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Atlanta, GA

Loving retirement...working on kitchen/home renovations, vacationing, hiking & exercising, and volunteering in local church, public school, park, and homeless support organizations.

Alpharetta, GA

Technical lead for our Equifax Core Software Engineering and Data Fabric teams. The Data Fabric teams delivered several new big data platforms focused on creating globally deployed common large data ingestion & quality platforms, online data repositories & management systems, and custom large batch data analytics & scoring delivery systems. We also manage.

Alpharetta GA

• Equifax Summary: I've held numerous senior leadership positions in IT and Business areas focused on adding value to Equifax's core information management lines of business. These leadership roles focused on business.
• Aligning application development efforts with business priorities, especially with complex data analytics systems, process governance, budgets management, staffing, and products delivery
• Leading and consulting in Data Governance best practices and Data Lifecycle Management engagements, including PCI and PII compliance assurance and audits
• Balancing strategic and tactical focus to ensure short term deliveries which are aligned with long term business objectives
• Building and managing highly effective teams and enabling them to become a competitive differentiator utilizing industry leading practices, including Agile methodologies
• Defining and applying best practices for Software Engineering and Design to maximize project deliverables and optimize overall program investments

Alpharetta, GA

• As the lead Enterprise Data Architect, I led global oversight efforts for Equifax's strategic core assets, our data. My unique and deep knowledge of the Equifax business model, data assets, and technology footprint.
• Acted as Technology lead for Equifax's cross-functional Big Data assessment, including tools, vendor, and solution capabilities reviews, meetings with JV Partners, and creating our Equifax Big Data Investment Roadmap.
• Defined the enterprise data governance model with focus on Permissible Data Usage together with the Chief Data Officer and executive steering committee for the new Enterprise Data Governance Council (EDC).
• Supported the EDC mission to enable growth while protecting our strategic data assets and customer relationships by defining and automating the review and tracking of new data product initiatives (NPIs) and their.
• Led a cross-functional data inventory and assessment delivering quarter-by-quarter improvements focused on data compliance improvements, creating a unified information metadata catalog, and providing data analytics.
• Strategic leader and facilitator for the UK Data Foundations initiative implementing Data Quality and Hit Rate improvements for the UK Consumer and Commercial solutions.

Alpharetta, GA

• As an Enterprise Architect I have been responsible for ensuring the alignment of multiple business units’ Growth Playbooks with the IT Architecture Roadmap. I have worked with numerous business unit teams as their.
• Coordinated the Enterprise Architecture activities and business alignment for all strategic investment projects for the Equifax LATAM countries (9) and Emerging Markets (2 – India/Russia).
• Established the global IT consolidation, simplification, and governance guidelines and programs to support Business Unit strategies for platform portfolio alignment management.
• Developed As-Is functional blueprints, To-Be architecture templates, IT Roadmaps, and gap analyses to align our IT strategies with the business/product roadmaps for Equifax’s strategic application portfolios.
• Led an enterprise-wide strategic initiative to document and consolidate Equifax’s 3rd party software standards, including establishing an enterprise software acquisition charter process and software licensing terms and.
• Established Equifax’s Open Source usage policy in close coordination with corporate legal counsel; including standardized permissible use packages which enabled cost savings and mitigated copyright infringement.

Alpharetta, GA

• As the technology leader for the green-field Equifax India Credit Bureau team, beginning in 2007, I grew my responsibilities from IT Lead to CIO and added COO and finally CISO responsibilities as we brought Equifax.
• As a knowledgeable CRA business and technology leader, I met with numerous JV partners, customers, and regulatory leaders in the India market to gather market intelligence and provide guidance for launching Equifax’s.
• As the Equifax India CIO and lead Architect I analyzed, designed, estimated, procured, and led the implementation and deployment of the overall solution for the India applications, data model, data center, product.
• Managed the India IT budget planning, contract negotiations, hiring, purchasing, and application builds by working closely with the India GM, CEO, CFO, and US Finance team over three budget year cycles.
• As COO, I defined, documented, interviewed, staffed, and managed the Equifax India JV Business Operations unit (20+ h/c) before hiring and turning this over to a new India-based COO.
• Defined and implemented the comprehensive Equifax India Credit Bureau Compliance and Security Policies and Procedures as acting CISO, covering data center, software, data management, and data operations. Validated and.

Alpharetta, GA

• As a leader in Equifax’s core Information Services division for consumer and commercial data, I led a 20+ person development team responsible for critical data acquisition and data quality processes (DataQA). I was the.
• Multiple roles as the DataQA technical lead, systems architect, and development, test, release, and support manager.
• Defined and executed a team-based approach to quickly extend the DataQA consumer credit capabilities into the business (commercial) credit arena; now a $100+ million revenue business unit.
• Led the growth of the original core DataQA consumer credit processing system into additional data quality area including collections, bankruptcies, judgments/liens, phone, “opt-out”, and utilities data.
• Led the adoption and deployments of multiple global DataQA instances to drive efficiency, quality, and operational consistency to various Equifax business units.
• Managed all DataQA IT and business partner relationships including establishment of a Change Management Board, its charter and processes to ensure alignment with corporate goals and priorities.

Alpharetta, GA

• Senior System Designer and Development Manager
• Led the IBM technology team’s engagement for the assessment and analysis of sunsetting and replacing Equifax’s core legacy mainframe COBOL/ASM system which was aging and unsupportable.
• Led the IBM technical design team in defining the new Equifax end-to-end data acquisition and data refinery processes based on a scalable, high performance, and flexible midrange systems solution.
• Managed all aspects of this DataQA project’s multi-year development and deployment, including business requirements gathering and documentation, systems design, proof of concepts, project staffing, hardware and.
• Designed and led the implementation of DataQA’s operational management and customer-facing user interfaces, data warehousing, scorecards, and business intelligence and reporting systems.
• As the lead IBM project manager, I was accountable to Equifax for all aspects of delivery and deployment for this high performance data quality system which currently processes all of Equifax’s key Global Consumer and.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Data Access System (DAS) Technical Lead
• Designed and developed IBM’s internal data warehouse access system used by US Sales and Marketing teams. Our focus was on providing real-time desktop (field) access to IBM’s Master Customer, Product, Sales, and.
• Led the OS/2 object oriented design team for core data access layer and user interfaces development.
• Led the code management, build/configuration, release planning & management, and deployment teams over a span of six years with this project.
• Managed the Quality Assurance team and Lab responsible for DAS test case design, creation, validation, and end user (Customer Acceptance Test) planning, execution, and sign-off.Territory Management System (TMS) Developer
• Developed key components including user interfaces, reporting schemas, report layouts, campaign and opportunity management subsystems, and comprehensive marketing data extraction and manipulation routines for.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Automated Document Generation (ADG) Developer
• Designed and developed Series/1 Assembler then Mainframe TSO PL/I versions of the IBM US Sales branch office tool used to create customer-ready letters, order forms, envelopes, attachments, and schedules.
• Responsible for monitoring and troubleshooting the ADG SNA-based US network of Series/1 servers deployed in each IBM branch office, including remote O/S, application, and database change management.
• Responsible for 2nd, and 3rd level Help Desk support for the Branch Office ADG users. I played a key role in the overall ADG Help Desk system design, process optimization, automation, and reporting.
• I held numerous Co-Op development, test, analysis, and system design positions with MAPICS and various other IBM projects between 1982-1986, when I became a full time IBM employee.