Profile

Highly successful and professional technology visionary with more than ten years of experience in developing, deploying, and managing large-scale enterprise-grade IT and eCommerce solutions. Significant experience as an architect, thought leader, and senior manager at a top 5 US banking institution. Currently hold a senior position in a leading edge enterprise strategy and technology architecture organization leveraging next generation data center, Internet, and software life-cycle expertise. Unique ability to both lead by defining a new paradigm, and manage within a current paradigm. A world-class technical professional with the requisite successes to demonstrate it looking to excel in a rapidly changing environment.

Skills and Training

Along with formal collegiate education in Computer Engineering, as indicated below, I have availed myself of  numerous opportunities for self-improvement, excellence, and professional growth throughout my career.

•Leadership: Professionally trained in personnel management, human resources policies, project management, and professional development, with a demonstrated knowledge of team motivation, organizational communication, and process development. Success in demonstrating leadership skills in both small business and the Fortune 500.

•Financial Management: Fully versed in financial management, budget planning, forecasting, and reporting. Successfully managed an over $60 million annual budget for personnel, equipment, software, real estate, and other development costs to less than 1% variance for over six years.

•Technology Skills: Thirteen years of experience with distributed systems, software development, and eCommerce technologies - as a developer, a system administrator, and an architect. Recent exposure to developing and architecting solutions using technologies such as grid computing, virtualization, collaboration systems, and distributed data center management tools.

•Community Involvement: Board member of several local community service organizations. Active in both local politics and national issues. Consistent contributor to technology freedom interest groups such as the Free Software Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Open Source Developers Network.  Regularly participate in industry roundtables and consult on key issues and challenges facing technology caused by ever-changing regulation and legislation.

Relevant Experience

Wachovia Corporation                                                                                                                                      2002-2008

Vice President, Enterprise Architect                                                                                                             Charlotte, NC

Led the development, documentation, and governance of enterprise-wide technical standards and strategies.  Responsible for the architectures of server platforms, storage management, and distributed applications across the entire organization, including all domestic lines of business, international services, and internally consumed systems. Led and managed numerous key corporate technology initiatives, utilizing cross-functional working groups consisting of senior representatives from the every business and technology group in the company. Led the development of corporate strategies for technology and business integration.

•Saved millions of dollars by the selection and deployment of several open source software packages, replacing expensive commercial alternatives. Includes over $350,000 in savings on a single infrastructure project by deploying Linux, defining a radical cost-saving platform strategy immediately adopted across the enterprise.

•Implemented objective, business-driven, auditable enterprise-wide standards for hardware, platform, and operating system selection.

•Successfully developed and marketed annual technology strategy guide to executive leadership, promoting core corporate technology choices to business leaders and consumers in a concise, easily consumed format.

Wachovia Corporation                                                                                                                                      2001-2002

Vice President; Director, eCommerce Application Design and Engineering                                                 Charlotte, NC

Responsible for all application architecture, standards, design, and quality for the corporate eCommerce team. Developed project architectures, selected tools, languages, created development standards, and reviewed code quality for all Internet, Intranet, Call Center, ATM, and Enterprise Data Management applications. Coordinated numerous “offshore” teams (remote teams overseas) in joint application development sessions, code reviews, and application architecture reviews. Developed, published, and managed a new set of enterprise-wide application development standards and methodologies based on the Agile development process.

•Saved the bank hundreds of thousands of dollars by utilizing overseas teams to perform reviews.

•Established highly reliable, auditable, time-saving process for implementing Internet applications with integrated checks, non-repudiation, and fully developed documentation, reducing the time-to-market and installation costs across all channel applications.

Wachovia Corporation (then First Union National Bank)                                                                                  1998-2001

Assistant Vice President; eCommerce Development Support Manager                                                        Charlotte, NC

Managed the team of developers, system administrators, application administrators, usability engineers, graphic designers, application programmers, database administrators, information architects, and systems analysts responsible for all Internet channel development and design efforts. Responsible for dynamic website implementation, Y2K certification, content management, version control, release management pipeline, domain name management, facilities management, and data center logistics. Managed all purchasing for eCommerce development, with an annual budget in excess of $60 million.

•Received a corporate award and incentive package for saving significant capital by developing and implementing plan to migrate all Internet development to virtualized sandbox environments running on commodity servers.

•Identified need and created completely new organization to support, review, audit, and provide quality control all Internet development activities.

•Developed and implemented executive fast-track college recruiting program to identify, harvest, develop, and retain the best in next-generation talent leveraging the thought leadership, renewed ideas, fresh viewpoints, and dynamic vision fostered in a formal professional development program that provided members with accelerated professional growth opportunities.

Royal Caribbean International                                                                                                                           1997-1998

Commander; Shipboard Systems Manager                                                                                                          Miami, FL

Served as Systems Manager and a ships officer during a short-term contract consulting in rotating ship-board positions on in-service and under-development cruise ships at sea. Received training in leadership, maritime procedures, accounting, technical support, and personnel management. Responsible for leading support staff of technicians, pursers, and engineers supporting hotel management, accounting, communications, navigation, engineering, and other ships systems.  

•Trained in Oslo, Norway with a focus on international relations and managing diverse staff.

•Managed a team with members from 25 different countries, including Europe, South America, the Middle East, and Asia.

•Promoted to managing all technology aboard the largest ship in the fleet, the M/S Sovereign of the Seas, after one month of hands-on procedures training aboard the M/S Song of America.  Held the rank of Commander in the Norwegian Merchant Marine, reporting to the Captain, shipboard, and the Director of Information Technology,shore-side.

•Consulted on systems design and architecture for the M/S Splendor of the Seas during the last weeks of drydock in the shipyard and during launch.  Acted as Systems Manager during the shakedown and repositioning voyages.

Southern Internet Services                                                                                                                                1995-1997

Vice President, Information Systems; Chief Information Officer                                                       West Palm Beach, FL

Selected and managed a team of webmasters, programmers, system administrators, support staff, and technicians supporting a statewide Internet service provider in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Responsible for contract website development services, server management, network management, user support, and company infrastructure.

•Managed a $10 million budget to a 25% savings over projections in the company's first profitable quarter. 

•Grew the company from a local provider with approximately 50 customers at hire, to a state-wide provider with over 7,000 customers – with matching growth in infrastructure and support capabilities.

•Developed a five year IT growth strategy to successfully manage staff and infrastructure expansion to shape the company into the premier regional service provider.

Education

Florida Atlantic University

Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering; Cum Laude

Georgia Institute of Technology

Computer Engineering

Recipient of the Louise M. Fitten Scholarship for Academic Achivement

Saint Thomas Aquinas University

Associate of Arts, English Language; Summa Cum Laude

References available upon request.