SUMMARY

• Combining a powerful blend of business and technical backgrounds and over 20 years of pertinent IT experience, David has been instrumental in helping large and mid - sized companies successfully achieve their business objectives through sound strategies and planning.
• These successes include four critical corporate transformations where time to market planning, cost containment and risk reduction strategies all play crucial roles in providing a winning playbook in an otherwise fast-paced high profile environment.

Areas of expertise

• Corporate transformations (mergers, acquisitions, and separations)
• Compliance and governance initiatives (PCI-DSS, GDPR, HIPAA)
• Infrastructure and application restructuring initiatives
• Strategic alignment of technology deliverables to business objectives
• Systems and business analysis to improve processes and readily achieve enterprise objectives
• Leveraging IT assets to create new business opportunities
• Create cost containment measures and translate those into key performance indicators that can be effectively communicated throughout the enterprise
• Establish standards and practices in order to create more successful and repeatable results
• Define and implement a strategy covering risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies to quickly address impediments to an enterprise initiative’s success

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Specialty Areas: Corporate transformations (mergers, acquisitions, and separations); compliance and governance (PCI-DSS, GDPR, HIPAA); cloud migrations (AWS); infrastructure and application restructuring initiatives; systems analysis; business analysis; strategic alignment of technology deliverables to business objectives

Management: Technical leadership; program management; strategic analysis and planning; vendor management; budget planning; cost analysis and containment; resource management and team building; change management; incident response management; risk assessment and management; standards and practices establishment and implementation

Technology: Microsoft Dynamics CRM; Networking; Data Storage; Software Architecture; Data Analytics; ERP; MS SQL Server; IAAS; SAAS; PAAS; Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning

Strategic: Business Process Management; Rational Unified Process; Enterprise Resource Planning; converged and hyper-converged infrastructure; Customer Relationship Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Jamaica, NY

Technical Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Led strategic and executional delivery effort of a 25-member team to achieve PCI-DSS SAQ A-EP compliance certification from inception to successful completion. This included systems analysis and strategic planning of both infrastructure and applications to meet PCI-DSS requirements, resource assignments and progress monitoring, vendor management, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) migration of major payment applications from on premise to cloud.
• Created enterprise security policy and procedures documentation per NIST and PCI-DSS standards and directed implementation of such policies within the enterprise in collaboration with CIO and CSO, resulting in a much more secure infrastructure and application process for Confidential . This included the formal establishment of both change management and incident response procedures for the enterprise.
• Directed establishment of updated broadband lines and security systems in over 80 airport facilities to support mandated North American SOC by TSA. Included strategic planning, vendor management, and testing procedures for all systems, thus meeting all security requirements of TSA for airport movement of goods upon completion.

Confidential - Frisco, TX

Technical Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Formulated strategic approach to finalize and fully align business objectives with technology deliverables. This alignment resulted in significant changes to the IT architecture and subsequent delivery expectations to meet those business objectives
• Created a comprehensive updated delivery plan to match the expanded delivery expectations, and presented that plan to both Confidential and the client for approval and implementation. Successful execution of that plan going forward alleviated pain points for the team and business sponsors.
• Led technical management of the IT delivery team through the execution phase to more quickly identify and resolve risks and issues that posed any impediments to the updated delivery timelines. This resulted in a timeline that matched sponsor expectations for delivery and budget.

