SUMMARY

• Adapt to win The only constant in life is change, which is why me has embraced continuous learning and reinvention throughout my career.
• You has heard of trial by fire, but how many people do you see willing to run into the fire? Well, me has learned that nothing builds perseverance like engaging a crisis head on and nothing builds a great team like a humble leader who is willing to get his hands dirty.
• Having a hammer is great if every problem in business looks like a nail. Although me has held senior roles as System Owner with Application Development, Application Development Manager, Strategic Sourcing Program Manager and delivered significant margin contributions to the business for many years, me felt the need to diversify my experience and add some news tools to the box.
• me has built an incredible foundation of technical, operations, and commercial leadership that defines wat it means to be a well - rounded, adaptable product manager and business leader. My teams has contributed extensively to the bottom line by growing our portfolio and backlog while increasing operating margins.
• As Sr. Project Manager/Program Manager at DXC, me am driving key product initiatives across all lines of business to increase share and overall profitability.
• Specialties: Leadership, Business & Technical Application Development, Resourcing, Communication, Reporting and Team Development.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Program MGR / Sr. Project

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Program Manager for the System & Data Conversion of Wilton Reed Reinsurance treaties onto Cyber Life and UNI - A. Managed the Wilton Reed Reinsurance Analysis, Design, Development, Underwriting, and Administration of the system conversion.
• Program Manager for the System & Data conversion from 7 unique systems at Global Atlantic Financial Group onto wmA with emphasis on maintaining their current Reinsurance administration treaties.
• Managed the Global Atlantic Financial Group Reinsurance Analysis, Design, Development, Underwriting, and Administration of the system conversion.
• Forecast program requirements and securing & developing talented resources.
• Responsible for maintaining ongoing development and reporting for multiple vendors.
• Secure budget; capitalized and non-capitalized, as well as, maintain project cost benefit analysis.
• Project Owner/Manager with Hands on training and development of new staff. Responsible for working with both employees and external clients to facilitate, develop and deploy innovative applications.
• Manage all development focusing the design on reusable client service layers.
• Mange initial scope and development of Internal White Papers.
• Manage program risks while responding to scope creep issues.
• Oversee project portfolio and manage the communications & reporting of all SLA metrics to the executive steering committee and stakeholders.
• Project development/staffing to insure the right resources were allocated across the project life cycle.
• Manage development design focusing on reusable client service layers.
• Manage the communications and reporting of all SLA metrics to stakeholders.

Systems Architect, System Owner / Program Mgr

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Responsibilities:

• Main Duties focused on team development, onboarding and training, system analysis, planning and budgeting. The initial team grew from 4 full time employees and an augmented staff of 15 in a three year period.
• Manage in - house projects utilizing reusable service layers with both Waterfall & Agile project methodology.
• Manage the communications and reporting of all SLA metrics for each project.
• Manage and implemented the Reinsurance treaties for the Annuity Division.
• Program Owner/Manager with Hands on training and development of new staff.
• System & Data Conversion from Legacy System - RPS - VANTAGE ONE onto wmA Payout System.
• Data Conversion of VSAM Data Base Storage to DB2 Mainframe, DB2 LUW & Oracle Data Bases.
• Develop, review and maintain the SLA's.
• Developed & implemented the departments Disaster Recovery Plan, taking it from a single batch cycle the first year to multiple catch up batch cycles the second year.
• Responsible for the coordination, development & installation of 17 interfacing system feeds.
• Worked with the business area to develop training documentation and establish training guidelines.
• Perform system maintenance to reduce the nightly cycle by 33%.

Project Manager/ IT Lead / Senior App. Engineer

Confidential, Aliso Viejo, CA

Responsibilities:

• Main Duties focused on the System Installation of (wmA) Wealth Management Accelerator Payout System, conversion of current RPS onto wmA along with the implementation of a new annuity product.
• Project Manager with Hands on Installation of wmA Payout System
• Manage in - house projects utilizing reusable service layers with both Waterfall & Agile project methodology.
• System & Data Conversion of VANTAGE ONE RPS onto wmA Payout System.
• Manage and implemented the Reinsurance treaties for the Annuity Division.
• Responsible for a team of 15 individuals Newport Beach & Aliso Viejo CA and 10 Offshore contactors.
• Worked alongside the business analyst to review changes with strong focus on system integrity.
• Functioned as part of the base development team to create and implement performance solutions.
• Continue to work as part of the Production Support Team on designing and implementing solutions to Production issues.
• Developed & Implemented the departments Business Continuation Plan / Disaster Recovery Plan.
• Continue to perform on-call duties for the wmA Production and Test Environments.
• Adhered to SEI/CMM standards especially as it relates to Configuration Management.

Project Mgr/ IT Tech Lead

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the Production Implementation of (wmA) Wealth Management Accelerator Annuity Systems Installation at Thrivent Financial.
• Manage in - house projects utilizing reusable service layers with both Waterfall & Agile project methodology.
• Responsible for the Production Implementation Plan and schedule of activities of (wmA) Wealth Management Accelerator Annuity System at Thrivent Financial.
• Responsible for a team of 15 individuals in Minneapolis MN, 25 individuals in Appleton WI & 35 Offshore contactors.
• Responsible for the System & Data Conversion of VANTAGE ONE, LIDP & MAPS contracts onto the new (wmA) Wealth Management Accelerator Annuity System. (Approx. 500,000 policies).
• Responsible for the approval of business requirements prior to the design phase.
• Responsible for the coordination, development & installation of 32 interfacing system feeds.
• Responsible for authoring, collecting detail from Subject Matter Experts and obtaining approvals for the Business Analysis and Design Report.
• Managed the technology changes for Insurance & Annuity Systems (wmA & VANTAGE ONE) completed by both on-shore and offshore resources.
• Responsible for monitoring changes to all aspects of the wmA / VANTAGE ONE conversion.
• Coordinated build and system testing efforts across the Thrivent business areas.
• Analyzed and documented problem reports supporting the User Acceptance Test (UAT) phase.
• Initiate Change Management Requests with respect to budget, primary assets, knowledge transfer, impacts to milestones and other scope dependencies.
• Responsible for validation and closure upon installation and 90-day support.
• Developed & Implemented the departments Business Continuation Plan / Disaster Recovery Plan.
• Project Manager for the decommissioning of ODS a redundant data base (system) which was utilized by 32 systems and 160 users.