Creating and delivering innovative solutions using Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Intelligent Automation, and Machine Learning . Our clients benefit with very quick ROI and new data insights.

Aggressant, Inc. was founded by a seasoned team with a passion for building at the intersection of technology and real life experience. Aggressant’s mission is developing platforms and applications that solve today’s consumer, business and bank challenges through emerging tech and artful UX design.

Risk as a Service ● Enterprise Product Office – Innovation and InvestmentsProduct-focused executive leader with unit-level CIO/CTO responsibilities and business strategy within a fast-paced and highly-regulated financial technology environment. Team builder.• Effectively led multiple international teams in multiple disciplines such as operational risk, application development, and security operations• Responsible for 50+ servers and a $3M capital budget• Built and launched new product, gaining 75 customers in 1.5 years generating $8M in revenue• Coordinated IT, project, product, security, and risk activities across multiple leveraged functions• Strong sense of measurement and improvement• Gained broad knowledge of banking practices, regulations, and operations • Directed innovation efforts such as blockchain identity, blockchain payments and bot banking • Performed financial analysis and developed business cases on deals, projects, and vendor products• Implemented numerous controls including access reviews, encryption, disaster recovery and more

Director-level role responsible for enterprise-wide issue management, risk reporting, and technology support of operational risk programs. • Created and led the FIS Issue Management program and policies, serving over 50,000 employees• Implemented enterprise, division, and topical risk reporting, KRIs, and dashboards• Developed special reports for board of directors, CRO, and other senior leaders• Deployed self-service risk and security dashboards with beautiful data visualization• Led development of FIS’s integrated risk platform (RCSA, Control Testing, Loss data, Vendor Risk, Issue Management, Vulnerability Risk Acceptance) • Increased percentage of Self-Identified Issues from 5% to 30% in one year• Successfully implemented risk workflows, replacing 100,000+ manual approvals and information collection efforts over 1.5 years• Key contributor to the FIS Vendor Risk Management methodology and operation (published in RMA Journal)• Member: Secure Development Practices Review Board (SDPR)

Lead enterprise architect, coordinating business and IT architectures and development efforts for the $7B North American division of the multinational firm.• Developed application, data, technology, and business strategies• Led process and technology improvement across the enterprise• Saved millions in efficiency gains• Developed the enterprise architecture framework from the TOGAF 9 framework• Governed architecture content and architecture projects• Built a successful global Enterprise Architecture (EA) program serving 25,000 employees• Supported business analysts with business and information architecture development• Planned for the IT Landscape, developed architecture roadmaps for applications and platforms• Developed business, application, and data architectures• Developed enterprise-wide web services solution to service business units and external partners• Developed an award-winning ISO 14001 Environmental Management System (EMS)• Implemented identity management solution with auto-provisioning of Active Directory, HR, and additional systems for 8,000+ plus employees• Designed and developed data warehouse and business intelligence solution using SSIS, Analysis Services, and Reporting Services for quality assurance/quality control and master data• Managed projects • Presented at Microsoft on unit-testing the Microsoft Identity Manager (formerly MIIS) product• Architected and developed an “Internet of Things” (IoT) solution providing environmental (air, noise, vibration) monitoring for hospital neonatal and ICU units

Myriad business application and data architecture development, mostly web-basedDeveloped SOAP-based SOA solution to service business units and external partnersDeveloped MIIS-based identity integration/access management solutionDesigned and developed data warehouse and business intelligence solution using SSIS, Analysis Services, and Reporting Services for quality assurance/quality control and master dataManaged small projects for application development and product pilots/deploymentsDeveloped and delivered end-user trainingCo-ordinated testingPresented at Microsoft convention on unit-testing in MIISEnvironment: .Net, Microsoft Identity Integration Server (MIIS/ILM), BizTalk, jQuery, HTML, JavaScript, Team Foundation Server, SQL Server 2008 R2, Reporting Services, Microsoft InfoPath, Silverlight, SharePoint 2007, SSIS, EPC, BPMN, Agile (Crystal Clear)

Developed web interface to the Lease Asset Management SystemHelped shape requirements and business process through client meetings, iterations, prototypingVastly improved process throughput for the leasing business partners and other system usersCreated a custom pager for the DataGrid and Template columns through implementations of ITemplateDeveloped and led daily OO-based training sessions for the support teamMaintained object state through serialization into ViewState by overriding LoadViewState/SaveViewStateUtilized DirectX Transforms for drop shadows and color gradientsImplemented DHTML Behaviors for persistent scrolling and session timeout warningDeveloped a simple DHTML dropdown menu that relies on Xml and Xslt transformation instead of JavaScript, thereby freestanding and allowing for one-strep referenced by consuming pages.Environment: VB.Net, ASP.Net, HTML, Crystal Reports, XML, XSLT, NUnit, DHTML, JavaScript, IBM iSeries (AS/400)Fusion

