SUMMARY:

• Track record of success in start - ups, mergers and acquisitions, software development, procurement
• Supply chain and vendor management, and enterprise information technology operations.
• Won repeat contracts for multiple products and services wif customers by delivering on-time software & hardware systems.
• Cut turnover rate from over 40% to lower TEMPthan 5% by creating corporate culture focused on team and recognition.
• Relentlessly overcame obstacles in creating a lean Information Technology Shared Services Group capable of maintaining a 99.999% availability requirement of multiple Global SAP Systems wif a total of more TEMPthan 70TB of storage.
• Standardized both systems and processes to allow for a significant reduction in workforce necessary to maintain operational objectives.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Information Technology: Leadership Strategy Creation and Implementation Application Portfolio Management Product Management Process Improvement Vendor Management Software Development & Integration Lean/Agile/Scrum/XP/DevOps Team Building Integration/Deployment

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Charlotte, NC

Founder

Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure as Code tools (Puppet/Chef/Ansible)
• Cloud Infrastructure Management (VMWare vSphere, Microsoft HyperV, Linux Xen/KVM, Amazon EC2/Digital Ocean, OpenStack/Docker)
• Continuous Integration, Testing and Delivery Tools (Jenkins/Sonarqube/Katello)
• Integrated Authentication/Authorization (Active Directory/FreeIPA)
• Integrated Development Environment (NetBeans/GitHub/GitLab)
• Integrated Issue/Story Management (Redmine/Jira)
• Collaboration Tools (Slack/Mattermost/Sococo)
• Middleware & Servers (Glassfish/WebLogic/WebSphere/Tomcat/Oracle Fusion) o Coaching Leaders & Teams
• Helping refocus on peer communications, the elimination of waste, and the development of close knit empowered teams of humanity, diversity, and purpose.

Confidential - Charlotte, NC

Sr. Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Play an active role as an Agile Coach for a large insurance client.
• Actively provide agile coaching to a world-wide logistics and transportation client.
• Prepare the company for creation of agile development teams for client engagements.
• Assume control over the corporate website, and create new systems on the Amazon EC2 Cloud for internal communications and collaboration.
• Define, lead, and support, the implementation of a DevOps and Agile environment at a state agency working to identify and prevent fraud. The team deployed their first release 90 days after formation, and releases new functionality to investigators and verifiers every 3-5 weeks, assisting in the accurate identification and prevention of identity theft fraud (so far credited wif preventing more TEMPthan 135,000 fraudulent claims totaling more TEMPthan $558M between ).
• CSM & CSPO Achieved (Oct 2016)

Confidential - Tallahassee, FL

Corporate Systems & Application Services Architect

Responsibilities:

• Led IT evaluations on procurements of software and services.
• Led resolution of program issues wif our Core Insurance Systems Replacement Program, and provided integration solutions for document production, document intake, and access control (single sign-on).
• Standardized the Application Portfolio Management Process & Procedures.
• Consolidated and reduced the tools and teams to reduce total cost of ownership of development services.
• Significantly reduced (90%) the number of regressions due to operational tasks by standardizing and revising to industry best-practices the branching and merging strategies in use. Budget Managed: $9.44M

Confidential - Tallahassee, FL

Manager, Corporate Business Systems

Responsibilities:

• Planned and led the consolidation and inventory of products and responsibilities of 4 separate teams into one “ Corporate Business Systems” unit responsible for all non-policy/claims related business systems.
• Actively engaged wif leaders of General Services (Human Resources & Facilities), Accounting, Agent/Agency Services, Internal & External Communications, Actuarial, and Legal Services as their single point-of-contact in I.T.
• Through process consolidation, resource retention, and framework standardization reduced total budget by just under $1M
• Defined, created, and managed the cross-departmental Continuous Integration Team, creating improved efficiencies for units both corporate and core business systems.
• Budget Managed: $4.8M

Confidential - Tulsa, OK

Sr. Developer

Responsibilities:

• Organized and configured a full software development lifecycle procedure utilizing both commercial and open source tools to manage the software development process from initial code through customer release.
• Wrote integration points between custom in-house developed systems and various 3rd party software packages. (HP OpenView, Service Desk, Remedy).
• Implemented test driven (JUnit) based development model to achieve product stability.
• Led the conversion to standard Java Enterprise Edition for the core product resulting in significant reduction in maintenance and development costs associated wif the legacy proprietary application server.
• Implemented WS-I based web-services development model for inter-operability wif internal and external 3rd party environments.

Confidential - Owasso, OK

President / CEO

Responsibilities:

• Launched company and grew to a force of up to 5 professionals involved in product development, planning and consulting services for clients throughout the state.
• Directed continuous improvement process development both internally and wif 3 separate clients.
• Implemented a complete portal (JSR168) environment on behalf of a State Agency to meet their data consolidation and collaboration needs.
• Resolved customer issues wif infrastructure and operations processes.

Confidential - Tulsa, OK

Sr. Business/Technical Consultant - Technical Services Director

Responsibilities:

• Technical Lead for the IT Shared Service Center
• Setup the center’s Project Management Office to standardize and support business objectives.
• Re-organized systems administration & management teams to exceed business expectations
• Managed the successful consolidation of remote systems to a centrally located shared services organization.
• Managed the successful merger of financial, e-Commerce, e-Procurement and legacy project systems of two major energy companies.
• Managed a successful full data center relocation effort.