
Greater Atlanta Area

Greater Atlanta Area
• Hands-on technology leader with over eleven years of experience designing, building, and deploying enterprise software
• Six years as senior technologist at a leading global provider of financial services software, providing strategic and tactical technology leadership and management
• Experienced liaison between and among corporate organizations (Product Management, Development, Professional Services, etc.), with experience balancing business and technical imperatives
• Effective corporate representative with experience presenting corporate vision to employees, customers, prospects, partners, and analysts
Enterprise Software, Software Development, Financial Services, Healthcare, Technology Strategy, Technology Innovation, M&A, Due Diligence, Open Source, Web Application Performance, Ruby, Rails, Java, J2EE
(Privately Held; Hospital & Health Care industry)
August 2006 — Present (3 years 4 months)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)
May 2006 — July 2006 (3 months)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)
January 2006 — April 2006 (4 months)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Investment Management industry)
March 2003 — January 2006 (2 years 11 months)
Founding member of a team of professionals building a next generation financial services company dedicated to making a genuine difference in the lives of our client families, our associates, and in the communities where we work and live. Technology leader charged with building a unique platform to support consultative advisors and their clients.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; SONE; Computer Software industry)
October 1995 — November 2002 (7 years 2 months)
Responsible for technology leadership of S1 Product Development organization:
• Led implementation of Open eFinance Architecture™
o Managed development of core Enterprise Platform components
o Defined development environment, processes, and policies
o Championed use of Open Source solutions (Struts, Log4J, Apache, Tomcat, etc.) within S1
• Led two major technology transformations of S1’s core platform:
o Conversion to an object-oriented, componentized architecture for consumer banking, brokerage, and insurance
o Migration to industry-standard, Java2 Enterprise Edition™ (J2EE) platform
• Led performance testing team
o Participated in extensive tuning at all levels: network, OS, database, application server, etc.
• Managed Research and Development group located in Atlanta and Brussels
• Managed relationships with vendors such as BEA, Sun Microsystems, etc.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ACN; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 1991 — October 1995 (4 years 2 months)
BA , Political Science, Psychology , September 1987 — May 1991