Tax Products Group (a subsidiary of Green Dot Corporation) supports customer onboarding and compliance processes, external customer accessible services, internal customer accessible services, and banking/financial (fintech) transactions.Work under the Product department for Tax Products Group MANAGERManages the department with focus on leadership, enabling direct reports to be outstanding contributors. Offers guidance and support, provides the framework for direct reports to lead in roles encompassing all Product aspects of large projects.Determines staffing needs, sources candidates, and onboards qualified individuals using proven and documented processes to convey Product department responsibilities, requirements gathering, and story writing expectations.INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORExecutes the full Product process from vision through to stories. Also takes the concept, as well as the Product artifacts, to the development team and supports the features through implementation.

Worked for the Technology Department for Tax Products Group (a subsidiary of Green Dot Corporation). Worked closely with the business and technology departments to take business requests through to technology implementation. This included determination of priorities, gathering of requirements, and supporting the technology team through the implementation assuring the final product met the business request.

Worked for the Technology Department for Tax Products Group (a subsidiary of Green Dot Corporation). Consistently delivered complex projects on-time and within budget by working directly with the CTO and other executive team members to determine project requirements, interim deliverables, and to adeptly handle changes in project scope.From the ground up created a complete project flow which included tracking, documentation, and an executive at-a-glance roll-up reporting structure for a portfolio of 30+ company wide projects. Implemented project documentation and tracking and oversaw all company wide project leads who created and submitted project documentation that rolled into the management of the project management team.Fully implemented effective and efficient methods of communication of projects in a modified agile software development environment by introducing a consistent meeting schedule and daily "hot topic" discussions and distributions.Built onto the IT staff by managing the recruitment and hiring decision process from start to finish. Grew the IT staff by 30% in the latter two years.Achieved larger project output and greater efficiencies by continually cultivating the teams of Project Management, Software Development, and Software Quality Assurance. This included 1 manager, 4 direct reports and 8 interim direct reports.Managed the creation, execution and maintenance of data and security for TPG financial transactions by smoothly and efficiently directing the day to day activities of the Project Management department, Software Development department, and Quality Assurance department.Championed a 1-year / 3-year / 5-year strategic plan to increase the output of deliverables by the IT Department. This plan was recognized by the executive team as the corporate benchmark for resource allocation, timeline and budget planning.

Worked for the Technology Department for Tax Products Group (a subsidiary of Green Dot Corporation). Full cycle software development from gathering business requirements through the design phase and into the development, testing, and implementation/release of the product.

Successfully rolled out a rent calculation software package by designing and developing the software and database structure of a module with integrated government rent calculations that guided the user through the process of renting out housing units under the guidelines of government subsidized housing.

Directly supported integral pieces of an in-house customer service support tool by coding add on portions of the software to better facilitate the customer experience.

Produced a software calculation tool to be used by government entities by coding the interface, database, and formulas used for emission calculations during the painting of aircraft.