Financial Application for Human ResourcesDeveloped a robust C# .Net Winforms application from specificationsExtended the .Net DataGrid to provide frozen columns and multi-colored cellsDesigned and developed a scheme using object serialization, dynamic delegates, and the Command Pattern to rollback database operations after transactional data was committed, eliminating the need to have the database restored (used during testing)Designed and Developed a Form that featured a .Net TreeView control with context menus and Drag and Drop operations, utilizing the State Machine patternCreated Setup and Deployment project (for client acceptance testing)Wrote and Executed Unit and System Test PlansEnvironment: C#, .Net Winforms, DB2Developer - Asset Management Application for Work Management during Nuclear OutagesDesigned and developed features of a robust C# .Net Winforms applicationProduced Excel Spreadsheets as output using Excel Automation, COM Interop, and multi-threadingUsed SQL Server, DB2, and Microsoft Excel as data sourcesMade use of COM Interop, XSLT, XML, and the .Net ADODB namespace to provide down-level ADO recordsets as data sources to VBA-enabled Business Objects reportsDefined and wrote Business Objects reportsWrote and Executed Unit Test PlansEnvironment: C#, .Net Winforms, XML, XSLT, SQL Server, Microsoft Excel, DB2

Safety-Related Application for Work ManagementActive in Full Lifecycle of an ASP.Net Web solutionDefined requirements through interviews, facilitating group meetings, and prototypingCreated software model in UML, including Use Case Model, Class Diagram, Deployment Diagram, Interaction Diagrams, and other UP ArtifactsEstimated schedule and total cost of ownershipProduced reports using Xml and XSLTProvided an ASP.Net Web Service using SOAP Literal style, and created Xml Schemas for message validationEnvironment: ASP.Net, C#, HTML, JavaScript, XML, XSLT, SQL Server, XML Canon, Xml Spy

Vendor Application Data Migration, Work ManagementDeveloped a C# .Net application to perform data conversion Converted data encoding from Windows-1252 to ASCII, applying agreed upon rulesMassaged data from existing application to fit Vendor schema (Microsoft Access to DB2)Logged data losses for archival and retrievalEnvironment: C# .Net

Subject Matter Expert for C#, Microsoft .Net, and Xml. Designed and developed reusable components. Created a .Net 'About Box' component for Windows and Web environments using XSLT, Xml, and Reflection that can be used with just one line of codeVendor Application Data Migration, Work Management Developed a C# .Net application to perform data conversion Converted data encoding from Windows-1252 to ASCII, applying agreed upon rules Massaged data from existing application to fit Vendor schema (Microsoft Access to DB2) Logged data losses for archival and retrieval Researched .Net framework issues, OOP, Security, third-party/open source components, and made recommendations, wrote technology newsletter articles, created demos and performance evaluations accordinglyCreated informal tools for working with Xml Schemas, Regular Expressions, Code AnalysisLed a volunteer training project developing a Web Enabled Xml RSS News Feed Aggregator in C#Taught others through mentoring and learning sessionsPerformed code reviews and code inspectionsEnvironment: C#, .Net Framework, Web Services, Xml, XSLT, .Net Winforms, Console Applications, ASP.Net, VB Script

Work Management, Employee Training, Plant Support, and Corporate Financials Areaso Designed, Developed, Enhanced, Debugged, Tested, Configured, Deployed department-level applications, reports, and databaseso Implemented a cost-savings solution, reworking a Visual Basic application to support automated batch mode to produce common reports by accepting command arguments and invoking in-memory Formso Managed bundle release testingo Participated in an enterprise-wide analysis project, defining requirements and business processes for application portfolio managemento Designed and Developed a VB 6 program to detects differences (due to possible DTS -Datao Transformation Services and latency) between a data mart and production databaseEnvironment: C#, VB.Net, UML, Visual Basic 6, HTML, ASP, JavaScript, VB Script, Business Objects, VBA, DB2, SQL Server, Oracle, Enterprise Services (COM+

Played key role in major maintenance and enhancement project, bringing applications to a higher level of user functionalityDeveloped enhancements to Visual Basic code and the user interfacesConverted applications from Access 2.0 to Access 2000Ported applications to SQL Server Created ActiveX documents within Access 2000Applied Department of Justice standards to Code, Error Handling, Reports and the user interfaceImplemented user-level security

Analyzed specific business functions and performed extensive requirements definition through interfacing with users and client developersOvercame bandwidth limitations with database replication strategySystem highlights: Replication and Synchronization to remote server, Multi-tier, multi-source data transfer (Lotus Notes, MS Project, and Vendor Mainframe Database), Produces Service Level Agreement metrics, Timesheets, and Progress Reports

Developed and administered a robust VBA-Driven MS Access database with 130 end-usersRedesign of Time Entry functionality yielded a dramatic increase in usability and efficiencyUtilized SQL to analyze and solidify data integrityCommitted to goals and deadlines through teamwork with client management, staff, and other consultantsCreated technical documentation for system support, management, and end-users including administration and training manualsMigrated tables to Oracle database in a UNIX environment, tested and analyzed feasibility of an Oracle migration

Developed and administered three MS Access databases, and merged all three into one repositoryDefined requirements for enhancements, corrected logical errors, and solidified integrityCreated decision support reporting for Mission Critical software and equipmentImplemented and maintained user-level securityIncreased robustness of system through DAO and SQL languages, specific to reporting and creation of Metrics in Microsoft Excel

Developed an MS Access database that tracked application statuses and managed, stored, and reported mainframe data for accounting purposesDefined requirements and developed to specificationsDocumented processes and trained users and management in use of databaseDeveloped process to perform cross-platform data communication with mainframe application in SAS, JCL, and TSO through FTP