Information Technology leader and innovator with over 25 years of professional experience developing scalable, performant and maintainable solutions for business problems. This experience included many start-up ventures as well as established corporations looking to provide greater efficiencies in their processes by utilizing modern technology offerings. Of these, many were strictly regulated industries (finance, healthcare, and security) which necessitated a highly disciplined and systematic approach to meet the demanding compliance requirements. Managed application development teams varying in size from small to 100+ FTEs as well as coordinating efforts with offshore resources. Aided senior management during the processes involved in two IPOs.
Working with multiple financial and healthcare clients in varying IT related capacities to recommend, and/or directly assist, in improving existing processes and systems
Responsible for all aspects of the software development lifecycle including the initial setup and configuration of DevOps (Azure) and architectural oversight
Designed and built an Azure hosted healthcare management system to facilitate the operations of a fast-growing innovative healthcare business that provides cost-efficient solutions for large self-funded employers and their members
PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ARCHITECT / VP OF APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
Planned and led the pervasive system augmentation necessary to introduce leasing into the originations system that was necessary for the Chrysler Capital partnership
Designed the architecture and implemented a full end-to-end, telephony integrated, call center collection system
Assisted in building, and leading, the Application Development team of 120 FTEs supporting $50B+ in loan assets
Automated the credit scoring, pricing and decisioning procedures which facilitated the ability to process 40,000 applications daily at an average of 7 seconds per
Created a deployment system utilized by entire organization for software delivery of all SC custom software
Built core framework utilized by all in-house systems
Responsible for 450+ application components/services
Participated in multiple audits annually including SOX, SOC1, SOC2 and various other regulatory audits
Worked closely with PMO and other senior management to define and apply our SDLC process
Provided assistance to CIO et al. during the 2014 Santander Consumer’s (SC) IPO
Led development team in creating the framework utilized by all modules of the campground reservation system
Feb. 2001to
Jul. 2002
Complublox Inc.|Toronto, ON
DIRECTOR OF R&D
Led R&D efforts of computer scientists/mathematicians in building video processing and object recognition systems to improve performance of existing holographic neural network
Worked directly with corporate/government R&D units (Bank of America [Bank of the Future], Chubb Security, Canadian Mint, Macy’s Department Stores) to experiment with biometric possibilities