
Technology General Manager at Bridgewater Associates
Greater New York City Area

Technology General Manager at Bridgewater Associates
Greater New York City Area
I possess a solid background in the turnaround of Information Technology organizations, successful delivery of complex, mission critical, business applications and multi-site solutions across all lines of business. I have extensive experience with corporate IT strategies, high volume e-commerce systems, applications development, architecture, design and support and am seeking a position with a growth-oriented, forward thinking, progressive company, which will utilize my abilities and knowledge to the fullest extent.
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework, IT Architecture, IT Stretegy
(Privately Held; Investment Management industry)
December 2009 — Present (1 month)
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2009 — November 2009 (11 months)
Defined the strategic vision, strategy and roadmaps of next-generation Product Development, SharePoint Consulting and Hosting resulting in business turnaround. Prioritized initiatives and coordinated the evaluation, deployment, and management of current and future capabilities. Changed the Product Development process from ‘Waterfall’ to “SCRUM-Agile” with monthly release train model enabling product completion, usability improvements and improving customer satisfaction. Modified the SharePoint consulting practice to become business solution focused moving away from technology focused. Developed and implemented technology initiatives to enhance the Hosting and service delivery capability within the organization, as well as maintained the existing enterprise systems.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; INTU; Computer Software industry)
May 2005 — June 2008 (3 years 2 months)
Responsible for leading an organization with a staff of 220 and a budget of over $100M. My team supports Intuit’s data centers, network operations, telephony, infrastructure architecture, storage, data bases, and interfaces required to support Intuit’s business unit application development organizations and production operations. Direct responsibility for the technology infrastructure that powers Intuit through the support of more than 4,000 Unix, Linux and Wintel servers, 4 mainframe and midrange computers, 8,500 desktops & laptops, 5,500 hand-held mobile devices, 20,000 network ports and 9,000 telephones. Identified as the leader responsible for developing and implementing a multi-year IT strategy to insure the right infrastructure capabilities, capacity and economics are present to effectively host expanding customer-facing applications and deliver against future business objectives.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; IMB; Banking industry)
January 2003 — May 2005 (2 years 5 months)
Directed a 160 person organization responsible for all IndyMac Bank data centers, network, telephony, storage, infrastructure architecture, quality assurance, field service support, help desk and interfaces into a decentralized application development organization. Led the team in developing and managing an Infrastructure Development Program totaling 23 million dollars in IT infrastructure expenditures to position IndyMac Bank to move to a mature IT organization. The result of this, on time, under budget effort increased systems availability from 95% to 99.99%. In addition to the Infrastructure Development Program, achieved year over year operational budget savings of 12%.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ACN; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 1998 — January 2003 (4 years 6 months)
Joined Accenture as an Experienced Manager and progressed to an Associate Partner working within the Global Technology Architecture Services (GTAS) division and leading the North American Operations Engineering practice.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; WFC; Banking industry)
August 1994 — August 1998 (4 years 1 month)
Managed a 7 x 24 centralized operations which proactively monitored and resolved issues relating to a 10 state ATM & Frame Relay Wide Area Network supporting 31,600 users, 1,865 branches and 4,350 ATM's. He provided installation support for critical network components including two data centers and 14 network nodes. Provided the network and desktop installations for the Southwest Region.
Established a Quality Assurance department, which resulted in the significant stabilization of the Wells Fargo environment.Established and managed a regional support organization responsible for remote problem resolution of WAN/Internet related issues.
CIO Institute 2007 — 2007
MBA , 1990
BA , Business , 1976 — 1982
• Received the 2006 CEO Recognition Award for Excellence in Leadership with significant impact to Intuit
• Selected to participate in the Intuit Advanced Leadership Program for outstanding Senior Managers in 2007