Experience
Director of Operations - Health Safety Institute, The Woodlands TX (Dec 2019 – May 2024)
- Oversaw sustainable and adaptable evolution of organization's technology infrastructure to meet current and future needs.
- Worked cross-department with product group to ensure gaps in Learning Management Systems were addressed and prioritized.
- Led an initiative to migrate outdated physical render machines to virtual machines, achieving significant cost savings through per-machine licensing reductions of 33%.
- Supervised the seamless data migration from legacy file servers to Azure, enhancing storage efficiency and reliability.
- Led project managers to systematically decrease contractor dependencies utilizing FTE utilization metrics.
Director of Operations - Martech Media (acquired by Health Safety Institute), The Woodlands TX (Aug 2013 - Dec 2019)
- Implemented a custom SaaS solution to facilitate B2B services for our company
- Created off-site cloud storage backups using AWS S3 Glacier for secure, long-term data storage.
- Architected custom tool set, resulting in 25% reduction in headcount to optimize production processes.
- Scaled operational processes to support 10% growth in company size, demonstrating adaptability and strategic planning.
Senior Solution Engineer Specialist - Allianz Life, Minneapolis MN (May 2012 - Aug 2013)
- Successfully led technical team in execution of Accenture Life Insurance Platform, reinforcing Allianz Life's commitment to innovative and efficient insurance solutions.
- Fostered collaborative environment across global teams, optimizing resource allocation and project timelines for maximum productivity.
Senior Manager, Enterprise Architecture - Best Buy, Minneapolis MN (Dec 2011 - May 2012)
- Spearheaded development of company-wide Service-Oriented Architecture, resulting in enhanced system flexibility and reduced integration costs.
- Developed and standardized reference architectures, ensuring best practices across enterprise deployments and facilitating smoother system upgrades.
- Provided architectural leadership, promoting principles to drive integration and operational excellence within organization.
Senior Solution Engineer - Allianz Life, Minneapolis MN (Sep 2004 - Dec 2011)
- Drove the architecture, product selection, and implementation of Enterprise Service Bus technology stack. The stack included: a registry, messaging, orchestration, transformation tools, monitoring, and Web Service management.
- Delivered the implementation of our enterprise-wide SOA architecture resulting in the most mature adoption rate among all of Allianz’s entities.
- Managed multiple teams across the enterprise through an infrastructure related SOA architecture. This roll-out was on time and within budget.
- Managed global resources (Application Maintenance and Application Development).
- Led the implementation of a $500k enterprise scheduling solution for the entire company.
Solutions Architect - FICO, Minneapolis MN (Jan 2001 - Sep 2004)
- Technical consultant responsible for the implementation of a new product line into an existing data warehouse system. Designed, coded, and tested extraction procedures for analyzing new marketing data.
- Responsible for overseeing a database conversion from Redbrick to Oracle. The conversion increased overall system efficiency from two days to eight hours by creating custom stored procedures in place of legacy code.
- Co-Implemented an Enterprise Scheduler solution.
- Created custom Perl health monitoring and paging scripts which reduced mean time for batch processing.
- Developed operational efficiencies by creating and implementing standardized UNIX batch scripts.
Consultant - Accenture, Minneapolis MN (Jan 1999 - Jan 2001)
- Consulted for Fortune 500 clients with a focus on building new revenue channels and reducing capital expenditures by leveraging technology.
- Technical consultant responsible for deployment of system test, production application, and database servers.
- Created and implemented a 24x7 backup and recovery strategy.
- Performed system builds to support product-testing code integrity. The builds increased code coverage efficiency by creating custom testing suite for releases.
