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Chicago, Illinois, United States

Downers Grove, IL

• Director of IT and Application Development for a national rail car service company, responsible for overseeing daily IT and software development/support activities.
• Manage developers (4), DBAs (2), analysts (2) and infrastructure team members (2)
• Established a user support ticketing, escalation and communication process
• Created a centralized knowledge share repository for internal and external team members

Greater Chicago Area

• Manager, Application Development for an international biohazard waste disposal company, responsible for overseeing daily software development/support activities, team/individual professional development and building.
• Managed and coached a department of developers (8 USA, 8 Portugal), architects (3), analysts (4) and project managers (3) over a four year period. Tasks included facilitating agile sprint activities, reviewing user.
• Partnered with other IT departments to transition from a waterfall SDLC methodology to Agile. New approach, tools (Octopus, Powershell, TFS, LeanKit) and a switch to virtual test environments resulted in increased.
• Leveraged onshore and offshore resources to implement a global application production support/escalation process. Eliminated need for on-call development support, reduced application outages, defined and streamlined.
• Established a balanced team structure and implemented a mentorship and cross training approach to promote professional growth. Average onboarding duration was reduced from 180 to 30 days. Team turnover decreased from.

Greater Chicago Area

• Technology Manager, AVP for a major financial institution, responsible for identifying, recommending and implementing IT solutions to promote growth in the Home Loans Division.
• Technical liaison hired mid-project to improve and manage the development, testing and implementation of a large company wide web-based loan origination system.
• Project required collaboration with stakeholders, business department representatives, other project managers, business analysts, development vendors and internal on shore/off shore IT resources.
• Created and streamlined processes to increase efficiencies and bridge communication gaps. Established service level agreements to hasten task completion. Helped create capacity models to improve estimation accuracy..
• Improved quality and percentage of software builds delivered on time and on budget by 15% within a 24 month period. Reduced ratio of defects per build by 20% within 12 months. Decreased average production software.

Greater Chicago Area

• Application Developer for a midsized IT consulting firm providing professional expertise in the design, construction and implementation of customized software solutions.
• Spearheaded an initiative to construct and distribute a cost effective remote order entry/tracking application to the sales force of a major ethnic hair care manufacturing firm. Reduced data errors 20% and.
• Technical lead in development and implementation of an enterprise wide solution for a mid-sized latex manufacturing company. Significantly improved data accuracy and month end processing times by implementing a custom.
• Assisted a major commercial cleaning company to enhance and deploy a large packaged software application designed for its healthcare clientele. Project followed RAD methodology and involved: upgrading the application.

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Marketing

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Computer/Information Technology Administration And Management