• Significantly mitigated Information Security and Operational Risk by standing up and leading a Global Infrastructure Risk Man-agement Program that effectively addresses various risks including information security control and compliance ratings for Ap-plication Health, various Server Security Upgrades and Migrations (Hydra, RHEL7 to RHEL8) and Software/Hardware EOL man-agement, Secrets Management, Threat Modeling, CAP's/ORE's, Patch Management, Service Reliability Engineering, Technology Resilience, Disaster Recovery, and Third-Party Risk, among others.• Greatly improved operational effectiveness in addressing multiple Information Security Risk areas for Global Infrastructure through independently managed on-going efforts in:• Audit and Findings Management-effective coordination, reporting, remediation, and tracking of Examination/Audit Requests through GRC Tool by external regulatory examiners including the OCC, multiple international regulatory groups, and internal 2nd and 3rd Lines.• Works regularly with data analytic and visualization tools to update and manage Global Infrastructure Scorecards and Dash-boards used in tracking and Remediation of Technology Risk Metrics, Control & Compliance Metrics, RAF Metrics, BURR Met-rics, and Tech Debt Metrics.• Successfully identified multiple emerging risks and facilitating cooperation within the larger organization to mitigate these items before they impacted performance.• Effectively partners with leadership team in risk planning and strategic risk mitigation initiatives by improving the monthly Global Infrastructure Risk Forum and Monthly Leadership Meetings with Senior Leadership that support the Unit CIO. Have ensured that various risks are discussed and remediated and demonstrated a proven ability in extending and maintaining strong relationships in a complex multi-national corporation.

• Successfully completed multiple prominent IT Infrastructure and Software projects including the first ever enterprise-wide cloud migration and launch of 0365 (Office 365/M365) for Western Alliance Bank. Other successful, on-time, on-budget pro-ject completions included an enterprise-wide SharePoint migration that included 210+ sites, application implementations and module configurations to connect six banks into a consolidated whole, a datacenter migration, upgraded operating systems including Windows, a mobile application upgrade to feature Mobile Deposits for the first time at the bank (Remote Deposit Capture), customized corporate compliance tracking, circuit upgrades, DNS Improvements, and Admin Access Controls. • Improved Operational Risk by effectively leading projects that required both interdepartmental and enterprise-wide coordina-tion to close internal audit findings, Matters Requiring Attention, SOX Findings, Enterprise Risk Management Issue Tracking, IT Service Management improvements, and enhanced IT Asset Management efforts.• Developed a strong understanding of the regulatory landscape while showing a keen ability to link threats to risk tolerance through creating an IT Governance Obligation Dashboard to consolidate all Risks into a centralized location to conceptualize complex control relationships for leaders, perform on-going tracking, collaborate with IT groups to address concerns, and es-tablish continued governance of identified issues.• Received recognition by CIO for improved IT Governance coordination and tracking of Policy and Standards refresh cycles, and Issue Management and Resolution for the IT Department including leading monthly guidance meetings with all Chief Infor-mation Officer Direct Reports.• Coordinated and successfully led the completion of Risk Assessments for all departments within IT to locate gaps in existing controls. Risk Assessments for the entire IT Group had never been successfully completed before.

• Managed multiple complex lending projects to integrate all processes performed through a localized lending database includ-ing managing scope and schedule and high-level SaaS design.• Determined project prioritization based on leadership strategic values and direction, and matrix analysis including such factors as project size, cost, customer-facing importance, and risk.• Created straight-through-processing (STP) business requirements that integrated multiple application types and roles into a cohesive process to develop a future-state agnostic lending platform.

• Led Software Development projects for a company that provides Software as a Service to Choice Hotels. • Gathered requirements, planned, sized, implemented, and managed software development projects using agile methodology.

• Managed IT Project to re-organize capacity-demand tracking for the Document Management Technology Department based on shared resource allocation expenses with other bank divisions.• Recommended personnel headcount management based on the project findings.• Managed $27 Million IT program budget for project management organization (PMO) including forecasting and expense tracking.