, lower TCO frame relay network with multi-pointed PVCs for disaster recovery and resiliency.

Omaha, Ne, Us

Mutual of Omaha is a leading provider of life insurance, Medicare supplement insurance, disability insurance products and annuities.• Mentored team managing enterprise-wide telecommunications systems and services. Liaison between internal customers, senior management and vendors. • Completed deployment of company’s first predictive dialing system in mid-installation. • Improved operational capacity for call centers through computer-telephony integration efforts, call center system replacement and implementation of automated integrated voice response (IVR) systems.

Masters, Business Administration

Bachelor Of Science, Electrical Engineering

H.S. Diploma