2001-2009 CIO & Executive Vice President Managed Information Systems and Technology for a 16 billion dollar savings and l oan with 160 branches in Texas and California. Responsible for a budget of 37 mi llion dollars and 176 technical staff and contractors. Member of "C" management team reporting to CEO and/or CFO. * Implemented relationship managers as interface between IS&T and business units as part of a structured service request, project tracking and reporting f or business requests as part of a total Project Management Office implementation . * Established effective quality and change controls to address a prior Off ice of Thrift Supervision exam issue. Over the next two years raised it from an unacceptable 3 to a 1 rating. * Provided tactical planning and directed upgrade of mainframe legacy syst ems, upgraded platform & delivery applications and remote and central hardware i nfrastructure. * Implemented new business technology (Data Warehouse and Enterprise Conte nt Management) and expanded infrastructure technology environments (Citrix, VMwa re, MPLS, MS SharePoint) * As part of the bank spin off to a separate public company, provided the tactical planning and direction for splitting the corporate IT environments.
PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS, Minneapolis, MN and Austin, TX 1
995-2001 Principal Consultant (Engagements in IL, NY, NC, CA, MI, PA) Performed as Project Manager, Business Analyst, and Industry Expert for various projects at Fortune 500 companies across the USA. * Directed technical effort to analyze and recommend an e-banking vendor s olution for a global brokerage bank client. Provided application expertise and o rganized business requirements for back office processes and channel delivery al ternatives. * Designed and implemented a PMO for multi-company mutual fund group to c ontrol Y2K efforts. The PMO supported 3 companies (15 separate departments) with over 1000 projects. Due to success of PMO for Y2K efforts, it continued to be u tilized for ongoing projects. * Performed analysis and strategic planning for consolidation of Savings a nd Loan from Unisys platform to a centralized IBM Hogan environment. * Directed technical efforts for 4 different Data Warehouse projects for c lient's financial, marketing or retail departments.
DP MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS, Thousand Oaks, CA & Edina, MN 1990-199
5 Consultant, Engagements CA, TX, MN, OH Performed Project Manager, System Analyst, and Technical Architect role for dive rse projects for small to medium companies across the USA. * Designed and implemented Quality Assurance methods and procedures for pr oblem management and standard project management using standard SDLC and develop ment tools for NMAC. * Managed project to consolidate 1500 ATMs from acquired Colorado ATM reg ional switch to an installed IBM CICS A TM environment of 1000 A TMs for a large Midwest bank. * Supported process improvement project for bank's back office operations by identifying automated balance and control improvements and recommending work flow changes that reduced staffing cost by 20%.
GIBRALTAR SAVINGS, Simi Valley, CA
1987-1990 Sr. Vice President, MIS Director 1989 - 1990 Managed staff of 4 Direct reports with total staff of 200 people and annual budg et of over $24 million with responsibilities for Operations, Tech Support, Appli cations & QA. * Provided online service levels of over 99.5% and improved batch reportin g timeliness and accuracy by 20% by implementing and meeting SLA program. * Successful conversion to Hogan DDA and TDA. Other banking package imple mentations included Mortgage Loan, Loan Origination, General Ledger, and Branch Automation. * Reduced overall application development and support costs by 40% by reb uilding ineffective programming staff and excessive dependence on external resou rces. Increased users satisfaction rating by 80% and implemented service support internal account manager program and SLAs.
OTHER RELEVANT TECHNICAL & BUSINESS EXPERIENCE
* Directly managed batch and online transaction systems for Retail Banking . These included MICR, ATM, Wire Transfer, Branch systems, Cash Management, ACH, and other business support systems like Information Center, E-mail and CRM. * Managed the development of various delivery systems including: MICR, au tomated teller machines, point-of-sale, cash management, branch teller and platf orm. * Supported 17 remote locations prior to centralized consolidation to 3 r egional locations. These MICR facilities supported processing about 4 million ch ecks a day for over 400 correspondent banks and 84 affiliates. * Provided Teller and Platform Branch System capabilities on 3 different hardware platforms per marketing sales to 60 correspondents and corporate standa rds for 84 affiliates. * Designed and managed the implementation of a total Quality Assurance pro gram for the technology subsidiary supporting Norwest Banks and its 400 correspo ndents. * Directed day-to-day operations of 24x7 data center supporting over 400 c orrespondents and 84 affiliates located in 9 states.
EDUCATION Sr. Business Certificate, University of Minnesota, 1981 MIS Certificate, University of Minnesota, 1983 Mini-MBA, St.Thomas, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1984