Senior IT Executive
Greater Denver Area
Senior IT Executive
Greater Denver Area
Customer-focused, hands-on manager with a track record of creating and driving change while reducing costs and increasing productivity and profitability. Able to generate high value from IT through strategic planning, staffing, and project management. History of successful partnering with business executives in the development and deployment of high quality, cost-effective, mission critical IT solutions to support corporate objectives. Proven ability to build, train, and mentor highly productive and motivated cross-functional teams.
Offshore and geographically distributed software development; mission-critical, high-volume systems; process and productivity improvement; business and technology strategy and alignment; technology and organization transition; legacy system migration/renewal; technology assessments/roadmaps; business continuity planning and disaster recovery; budget planning; QA, QC and release management; performance measurement and staff development; project and vendor management.
(Public Company; Financial Services industry)
2008 — Present (1 year )
Head of the global Data Accumulation Systems application development organization supporting the Energy and Product Lifecycle domains at IHS.
Currently implementing ECM (IBM FileNet P8) as the enterprise solution for unstructured data.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
April 2006 — May 2007 (1 year 2 months)
Head of the 250+ software engineering group based in six offices in four countries. Responsible for the development, enhancement, and support of the CQG trading applications; integration and distribution of data from the market data feeds from over 90 worldwide exchanges; and historical data stores. Development teams employed various Agile methods including XP, TDD, Scrum and FDD. Eastern European teams also used PSP and TSP.
(Public Company; NDAQ; Financial Services industry)
March 1996 — March 2006 (10 years 1 month)
Technology head of distributed and server-based systems. Responsible for the development, enhancement, and support of the NASDAQ trading applications; the original market data feeds to all of NASDAQ’s web sites; and more recently, the transition from mainframe to server-based ticker plant, time and sales, and market data dissemination servers.
(Insurance industry)
1990 — 1995 (5 years )
Responsible for all I/T functions, including strategic and operational planning; budgeting; application systems support, development, and procurement; local and wide-area networks; data and voice communications; EDI; PC training and technical support; help desk; quality assurance; and the data center.
(Public Company; Financial Services industry)
1988 — 1990 (2 years )
As the first technology hire at this start-up, I established and managed the development facility for the back-office administration system for a non-qualified tax deferral product marketed to the health care industry. Also led an R&D effort to develop a generic administration system for pension, variable life insurance, and other mutual fund investment products for use in both the US and the UK markets.
(Management Consulting industry)
1986 — 1988 (2 years )