Confidential - Irving, TX

Technical Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Led the successful big data migration efforts for 32 separate client warehouse sites from the Caterpiller’s data store to a newly established data store for Neovia. This included the establishment of a new infrastructure and the migration of existing applications that ingested data from that data store to new servers, conducted in a time critical manner.
• Performed systems analysis on current systems and business needs of a separate business venture in Europe and formulated plans to deliver an updated infrastructure that complemented Neovia’s infrastructure as part of the transformation. Directed efforts of business and technical teams to implement this new infrastructure in each of six European warehouse sites, successfully blending this separate venture as a viable part of Neovia’s systems.
• Expanded the planning phase of the initiative to pinpoint and account for all tasks related to these verticals and submitted to client for approval and implementation. Results of this effort included successful on-time execution, the establishment of Neovia as a standalone business entity, and a timely transfer of business ownership through capital divestiture.
• Acted as leadership watchdog for client over these verticals in order to address any risk, issue or milestone impediments to successful execution of tower deliverables. Assisted in creation and enforcement of standards and practices for product deliveries to include networking file transfer protocols, security, capacity planning and storage, implementation run books, and ETL migration strategies. This resulted in strategic tools for Neovia to leverage in their newly formed business.
• Successful results of successful on-time execution included establishment of Neovia as a standalone business entity as well as timely transfer of business ownership through capital divestiture.

Confidential - Grapevine, TX

Technical Product Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led the efforts of the software development, business analyst and project management teams engaged in the product suite project deliveries. Involved in interviewing, onboarding, review and development of staff. Helped build highly collaborative team environment through SCRUM approach.
• Prepared and managed return on investment and make / buy analysis, budgeting and capital appropriations planning, hardware and software procurement, resource procurement, contract negotiation, vendor management and executive communications.
• Extensively engaged with business stakeholders and development staff to direct technical business analysis and architectural technical design that resulted in appropriate business-to-technology mapping. Managed business relationships and produced a strategic corporate vision of both the business and technical components for each application in the product suite.
• Established and enforced standards and practices for product deliveries to include coding guidelines, security policies, architectural reviews, implementation documentation, and testing strategies.

Confidential - Irving, TX

Senior Systems Architecture Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded technical efforts to create a new Confidential software suite designed to enable treatment tracking and on-call structures in high-pressure medical markets as well as be extensible in other markets such as the hospitality and entertainment industries, to include HIPAA compliance.

Confidential - Ft. Worth, TX

Principal Systems Architecture Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Led systems analysis team efforts to design and implement a common framework and common components to be used in all new development projects for the Applied Technology Division of Confidential .
• Successfully converted over 80% off applications to the newly designed common architecture, greatly decreasing future development costs and allowing Confidential to generate lower government bids on future software projects.

Confidential - Paramus, NJ

Senior Systems Architecture Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Led onsite architectural and troubleshooting team in conversion of a business critical integral Package Flow System, comprised of over 40 separate applications, into a cohesive architectural roadmap using a Microsoft-centric .NET approach with Oracle and SQL Server databases.
• Successfully transitioned the application suite, resulting in an extensible enterprise architecture in this large-scale $20M two year effort.

Confidential - Irving, TX

Chief Systems Architecture Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As part of a transformational corporate merger effort directed technical and architectural efforts of a 100-person implementation team, comprised of GTE and Bell-Atlantic associates based in different facilities, to develop an online system to integrate complex technologies and reduce burden/costs from extremely high call center volume due to recent merger.
• Eliminated over 80% of approximately 16 million calls to call center through business software implementation that transferred inquiries to web site over a two-year period.

Confidential - Houston, TX

Senior Systems Analyst Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Led and managed systems analysis team in mission to architect and deliver a profitable Confidential product for trading crude oil commodities between various oil companies and refineries using Microsoft technologies.
• Strong quality management led to outstanding product integration and customization resulting in FASTAR product gross sales of over $18M in a two-year period.

Confidential - Deerfield, IL

Product Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Led a 30-person software development and architectural team in the transition of a Confidential corporate tax program from a mainframe environment to an n-tiered solution utilizing Microsoft-centric technologies.
• This transition was mandated by enterprise-level clients, and thus critical to the future viability of a marketable tax solution by Confidential .

Confidential - San Diego, CA

Systems Analyst Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded efforts in turning around a failing transformational enterprise merger initiative to develop and implement an n-tiered client-server system (MEPS) that gathered and reproduced automotive data in published and electronic media.
• Analysis provided an alternative business and technical strategy for implementing the MEPS product suite, instilling renewed confidence in the acquiring company to complete its equity stake and complete the buyout of Confidential .