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Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Created something from nothing.

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Worked on a cool project involving video teller machines, unfortunately it never saw the light of day.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Jump started the second generation of mobile banking for Ally.com consisting of the following high level functions, remote deposit capture, external funds transfer, POP money and mobile bill pay.Secured $5 million in funding for the second generation of development.Successfully led the project team from budgeting through the toll gate process and onto testing.Managed all the mobile vendor relationships including, Kony, Yodlee, CashEdge, Fidelty (FIS) and Ensenta.Built solid relationships with our internal client team and product managers.Managed the design process starting with the BRD, SRS,MLD as well as UI specs and prototyping.Implemented a new AGILE prototyping process through a secure HTML model created with Axure. Led the team through low level design and the creation of our end state test strategy.Developed the mobile pilot plan and strategy to solicit customer feedback.

Created a technology focused advertising agency focusing on mid-sized businesses. Developed unique marketing and technology plans for a wide range of clients headquartered in Charlotte. Captured market share by implementing mobile and web technology as well as alternative outdoor campaigns throughout the Southeast. Using PHP, MySQL, Adobe Air, and MXML created a mobile app for Innova on the Android platform. Implemented multiple social media campaigns that resulted in massive increases in followers. Grew the Trafk business by $500,000, using consultative selling techniques. A sampling of other clients include Bojangles, US National Whitewater Center, and The Vue Charlotte among others.

Created and managed Uptown Magazine. Grew readership to over 80,000 monthly readers, distributed to over 20,000 households in and around Uptown Charlotte. Through social media, large scale events and SEO activities grew online readership to over 1,000 unique visitors a month and earned top 5 Google search results for dozens of search terms. Built a team of freelance writers, editors, designers and photographers while directly managing more than 15 contributors per month. Designed and implemented 4 iterations of the Uptown Magazine website, with ever evolving technology ending with HTML, CSS, PHP and mySQL. Directly generated over $1.5 million in advertising sales.

Capital ManagementManaged the Evergreen Brokerage, data warehouse project for equity analytics. The data warehouse project brought together disparate sources of research, customer and transaction data into one database to be used by multiple business units. The overall project goal was to customize an off the shelf data warehouse product specific to the retail brokerage industry. I managed a team of analysts, and database admins who, by interviewing business partners, gathered requirements which fed into our team's end goal of producing an equity specific segment of the overall project. Successfully delivered on all PMO supplied milestones and met our business goals.Retail Banking - Project ManagerDeveloped and maintained strong partnerships and communication with business partners, Technology Services, and the CIO organizations to raise awareness of strategic projects across the entire retail bank. Delivered tactical mainframe, desktop and web based solutions while maintaining enterprise standards and technology architecture. Engaged proactively with business partners to drive technology projects, discover the best solutions and manage project implementations by both business analysts and developers. Provided comprehensive consultation to business unit and IT management and staff at the highest technical level for project leadership. Communicated effectively with business partners, peers and senior leadership on project status.Capital Markets and Investment Banking - Project ManagerSpecial services project manager where I took over the Year 2000 project for Capital Markets and Investment Banking. Went on to head the implementation of a custom Equity Sales customer relationship management tool (CRM). Managed the definition of business requirements, led the vendor selection process, managed the vendor and business relationships during technical requirements, rapid prototyping, testing and nationwide implementation.

Client - Blue Cross / Blue Shield - Jacksonville, FloridaServed on the project initiation team for the first push of Andersen into Blue Cross of Florida. Built internal businessrelationships and a better understanding of Blue Cross's current technology environment. Determined areas forimprovement through business, technology, and workflow analysis. Proposed changed to senior client level presentations.Client - Bank of America - CharlotteParticipated in one of the first releases of Model Bank. Bank of America's retail banking platform that would eventuallyhandle all branch banking transactions from the associates desktop. Served multiple roles within the credit/debit cardprocessing functional unit, including unit level project management of both Bank and Andersen employees, businessrequirements gathering, process flow determination as well as unit and functional testing.Client - Bank of America - AtlantaManaged the physical and electronic conversion of personal home and car loans from the newly acquired Bank South loandepartment into the Bank of America mortgage unit. Defined the process, communicated progress to program managementoffice, practiced continuous improvement principals to more efficiently convert the products throughout the life of theproject, managed upwards of 25 onsite contract employees and successfully concluded the project on-time and withinbudget.

Bs, Management

Imba, International Business

International Mba, Finance