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Responsible for strategy leadership for FIS Credit Assessment partnering closely with clients, sales, and solution engineering to deliver market leading functionality to drive revenue growth.

Versatile business intelligence team leader with unique blend of business and technical skills.- Craft industry-leading business technology solutions for commercial banking including billing statements, product enhancements, standalone applications, interfaces, and BusinessObjects reports.- Guide client teams through business and technical requirements process to discover the true needs of the business.- Manage and mentor team of offshore developers in delivering critical, production-ready solutions on time and within budget with focus on quality and client satisfaction.- Plan and execute testing for product releases including core ACBS Business Intelligence products, custom semantic layer modifications, and custom reports and interfaces.- Deliver highly rated post-implementation support to over 40 clients worldwide answering critical issues affecting their production systems and building strong client relationships.- Drive the sales of product licenses and services by demonstrating all Advanced Commercial Banking System (ACBS) products during prospect workshops and by actively identifying new opportunities for existing clients.- Perform ACBS Business Intelligence and BusinessObjects onsite training to clients around the world from intense one-on-one sessions to classrooms of over 20 professionals.Key Accomplishments:- Built and enhanced BusinessObjects universes and 80-report implementation toolkit for each ACBS Business Intelligence core release.- Streamlined development process of offshore team improved delivery quality and reducing costs.- Spearheaded the development of 1,000+ column data warehouse interfaces enabling consolidated reporting for two of the largest regional banks in the United States.- Repurposed custom regulatory interface as value added product to create recurring revenue with no additional development costs.- As member of pre-sales team, secured multi-year, multi-million dollar contract with company’s first Australian client.

Business professional turned lead technologist for 200+ person division.- Orchestrated projects to build and enhance mission-critical commercial banking products from requirements through delivery.- Liaised with business managers and developers to ensure business requirements were met or exceeded.- Drove testing efforts for initial and subsequent releases of all third party and internally developed applications.- Created materials and led training for core banking and documentation automation systems for over 200 users.- Supported Chicago and New Jersey based banking professionals on all systems ensuring timely and accurate processing of commercial loans.Key Accomplishments:- As vital contributor on project team, successfully implemented new core commercial banking system including interfaces and complimentary systems over a two-year period staying within project timeline and budget.- Directed the definition and implementation of documentation-related workflows with focus on data integrity and straight-through processing.- Transformed organization into an all-electronic document-based business by effectively managing the deployment of an electronic document management system for credit and loan documentation.- Dramatically enhanced lien perfection process by spearheading implementation of real-time, two-way interface with third-party UCC service provider. Interface improved accuracy and timeliness of lien filing information.- Managed initial release and maintenance of 200+ template Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) based document preparation system capable of creating fully automated credit and loan documentation driven by data stored in multiple enterprise systems.

Rapidly promoted leader of documentation team for largest, most profitable region.- Documented largest, most complex commercial lending transactions.- Coordinated loan funding process by working with the credit and sales teams as well as clients.- Reviewed documentation packages created by junior documentation managers for accuracy.Key Accomplishments:- Granted final funding authority for transactions up to $5,000,000.00.- Managed documentation team in place of division manager on maternity leave.- Received Special Achievement Award recognizing superior performance, professionalism and dedication to Merrill Lynch.- Selected to represent documentation teams as subject matter expert for two-year core banking system implementation.