Principal Consultant and Sr. Solution Architect Resume Springfield, IL - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Business savvy customer - facing Finance, IT and Operations professional with revenue increasing and cost-containing expertise.
Significant experience in process improvement and operational excellence.
Effectively works with leadership, stakeholders and subject matter experts across domains to align corporate strategy with business objectives.
Dynamic leader and mentor with 25+ years of senior-level experience who effectively directs both large and small complex, multidisciplinary teams.
Consistently employs an energized, can-do, roll-up-your sleeve team-based management style.
Cross-functional Business Architect/Analyst, Program/Project Manager and business process expert in various banking, financial services and insurance segments. Exceptional organizational skills that deliver business growth and support models.

AREAS OF SPECIALTY INCLUDE:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Principal Consultant and Sr. Solution Architect

Confidential, Springfield, IL

Responsibilities:

Expanded Confidential Data Warehouse to include critical systems for analysis of fiscal equity and return on investment.
Established budgeting, accounting, data collection, and reporting systems for revenues and expenditures at the individual school and early childhood-center level.
Integrated student, educator, and fiscal data which allowed analysis of critical resource decisions and how resources are distributed across schools, centers, and students.
Utilized expanded fiscal data in Confidential warehouse and ILDS data for early childhood ROI research project.
Utilized expanded fiscal data in Confidential warehouse and ILDS data for high school to college success ROI research project.
Established and implemented Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) site-based financial reporting.

Project Solution Architect

Confidential, Racine, WI

Responsibilities:

Worked closely with the Director, Business Process & Technology Architecture and Lead System Engineers on a consulting basis; accountable for the end-to-end design of the solution. Translated functional and non-functional requirements of the project into a set of architecture and design artifacts.
Worked across infrastructure, applications, security, and data domains to ensure the entire solution design meets the business requirements; oversaw the development and testing of the solution to ensure the product produced is aligned with the design and of high quality.
Primarily responsible for ensuring cross function integration of the product through every step of the product development cycle.

Senior Enterprise Business Operations Architect

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Responsibilities:

Led a team that defined the scope, objectives, facts, constraints, and risks associated with researching and selecting a Business Process Management (BPM) / Workflow Management (WFM) tool for the Bank Operations Center and Financial Cards; developed SOW.
Project team work included RFI, RFP, product scorecard, vendor selection, authoring whitepaper and recommendations
Completed business architecture and proof of concept(s) for the Payment Solutions Center for Apple Pay
Managed and facilitated a multi-department, highly collaborative effort centered on creating best practices, standards, and a formal experimental testing governance approach for the firm.
Personal responsibilities included meeting logistics, running planning sessions, converting the strategic concepts into structured business architecture frameworks, presentations and written updates to executive leadership
Worked side-by-side with the Business Technology and Integration Office (BTIO) in standing up a company-wide Enterprise Architecture (EA) approach that included best practices and guidance around strategy, principles, policies and standards including template design and creation.
Familiarity of Enterprise Architecture Frameworks and Concepts (including but not limited to ITIL, TOGAF, Zachman, FEA and Gartner (practices).
Trained in MEGA, an enterprise architecture solution tool

Project Manager and Sr. Consultant

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

Led a team to capture several million dollars in annual expense reduction with capacity utilization benefits for a 500-employee processing center within a Confidential 500 financial services company success of this pilot project earned Confidential an enterprise-wide improvement initiative with the client, the largest single project in company history .

Project Manager and Sr. Solution Consultant

Confidential, Troy, MI

Responsibilities:

Directed and managed the business and functional requirements documentation with system analysts and project team assigned to the system selection project.
Assisted in system selection for a large-scale investments system for advanced dealer/portfolio management.
Provided due diligence, expert witness testimony, forensic accounting and underwriting analysis on a pool of 5,000 mortgages for Plaintiffs lead law-firm in the lawsuit Confidential vs. Confidential .
Gathered and documented underwriting errors & omissions; consolidated findings and made presentations to lead Attorneys allowing Plaintiff to recover damages arising from the regulator's alleged breaches of contract regarding subprime mortgage portfolios the bank had purchased.
The Confidential ultimately settled for $90M in January 2009, avoiding lengthy litigation.
Provided financial leadership from operating plans through development of forecasts, variance analysis, and budgets for a $35M privately held manufacturer.

Confidential

Project Consultant

Responsibilities:

A member of the Derivatives project team that identified and resolved over 5,000 trade and account discrepancies through trade activity and customized reconciliation.
Preparation, analysis and resolution of client derivative account activity with the Chicago Derivative Team and the London-based Wealth Management Team.